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AP Human Geography Unit 1

Total questions: 57

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features is _______?

a)

Cultural Ecology

b)

Cultural Landscape

c)

Culture

d)

Agricultural Density

2.

The number of farmers per unit of farmland

a)

Agricultural Density

b)

Culture

c)

Cultural Landscape

d)

Cultural Ecology

3.

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area _______?

a)

Pattern

b)

Distribution

c)

Situation

d)

Relative Distance

4.

The arrangement of something across the Earth's surface.

a)

Distribution

b)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

c)

Distance Decay

d)

Density

5.

The location of a place relative to other places

a)

Situation

b)

Site

c)

Relative Direction

d)

Cartography

6.

The exact location of something, the physical character of a place ______?

a)

Site

b)

Situation

c)

Absolute Distance

d)

Space-Time Compression

7.

A computer system that captures, stores, queries, and analysis, and displays geographic data.

a)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

b)

Global Positioning System (GPS)

c)

Environmental Determinism

d)

Determinism

8.

An area organized around a node or focal point. (Has a purpose)

a)

Functional/Nodal Region

b)

Formal/Homogenous Region

c)

Vernacular/Perceptional Region

9.

An area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics.

a)

Formal/Uniform/Homogenous Region

b)

Functional/Nodal Region

c)

Vernacular/Perceptional Region

10.

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

a)

Vernacular/Perceptional Region

b)

Functional/Nodal Region

c)

Formal/Uniform/Homogenous Region

11.

the exact measurement of the physical space between two places.

a)

Absolute Distance

b)

Relative Distance

c)

Absolute Direction

d)

Relative Direction

12.

The total space between two things or places.

a)

Relative Distance

b)

Absolute Direction

c)

Absolute Distance

d)

Relative Direction

13.

The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment

a)

Possibilism

b)

Stimulus Diffusion

c)

Expansion Diffusion

d)

Distance Decay

14.

A collection of places that are grouped together on the basis of one or more underlying characteristics or a pattern pf activity

a)

Region

b)

Remote Sensing

c)

Possibilism

d)

Toponym

15.

Directions such as left, right, forward, or down are based on people's perception of places and things relative to hose directions.

a)

Relative Direction

b)

Relative Distance

c)

Absolute Distance

d)

Absolue Direction

16.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods.

a)

Remote Sensing

b)

Distance Decay

c)

Global Positioning System (GPS)

d)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

17.

The farther away you are from goods or services, the less likely you are to make use of it.

a)

Scale

b)

Remote Sensing

c)

Distance Decay

d)

Diffusion

18.

Uses satellites to accurately determine the precise position of something on Earth.

a)

Global Positioning System (GPS)

b)

Geographic Information System (GIS)

c)

Arithmetic Density

d)

Density

19.

A place from which an innovate originates

a)

Expansion Diffusion

b)

Hearth

c)

Scale

d)

Place

20.

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.

a)

Hierarchial Diffsuion

b)

Hearth

c)

Contagious Diffusion

d)

Expansion Diffusion

21.

Describes the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.

a)

Space-Time Compression

b)

Space

c)

Scale

d)

Toponym

22.

The spread of an underlying princ iple even though a characteristic it self apparently fails to diffuse.

a)

Stimulus Diffusion

b)

Contagious Diffusion

c)

Expansion Diffusion

d)

Hierarchial Duffusion

23.

A belief that the physical environment is caused by social development.

a)

Environmental Determinism

b)

Determinism

c)

Cartography

d)

Environmental Ecology

24.

The rapid widespread diffusion of a character throughout the population.

a)

Expansion Diffusion

b)

Stimulus Diffusion

c)

Hierarchial Diffusion

d)

Contagious Diffusion

25.

The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process.

a)

Expansion Diffusion

b)

Hierarchial Duffusion

c)

Contagious Diffusion

d)

Stimulus Duffsuin

26.

The physical gap or interval between two objects.

a)

Space

b)

Scale

c)

place

d)

Absolute Distance

27.

The frequency with which something occurs in space.

a)

Density

b)

Arithmetic Density

c)

Space

d)

Ecology

28.

The science of map making

a)

Cartography

b)

Geography

c)

Ecology

d)

Distribution

29.

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic

a)

Place

b)

Toponym

c)

Space

d)

Scale

30.

The relationship between the proportion of the Earth being studied and the earth as a whole.

a)

Scale

b)

Place

c)

Space

d)

Hearth

31.

The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.

a)

Diffusion

b)

Region

c)

Globalization

d)

Sustainability

32.

The total number of objects in an area.

a)

Arithmetic Density

b)

Density

c)

Ecology

d)

Cultural Ecology

33.

Relative to a fixed frame of reference and always point in the same direction, regardless of their location.

a)

Absolute Direction

b)

Absolute Distance

c)

Relative Distance

d)

Relative Direction

34.

The extent of a feature's spread over space.

a)

Concentration

b)

Region

c)

Relocation

d)

Distribution

35.

The spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from one place to another.

a)

Relocation Diffusion

b)

Expansion Diffusion

c)

Contagious Diffusion

d)

Hierarchial Diffusion

36.

The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.

a)

Physiological Density

b)

Globalization

c)

Sustainability

d)

Transnational Corporation

37.

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide ins cope.

a)

Globalization

b)

Projection

c)

Uneven Development

d)

Resource

38.

The name given to a portion on Earth's surface.

a)

Toponym

b)

Map

c)

Polder

d)

Resource

39.

A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.

a)

Resource

b)

Uneven Development

c)

Polder

d)

Transnational Coorporation

40.

The use of EaRth's renewable and non-renewable natural resources in ways that don't constrain resource use in the future.

a)

Sustainability

b)

Map

c)

Projection

d)

Map distortion

41.

Two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.

a)

Map

b)

Toponym

c)

Geography

42.

the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.

a)

geography

b)

toponym

c)

hearth

d)

place

43.

A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.

a)

Transnational Cooperation

b)

Spatial Interaction

c)

cultural identity

d)

connections

44.

A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.

a)

Projection

b)

Map

c)

Map distortions

d)

Spatial Data

45.

Land that the Duch has created by draining water from an area.

a)

Dam

b)

Ditch

c)

Polder

46.

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy

a)

Uneven Development

b)

Cultural Landscape

c)

Cultural Ecology

d)

Remote Sensing

47.

A representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place that contains personal impressions of what is in the place and where it's located

a)

Mental Map

b)

Map Scale

c)

Map Distortion

d)

Parallel

48.

An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles

a)

Meridian

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Greenwich, England

49.

The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.

a)

Map Scale

b)

Map distortion

c)

Mental Map

d)

Projection

50.

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition

a)

Culture

b)

Connections

c)

Parallel

d)

Large Scale Map

51.

The Meridian designated as 0 degrees longitude that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich England

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Meridian

c)

Longitude

d)

Culture

52.

The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe in measuring distance north and south of the equator.

a)

longitude

b)

latitude

53.

The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridian's drawn on a globe in measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian

a)

longitude

b)

latitude

54.

Refers to the relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space

a)

Connections

b)

Connectivty

c)

Small Scale

55.

Disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, relative size, and direction of places on maps

a)

Distortion

b)

Diffusion

56.

A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator in at right angles to the meridians

a)

Parallel

b)

Meridan

c)

Prime Meridian

57.

Maps that show a small area that's very detailed are _____

Maps that show large areas and little detail are ______

a)

Maps that show a small area that's very detailed are large scale maps.

Maps that show large areas and little detail are small scale maps.

b)

Maps that show a small area that's very detailed are small scale maps.

Maps that show large areas and little detail are large scale maps.