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WorksheetsAP Human Geography Unit 1
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 29mins
A combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features is _______?
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Landscape
Culture
Agricultural Density
The number of farmers per unit of farmland
Agricultural Density
Culture
Cultural Landscape
Cultural Ecology
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area _______?
Pattern
Distribution
Situation
Relative Distance
The arrangement of something across the Earth's surface.
Distribution
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Distance Decay
Density
The location of a place relative to other places
Situation
Site
Relative Direction
Cartography
The exact location of something, the physical character of a place ______?
Site
Situation
Absolute Distance
Space-Time Compression
A computer system that captures, stores, queries, and analysis, and displays geographic data.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
An area organized around a node or focal point. (Has a purpose)
Functional/Nodal Region
Formal/Homogenous Region
Vernacular/Perceptional Region
An area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics.
Formal/Uniform/Homogenous Region
Functional/Nodal Region
Vernacular/Perceptional Region
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Vernacular/Perceptional Region
Functional/Nodal Region
Formal/Uniform/Homogenous Region
the exact measurement of the physical space between two places.
Absolute Distance
Relative Distance
Absolute Direction
Relative Direction
The total space between two things or places.
Relative Distance
Absolute Direction
Absolute Distance
Relative Direction
The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment
Possibilism
Stimulus Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Distance Decay
A collection of places that are grouped together on the basis of one or more underlying characteristics or a pattern pf activity
Region
Remote Sensing
Possibilism
Toponym
Directions such as left, right, forward, or down are based on people's perception of places and things relative to hose directions.
Relative Direction
Relative Distance
Absolute Distance
Absolue Direction
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods.
Remote Sensing
Distance Decay
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Geographic Information System (GIS)
The farther away you are from goods or services, the less likely you are to make use of it.
Scale
Remote Sensing
Distance Decay
Diffusion
Uses satellites to accurately determine the precise position of something on Earth.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Arithmetic Density
Density
A place from which an innovate originates
Expansion Diffusion
Hearth
Scale
Place
The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.
Hierarchial Diffsuion
Hearth
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Describes the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.
Space-Time Compression
Space
Scale
Toponym
The spread of an underlying princ iple even though a characteristic it self apparently fails to diffuse.
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Hierarchial Duffusion
A belief that the physical environment is caused by social development.
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
Cartography
Environmental Ecology
The rapid widespread diffusion of a character throughout the population.
Expansion Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Hierarchial Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process.
Expansion Diffusion
Hierarchial Duffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Stimulus Duffsuin
The physical gap or interval between two objects.
Space
Scale
place
Absolute Distance
The frequency with which something occurs in space.
Density
Arithmetic Density
Space
Ecology
The science of map making
Cartography
Geography
Ecology
Distribution
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
Place
Toponym
Space
Scale
The relationship between the proportion of the Earth being studied and the earth as a whole.
Scale
Place
Space
Hearth
The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.
Diffusion
Region
Globalization
Sustainability
The total number of objects in an area.
Arithmetic Density
Density
Ecology
Cultural Ecology
Relative to a fixed frame of reference and always point in the same direction, regardless of their location.
Absolute Direction
Absolute Distance
Relative Distance
Relative Direction
The extent of a feature's spread over space.
Concentration
Region
Relocation
Distribution
The spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from one place to another.
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Hierarchial Diffusion
The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
Physiological Density
Globalization
Sustainability
Transnational Corporation
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide ins cope.
Globalization
Projection
Uneven Development
Resource
The name given to a portion on Earth's surface.
Toponym
Map
Polder
Resource
A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
Resource
Uneven Development
Polder
Transnational Coorporation
The use of EaRth's renewable and non-renewable natural resources in ways that don't constrain resource use in the future.
Sustainability
Map
Projection
Map distortion
Two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
Map
Toponym
Geography
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.
geography
toponym
hearth
place
A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
Transnational Cooperation
Spatial Interaction
cultural identity
connections
A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
Projection
Map
Map distortions
Spatial Data
Land that the Duch has created by draining water from an area.
Dam
Ditch
Polder
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
Uneven Development
Cultural Landscape
Cultural Ecology
Remote Sensing
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
Mental Map
Map Scale
Map Distortion
Parallel
An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Meridian
Prime Meridian
Greenwich, England
The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.
Map Scale
Map distortion
Mental Map
Projection
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition
Culture
Connections
Parallel
Large Scale Map
The Meridian designated as 0 degrees longitude that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich England
Prime Meridian
Meridian
Longitude
Culture
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe in measuring distance north and south of the equator.
longitude
latitude
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
longitude
latitude
Refers to the relationship among people and objects across the barrier of space
Connections
Connectivty
Small Scale
Disadvantages for maps depicting the entire world of the: shape, distance, relative size, and direction of places on maps
Distortion
Diffusion
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator in at right angles to the meridians
Parallel
Meridan
Prime Meridian
Maps that show a small area that's very detailed are _____
Maps that show large areas and little detail are ______
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.
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.
