AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Study Guide

Which of the following is the best example of the uniform global landscape?

A multinational retail store using the same store layout at every location

Which of the following distributions could be described as dispersed?

A rural area where farms are located far from one another

Which of the following is an example of a hearth?

A village inventing a new cooking method that diffuses along trade routes

Which of the following situations is an example of contagious diffusion?

A web video of a bunny chasing a dog "going viral"

Which of the following statements regarding time zones is correct?

Time zones are based on lines of longitude.

Layering information about a location, such as terrain, highways, and the locations of homes is an example of __________.

geographic information systems

The term geography comes from the Greek words for __________.

"Earth" and "to write"

How might the ratio scale 1:1,000 be converted to written scale?

1 inch equals 1,000 inches

A particular neighborhood block is 1 square mile and contains 10 homes, each spaced closely together in a circular arrangement. What is the density of homes in this neighborhood?

10 homes per square mile

What is a challenge in identifying formal regions?

Generalization makes it difficult to recognize differences.

Which of the following types of scale refers to a line marked to show the actual distance on Earth's surface represented on the map?

Graphic Scale

Which of the following locations is the master reference time for all locations on Earth?

Greenwich, England

Which of the following examples displays a linear pattern?

Homes and businesses located along a light rail track

A researcher is examining how men and women perceive city landscapes differently. Which of the following branches of geography is most concerned with this type of research?

Humanistic geography

Which of the following businesses is an example of a transnational corporation?

A company that has its headquarters in Europe, its research division in the United States, its production facilities in Mexico, and ships goods all around the world

Which of the following cartographers created the first modern atlas?

Abraham Ortelius

Which of the following sources of data is an example of remote sensing?

Aerial Photography

Which of the following situations is an example of globalization?

An American fast food restaurant opening in Eastern Europe

Which of the following examples is considered a formal region?

Areas that share a dominant language

Which of the following is an example of a toponym?

Boston

Which of the following terms refers to the science of mapmaking?

Cartography

Which of the following statements regarding the term culture is correct?

Culture consists of beliefs, material traits, and social customs.

Two friends see each other and communicate more than they do with a third friend who lives across the country. This is an example of __________.

Distance Decay

The arrangement of a feature in space is known as its __________.

Distribution

Which of the following is a key pillar of sustainability discussed in the United Nations report, Our Common Future, commonly referred to as the Brundtland Report?

Economic growth

A group of living organisms and the nonliving spheres with which they interact is a(n) __________.

Ecosystem

A researcher believes that a humid climate caused the development of a distinctive indigenous clothing style. This is an example of __________.

Environmental Determinism

Why does expansion diffusion occur more rapidly today than in the past?

Innovations in communications technology

Which of the following statements regarding the prime meridian is correct?

It passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.

Which of the following terms describes a numbering system that is based on lines that run parallel to the equator?

Latitude

Earth's crust is located in which of the following physical systems?

Lithosphere

Which of the following was a Muslim geographer who prepared a world map in A.D. 1154?

Muhammad al-Idrisi

Which of the following terms describes a piece of land created by draining water from an area?

Polder

The statement, "Trees should be protected and should not be used by humans," is an example of which of the following environmental philosophies?

Preservation

Which of the following terms refers to the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map?

Projection

An Italian immigrant moves to the United States and opens one of the first American pizzerias. Which of the following types of cultural diffusion is this an example?

Relocation

A teacher wants to display a map showing paths of international migrants across oceans. Which of the following map projections would be most useful for this purpose?

Robinson projection

Which of the following resources is considered renewable?

Solar Energy

A company creates the first self-driving car, but no one buys it. Years later, another competing manufacturer improves on the original design and sells millions of vehicles. This is an example of __________.

Stimulus diffusion.

Which of the following is the best example of a vernacular region?

The U.S. South

Which of the following statements correctly describes the site of a location?

The city is located on top of a hill.

Which of the following definitions correctly describes geographic information science?

The development and analysis of data about Earth using satellite and other electronic information

Which of the following factors most contributes to uneven development?

The globalization of the economy

Which of the following factors contributed to the 2008 worldwide recession?

The globalization of the economy.

Two neighborhoods each have 30 homes on an 80-acre plot of land. The homes in Neighborhood A are located in a circle around a central park area and are relatively close together. The homes in Neighborhood B have large yards and are spread evenly across the 80-acre piece of land. Which of the following statements about the distributions of these neighborhoods is correct?

The neighborhoods have the same density.

Which of the following statements regarding the problem of distortion is correct?

The shapes of different areas might be distorted on a flat map.

Imagine you are on a plane flying from Sydney, Australia, to Honolulu, Hawaii. What happens as you pass over the international date line?

You adjust your clock 24 hours back

Which of the following types of distortion is most prominent in the Mercator projection?

relative size

The statement, "My dorm room is across from the dining hall," is an example of __________.

situation

Charles Lindbergh took 34 hours to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. The flight now takes around 8 hours. This is an example of __________.

space-time compression