AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions

Relationships among people and objects across space • To see where different cultures started and went (ie: how cultures merged and where part of it originated) • To map places with similar activities and traditions

What are connections?

McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nike, and North Face.

What are some American products available to everyone around the world?

Global Positioning System • Shows a geographer where something is currently on the globe, as well as where something is relative to something else. • Tell where they are (how to get from point A-B) • Geographers use it to place anything in locations and find out where different people/places are through the use of satellites and other radio devices.

What is GPS?

a 2-dimensional representation of an area on the globe. A map can be used as a reference tool to find locations and routes without carrying a globe around. Can also show information such as density or topography. (shows statistics)

What is a map?

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a specific characteristic. Place can be used to show where things originated and then diffused from as well as how human-environmental interaction has occurred in an area. They use places to explain similarities, differences, and changes within countries and regions.

What is a place?

The spread of early Christianity from the Middle East to Rome

What is an example of hierarchical diffusion?

The diffusion of hip-hop music from urban centers to more rural areas.

What is an example of relocation diffusion?

the spread of something over a given area

What is concentration?

A rapid, widespread movement of a characteristic throughout a population. WWW- web surfers throughout the world have access to the same material continuously and quickly

What is contagious diffusion?

A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relations. (The ways in which human society and the natural environment affect each other)

What is cultural ecology?

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

What is culture?

North pole

What is the object at 90 degrees north latitude?

region

an area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is called a?

a small area with great detail

what does a large scale map show?

the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

what is diffusion?

The relationship between the length of an object on a map ad that feature on the landscape

what is scale?

formal region

An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics is called?

Unique physical characteristics

Site identifies a place by its?

Location relative to other objects

Situation identifies a place by its?

Possibilism

The concept that the physical environment limits human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment is called?

Agricultural density

The number of farmers per unit of agriculturally productive land (area) is called?

Arithmetic density

The number of people per nit of land (area) is called?

Physiologic Density

The number of people per unit of agriculturally productive (arable) land is called?

Globalization

What benefits some countries more than others?

Humid tropical

What climate is not found in the continental US?

because it brought down 2 major business buildings that contained thousands of people and jobs. It brought down 2 major marketing towers for the US. (other countries didn't want to be dominated by western culture and decisions)

What could 9/11 be considered anti-globalization?

cultural landscape

What geographers call the human imprint on the physical environment?

(Geographic Information System) • Use it to create maps • Use it to view mapped information • Use it to collect information and then map it yourself

What is GIS?

Rubenstein's ideas go against this idea because this is a small scale, and to know where cancer rates are truly highest, a larger scale must be used to be more specific.

What is Rubinstein's example of map scale?

An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics (Ex: English in America)

What is a formal region?

An area organized around a node or focal point (Ex: Jobs and apartments in Downtown Stamford)

What is a functional region?

The region which new ideas originate

What is a hearth?

a region from which a phenomenon originates

What is a hearth?

situation

What is a places location relative to other objects or places?

An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. • Used to state and categorize places: Formal, vernacular, and functional regions • Used to organize countries/cities and towns into groups (middle-east, Fairfield county)

What is a region?

The ratio of map distance to earth distance, measured in the same units. (part of the Earth to whole Earth) Used to be able to create map projections and map out specific areas using, for example, inches to represent miles.

What is a scale?

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity (defined by a common cultural aspect )(Ex: Chinatown)

What is a vernacular region?

Region

What is an area with one or more unique characteristics?

The spread if AIDS ; or ideas via the internet

What is an example of contagious diffusion?

The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area

What is density?

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

What is distance decay?

The arrangement of something across the Earth's surface (density, concentration, pattern)

What is distribution?

the belief that some cultures may be affected by a physical environment rather than sociology

What is environmental determinism?

Actions or processes that innovate the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

What is globalization?

the spread of an idea from person or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places. Hip Hop/Rap- Started in the Bronx (urban areas), diffusing from the African Americans, it over time spread throughout the country.

What is hierarchical diffusion?

The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

What is meant by "cultural landscape"?

the area dominate by a particular folk culture

What is not an example of a functional region?

the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area

What is pattern?

Something that originates in a singular area and then spreads out to be in other places Euro- Began in a few countries, but was quickly favored by neighboring countries and is now Europe's universal currency

What is relocation diffusion?

The collection of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet. • Shows geographers topography, weather, temperature, etc.

What is remote sensing?

The reduction in the time it takes for something to spread out to a distant place as a result of improved communication and transportation.

What is space-time compression?

The area that exists between 2 objects • To explain the distances between different types of cultures and then explain why they separated and why they live there. • To explain why and how far cultures moved (resources, economy, etc.)

What is space?

the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself fails to diffuse. For ex, veggie burgers in India

What is stimulus diffusion?

time space convergence

What is the concept that new technologies shrink functional space between places?

2. Human geography (who is there, why they are there, influences) is the study of the distribution of humans and their activities on the surface of the earth and of the processes that generate these distributions. Physical geography (natural factors) is something that relates to the actual landscape. For example, how tall a mountain is or how deep is an ocean. Geography is the spatial variation between objects.

What is the difference between human geography and physical geography?

Density

What is the frequency an object appears in its given area?

1. Globalization is actions or processes that involve the entire world result in making something worldwide in scope. Local diversity is the unique cultural distinctions that can be found in the different parts of an area. Ideas from these areas can result or lead to globalized ideas that become part of the global economy.

What is the relationship between globalization and local diversity?

cartography

What is the science of making maps?

The division of a county with some corporate power, or a survey system used in the US to identify land parcels of significantly underdeveloped countries(not populated/commercial) • Use it to find and map separations • Use it to map large quantities of something

What is township and range?

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

What is transitional corporation

city (small=large. large=small)

What map has the largest scale?

Formal region

What region is the bible belt and example of?

in area where there are appealing businesses to them as well as areas where it is legal to be gay (Marais district of Paris).

Where would homosexuals cluster?

Burning Man in Nevada

Where would men cluster?

beauty spas and retreats

Where would women cluster?

180 degrees

how many degrees is the international date line from the prime meridian?

density

the frequency of something within a given unit of area is called its?

global positioning system

what does GPS stand for?

The spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. IBM-compatible- Apple ideas have been adopted by competitors and used in their products.

what is stimulus diffusion?

why and where questions?

what questions do geographers consistently ask?

robinson

which map projection is most distorted at high latitudes

Because of the time zones, a bank will be open at any given time during the day in some location of the globe. This allows for service from that bank to occur at 1 AM here. Has to be a transnational bank.

How do time zones allow banking to operate worldwide, 24 hours per day?

Advances in electronic communication

Movement of money from one country to another and one currency to another has primarily been facilitated by what?

distance decay

The fact that contact between groups of people diminishes with increasing distance and eventually this contact disappears is called?

Environmental determinism

The fact that physical environment causes social development in the core concept of what?