AP Geography: Finals – Flashcards
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The first person to write the word geography
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Eratosthenes
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What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?
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They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.
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Scale is
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the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
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1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
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a ratio or fraction
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The art and science of making maps is
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Cartography
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Which statement is more accurate?
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Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end.
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Which of the following types of maps would have the largest scale?
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City
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You see the coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. You do not need to look at a map in order to deduce that this location is
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near both the equator and the prime meridian.
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If we did not have a map handy, we would deduce that the coordinates 171 E longitude, 12 S latitude are likely
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just west of the International Date Line and just south of the equator
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A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Global Positioning Systems reference what location?
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mathematical
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The name of a location on Earth's surface is a
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Toponym
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New York City's what is approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston
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situation
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The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is
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Spatial association
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The State of Texas is best considered a formal region because
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The same state laws apply everywhere in the region
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Culture means to
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care about and nurture something
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The South is established as a vernacular region of the United States by
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Climate, low educational attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of Baptist churches
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An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics is a
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Region
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Situation identifies a place by its
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location relative to other objects or places
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Site identifies a place by its
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unique physical characteristics
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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is measure from
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0 degrees longitude
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The International Date Line is measured approximately from
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180 degrees longitude
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You are given the coordinates 128 E longitude, 45 N latitude. This is an example of a
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mathematical location
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A mathematical process for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is a
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Projection
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Which of the following best described the idea of a cultural landscape?
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A landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in some way
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economic and cultural globalization
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To geographers, the spred of McDonald's around the world represents
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The township and range system
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established a gridlike pattern for much of present-day land use in the United States
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The arrangement of a phenomenon across Earth's surface is
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Distribution
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The frequency of something within a given init of area is
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Density
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A region from which a phenomenon originates
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Hearth
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The historic diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the United States is an example of which type of diffusion?
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Relocation
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The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environment is
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Possiblism
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According to environmental determinism
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the physical environment causes different types of social and cultural development
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The study of how humans and the environment interact is called
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Cultural Ecology
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Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the United States is an interesting geographic case study because
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its effects are an intersection of human and physical geography
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Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?
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Contagious and hierarchical
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A what is the spread of something over a given study area?
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Concentration
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A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
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Map
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The science of making maps.
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Cartography
