AP Human Geography; Chapter 1 test practice – Flashcards
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Humans have practiced geography at least since the time of Ancient Greek civilization.
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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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Elements of study that 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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Map that would have the largest scale...
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City
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A system used for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map
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Projection
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Driving around to gather information for street navigation devices is called
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Ground truthing
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A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data
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GIS
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The spread of a McDonalds around the world represents
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Economic and cultural globalization
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The science of making maps
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Cartography
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The first person to use the word geography
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Eratosthenes
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Fundamental elements of culture
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Material traits, customary beliefs, social forms, & physical environments
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A portion of the earth's surface
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Toponym
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Situation identifies a place it's...
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Location relative other objects
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Site identifies a place by its...
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Uniques physical characteristics
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Greenwich Mean Time is measured from...
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0 degrees longitude
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The U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of
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Townships, sections, quarter sections, & ranges
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The international date line is measured from
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180 longitude
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An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics
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Region
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Culture means to
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Take care of & care about something
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For each 15 degrees change in longitude, time changes by an hour
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Distribution refers to the arrangement of observable phenomena across earth
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A new piece of land created by draining the area is called polder
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The frequency of a phenomena in a given study area is known as density
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