AP Human Geography Final Review – Flashcards
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the relationship of the size of the map to the amount of area it represents on the planet
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scale
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What are cartographers worried about when they make maps?
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distortion
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plcs, region, location, human-environment interaction, and movement
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five themes of geography
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What are 6 essential elements in geography?
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the spatial world, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society
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How many types of diffusion is there in human geography?
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6
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The 4 stages in this model of development in a country
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demographic transition
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Who is credited for using the world?
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Eratosthenes
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What do the word geo and graphy means?
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Earth and to write
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Introduced the excitement of discovery to Europe, which then sparked conialism and trade development in all areas of the world
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Marco Polo
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What are 3 types of regions?
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formal, functional, and perceptual
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What are 4 types of diffusion?
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contagious, expansion, relocation, and stimulus
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The 3 main aspects of distribution?
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density, concentration, and patterns
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What are the abbreviations of Global Positioning System?Graphic Information System?
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GPS, GIS
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What is the theory that proposes that cultures are a direct results of where they exist?
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Environmental determinism
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Who were 3 people that led the environmental determinism theory?
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Carl Ritter, Ellen Chruchill Semple and Ellsworth Huntington
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The term ______ is often used to describe the Southern Baptist dominance of the population.
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Bible Belt
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The larger the scale of a map, the ______ distortion.
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less
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_______ chart and assign data by size
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cartograms
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Geographers use the word _______ as an essential modifier in framing their questions and farming their concepts.
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spatial
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The identification of place by some precise and accepted system of coordinates; it therefore is sometimes called mathematical location.
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absolute location
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the position of a place in relocation to that of other places or activities.
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relative location
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An absolute location comcept, refers to the physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of the place itself.
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site
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Refers to the external relations of a locale.
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situation
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The processof dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points which it is directly or indirectly connected.
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spatial diffusion
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Implies the increasing interconnection of peoples and societies in all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental processes becomes international in scale and effect.
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globalization
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The measure of the number of quantity of anything within a defined unit of area
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density
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How many different, regions are there?
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3
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Which 6 factors are considered important in determining a population's rate of natural increase
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Economic development, education, gender empowerment, healthcare, cultural traditions, public policy
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cause people to move to places where they feel more at home or where they are able to take advantage of certain institutions.
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cultural issues
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The Population Bomb, _______ made a similar argument about the ability of the earth to sustainably provide resources for an exponentially growing population.
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Ehrlich
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The term _______ was coined by the off-beat author and artist Douglas Coupland to describe a generation without the overwhelming numbers and unifying identity enjoyed by the baby boomers.
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Generation X
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What was Thomas Malthus theory?
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People need food to survive and people have a desire of reproduction
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A pattern that are clumped together is called
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centralized
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A method chosen to represent Earth's curve surface as a flat map
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projection
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How much arable does India have?
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Above 35 percent
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The layers are used as parts of the Geographic Information System to evaluate soil erosion is made through computer analysis of the different layers and their relationships to one another
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Layers of GIS
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Dr. John Snow use dot maps to solve the _____.
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Cholera pandemic
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We learn places through books, movies, stories, and picture but never actually been there.
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Perception of place
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An element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions dealing with locations.
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location theory
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Focus on 1 or a few related aspects of the physical environment or of human population and society
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Systematic geography
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areal orientation pursued by some geographers through the 3 interests of geography
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Regional geography
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in a spatial sense everybody is related to everything but that relation are stronger when are near one another
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Todler's first law of geography
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An Arabic geographer that is a descendent of Mohammed, was directed by Roger 2, the Christian king of Sicily in whose court he served, to collect all known geographical infornation and assemble it in a truly accurate representation of the world.
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Idrisi
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located roughly on the 180 degrees on the longitude scale of the globe (where the globe is divided by the hours in a day to the degrees it turns once around its axis) and it zizags its way through the Pacific Ocean due to location of countries there
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International Date Line
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When he or she is driving to a familiar location, it is said that a person might have a _______ of an area.
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Mental map
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too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, and too hilly
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Five toos
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Emphasis on people, deals with the world as it is and with the world as it might be made to be
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the study of human geography
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the second universal spatial concept, have absolute and relative terms
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directions
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calculations refer not to a point but to areal statistics
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Isopeth maps
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use circles of different size to show frequent of occasion of a topic in different places
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Quanitative maps
