AP Human Geography Kuby Chapter 1 Quiz – Flashcards
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Location
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The exact coordinates of a point in space but also where it is relative to other factors.
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Place
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The second theme, involves the human and physical characteristics that uniquely define a place and impart meaning to its inhabitants.
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Region
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The third theme defines areas that are bound together by common characteristics: similar places and locations from common regions
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Movements
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The fourth geographical theme, movements of information, goods, and people connect locations and regions to one another.
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Human-environmental interactions
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The fifth theme, humans and their environment interact in both directions: environmental resources constrain and benefit human societies while human activities refashion and degrade their environments.
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Map
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A two-dimensional graphical representation of the surface of the earth.
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Map Projection
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A systematic method of transferring the spherical surface of the Earth to a flat map.
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Simplification
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Simplification can take many forms, such as omission, straightening, exaggeration, and distortion, depending upon the map's ultimate use.
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Map Scale
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The degree to which a map "zooms in" on an area. The ratio of map distance (distance between two points on a map) measured in the same units.
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Aggregation
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The fourth cartographic issue. Referring to the size of the geographic units under investigation (i.e., cities, counties, states, regions, countries, or groupings of countries, such as Central America, Western Europe, or Eastern Africa).
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Reference Maps
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General-purpose maps with a variety of common features such as cities, boundaries, mountains, and roads.
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Thematic maps
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Maps that highlight a particular feature or a single variable such as temperature, city size, or acreage in potatoes.
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Isolines Maps
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Maps that show lines that connect points of equal value
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Chloropleth Map
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A map that shows the level of some variable within predefined regions, such as counties, states, or countries. It categorizes a variable into and depicts each class with different shading patterns or colors.
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Proportional Symbol Map
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Map that uses symbols such as a circle to show intensity or frequency; the size of the symbol varies with the frequency or size of the variable being mapped
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Dot Map
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Maps that use a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in Oder to depict variation in density in a given area
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Spatial Data
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Have a geographic or locational component. You can place them on the surface of the earth, and therefore you can map them
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Primary Data
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Measured or obtained directly by researchers or their equipment without any intermediary.
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Secondary Data
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Geographers obtain this data from another source that has previously collected, processed, catalogued the data.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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A spatial database linked to a graphic display. Geographers and scientists use a GIS to store, access, analyze, and display geographic information in electric form with user-friendly software.
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True
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True or False: Chicago would appear larger on a map with a scale of 1:50,000 than on a map with a scale of 1:1,000,000
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False
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True or False: A general reference map displays a single category of data or a specific spatial distribution
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True
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True or False: A large-scale map depicts a smaller area with more detail than a small-scale map.
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True
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True or False: At the scale of the metropolitan area, the tendency over the last century has been spreading out of the population to the suburbs.
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True
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True or False: When describing the scale of a printed map as a ratio or fraction, the unit of measurement for distance is irrelevant.
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Graduated Circle Maps
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What type of map displayed the distribution of absolute (i.e., raw) numbers of African Americans in the U.S.?
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Isoline Map
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A daily weather map of high temperatures, featuring lines connecting points registering equal temperatures, is a type of:
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4 miles
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If two cities are 4 inches apart on a map with a scale of 1:63,360, how far apart are the hey on the surface of the earth?
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The Southeast
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The states with the highest percentage of African-Americans can be found in:
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Connectivity
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Which of the following (is not one of the five ways that cartographers manipulate the impression one gets from a map:
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Level of aggregation refers to:
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The size of the spatial unit of analysis
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Rural countries receive more visual emphasis than urban countries on a Chloropleth map because:
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Rural countries cover a larger area
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A more recent dot map would show an increase in the phenomena being measured compared with an earlier dot map by:
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Having more dots
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On an isolines map, lines close to each other indicate:
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A rapid change in the variable
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If you were measuring the concentration of Hispanic Americans using a dot density map, which threshold would put most visual emphasis on those Hispanics living in rural areas?
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One per 5,000 Hispanics
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The key theme in human geography is:
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Space
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The level of detail for dividing a thematic map into geographic units, ranging from a course division to a fine division
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Aggregation
