APHUG Unit One Test

Question 1

What is a reference map?

Answer 1

A reference map is a map that shows geographic locations on Earth’s surface, such as the locations of cities or oceans.

Question 2

What is a thematic map?

Answer 2

A thematic map is a map that emphasizes the spatial patterns or geographical statistics or attributes, and sometimes the relationships between them.

Question 3

What is absolute distance?

Answer 3

Absolute distance is the distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a foot, yard, mile, or kilometer.

Question 4

What is absolute direction?

Answer 4

Absolute direction corresponds to the direction on a compass: north, south, east, west, and combinations such as northwest and southeast

Question 5

What is relative distance?

Answer 5

Relative distance is a measurement of the level of social, cultural, or economic similarity between places despite their absolute distance from each other.

Question 6

What is relative direction?

Answer 6

Relative direction is a direction that can be described as position, such as in front of or behind, or to the left or right.

Question 7

What is clustering?

Answer 7

Clustering is a group of similar people with similar characteristics or items positioned or occurring close together.

Question 8

What is dispersal?

Answer 8

Dispersal is the action or process of distributing things or people across a wide area.

Question 9

What is elevation?

Answer 9

Elevation is the distance above sea level.

Question 10

What are map projections?

Answer 10

Map projections are methods for representing the surface of Earth or a celestial sphere on a plane (two dimensional) surface; all map projections distort some aspects of Earth.

Question 11

What is absolute location?

Answer 11

Absolute location is a precise position on Earth’s surface.

Question 12

What is relative location?

Answer 12

Relative location is the position of one place (or person) in relation to the position of another place (or person).

Question 13

What is a geographic information system?

Answer 13

A geographic information system is a computer system that collects, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

Question 14

What is a satellite navigation system?

Answer 14

Satellite navigation systems are systems that help provide specific data about the location of an object or place on Earth using geographical coordinates of longitude and latitude.

Question 15

What is remote sensing?

Answer 15

Remote sensing is the scanning of Earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.

Question 16

What is field observation/field work?

Answer 16

Field observation is learning and doing research involving firsthand experience, which takes place outside of the classroom setting.

Question 17

What are media reports?

Answer 17

Media reports are reports from media outlets like newspapers, television, and online news sources to help gather information about an area.

Question 18

What are travel narratives?

Answer 18

Travel narratives are notes and stories about observations made in the field.

Question 19

What are policy documents?

Answer 19

Policy documents are when geographers look to legislation to gather geographic data in the form of documentation.

Question 19

What are personal interviews?

Answer 19

Personal interviews are interviews geographers may do to experts to gather information about a specific place.

Question 20

What is landscape analysis?

Answer 20

Landscape analysis is the process of studying and describing a landscape.

Question 21

What is photographic interpretation?

Answer 21

Photographic interpretation is when geographers use photographs of a place to gather observational data taken off the ground or by aerial photography.

Question 22

What is census data?

Answer 22

Census data is an official count or survey of population, typically recording various details about individuals such as age, sex, and race.

Question 23

What is satellite imagery?

Answer 23

Satellite imagery is imagery of Earth’s surface gathered from sensors mounted on orbiting satellites recording visible and non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum allowing humans to view patterns and processes not visible and invisible to the naked eye.

Question 24

What is space?

Answer 24

Space is the area we occupy as humans; it has no value until the people who occupy it make it their own.

Question 25

What is place?

Answer 25

A place is how humans modify space based on how they are as a group.

Question 26

What are flows?

Answer 26

Flows are how people, information, or goods move and how different places interact with one another.

Question 27

What is distance decay?

Answer 27

Distance decay is the concept that the farther away one place is from the other, the less interaction those two places will have.

Question 28

What is the concept of time-space compression?

Answer 28

Time-space compression is the decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time or cost; often summarized by the phrase “the world is shrinking.”

Question 29

What is a pattern?

Answer 29

Patterns are how objects are arranged in space.

Question 30

What is sustainability?

Answer 30

Sustainability is how actions provide immediate benefits while also preserving resources for future use.

Question 31

What are natural resources?

Answer 31

Natural resources are items produced in nature that can be used by humans – there are renewable and non-renewable resources.

Question 32

What is land use?

Answer 32

Land use is changing the Earth’s surface for a specific purpose.

Question 33

What is environmental possibilism?

Answer 33

Environmental possibilism is the belief that any physical environment offers a number of possible ways for a society to develop and that humans can find ways to overcome environmental challenges.

Question 34

What is environmental determinism?

Answer 34

Environmental determinism is the belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is the passive product of its physical surroundings.

Question 35

What is a global scale of analysis?

Answer 35

Global scale of analysis is geographic scale that looks at geographic phenomena across the entire world.

Question 36

What is a regional scale of analysis?

Answer 36

Regional scale of analysis is geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a particular region.

Question 37

What is a national scale of analysis?

Answer 37

National scale of analysis is geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a specific country.

Question 38

What is a local scale of analysis?

Answer 38

Local scale of analysis is geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a state or province, city or town, or neighborhood.

Question 39

What is a formal region?

Answer 39

A formal region is a geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common.

Question 40

What is a functional region?

Answer 40

A functional region is a geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit.

Question 41

What is a perceptual/vernacular region?

Answer 41

A perceptual/vernacular region is a geographic area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, based on the widespread acceptance and use of a unique regional name.

Question 42

A map including towns and bodies of water would be an example of what?

Answer 42

A reference map

Question 43

A map with political decisions and spatial attributes would be an example of what?

Answer 43

A thematic map

Question 44

Specific data points or people together very closely would be an example of what?

Answer 44

Clustering

Question 45

Distribution of multiple data points, items, or people would be an example of what?

Answer 45

Dispersal

Question 46

The distance of the peak of a mountain to the Pacific Ocean would be an example of what?

Answer 46

Elevation

Question 47

What would the Robinson projection be an example of?

Answer 47

A type of map projection

Question 48

34.77 degrees N and 43.24 E would be an example of what?

Answer 48

Absolute location

Question 49

About 10 steps to the left would be an example of what?

Answer 49

Relative distance

Question 50

Tara is a high school AP Geography teacher. She wants a more firsthand experience for teaching her students. What is a possible suggestion for her?

Answer 50

Tara could do field observations, or field work for a firsthand experience of her environment outside of the classroom.

Question 51

Scanning the Earth by satellite would be an example of what?

Answer 51

Remote sensing

Question 52

Television, newspapers, documentaries, and media outlets would be an example of what?

Answer 52

Media reports

Question 53

Greg goes out to do field work for information to teach his AP Human Geography class. How should he represent his findings?

Answer 53

Greg should represent his field observations through a travel narrative.

Question 54

When a geographer looks to legislation to gather geographic data, what would this be an example of?

Answer 54

A policy document

Question 55

Tara travels to Canada to perform field observations in Quebec. She interviews someone who lives there about the animals, climate, and environment there. This would be an example of what?

Answer 55

A personal interview

Question 56

A geographer studying an environment would be an example of what?

Answer 56

Landscape analysis

Question 57

Population collection is an example of what?

Answer 57

Census data

Question 58

Pictures taken from space of South Korea and North Korea would be an example of what?

Answer 58

Satellite imagery

Question 59

Humans modifying space to make represent them as a group would be an example of what?

Answer 59

Place

Question 60

What is the area that we occupy as humans, but has no value until humans make it their own?

Answer 60

Space

Question 61

Goods, ideas, and people move from Place A to Place B, Place C to Place A, and Place A back to Place C. This would be an example of what?

Answer 61

Flows

Question 62

Wawa is a very prominent feature of Delaware county, but as you move further away to a country like Canada, Wawas are very hard to come by. This would be an example of what?

Answer 62

Distance decay

Question 63

A wagon ride from Europe to America would take 4 months in the 1800s. A plane ride might take 12 hours. Humans often, due to this, believe the Earth is smaller than actuality. This would be an example of what?

Answer 63

Time-space compression.

Question 64

Terraces cut into Indian rice fields to make agriculture easier would be an example of what?

Answer 64

Environmental possibilism

Question 65

Wearing a winter coat due to a cold climate in the winter time in Pennsylvania would be an example of what?

Answer 65

Environmental determinism

Question 66

Society, environment, economy, traffic, power, carbon dioxide emissions, and recycling are all factors of what?

Answer 66

Sustainability

Question 67

Burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas would be an example of what?

Answer 67

Non-renewable resources.

Question 68

Items produced in nature that can be used by humans in the form of renewable and non-renewable resources are what?

Answer 68

Natural resources

Question 69

One region calling soft drinks Pepsi and another region referring to them as Pop would be an example of what region?

Answer 69

Perceptual/vernacular region

Question 70

A government would be what type of region?

Answer 70

A uniform, homogenous formal region

Question 71

An airport with multiple outlets for plane arrivals, departures, and people moving interconnectedly would be an example of what?

Answer 71

A node in a functional region