AP Human Geography (APHG)
Unit 1 Summative Assessment
Learning objective: Student understands what human geography is and how it compares and contrasts with physical geography.
1. What do Human Geographers study?
A. People and places
B. People and history
C. People and culture
D. People and space
E. None
2. As an academic discipline, geography is principally concerned with the?
A. Nature and meaning of place names
B. Impact of the environment on human understandings and activities
C. Evolving character and spatial organization of Earth’s surface
D. Absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on Earth’s surface
E. None
3. Comparing and contrasting Human/Cultural Geography with Physical Geography, which statement
below is most correct?
A. Physical geography is study of the physical phenomena on earth such as: landforms, their
origins and changes; Human geography focuses on how: people make place, organize space and
society, interact with each other in places and across space, and make sense of themselves and
others.
B. Human geography is study of the physical phenomena on earth such as: landforms, their
origins and changes; Physical geography focuses on how: people make place, organize space and
society, interact with each other in places and across space, and make sense of themselves and
others.
C. Physical and Human Geography both are the study of the earth; physical geography is
primarily making maps and human geography is primarily how humans use maps.
D. Physical and Human geography may be used interchangeably because they basically study the
same things.
E. None
Learning Objective: Student understands the fundamentals of human geography
4. Which of the following are the “Five Themes of Human Geography”?
A. Person, place, thing, environment, movement
B. Location, human-environment, region, place, movement
C. Continent, country, state, nation, nation-state
D. Continent, country, state, county, city
E. None
Learning Objective: Student has a basic understanding of globalization and regionalization
5. The process of deepening relationships and increasing dependency on those relationships without
regard to a state’s borders in economy and culture is best described as?
A. Human – environmental interaction
B Globalization
C. Culture
D. Regionalization
E. None
6. Which answer below is the best example of a Formal Region?
A. Mountain regions
B. Silicon Valley
C. The Deep South
D. Sun Belt
E. None
7. Which of the following is the primary geographic effect of the globalization of the economy?
A. Production is shifted to low-cost locations in developing countries.
B. Countries have greater control over economic activity within their boarders
C. More local ownership makes industries less likely to move.
D. Production is increasingly concentrated in the Manufacturing Belt of the USA.
E. None
8. Which answer below is the best example of a Functional Region?
A. Mountain regions
B. Silicon Valley
C. The Deep South
D. Sun Belt
E. None
9. Which answer below is the best example of a Perceptual Region?
A. Mountain regions
B. Silicon Valley
C. The Deep South
D. Sun Belt
E. None
Lesson Objectives: Student understands maps and their uses
10. Jacksonville being located north of Miami is an example of what geographic term?
A. absolute location
B. Relative location
C. Composite location
d. Geographic location
e. None
11. GPS is an acronym for what term?
A. Geographic Information Systems
B. Global Positioning Systems
C. Global positioning satellites
d. Geographic positioning systems
E None
12. What is the difference between GPS and GIS?
A. GPS uses GIS data
B. GIS uses GPS data to determine location
C. GPS is the layering of data, whereas GIS is the gathering of data
D. GIS is the layering of data, whereas GPS is the gathering of data
E. None
13. The science of making maps is called?
A. Geography
B. Cartography
C. Geology
D. Anthropology
E. None
14. What statement below best describes Reference Maps?
A. Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of movement.
B. Maps that show locations of places and geographic features
C. Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and merely heard about.
D. Maps that simplify information rather than show specific information
15. What statement below best describes Thematic Maps?
A. Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of movement.
B. Maps that show locations of places and geographic features
C. Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and merely heard about.
D. Maps that simplify information rather than show specific information
E. None
16. What statement below best describes Mental Maps?
A. Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of movement.
B. Maps that show locations of places and geographic features
C. Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and merely heard about.
D. Maps that simplify information rather than show specific information
E. None
17. What statement below best describes Reference Maps?
A. Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of movement.
B. Maps that show locations of places and geographic features
C. Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and merely heard about.
D. Maps that simplify information rather than show specific information
E. None
18. What statement below best describes Generalized Maps?
A. Maps that tell stories typically showing the degree of movement.
B. Maps that show locations of places and geographic features
C. Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and merely heard about.
D. Maps that simplify information rather than show specific information
E. None
Learning Objective: Student understands scale and connectedness
19. Scale is best described below as?
A. The distance on a map compared to the distance on the earth usually found in the legend
section of the map.
B. The territorial extent of space such as: local, regional, national, and global space.
C. The distance on a map compared to the distance on the earth usually found in the legend
section of the map and the territorial extent of space such as: local, regional, national, and
global space.
D. The coordinates on a map that indicate absolute location
E. None
20. When geographers study connectedness they are referring to what concept?
A. The degree to which on location is linked to another.
B. The degree to which on location has access to the internet.
C. The degree to which a location has access to cellular service
D. The degree of WIFI coverage in a location
E. None
Learning Objectives: Student understands the concept of culture and diffusion
21. Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?
A. Adobe ruins
B. Coastal wetlands
C. Cloud forest
D Eroded shoreline
E. None
22. A food assemblage that includes olives, pita bread, cheese, figs, lamb, and wine is most associated
with which of the following?
A. Spain
B. Greece
C. Mexico
D. France
E. None
Music critics still argue where Rap music started, New York or Los Angles. Initially it was mainly
heard only on the East and West coast. It was then played on FM stations in major urban centers
such as: Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit. Now it can be heard on most FM stations anywhere in the
USA. Through the use of satellite television (MTV) and the internet, Rap music can now be heard on
every continent on earth.
23. The above passage discusses what geography terms?
A. Cultural barriers and distortion
B. Cultural hearth and diffusion
C. Cultural movement and human environmental interaction
D. Cultural traits and complex
E. None
24. Los Angles, New York, Detroit and Atlanta all have several Rap radio stations. Salt Lake City, which is
70% Mormon and 93% white, has no Rap radio stations. What is one possible reason for this fact?
A. Cultural barriers
B. Relocation diffusion
C. Cultural hearth
D. Cultural complex
E. None
25. A Turkish man wearing a turban would be an example of what?
A Cultural trait
B. Cultural complex
C. Cultural hearth
D. Cultural diffusion
E. None
26. Latin Americans generally having large families, being Catholic, and having patriarchal family
structure is an example of what?
A Cultural trait
B. Cultural complex
C. Cultural hearth
D. Cultural diffusion
E. None
27. A rock star appearing on a morning talk show wearing Kabbalah bracelet, later other stars begin
wearing Kabbalah bracelets and eventually the bracelets are being sold in Target is an example of what
geographic concept?
A. Contagious cultural diffusion
B. Hierarchical cultural diffusion
C. Expansion cultural diffusion
D. Relocation cultural diffusion
E. None
28. In the 1980’s many Cambodians migrated to the Riverside area of Jacksonville; shortly thereafter
several Cambodian restaurants open in Riverside. This is an example of what geographic concept?
A. Contagious cultural diffusion
B. Hierarchical cultural diffusion
C. Expansion cultural diffusion
D. Relocation cultural diffusion
E. None
29. The Middle East is the cultural hearth for three major religions. Christianity generally spread west
while Islam generally spread east. This is an example of what geographic concept?
A. Contagious cultural diffusion
B. Hierarchical cultural diffusion
C. Expansion cultural diffusion
D. Relocation cultural diffusion
E. None
30. Approximately 82 percent of all Americans own a cell phone. The fact that almost every American
owns a cell phone is an example of what geographic concept?
A. Contagious cultural diffusion
B. Hierarchical cultural diffusion
C. Expansion cultural diffusion
D. Relocation cultural diffusion
E. None
Student understands and can compare and contrast Possibilsm and Environmental Determinism
31. Environmental determinism theory was replaced by which approach to geography in the late 20th
century?
A. distribution theory
B. hierarchical theory
c. Stimulus theory
d. Possiblist theory