Advanced Placement Human Geography
Chapter One Study Guide
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1. What two questions do geographers ask?
2. Give a definition for geography in your own words.
3. Why do geographers feel people are being pulled in two directions regarding
globalization?
4. Why are geographers interested in McDonald restaurants?
5. Why have McDonald’s restaurants been successful all over the world?
6. Why has geography been so important after 9/11?
7. What are the two major branches of geography?
8. What are the two main features of “human geography”?
9. What is the most important tool of geographers?
10. Why is every “place” so unique?
11. Give an example of “Scale” relating to Globalization.
12. Why are geographers so interested in ‘Connections”?
13. Define a “Region” and give 2 examples of them.
14. What do “Cartographers” do?
15. Name 2 purposes a map.
16. Name one contribution each of the following people made to geography.
a. Aristotle
b. Thales
c. Eratosthenes
d. Ptolemy
e. Phei Hsiu
f. Ibn-Battutah
g. Mercator
17.What is a “fractional scale”?
18.Would a map of Naples be a larger scale map or a smaller scale map
compared to a map of the world?
19. What is a “Projection” in geographical terms?
20. Name 4 problems with distortion when we try to represent the earth on a flat
surface.
21.What are the problems with distortion when using a :
a. Robinson Projectionb. Mercator Projection22.Why was the Land Ordinance of 1785 so significant?
23.What is a “Township”?
24.What is a “Range”?
25. Is the Township and Range System found anywhere today? Where?
26. What is “GIS”?
27. How does GIS work and who uses it and why is it so valuable?
28.What is “Remote Sensing” and how does it work?
29.What is a “Topographic Map” and how is it used?
30. What is GPS and who uses it?
31. How can GPS be so precise?
32. What is a “Toponym”?
33. What are some of the factors taken in when naming places?
34. What are some of the reasons names of places are changed?
35. What is the difference between “Site” and “Situation”/
36. Give 3 examples of Site factors.
37. Give 3 examples of Situation factors.
38. What is meant by “Mathematical Location”?
39. Where is the “Prime Meridian”?
40. How is “Longitude” determined?
41. Where is the “International Date Line”?
42. When it is 2:00 PM in Naples on January 30th what time and date is it in
Sydney, Australia?
43. What is meant by a “Sense of Place”?
44. Define “Cultural Landscape” and give 5 examples of it in Naples.
45.Who really creates regions?
46.Define a “Formal Region” and give 3 examples NOT in the book.
47.Define a “Functional Region” and give 3 examples NOT in the book.
48.Define a “Vernacular Region” and give 3 examples NOT in the book.
49.On the last page of this study guide draw a “Mental Map” you use every day.
50.Define the “American South” by listing the states you would include in it.
51.How do geographers define “Culture”?
52. Define “Language” in geographic terms.
53.Why is religion so important in culture?
54. Define “Ethnicity”.
55.Name 2 MDCs and 2 LDCs.
56. Why are some countries LCDs vs. MCDs?
57. What do “Cultural Ecologists” study”
58. What is the difference between “Environmental Determinism” and
“Possibilism”?
59.How do physical features of a region influence human activities?
60.Why do human geographers need to be familiar with “Climatology”?
61. What is he “Koppen System”?
62. Why are the “Monsoons” so important to India and Bangladesh?
63. What climate zone do you live in?
64. What is a “Biome” and name 4 biomes?
65.Why is the study of soils so important to human geographers?
66.What is “Geomorphology”?
67. Why is it said that the Dutch made the “Netherlands”?
68. What is a “Polder”?
69. How might Global Warming affect the Netherlands in the future?
70. Why is the state of Florida so fragile?
71. Where in Florida has the physical environment been altered and why?
72.What has been the effect of protecting the sugar cane fields on the
Everglades?
73.What is meant by “Scale: From Local to Global”?
74. What types of arrangements do geographers study both locally and globally?
75. Define “Globalization” and name 3 results of it.
76.Why are “Transnational Corporations” important today?
77.What have been the effects of these corporations( name 4)?
78.What is meant by the “Globalization of Culture”?
79.Name 4 good effects and 4 bad effects of Cultural Globalization.
80. How has Kant compared geography to history?
81.What is the difference between “Distribution” and “Density”?
82. What is the difference between “Arithmetic Density” and “Physiological
Density”?
83. What is the difference between “Density” and “Concentration”?
84.Name the 3 properties of distribution.
85.How have density and concentration affected baseball teams since the 1950’s?
86. Give 7 examples of baseball teams that have been affected.
87. How have gender and ethnic changes since WWII affected patterns in space?
88. What is meant by “Space-Time Compression” and give 2 examples?
89.What is “Distance Decay”?
90.Define “Diffusion”
91.What is a “Hearth”? What is the difference between “Relocation Diffusion’
and “Expansion Diffusion”?
92.Give 2 examples of Relocation Diffusion NOT in the book.
93.Name the 3 types of “Expansion Diffusion” and give 2 examples of each NOT
in the book.
94.What is the difference between “Contagious Diffusion” and “Stimulus
Diffusion”? Give 2 examples of each NOT in the book.
95.Where are the centers of global culture and the global economy today?
96.Where are new factories of the global economy being located today and why
are they located there?
97.What are the “Periphery” and what are the “Core” regions today?
98.What is meant by “Uneven Development”/
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