FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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Question 1: What two ways are situation important?

Answer:

Situation is important when finding an unfamiliar place and understanding the importance of a place.

Question 2: What is situation?

Answer:

The location of a place relative to other places.

Question 3: What is a functional region and what is it also known as?

Answer:

A region that stems out from a focal point. It is also known as a nodal region. Ex: newspaper circulation area

Question 4: Parallels

Answer:

Circles drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.

Question 5: What is GPS?

Answer:

Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth.

Question 6: What is location?

Answer:

The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

Question 7: Concentration

Answer:

The extent of a feature's spread over space. When objects are close together they are clustered, and they are dispersed when they are far apart.

Question 8: What is culture?

Answer:

Culture is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

Question 9: What is a formal region and what is it also known as?

Answer:

A region in which everyone shares a characteristic. It is also known as a uniform region. Ex: a county

Question 10: graphy

Answer:

to write

Question 11: What is hierarchial diffusion?

Answer:

The spread of an idea from one person to another.

Question 12: What is toponym?

Answer:

Toponym is the name given to a place on Earth.

Question 13: Who invented the word geography?

Answer:

Eratosthenes

Question 14: geo

Answer:

Earth

Question 15: What is the importance of the International Dateline?

Answer:

If you pass the IDT going east towards America, you are moving a day back. If you pass the IDT going west towards Asia, you are moving a day forward. Every 15 degrees of longitude is a time zone. For example, California is three hours behind SC.

Question 16: How have maps changed from the beginning of cartography?

Answer:

Ancient maps focused on what the cartographer believed or saw with their own eyes. Ancient maps also focused on one small area. Maps from the beginning of cartography were handmade and created by tools the ancient world had.

Question 17: What is expansion diffusion?

Answer:

The spread of the feature from one place to another in an additive process.

Question 18: Why are diferent places interrelated?

Answer:

Places are interrelated because of scale, space, and connection.

Question 19: What is site?

Answer:

The physical characteristic of a place.

Question 20: What is relocation diffusion?

Answer:

The spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from one place to another.

Question 21: Scale

Answer:

The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.

Question 22: What is geotagging?

Answer:

The identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates.

Question 23: What is a map scale?

Answer:

The relationship between a feature's size on a map and its actual size on Earth.

Question 24: Density

Answer:

The frequency in which something occurs in space.

Question 25: What is the purpose of a mental map?

Answer:

The purpose of a mental map is to depict what an individual knows about a place, and to personally show what is in a place and where it is located.

Question 26: How do maps serve as a communication tool?

Answer:

Maps depict the distribution of human activites or physical features and help geographers think about reasons underlying distributions.

Question 27: What three elements are used to make for the GPS in the US?

Answer:

A receiver, satellites, and tracking stations are the elements used for the GPS in the US.Question 28: How have maps changed from the beginning of cartography? (continued)

Answer:

Modern maps are now more accurate and are created by satellites.