AP Human Geography Midterm Chapter 1

The study of physical phenomena on Earth.

How places and phenomena are laid out, organized, and arranged on the Earth.

<p>The mapping of disease distribution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A world-wide outbreak of a disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mapping of the cholera outbreak in London.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A regional outbreak of a disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How the geographical position of people and things affects what happens and why.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>San Francisco arose where it did because the bay it sits on is an excellent place for docks during trade.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relationship between humans and the physical world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The effects of the Army Corps of Engineers altering rivers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How certain phenomena are concentrated in particular areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The uniqueness of a location; how people make an imprint on a location.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How people perceive a particular area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Businesses might not want to move to Appalachia because of the perception that it is inhabited by backward, poor people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the Earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The material character of a place, including natural features and human structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural succession and its lasting imprint.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>New Orleans was founded by the French, then occupied by African slaves, then controlled by European Americans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When an idea develops in a hearth and remains strong while it spreads outward.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When nearly all adjacent individuals are affected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs in a more diffused, hit or miss pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vegetarianism might spread from its hearth to larger cities, bypassing rural areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When an idea cannot be readily adopted due to inconvenience or taboo.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fast food; hamburgers are taboo in India, but McDonald's has embraced vegetarian options.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When individuals who created an idea move and carry it with them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cultural trait with many hearths that developed independently.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a trait has spread out for so long that it becomes less likely to be adopted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Locations determined by a frame of reference such as latitude and longitude.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A place in relation to other human or physical features.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In northern Illinois, all roads lead to Chicago.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that human behavior is strongly affected by the physical environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The northward movement of isotherms explains the power dynamics of Northern European nations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The absolute location chosen for the best defensive, trade, and religious location.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Romans paid attention to where they placed their settlements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A place's relative location; its place in relation to the world around it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>After European exploration, coastal cities gained dominance over interior cities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A place name.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A region marked by visible uniformity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A desert; it is formed by sand and steep mountains.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A product of interaction or movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A city; it has various types of movement such as commuting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How we perceive a region to look like.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The South; it evokes strong emotions due to historical context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Used to compare spatial data by layering it into a computer to create maps.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maps that show locations of places and geographic features.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maps that tell stories by showing the movement of a geographic phenomenon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shows us the exact location.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses parallels and meridians at right angles; direction plays the main role.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduces the exaggerated size of polar landmasses; it better approximates shape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How geographers monitor the Earth's surface from a distance.</p> Signup and view all the answers