AP Human Geography Unit 1 Practice

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The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:

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absolute location

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The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:

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relative location

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Scale is…

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the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the

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site

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The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as:

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GIS

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The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?

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Cultural Landscape

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What is it called when you take a 3D image and put it onto a 2D surface?

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Projection

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Which type of location does not change? Options: Absolute, Relative, Positive, Negative

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Absolute

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What type of region would a corn field be?

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Formal

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Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

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Functional