AP HUG Unit 1

Which of the following do geographers use to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment by combining layers of spatial data, and creating maps in which patterns and processes are superimposed?

• GPS
• GIS
• Scale
• Mental Maps

Which of the following uses a coordinate system to precisely plot where something is.

• Relative location
• Absolute location
• Generalized Maps
• GIS

Relative location is....

• location of a place in relation to other human and physical features.
• Precise coordinates of a place.
• General trends we see of a given phenomenon.
• Digitized representations of the environment.

Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization (ex. local, regional, global)

• Mental Maps
• Scale
• GPS
• Regions

What are mental maps?

• Maps on our minds of places we have been and places we have merely heard of.
• Helps us see general trends 
• Data collected by satellites and aircraft
• Compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations.

The French-speaking region of Europe is what type of region?

• Formal
• Functional
• Perceptual 
• Rescale

Which type of region is defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it?

• Formal
• Functional
• Perception
• Rescale

Which of the following is a perceptual region?

• South China Karst Region
• City of Denver
• Southern United States
• French-speaking region in Europe

An area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse is...

• Cultural Trait
• Cultural Hearth
• Cultural Diffusion
• Culture complex

What is expansion diffusion?

• When an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
• a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
• The distance controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person-- analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
• A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.