AP Human Geography Chapter 1

1) What elements of study do human and physical geography have in common?

• They are taught or studied within the same department in major universities, but only rarely.

• They are concerned with where things occur and why they occur where they do.

• They are dedicated primarily to managing national park systems.

• They are focused primarily on managing the world's growing human population.

• They represent a network of academic professionals dedicated primarily to studying coal mining's effects on physical and human systems.

Which of the following does NOT distinguish Geographers from Historians according to Immanuel Kant?

• Geographers organize material spatially while historians organize material chronologically.

• Geographers identify the location and explain why human activities are there while historians focus on chronological events at a particular location.

• Geographers ask "where and why" and historians ask "when and why."

• Geographers examine the world as a whole while historians segment the world into regions for easier examination.

• Geographers recognize actions at one location can influence conditions elsewhere while historians examine past actions to explain future actions.

The relationship among people and objects across space is defined as

• scale

• connection

• diffusion

• density

• location

According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was

• Aristotle

• Eratosthenes

• Strabo

• Thales of Miletus.

• Thucydides

The art and science of making maps is

• cardemography

• cartography

• topography

• geomorphology

• geography

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is

• GIS

• GPS

• remote sensing

• aerial photography

• USGS

Scale is

• the system used by geographers to transfer locations from a globe to a map.

• the spread of a phenomenon over a given area.

• the difference in elevation between two points in an area.

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

• the ratio of the largest to smallest areas on a map.

Which of the following types of maps would have the largest numeric scale?

• world

• continent

• state

• city

• country

Greenwich Mean Time is measured from

• 0 degrees latitude

• 0 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees latitude

• 180 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees longitude

The International Date Line is measured approximately from

• 0 degrees latitude

• 0 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees latitude

• 180 degrees longitude

• 90 degrees longitude