AP Human Geography Unit 1: Intro to Geography

Imagine that one day you go hiking in a national park. After walking all day and then camping for the night, you realize that you are lost. Instead of becoming worried, you pull out a handheld device that provides your location, the time, and evens maps that you can use to guide yourself out of the park. What type of technology does this device use?

• Geographic Information System (GIS)  
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Hiking Location System (HLS)
• Park Assistance System (PAS)

What type of maps focuses on the characteristics listed below?
country borders, state borders, capital cities, etc.

• Political Map
• Physical Map
• Special Purpose Map

What geographic tool is represented in the picture above?

• Grid
• Scale
• Projection
• Legend (Key)

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

• A.  referenced location 
• A.  central location
• A.  relative location
• A.  absolute location 

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

• absolute location
• relative location
• site
• situation

Scale is…                                     

• the system used by geographers to transfer locations  from a globe to a map
• the extent of 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 process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: 

• diffusion
• simultaion
• adaptation
• movement

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

• site
• situation
• relative location
• absolute location

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

• GPS
• GIS
• ENSO
• OPEC

Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 

•  Expansion and hierarchical
• Contagious and stimulus
•  Expansion and relocation
•  Migrant and hierarchical