AP Human Geography Themes and Concepts

The idea that one's environment is responsible for who people are and how they live

• Positivism
• 'Merica
• Possibilism
• Environmental Determinism

Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.

• Environmental Determinism
• Environmental Possibilism
• Cultural Determinism
• Cultural Environmentalism

The greater the distance from the hearth, the less likely the interaction would be is referred to as,

• Distance Decay

• Acculturation

• Time-Space Compression

• Sequent occupancy

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

• Situation

• Relative Location

• Absolute Location

• Site

Which geographical theme would involve the study of the impact drainage has on part of the Florida Everglades?

• Movement

• Location

• Place

• Human Environment Interaction

made up of a central place and surrounding areas affected by it. Often, this is a metropolitan area that consists of a major city and lots of smaller towns or cities that surround it.

• functional region
• perceptual region
• cultural landscape
• free enterprise

Places that share similar characteristics are called 

• human systems
• environments
• regions
• physical systems

Asking the question "why is something found in a particular place", is using which theme of geography?

• Place
• Movement
• Human Environment Interaction
• Location

Which type of location does not change?

• Absolute
• Relative
• Positive
• Negative

Cell phones have contributed to

• possibilism

• networks

• time-space compression

• regionalism

• density