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AP Human Unit 1 Review

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  • Explain Carl Sauer's Cultural Landscape theory.
    Focuses on items placed on the landscape by people ("culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result")
  • What is a Formal / Uniform region?
    Place where everyone shares at least one specific characteristic (language, economy, etc.)
  • Qualitative Data
    This is examining data through more humanistic means (observations, interviews, etc.)
  • How do geographers define the concept of "place?"
    A location on the Earth's surface that has distinct / unique characteristics.
  • On a Mercator projection map, where is there distortion?
    Nearest the poles
  • Geographic Scale
    Scale at which geographers analyze a particular phenomenon, for example: global, national, neighborhood, etc.
  • Explain the "why of where" concept.
    Understanding why things occur where they do. This illustrates the fact that spatial patterns are important.
  • Physical Geography
    The study of where natural forces occur (landforms, climate, vegetation, etc.)
  • What is cartography?
    The art / science of mapmaking
  • Explain scale of analysis.
    Focuses on some type of data and its distribution across space (tracking a disease, trend, etc.)
  • What are the types of distortion on a map?
    Shape, size, direction, distance
  • What is a Functional / Nodal region?
    Some characteristic dominates a specific area and diminishes the further it gets from the focal point (newspaper, radio station, etc.)
  • Friction of Distance
    This is the concept of how absolute distance affects the interaction between two places.
  • What are the four traditions according to W. D. Pattison?
    Area-analysis, culture-environment, earth-science, and locational
  • GIS
    A set of computer tool used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data (creates thematic layers)
  • Human Geography
    The study of the spatial variation in the patterns and process related to human activity.
  • Quantitative Data
    This is the concept of using math and statistics to analyze spatial data in geography
  • What are the five themes of geography?
    place, region, movement, location, human-environment interaction
  • Tobler's First Law of Geography
    Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things
  • GPS
    set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on Earth's surface
  • What are choropleth maps
    Thematic maps that use shades of a color to illustrate certain aspects of data
  • Explain space-time compression?
    As communication / technology improves, the time it takes to travel decreases making it seem as if places are closer
  • Cartographic Scale
    1/1,000, 1:10,000, or 1 inch equals 5,000 inches on Earth's surface
  • Sustainability
    This is the concept that of how humans use the Earth's resources so that there will be some available for future generations.
  • Which would be a larger cartographic scale (city, country, or world map)?
    City
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