AP Human Geography Unit 1 Multiple Choice Exam Questions

Which of the following best describes the SITE of Manhattan?

An island bordered by the Hudson and East Rivers.

What is the difference between GPS and GIS?

GIS is the layering of data, whereas GPS is the gathering of data.

Which of the following U.S. cities is a site along the Mississippi River and is situated as a major port for offshore petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico?

New Orleans

Which of the following fields of study is least associated with human geography?

geomorpholgy

Which of the following best describes the SITE of Mexico City?

A highland valley and dry lake bed located on a high plateau is southern central Mexico.

In the context of the contemporary United States, a strip mall shopping center best exemplifies which of the following types of landscapes?

Ordinary landscape

Which of the following terms most directly refers to geographical techniques that collect information about the earth's surface from a distant perspective?

remote sensing

A subfield of geography that deals holistically with the environmental and human attributes of a partial territory is know as

regional geography.

A perceptual region's boundaries are

fuzzy because they allow for individual interpretation.

The geographical region whose center is located along the equator and whose area extends roughly 23 degrees north and south of the equator is known as the

tropical zone.

Seattle is located on Puget Sound in northwestern Washington. It has a large university, a famous downtown market, and a moist, marine climate. Seattle's primary economic activities include ship and aircraft construction and high-technology enterprises. This information gives us a description of Seattle's

site

Which of the following cartographic terms describes the location of a place in terms of its angular distance north or south of the equator?

Longitude

Which of the following examples is least likely to be perceived as a path in cognitive space?

an impenetrable forest

Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of cognitive distance?

Distance expressed in terms of the perceived amount of space separating one place from another.

In cognitive space, perceived boundaries such as frontiers, horizons, and shorelines are known as

edges.

Which of the following phenomena most directly illustrates the concept of cultural convergence?

Globalization

Rap music first appeared in New York in the 1970s. Later is spread to larger cities with vibrant African-American populations-such as Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit-without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in between. This type of spatial diffusion is called

cultural diffusion

Stores and restaurants in Oregon that find it cheaper to buy fresh vegetables grown in California than those grown in Florida are taking advantage of

Intervening opportunities

The principal of distance decay describes

A negative correlation between distance and degree or relation.

A ratio of the number of items within a defined unit of area measures

density.

Which of the following concepts refers to the spatial arrangement of items or features within a given area?

Distribution

The ability to travel and communicate over greater distances in shorter amounts of time, due to technological innovations such as the airplane, automobile, telephone, and internet, represents the idea of

time-space convergence

What type of map has all lines of latitude and longitude meeting at right angles, creating much distortion at both of the polar regions?

Mercator projection map

The azimuthal map best reflects what class of map projection?

Planar

What are maps called that keep shapes intact but distort area?

Conformal

Relative to lines of latitude near the equator, lines of latitude near the poles are

shorter.

Which of the following geometric map projections would be the most appropriate for producing a world map in which the equatorial zone is least distorted?

Cylindrical.

Map projections that preserve and accurately represent the shape of the geographical areas and features are said to be

conformal.

Curves on a topographic map that are used to illustrate specific values of elevation above or below sea level are known as

contour lines

Thematic maps that employ a range of color tones to illustrate how particular values vary across predefined areas, such as counties, provinces, or states, are referred to as

chloropleth maps

During the process of map-making, in which of the three-dimensional surface of the earth is projected onto a flat, two dimensional surface, all of the following attributes can become distorted EXCEPT

relative location.