Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Absolute distance -
correct answer ✅A distance that can be measured with a standard
unit of length, such as a mile or a kilometer.
Absolute location -
correct answer ✅The exact position of an object or place,
measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system.
Accessibility -
correct answer ✅The relative ease with which a destination may
be reached from some other place.
Anthropogenic -
correct answer ✅Human-induced changes on the natural
environment.
Azimuthal projection -
correct answer ✅A map projection in which the plane is the most
developable surface.
,Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Breaking point -
correct answer ✅The outer edge of a city's sphere of influence,
used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's
hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supplies.
Carl Sauer -
correct answer ✅Geographer from the University of California at
Berkley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the
fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results
from the interaction between humans and the physical
environment. Sauer argued that virtually no landscape has escaped
alteration by human activities.
Choropleth map -
correct answer ✅A thematic map that uses tones or colors to
represent spatial data as average values per unit area.
Cognitive map -
correct answer ✅An image of a portion of Earth's surface that an
individual creates in his or her min. Cognitive maps can include
knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as
well as personal perceptions and preferences of particular places.
, Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Complementarity -
correct answer ✅The actual or potential relationships between
two places, usually referring to economic interactions.
Dot maps -
correct answer ✅Thematic maps that use points to show the
precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as
crimes, car accidents, or births.
Earth System Science -
correct answer ✅A systematic approach to physical geography that
looks at the interaction between Earth's physical systems and
processes on a global scale.
Environmental geography -
correct answer ✅The intersection between human and physical
geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the
physical environment and vice versa.
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Absolute distance -
correct answer ✅A distance that can be measured with a standard
unit of length, such as a mile or a kilometer.
Absolute location -
correct answer ✅The exact position of an object or place,
measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system.
Accessibility -
correct answer ✅The relative ease with which a destination may
be reached from some other place.
Anthropogenic -
correct answer ✅Human-induced changes on the natural
environment.
Azimuthal projection -
correct answer ✅A map projection in which the plane is the most
developable surface.
,Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Breaking point -
correct answer ✅The outer edge of a city's sphere of influence,
used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's
hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supplies.
Carl Sauer -
correct answer ✅Geographer from the University of California at
Berkley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the
fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results
from the interaction between humans and the physical
environment. Sauer argued that virtually no landscape has escaped
alteration by human activities.
Choropleth map -
correct answer ✅A thematic map that uses tones or colors to
represent spatial data as average values per unit area.
Cognitive map -
correct answer ✅An image of a portion of Earth's surface that an
individual creates in his or her min. Cognitive maps can include
knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as
well as personal perceptions and preferences of particular places.
, Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
1 Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Complementarity -
correct answer ✅The actual or potential relationships between
two places, usually referring to economic interactions.
Dot maps -
correct answer ✅Thematic maps that use points to show the
precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as
crimes, car accidents, or births.
Earth System Science -
correct answer ✅A systematic approach to physical geography that
looks at the interaction between Earth's physical systems and
processes on a global scale.
Environmental geography -
correct answer ✅The intersection between human and physical
geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the
physical environment and vice versa.
