AP Human Geography Barron's
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Cartography -
correct answer ✅Map making; central to study of geography.
Eratosthenes -
correct answer ✅One of the early cartographers:; One of his
greatest accomplishments was his remarkably accurate
computation of Earth's circumference, which he based on the Sun's
angle at the summer solstice and the distance between the two
Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Syene. Credited to coining the
term GEOGRAPHY, which literally means " Earth writing."
George Perkins Marsh -
correct answer ✅An inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar;
made an important step in the development of geographic thought
about the relationship between people and their environments.
Marsh's classic work, " Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as
Modified by Human Action," provided the first description of the
extent to which humans had shaped natural systems. In "Man and
Nature," Marsh warned that people's willful of forests, soils, and
other natural resources could have disastrous consequences. As an
example, Marsh pointed to desertification in the Fertile Crescent.
Over time, climate changes and damaging land-use practices
,AP Human Geography Barron's
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
transformed this region into the dry desert that exists today. Based
on his observations of places like the Fertile Crescent, Marsh
advocated a conservationist approach to natural resources. Today
he is remembered as a great scientist, humanist, and writer; many
scholars also consider him to be the first modern environmentalist.
Fertile Crescent -
correct answer ✅An area of the Middle East, in the vicinity of
modern-day Iraq, which was one of the first areas of sedentary
agriculture and urban society.
Carl Sauer -
correct answer ✅Argued that cultural landscapes should be the
fundamental focus of geographic inquiry. He also argued that
humans had shaped virtually all environments around the world,
even those that outwardly appeared to be natural landscapes.
Sauer's work was largely, part historical; Sauer's new paradigm
paved the way for the formal study of human-environment
relations which characterizes much of the field of geography to this
day.
, AP Human Geography Barron's
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Cultural Landscapes -
correct answer ✅The products of complex interactions between
humans and their environments.
Natural Landscapes -
correct answer ✅The physical landscape or environment that has
been affected by human activities.
Environmental Geography -
correct answer ✅The intersection between human and physical
geography, which explores the spatial impact humans have on the
physical environment and vice versa
Cultural Ecology -
correct answer ✅aka Nature-Society Geography; the study of
interactions between societies and the natural environments in
which they live.
Quantitative Revolution -
correct answer ✅A period in Human Geography associated with
social sciences and stressed the widespread use of empirical
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Cartography -
correct answer ✅Map making; central to study of geography.
Eratosthenes -
correct answer ✅One of the early cartographers:; One of his
greatest accomplishments was his remarkably accurate
computation of Earth's circumference, which he based on the Sun's
angle at the summer solstice and the distance between the two
Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Syene. Credited to coining the
term GEOGRAPHY, which literally means " Earth writing."
George Perkins Marsh -
correct answer ✅An inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar;
made an important step in the development of geographic thought
about the relationship between people and their environments.
Marsh's classic work, " Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as
Modified by Human Action," provided the first description of the
extent to which humans had shaped natural systems. In "Man and
Nature," Marsh warned that people's willful of forests, soils, and
other natural resources could have disastrous consequences. As an
example, Marsh pointed to desertification in the Fertile Crescent.
Over time, climate changes and damaging land-use practices
,AP Human Geography Barron's
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
transformed this region into the dry desert that exists today. Based
on his observations of places like the Fertile Crescent, Marsh
advocated a conservationist approach to natural resources. Today
he is remembered as a great scientist, humanist, and writer; many
scholars also consider him to be the first modern environmentalist.
Fertile Crescent -
correct answer ✅An area of the Middle East, in the vicinity of
modern-day Iraq, which was one of the first areas of sedentary
agriculture and urban society.
Carl Sauer -
correct answer ✅Argued that cultural landscapes should be the
fundamental focus of geographic inquiry. He also argued that
humans had shaped virtually all environments around the world,
even those that outwardly appeared to be natural landscapes.
Sauer's work was largely, part historical; Sauer's new paradigm
paved the way for the formal study of human-environment
relations which characterizes much of the field of geography to this
day.
, AP Human Geography Barron's
(Geography, Its Nature and
Perspectives) Unit 1 Key Terms Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Cultural Landscapes -
correct answer ✅The products of complex interactions between
humans and their environments.
Natural Landscapes -
correct answer ✅The physical landscape or environment that has
been affected by human activities.
Environmental Geography -
correct answer ✅The intersection between human and physical
geography, which explores the spatial impact humans have on the
physical environment and vice versa
Cultural Ecology -
correct answer ✅aka Nature-Society Geography; the study of
interactions between societies and the natural environments in
which they live.
Quantitative Revolution -
correct answer ✅A period in Human Geography associated with
social sciences and stressed the widespread use of empirical
