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AP Human Geography - Chapter 1. What Is Human Geography Questions and Answers 2025
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AP Human Geography - Chapter 1. WhatIs Human Geography
Cartography - answer Theory and practice of making visual representations of the
earth's surface in the form of maps.
Ptolemy - answer Roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography
which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude.
Eratosthenes - answer The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he
was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the
earth's circumference by measuring the sun's angle at the summer solstice and the
distance between the two Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Syene. He is also credited
with coining the term "geography."
George Perkins Marsh - answer Inventor, diplomat, politician, and scholar; his classic
work, Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, provided
the first description to the extent to which natural systems had been impacted by human
actions.
Fertile Crescent - answerName given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching
from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and
present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C.;
one of the first areas of sedentary agriculture and urban society.
Carl Sauer - answerGeographer who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the
fundamental unit of geographical analysis; argued that virtually no landscape has
escaped alteration by human activities.
Cultural landscape - answerThe human-modified natural landscape specifically
containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.
Natural landscape - answerThe physical landscape or environment that has not been
affected by human activities.
Environmental geography - answerThe intersection between human and physical
geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical
environment and vice versa.
Cultural ecology - answerThe study of the interactions between societies and the
natural environments they live in.
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