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AP Human Geography Units 1-4 Questions with Solutions 2025
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AP Human Geography Units 1-4Fieldwork - answer The study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and
observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. Ex. Interview
Human Geography - answer One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial
analysis of human population, their cultures, activities, and landscapes.
Globalization - answer The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to
the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization
transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary places and scales.
Ex. Fukisima
Physical Geography - answer One of the two main divisions (read: styles) of systematic
geography. The spatial analysis of the structure, processes and location of natural
happenings such as climate, soil, plants, animal, topography and not people.
Spatial - answer Geographic. Space on the surface of the Earth
Ex. The Driver that hit me was not spatially aware of my. the car.
Spatial Distribution - answerPhysical location of geographic (spatial) phenomena across
space.
Highways. Voting regions
Pattern - answerDesign of spatial distribution.
Ex. Fractals
Medical Geography - answerGeographic perspective on the study of health and
disease. Looks at diffusion routes, sources and distribution of disease.
Pandemic - answerWorld wide outbreak of a disease.
Epidemic - answerRegional outbreak of a disease.
Spatial Perspective - answerObserving variations in geographic phenomena across
space.
Five Themes - answerDeveloped by the Geography Educational National
Implementation Project. The five themes are location, human-environment, region,
place, and movement.
,Location - answerFirst theme of geography. Situation of people and things
geographically.
Location Theory - answerLogical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an
economic event and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.
Human-Environment - answerSecond theme of Geography. Relationships between
people and the environment.
Ex. One such relationship is if there was an oil spill.
Region - answerThird theme of Geography. Area of the Earth marked by a degree of
formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomena.
Place - answerFourth theme of geography. Uniqueness of a location.
Italy is a location. The culture of Italy is the place.
Sense of Place - answerState of mind derived from the infusion of place with a meaning
and emotion.
Can be from certain events that happened there or labeling the place with a certain
character.
Perception of Place - answerUnderstanding of a place through books, movies, stories,
or pictures.
Ex. Most perceptions of places are biased either toward or against a place in some way.
Movement - answerFifth theme of Geography. mobility of people, goods, and ideas
across the globe.
Ex. The English chunnel is movement of people under the English Canal.
Spatial Interaction - answerHow the aspect of space effects how desirable a decision is.
Distance - answerMeasurement of the physical space between two locations.
Accessibility - answerHow easy it is the get to a certain location.
Ex. My couch is easy to get to. The end of my road is less accessible.
Connectivity - answerWithin a transport location (ideas, people, goods); the direct
linkage between two locations.
Ex. I have more connectivity between my couch and my bike.
Landscape - answerAppearance of an area. Combination of natural and human-
induced influences.
Ex. The landscape of Peru has mountains and the pyramids.
, Cultural Landscape - answerVisible imprint of human culture and activity on the
landscape. Buildings, forms, and artifacts imprinted on the landscape in a sequence by
various humans.
Sequent Occupance - answerIdea that successive societies leave different cultural
imprints on a place, each contributing to the cultural landscape.
Mongolians
Cartography - answerArt and science of making a map. Including the interpretation of
mapped patterns, data compilation, layout, and design.
Chris Columbus
Reference Maps - answerReference maps that show the absolute locations of places
and geographic features determined by a frame of reference (longitude and Latitude.)
Ex. Key Map
Thematic Maps - answerMaps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some
attribute pr the movement of a geographic phenomena.
Absolute Location - answerPlace of a a certain item on the surface of the Earth
represented in longitude and latitude.
Global Positioning System - answerSatellite based system for determining the absolute
location of places or geographic features.
Geocaching - answerHunting for a cache using a GPS and the coordinates placed oi
the internet by other geocachers.
EX. Brendan Miller
Relative Location - answerThe regional position or situation of a place relative to the
position to other places. Distance, accessibility, and connectivity affect this.
Magnolia is north of Houston.
Mental Map - answerImage of the way space is organized as determined by an
individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.
Activity Space - answerThe space within which daily activity occurs.
Ex. Baseball
Generalized Map - answerInformation from a map that has been generalized due to
scale or function.
Remote Sensing - answerData collecting process through instruments that are far in
distance from the location.
Ex. Satellites
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