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APHG Review Test
Study for APHG Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is absolute Location? | Exact Location |
| What is an example of an absolute location? | New York City's absolute location is 40.6700 degrees N, 73.9400 degrees W. |
| What is Relative Location? | Location of a place as described by its surroundings. |
| What is an example of a relative location?` | Louisville is in Northern Kentucky, West of Lexington and located besides the Ohio River. |
| What is a site? | Physical makeup of a place |
| What is an example of a Site? | New York City's site is next to the harbor and is relatively flat coastal city |
| What is Situation? | The geographical makeup of place including, its political, economic, or social characterisitic |
| What is Latitude? | -Range of degrees goes from 0 degrees to 90 degrees -Equator is the latitudinal line of 0 degrees -North-> South |
| What is Longitude? | -Range of degrees goes from 0-180 -Prime Meridian is the longitudinal lines -East-> west |
| List the disadvantages and advantages of the Robinson projection (Oval Map) | ADV.= >minimizes errors in distortion DIS.= >Does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction |
| List the disadvantages and advantages of the Mercator Projection (Cylindrical Map) | ADV.= >Maintains accurate direction DIS.= >Landscape size are artificially increased to make industrialized developed countries appear to account for a greater percentage of the total geographical area than they really do |
| List the disadvantages and advantages of the Azimuthal Projection (Planar Map) | ADV.= >Correct distances between places when taken from the center of projection DIS.= >You cant see the entire world (South or North) |
| List the disadvantages and advantages of the Peters Projection (Cylindrical Map) | ADV.= >Retains accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses DIS.= >Too Political |
| What is Cartography? | Map Making |
| What are chloropleth Maps | Uses shades of tones/colors to represent how strongly they represent that data/theme |
| What are Cartogram Maps | The greater the value of the unit used, the larger the are is used to represent that variable |
| What is an Isoline Map | connects points of very similar or equal values |
| Dot Density | One dot represents a unit of something; the more dots there in one area, the stronger the presence of the theme |
| Proportional symbol | Size of the chosen symbol represents the statistical value/ relative magnitude for a given geographic region |
| What is placelessness and give an example | The loss of unique characteristics that places once had, due to globalization. EX.= >if all states in US had a gigantic arch then St. Louis would lose its sense of place because it no longer stands apart from other states |
| What is spatial Perspective | How humans interact with there surrounding |
| What is Relocation and expansion diffusion | Relocation= the physical movement from one place to another Expansion= the spreading of something, like an idea through contagious, stimulus, or hierarchical |
| What is small and large scale | SMALL= shows large area in small detail LARGE= Shows small areas in large detail |
| What is environmental Determinism | -natural factors control the development of human physiological and mental qualities EX= People living in extremely cold environments tend to have slow thinking processes |
| What did Carl Saeur believe in | people had the ability to modify their surroundings and that this ability could be easily seen in cultural landscapes |
| What is possibilism give an example | people use their creativity to decide how to respond to the conditions or constraints of a particular natural environment EX= Pesticides were created so people living in regions with plant damaging bugs could continue growing plants |
| North America's important countries | -Canada -US |
| Central America | -Latin america >Mexico >Panama -Brazil |
| South America | -Latin America >Argentina >Colombia -Brazil |
| Europe | -Western Europe >France >Italy -Eastern Europe >Poland >Ukraine |
| What is Arithmetic Density | number of people per unit area of land |
| What is Physiological Density | number of people per unit area of arable land |
| What is Arable land | -Land that can be used for agriculture |
| What are population pyramids | -Two sided vertical bar graphs used in demography. They are used to what percentages of people in certain age groups make up a population |
| What is internal Migration | Migration that occurs within a single country's border -ppl travel rural-> urban -look for work -americans move ever 6 yrs -rural-> medium sized cities |
| what is external migration | moving to a new home in a different state, country, or continent -mostly from europe (ppl migrate to US) -Migration depleted bec. Great depression - |
| What is a refugee | an individual or group that leaves his/her to avoid persecution or out of concern for their own personal safety |
| What is Voluntary Migration | occurs when a person or group willingly moves from one place to another |
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