Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

APHG Ch. One Test

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
Who was Erasthenes?   show
🗑
show "Earth".  
🗑
What does the ending "graohy" mean?   show
🗑
Physical Geography is...?   show
🗑
Human Geography is...?   show
🗑
show Draw maps.  
🗑
show How our spherical earth is put on a flat surface.  
🗑
What are distortions?   show
🗑
How would you describe the Mercator Projection?   show
🗑
How would you describe the Mollweide Projection?   show
🗑
How would you describe the Robinson Projection?   show
🗑
show A "Global Positioning System" which stores information about a location in several layers, and each layer represents a different category of information.  
🗑
What is a GPS?   show
🗑
show Location, Place, Region, Interaction, and Movement.  
🗑
What is location?   show
🗑
What is a toponym?   show
🗑
show A map in your mind.  
🗑
What is Distance Decay?   show
🗑
What are the types of Regions?   show
🗑
What are Formal Regions?   show
🗑
show Defined by a node of activity and distance decay from a center.  
🗑
What are Vernacular Regions?   show
🗑
show A group of people's way of life.  
🗑
What is the Cultural Landscape of an area?   show
🗑
What is Enviromental Determinism?   show
🗑
What is Possibilism?   show
🗑
Who first introduced the classification of climate?   show
🗑
What are the five principles of climate?   show
🗑
show The process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide.  
🗑
show Transnational corporations. Every place in the world is part of the global economy.  
🗑
What is Globalization of a culture?   show
🗑
show Population, Arithmatic, Agricultural, Phycological--- all of which are ways for somethign to be spread out.  
🗑
What is concentration?   show
🗑
What is pattern?   show
🗑
show The reduction of time in which it takes for one thing to reach another place.  
🗑
What is Tobler's First Law of Geography?   show
🗑
show The process at which characteristics spread across space from one place to another over time.  
🗑
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?   show
🗑
What is Contagious Diffusion?   show
🗑
show Hierarchical, and Contagious.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: Platypi
Popular AP Human Geography sets