AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW

GEOPARDY! Human Geography Regions Culture Maps Pot Luck 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

100 As an academic discipline, Human Geography takes this perspective for analytical review. What is the SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE?

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!!! A Place’s location, as determined by its internal physical characteristics, is called its what? What is SITE (Absolute Location)?

300 A negative force acting upon someone causing them to have to leave their present location describes what? What is a PUSH FACTOR?* Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept or decline??? Give an example to illustrate a relevant push factor situation.

400 This theme of Geography (one of the five) would best pertain to the description of refugees fleeing to another country. What is MOVEMENT?

500 The perspective that believes that human decision-making is the crucial factor in human development, and not the limitations of nature itself. What is POSSIBILISM?

100 A dominant or universal feature within the boundaries of a space describes this type of Region. What is a FORMAL or UNIFORM REGION?

200 Cite an example of a “Perceptual Region” in the USA? What is the MIDWEST etc., HURRICANE ALLEY etc., the BIBLE BELT etc.?

300 Within a Formal / Uniform Region, at least one universal or single attribute of a culture has come to dominate. A single attribute of a culture is called this. What is a CULTURAL TRAIT?

400 Another word to call a Perceptual Region? What is a VERNACULAR REGION?

500 A Functional / Nodal Region is primarily concerned with what types of relationships? What are ECONOMIC ? (Movement / Interaction between nodes)

100 The transformation of the land resulting from what humans have built upon it is called this. What is the CULTURAL LANDSCAPE?

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!! The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on the cumulative landscape is called this. What is SEQUENT OCCUPANCE?* BONUS 100pt Q!!! Team Accept or Decline? Provide an EXAMPLE of Sequent Occupance? What is French Quarter in New Orleans? Cave drawing of Neanderthal Societies?

300 Provide an example of what (where) would be considered an original (human ) hearth civilization (“cradles of civilization”)? What are: Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent), Nile River Valley, Indus River Valley, Northern China, (Meso-America (Mexico), West Africa)

400 Those in a village who got sick because they drank the contaminated water versus those who did not get sick because they did not drink the same water illustrates this type of Expansion Diffusion. What is HIERARCHIAL DIFFUSION?

500 One stronger culture coming to dominate another weaker one, though not totally extinguishing it, illustrates this type of “cultural exchange?” What is ACCULTURATION?

100 Maps demonstrate what vital rule of Geography? What is NO TWO PLACES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME?* BONUS 100pt Q!!!! Accept or Decline??? The “LAW OF MAP PROJECTIONS” tells us this? All maps have some kind of DISTORTION (as you can’t unfold a globe perfectly).

200 DAILY DOUBLE!!! This map projection type greatly exaggerates the sizes of landmasses in the high N. and S. latitudes. What is a MERCATOR PROJECTION?

300 These types of Maps allow individuals to successfully navigate their own space. What are COGNITIVE (MENTAL) MAPS?

400 Contour Lines on a Map are used to show this. What is ELEVATION (Slope)?

500 This term describes the mapping process of the physical surface of an area without actually touching said surface. Usually this is done from an airplane or a satellite. What is REMOTE SENSING?

100 When one culture comes to totally dominate another, extinguishing all traces of it, it is called this. What is ASSIMILATION?

200 A higher paying job in Los Angeles, CA, represents this in my decision to move there from Chicago, where my job is paying less. What is a PULL FACTOR?

300 DAILY DOUBLE!!!! In the Middle East, Christianity has often been in conflict with Islam. Religion therefore is acting as this within the region? What is a CENTRIFUGAL FORCE?

400 The perspective which holds that human cultural development will always be limited by environmental (natural) factors. What is ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM?

500 After the First Agricultural Revolution, the hierarchy of different values attached to different jobs within society that developed due to the food surplus was called what? What is SOCIAL STRATIFICATION?