1. AP Human Geography
Ap exam review #1 units 1 & 2

2. What is meant by the hearth of diffusion?

3. Types of Expansion Diffusion

4. How do you read this type of map? What type of map is this?

5. Isoline

6. When would you use a small-scale map
When would you use a small-scale map? When would you use a large-scale map?

7. Large Scale Vs. Small Scale

8. How many degrees longitude represent 1 time zone?

9. 15 Degrees

10. What type of map is this? How is it used?

11. Dot map:

12. What does the term toponym mean?

13. What is the difference between possibilism and determinism?

15. What is an example of a cultural or vernacular region?

16. Vernacular/Perceptual Regions

17. Discuss the principle of distance decay

18. Distance Decay

19. What is this? What is its purpose?

20. What is an example of a functional region?

21. Functional Region

22. What type of map is this? What is its purpose?

23. Cartogram

24. What are some barriers to diffusion?

26. What type of projection is this
What type of projection is this? What is unique about this type of projection?

27. Types of Diffusion:
Relocation Diffusion:
Hierarchical Diffusion:

28. What does Tobler’s first law of geography state?
How does absolute and relative location differ?
What is the difference between GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
What is Cartography?
What is one example of a core country?

30. How do site and situation differ?

32. What type of projection is this?

33. What type of thematic map is this?

34. What is this? What does it tell us?

35. What does this tell us?

36. Explain this graphic

37. Describe Ravenstein’s Migration “laws”

38. Most migration is over a short distance
Migration occurs in a series of steps
Long-distance migrants usually move to centers of economic opportunity (urban areas)
Each migration produces a movement in the opposite direction, or counter stream
People in rural areas migrate more than people in cities
Men migrate over longer distances than women
Most migrants are young adult males
Cities grow more by migration than by natural increase
Migration increases with economic development
Migration is mostly due to economic causes

39. Describe Zelinksy’s Model of Migration Transition

40. Migration occurs in conjunction with a demographic transition
Stage 2: the excessive population growth encourages people to move to another country where there is more economic opportunity
Stage 3 or Stage 4: people tend to move internally for job opportunities

41. How to push and pull factors differ?

43. What is the difference between arithmetic density and physiologic density? What are the drawbacks of each?

44. Arithmetic density: divides the entire population of a country by the total land are to come up with a population density for the country as a whole.
Physiologic density: only takes into account the land that is being used by humans