AP Exam

Question 1

Sequent Occupance

Answer 1

Notion that societys levae on inprint on a place.

Question 2

Cultural landscape

Answer 2

Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.

Question 3

Arithmetic density:

Answer 3

The total number of people divided by the total land area.how many people per area of land.

Question 4

Physiological density:

Answer 4

The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.

Question 5

Hearth:

Answer 5

The region from which innovative ideas originate. This relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from
one area to another (diffusion).

Question 6

Diffusion:

Answer 6

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

Question 7

Relocation diffusion:

Answer 7

The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

Question 8

Expansion diffusion:

Answer 8

The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process.

Question 9

-Hierarchical diffusion:

Answer 9

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
(Ex: hip-hop/rap music)

Question 10

-Contagious diffusion:

Answer 10

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. (Ex: ideas
placed on the internet)

Question 11

-Stimulus diffusion:

Answer 11

the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to
diffuse. (Ex: PC & Apple competition)

Question 12

Absolute distance:

Answer 12

Exact measurement of the physical space between two places.

Question 13

Relative distance:

Answer 13

Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places.

Question 14

Distribution:

Answer 14

The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.

Question 15

Environmental determinism:

Answer 15

approach to the study of geography that argued that the general
laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the
physical environment caused human activities.

Question 16

Absolute location:

Answer 16

Position on Earth’s surface using the coordinate system of longitude (that runs from North to South Pole)
and latitude (that runs parallel to the equator).

Question 17

Relative location:

Answer 17

Position on Earth’s surface relative to other features. (Ex: My house is west of 394).

Question 18

Site:

Answer 18

The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.

Question 19

Situation:

Answer 19

The location of a place relative to other places.

Question 20

Space Time Compression-

Answer 20

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved
communications and transportation system.

Question 21

Friction of Distance-

Answer 21

is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to
overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will tend to take place more often over shorter distances; quantity of
interaction will decline with distance.

Question 22

Distance Decay-

Answer 22

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its
origin. Typically, the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact. (Electronic devices
such as the internet and e-mail have aided in eliminating barriers to interaction between people who are far from each other.

Question 23

Networks-

Answer 23

defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center.

Question 24

Connectivity-

Answer 24

The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. Geographers are concerned with the
various means by which connections occur.

Question 25

Accessibility-

Answer 25

The degree of ease with which it is possible to reach certain location from other locations. Accessibility varies from place to place and can be measured.

Question 26

Space-

Answer 26

Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects.

Question 27

Spatial Distribution-

Answer 27

Physical location of geographic phenomena across SPACE

Question 28

Size-

Answer 28

Is the estimation or determination of extent.

Question 29

Scale-

Answer 29

Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance, indicated on a map as a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement.

Question 30

Formal Region-

Answer 30

(uniform) or homogenous region is an area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics. The shared feature could be a cultural value such as a common language, or an environmental climate.

Question 31

Functional Region-

Answer 31

(nodal region) Area organized around a node or focal point. The characteristic chosen to define a functional region dominates at a central focus or node and diminishes in importance outward. This region is tied to the central point by transportation or communication systems or by economic or functional associations.

Question 32

Vernacular Region-

Answer 32

(Perceptual Region) is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. Such regions emerge from peoples informal sense of place rather than from scientific models developed through geographic thought. (Often identified using a mental map- which is an internal representation of a portion of Earths surface)

Question 33

Possibilism-

Answer 33

The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.

Question 34

Natural Landscape-

Answer 34

Landscape created by natural formations like rivers, hills, rocks, etc. The natural landscape can be incorporated into the human landscape

Question 35

Pattern-

Answer 35

A common property of distribution, which is the geometric arrangement of objects in space. Some features are organized in a geometric pattern, whereas others are distributed irregularly. Geographers observe that many objects form a linear distribution, such as the arrangement of houses along a street or stations along a subway line.