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GIACOBBI D-02

AP Human Geography

Chap 1 Basic Concepts Review

Directions: To review for your test fully answer each question and turn in as part of your iwork.

Unit I: Chapter 1 – Basic Concepts

  1. What is Human Geography?
  1. What are geographic questions?
  1. Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us?
  1. Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
  1. What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions?
  1. Why does geography matter?

Key Issue 1: How Do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?

  1. What is a map? What are the parts of a map?
  1. Create a timeline of early mapmaking.
  1. List the things contemporary maps are used for.
  1. Define map Scale. What are the three types of scale?
  1. What is a projection? List various projections and their distortions.
  1. Define Geographic Grid. Explain all the parts of the grid system.
  2. How do we tell time? Be specific.
  1. Explain the ways we collect data.
  1. How do we pinpoint Location?
  1. Why do we layer data?

Key Issue 2: Why Is Each Point on Earth Unique?

  1. Explain Place Names. Give an example of place name origin.
  1. Compare and contrast Site v. Situation
  1. Define a region. What are the characteristics of the three region types?
  1. What is spatial association

Key Issue 3: Why Are Different Places Similar?

  1. Explain the globalization of economy.
  1. Explain the globalization of culture.
  1. Explain the three Distribution Properties.
  1. Distribution across Space different from Movement Across Space?
  1. What is Cultural Identity in Contemporary Geography?
  1. Explain relocation diffusion.
  1. Explain the three types of expansion diffusion.
  1. What is spatial interaction? How does distance affect interactions?
  1. Explain the concept of unequal access and uneven development.

Key Issue 4: Why Are Some Human Actions Not Sustainable?

  1. What is a resource?
  1. Compare and contrast renewable v. nonrenewable.
  1. What is sustainability? What are the Three Pillars of Sustainability?
  1. Compare and contrast conservation v. preservation.
  1. What are the Critics of Sustainability?
  1. Describe the Earth’s Physical Systems including living and nonliving.
  1. What is Cultural Ecology?
  1. Compare and contrast environmental determinism v. possibilism.
  1. How do we Modify the Environment?

Review/Reflection/ Connection Questions

  1. Describe the site, situation, and mathematical location of our school.
  1. Name three formal regions that this school is located within and give a reason for each. Do the same for functional and vernacular regions.
  1. Describe an element of your culture that appears to be environmentally determined (caused by the natural environment). Can you now provide evidence that this cultural element is only one of many possibilities in the given environment?
  1. Give a local example of not-so-sensitive environmental modification, as demonstrated in the book’s discussion of Florida. Are there multiple ways to achieve the desired result of an environmental modification? Discuss.