Unit 1 AP GEO Review

Geographic Terminology

100

This term is best described as the study of people and locations upon the earth.

What is Geography?

200

This term is typically used to describe a location with specific borders yet is still quantified as a region instead of a state.

What is a formal region?

300

This term is used to describe a region that possesses a node.

What is a functional region?

400

This term describes a region that can be recognized mentally, even though it does not have specified borders.

What is a vernacular region?

500

This term is most often described using physical and political geography.

What is a region?

Oh You're Just Projecting (on a map)

100

Paper 1

What is the Winkel Projection?

200

Paper 2

What is the Mercator Projection

300

Paper 3

What is the Goode-Homolosine Projection?

400

Paper 4

What is the Gall Peter's Projection

500

Usually, they will either cause the landmasses to become larger than is mathematically accurate, or they will adjust the shape of landmasses where they are no longer accurate, but sizes are.

What are the weaknesses of map projections?

Pesky People's Names

100

This man is credited with creating a map that was so effective it was used continually for over 1,000 years.

Who is Ptolemy?

200

This man is credited with replacing Ptolemy's map and creating a more accurate one that included some of the world's oceans.

Who is Martin Waldseemüller?

300

This individual is credited with a theory that states that humanity will die as there is not enough food to provide for them since humans also cannot stop making children.

Who is Thomas Malthus?

400

This man is credited with creating one of the most advanced medieval world maps in existence, correctly plotting the regions of the middle-east with great accuracy.

Who is Muhammad Al-Idrisi?

500

This man was credited with the exploration of much of the middle east during the 14th Century (1300's), as well as keeping incredibly accurate documentation of his findings.

Who is Ibn-Battuta

Technology

100

This term is most often used to describe the use of photographs to map out a region.

Photogrammetry

200

This term is most often used to describe the use of satellites to assist in navigation.

What is the Global Positioning System?

300

This device is most often seen as a round item with a needle always pointing to magnetic north. It is most often used for navigation.

What is a compass?

400

This tool is used to determine the angular distance between the horizon and some astral body such as the sun or the moon.

What is a sextant?

500

This term encompasses all technology used to create maps and gather other aspects of geographic data, most often requiring the use of a computer to gather it all together.

What are Geography Information Systems?

Time and Space

100

This term most often describes the location of a place with coordinates like Latitude and Longitude.

What is absolute location?

200

This term most often refers to the concept of how long it takes to get from one place to another.

What is Relative Distance?

300

This term most often refers to the measure of distance done in terms of feet, miles, etc.

What is absolute distance?

400

This term most often refers to the location of a place in comparison to other places around it.

What is relative location?

500

This term refers to the phenomenon that describes how a place feels closer over time as technology becomes more and more effective.

What is Distance Decay?