Regions/Environmental Theories
This type of region is less exact, with borders that are created by one's unique perspective.
What is a perceptual/vernacular region?
Term for imprinting a 3-dimensional globe onto a 2-dimensional surface.
What is a map projection?
Name the continents (stutter and you lose).
What are N America, S America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, & Antarctica?
All North Carolina universities accept what score on an AP exam for college credt?
What is a 3?
This type of national economy is synonymous with a wealthy population, high levels of education, and advanced technology.
What is a core economy/nation?
This type of region has clearly defined borders, with those within the area possessing some type of similar trait/characteristic.
What is a formal region?
The most commonly utilized map projection, with particularly enlarged land masses at the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
Name the oceans (stutter and you lose).
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, & Southern?
Nearly half of the multiple-choice questions on the AP exam provide a stimulus to the test-taker. Examples of these include...(list 2)
What are charts, graphs, maps, & excerpts?
This type of national economy is defined by poor education and technologies, often being exploited by more sophisticated nations for raw materials.
What is a periphery economy/nation?
Outdated theory that the environment dictates how humanity develops in certain regions of the world.
What is environmental determinism?
Often used to depict weather patterns, this thematic map type doesn't adhere to political/state boundaries.
What is an isoline map?
Example: "Jimmy's house is 3 houses down from my house."
What is relative location?
The number of minutes per multiple choice question you will have on your AP Hug CollegeBoard exam.
This type of national economy is defined by developing industry, manufacturing, and technology.
What is a semi-periphery economy/nation?
Name for the central location(s) that draw the population of a functional region together (ex. a voting booth in a Congressional district).
What is a node?
This thematic map type uses shapes (often circles) to depict a value possessed in a certain region (ex. population).
What is a proportional/graduated symbol map?
Example: China Grove, NC is 195 miles from the closest beach.
What is absolute distance?
Other than multiple choice questions, what is the other portion of your CollegeBoard exam called?
What are free-response questions (FRQs)?
Man who created the World Systems theory.
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
Theory that, while the environment has an impact, humanity alters the physical landscape to fit what a society needs.
What is environmental possibilism?
This thematic map type distorts the shape of a nation to depict a value that nation possesses (ex. population).
What is a cartogram?
the ability to understand and visualize the world using concepts of location, distance, direction, shape, and pattern
What is spatial thinking?
the minimum amount of writing required to receive credit on 1 portion of a free-response question on the AP Exam
What is "there is no minimum?" (put at least a bullet point)
Term used to describe how easily/efficiently the population of a nation can communicate and travel to other nations.
What is interconnectedness?