AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - GENERAL
GEOGRAPHY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Absolute Location - Answer-Identifies a precise location/place often through latitude and
longitude of a certain place.
Cartogram - Answer-A map that distorts the shapes and sizes of countries or other
political regions to represent the frequency or intensity of a particular phenomenon in
that area.
Cartography - Answer-The science of drawing/making maps.
Centrality - Answer-A place where the location is between major points of influence. It is
situated well or has good relative location.
Changing Scale - Answer-The ability to gain new information by making observations
locally, regionally and globally.
Chloropleth Map - Answer-A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial
data as average values per unit area.
Concentration - Answer-Spread of something of a given area: clustered or dispersed.
Contagious Diffusion - Answer-Distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or
some other item through a local population by contact from person to person.
Cultural Landscape - Answer-The built environment of humans: buildings, roads and
other structures that humans have created.
Density - Answer-Number of any variable per unit area (number of people per square
mile).
Distance Decay - Answer-The decline and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon
with increasing space from its origin.
Distortion - Answer-The change in accuracy (shape, size, distance, or direction) of a
place when it is shown on a map.
Distribution - Answer-Arrangement of features in space; three main properties: density,
concentration, and pattern.
GEOGRAPHY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Absolute Location - Answer-Identifies a precise location/place often through latitude and
longitude of a certain place.
Cartogram - Answer-A map that distorts the shapes and sizes of countries or other
political regions to represent the frequency or intensity of a particular phenomenon in
that area.
Cartography - Answer-The science of drawing/making maps.
Centrality - Answer-A place where the location is between major points of influence. It is
situated well or has good relative location.
Changing Scale - Answer-The ability to gain new information by making observations
locally, regionally and globally.
Chloropleth Map - Answer-A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial
data as average values per unit area.
Concentration - Answer-Spread of something of a given area: clustered or dispersed.
Contagious Diffusion - Answer-Distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or
some other item through a local population by contact from person to person.
Cultural Landscape - Answer-The built environment of humans: buildings, roads and
other structures that humans have created.
Density - Answer-Number of any variable per unit area (number of people per square
mile).
Distance Decay - Answer-The decline and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon
with increasing space from its origin.
Distortion - Answer-The change in accuracy (shape, size, distance, or direction) of a
place when it is shown on a map.
Distribution - Answer-Arrangement of features in space; three main properties: density,
concentration, and pattern.
