AP Human Geography Semester
Review Units 1-3 Exam Questions with
Complete Answers
cultural landscape - Answer-the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape (how humans have affected the landscape)
distribution - Answer-the way in which something is shared out among a group or
spread in an area
concentration - Answer-a close gathering of people or things (the amount of people
in an area)
dispersed - Answer-[people]spread out over a wide area (the amount of people in an
area)
clustered - Answer-to come into a cluster or small group of [people] (the amount of
people in an area)
geometric patterns - Answer-phenomenons grouped in a repeating pattern
sequent occupance - Answer-notion that successive societies leave a cultural imprint
in a place contributing ti cultural landscape
cartography - Answer-map making
culture - Answer-sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavioral patterns
shared between people
cultural barriers - Answer-prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations
and ideas unacceptable or undoable
cultural traits - Answer-elements of a culture
culture complex - Answer-related set of cultural traits
cultural hearth - Answer-source area, innovation center, place of origin of a culture
cultural diffusion - Answer-expansion/adoption of a cultural element
environmental determinism - Answer-view that natural environment has a controlling
factor over various aspects of human life
environmental possibilism - Answer-human decision making is a crucial factor in
cultural development
, isotherms - Answer-lines on a map connecting points of same temperature
cultural ecology - Answer-interactions between culture and the natural environment
(the was culture and environment pity back off each other)
political ecology - Answer-studying nature, society relations that are concerned with
the way in which environmental issues both reflect and result of political and
socioeconomic contexts in which situated
GPS - Answer-satellite based location server for determining absolute location
census - Answer-periodical, official count of a country's population
remote sensing - Answer-method of collecting data or information by use of
instruments
satellite imagery - Answer-view of the world by pictures from satellites in space
demography - Answer-the study of population (how many people are in an area
using census to determine approx. number)
arithmetic population density - Answer-the population of a country or region
expressed as an average per unit area- dividing pop by # of qu. miles/ kilos that
entail it
physiological density - Answer-total population of a country or region related to the
area of arable land (# people divided by amount of farmland in that given spot)
ecumene - Answer-inhabited potion of the earth
population clusters - Answer-areas where large portions of the population reside
reasons for less numbers of children than in the past - Answer-*local government
putting ban on how many children families are allowed to have
*having children is expensive- people in poorer countries may not be able to afford it
*in countries with growing success rate they don't want to have as many kids
natural increase rate (NIR) - Answer-births minus deaths + (immigration minus
emigration)
carrying capacity - Answer-equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species
that can be indefinitely supported in a given environment
crude birth rate - Answer-number of live births per year per 1,000 people
crude death rate - Answer-number of deaths per 1,000 people
population pyramids - Answer-visual representation of the age and sex composition
of a population in a set area
Review Units 1-3 Exam Questions with
Complete Answers
cultural landscape - Answer-the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape (how humans have affected the landscape)
distribution - Answer-the way in which something is shared out among a group or
spread in an area
concentration - Answer-a close gathering of people or things (the amount of people
in an area)
dispersed - Answer-[people]spread out over a wide area (the amount of people in an
area)
clustered - Answer-to come into a cluster or small group of [people] (the amount of
people in an area)
geometric patterns - Answer-phenomenons grouped in a repeating pattern
sequent occupance - Answer-notion that successive societies leave a cultural imprint
in a place contributing ti cultural landscape
cartography - Answer-map making
culture - Answer-sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavioral patterns
shared between people
cultural barriers - Answer-prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations
and ideas unacceptable or undoable
cultural traits - Answer-elements of a culture
culture complex - Answer-related set of cultural traits
cultural hearth - Answer-source area, innovation center, place of origin of a culture
cultural diffusion - Answer-expansion/adoption of a cultural element
environmental determinism - Answer-view that natural environment has a controlling
factor over various aspects of human life
environmental possibilism - Answer-human decision making is a crucial factor in
cultural development
, isotherms - Answer-lines on a map connecting points of same temperature
cultural ecology - Answer-interactions between culture and the natural environment
(the was culture and environment pity back off each other)
political ecology - Answer-studying nature, society relations that are concerned with
the way in which environmental issues both reflect and result of political and
socioeconomic contexts in which situated
GPS - Answer-satellite based location server for determining absolute location
census - Answer-periodical, official count of a country's population
remote sensing - Answer-method of collecting data or information by use of
instruments
satellite imagery - Answer-view of the world by pictures from satellites in space
demography - Answer-the study of population (how many people are in an area
using census to determine approx. number)
arithmetic population density - Answer-the population of a country or region
expressed as an average per unit area- dividing pop by # of qu. miles/ kilos that
entail it
physiological density - Answer-total population of a country or region related to the
area of arable land (# people divided by amount of farmland in that given spot)
ecumene - Answer-inhabited potion of the earth
population clusters - Answer-areas where large portions of the population reside
reasons for less numbers of children than in the past - Answer-*local government
putting ban on how many children families are allowed to have
*having children is expensive- people in poorer countries may not be able to afford it
*in countries with growing success rate they don't want to have as many kids
natural increase rate (NIR) - Answer-births minus deaths + (immigration minus
emigration)
carrying capacity - Answer-equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species
that can be indefinitely supported in a given environment
crude birth rate - Answer-number of live births per year per 1,000 people
crude death rate - Answer-number of deaths per 1,000 people
population pyramids - Answer-visual representation of the age and sex composition
of a population in a set area
