Exam #1 AP Human Geography Study
Guide Questions and Answers
Thematic Map - Answer-more complicated information, such as population of
educational level depicted
Choropleth Maps - Answer-choro (regions) plethora (amount)(formal maps)
Dot maps - Answer-depicts the level of occurrence
Isometric maps - Answer-shows changes by connected lines
Cartograms - Answer-scale based on statistical data
Topographic maps - Answer-shows elevation through contour lines
GIS: (Geographic Information System) - Answer-uses powerful computer programs
to layer several sets of data
Systems: using Maps to reveal patterns - Answer-a group of interrelated,
interdependent, or interacting elements forming a collective entity
Mental maps - Answer-(cognitive maps): representations of our own image of world
Isometric maps - Answer-shows changes by connected lines
Choropleth Maps - Answer-choro (regions) plethora (amount)(formal maps)
Spatial interaction - Answer-the movement of people, ideas, and commodities within
and between places
Ullman's model - Answer-complementarity, transferability, and intervening
opportunity
Complementarity - Answer-supply of something In one place and demand for it in
another
Transferability - Answer-exchange of products occurs between both sides/
decreases with distance
Intervening opportunity - Answer-a closer option will change interaction / increases
with distance
distance decay - Answer-A function that represents the way that some entity or its
influence decays with distance from its geographical location.
, gravity model - Answer-model that is used to account for a wide variety of flow
patterns in human/economic systems, based on Newton's gravity equation which
defines gravity or the flow potential (between two sites or locations) as directly
proportional to the product of their masses (or size) and inversely proportional to the
square of the distance between them: gravity = (mass × mass) ÷ distance
movement bias - Answer-determines the regularity of flow.
activity space - Answer-The area within which people move freely on their rounds of
regular activity
space-time prism - Answer-set of all points that can be reached by an individual
given a maximum possible speed from a starting point
direction bias - Answer-which all possible directions of ovent, actual flows are
restricted to only one or a few. From a given point flows are not random. Also
repleffcts intensity of flow
perception of natural hazards - Answer-SEE QUIZ
types of migration - Answer-forced, reluctant, voluntary
Migration - Answer-the permanent long-term relocation from one place to another /
AT LEAST ONE YEAR WORTH'S TIME
Voluntary migration - Answer-people have a choice to move or stay
Reluctant migration - Answer-less than fully voluntary, but not forced
Forced migration - Answer-imposed relocation by one group over another causing
Push factors - Answer-negative home conditions that "push" the decision to
migration (loss of job, lack of opportunities, overcrowding< famine, war disease)
Pull factors - Answer-positive attributes perceived to exist at the new location (jobs
opportunities, better climate, lower taxes, more room, safer)
place utility - Answer-degree of satisfaction with place
Ravenstein's "laws of migration" - Answer--1. Travel short distance
2. Step by step
3. Rural to urban
4. Each flow produces a counter
5. Most international migrants are young males
Rwanda: Hutu and Tutsi - Answer-homicide or genocide/ example of forced
migration
Population Geography - Answer-number, composition, and distribution of human
beings
Guide Questions and Answers
Thematic Map - Answer-more complicated information, such as population of
educational level depicted
Choropleth Maps - Answer-choro (regions) plethora (amount)(formal maps)
Dot maps - Answer-depicts the level of occurrence
Isometric maps - Answer-shows changes by connected lines
Cartograms - Answer-scale based on statistical data
Topographic maps - Answer-shows elevation through contour lines
GIS: (Geographic Information System) - Answer-uses powerful computer programs
to layer several sets of data
Systems: using Maps to reveal patterns - Answer-a group of interrelated,
interdependent, or interacting elements forming a collective entity
Mental maps - Answer-(cognitive maps): representations of our own image of world
Isometric maps - Answer-shows changes by connected lines
Choropleth Maps - Answer-choro (regions) plethora (amount)(formal maps)
Spatial interaction - Answer-the movement of people, ideas, and commodities within
and between places
Ullman's model - Answer-complementarity, transferability, and intervening
opportunity
Complementarity - Answer-supply of something In one place and demand for it in
another
Transferability - Answer-exchange of products occurs between both sides/
decreases with distance
Intervening opportunity - Answer-a closer option will change interaction / increases
with distance
distance decay - Answer-A function that represents the way that some entity or its
influence decays with distance from its geographical location.
, gravity model - Answer-model that is used to account for a wide variety of flow
patterns in human/economic systems, based on Newton's gravity equation which
defines gravity or the flow potential (between two sites or locations) as directly
proportional to the product of their masses (or size) and inversely proportional to the
square of the distance between them: gravity = (mass × mass) ÷ distance
movement bias - Answer-determines the regularity of flow.
activity space - Answer-The area within which people move freely on their rounds of
regular activity
space-time prism - Answer-set of all points that can be reached by an individual
given a maximum possible speed from a starting point
direction bias - Answer-which all possible directions of ovent, actual flows are
restricted to only one or a few. From a given point flows are not random. Also
repleffcts intensity of flow
perception of natural hazards - Answer-SEE QUIZ
types of migration - Answer-forced, reluctant, voluntary
Migration - Answer-the permanent long-term relocation from one place to another /
AT LEAST ONE YEAR WORTH'S TIME
Voluntary migration - Answer-people have a choice to move or stay
Reluctant migration - Answer-less than fully voluntary, but not forced
Forced migration - Answer-imposed relocation by one group over another causing
Push factors - Answer-negative home conditions that "push" the decision to
migration (loss of job, lack of opportunities, overcrowding< famine, war disease)
Pull factors - Answer-positive attributes perceived to exist at the new location (jobs
opportunities, better climate, lower taxes, more room, safer)
place utility - Answer-degree of satisfaction with place
Ravenstein's "laws of migration" - Answer--1. Travel short distance
2. Step by step
3. Rural to urban
4. Each flow produces a counter
5. Most international migrants are young males
Rwanda: Hutu and Tutsi - Answer-homicide or genocide/ example of forced
migration
Population Geography - Answer-number, composition, and distribution of human
beings
