AP Human Geography Unit 1 Exam
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions And
CORRECT Answers
Tobler's 1st Law of Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - "Everything is related to
everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."
Human Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Distribution of people and what they do on
Earth and what causes it
Physical Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Natural phenomenon
Environmental Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Humans plus physical geography
What do geographers do? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cartography & remote sensing, locate
public facilities, market location & industry, geography and the law, spread of disease, urban &
regional planning, issues of economic development
Location Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Logical attempt to explain the locational
pattern of an economic activity in the manners in which its producing areas are interrelated
Pattison's Four Traditions of Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Spatial (location), earth
science (physical), area studies (region), man-land tradition (human-environmental interaction)
Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Explains spatial phenomena, but not reality; answers
questions
Why of Where - CORRECT ANSWER - Gives us spatial perspective
, Site - CORRECT ANSWER - Physical characteristics of a place
Scale - CORRECT ANSWER - Comparison to real world; Spatial extent of something
Scale of Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Level of representation, experience, and
organization of graphical events of processes
Local-Global Continuum - CORRECT ANSWER - What happens on a global scale affects
a local scale & vice versa (IAS)
Interdependencies Among Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - What happens on 1 scale
affects the others (LGC)
Distance Decay - CORRECT ANSWER - Time & distance cause time-distance decay.
Negative correlation - as distance increases, connectivity decreases. Internet & global pop culture
threaten it.
Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER - Arrangement of objects on Earth's surface in relation to
one another
Environmental Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER - Environment determines how a
society/culture is (predetermined)
Possibilism - CORRECT ANSWER - People shape society, although environment limits it
Globalization - CORRECT ANSWER - Flow of capital, people, ideas, and cultures across
national borders
Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - How easy it is to reach one location from one
another
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions And
CORRECT Answers
Tobler's 1st Law of Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - "Everything is related to
everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."
Human Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Distribution of people and what they do on
Earth and what causes it
Physical Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Natural phenomenon
Environmental Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Humans plus physical geography
What do geographers do? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cartography & remote sensing, locate
public facilities, market location & industry, geography and the law, spread of disease, urban &
regional planning, issues of economic development
Location Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Logical attempt to explain the locational
pattern of an economic activity in the manners in which its producing areas are interrelated
Pattison's Four Traditions of Geography - CORRECT ANSWER - Spatial (location), earth
science (physical), area studies (region), man-land tradition (human-environmental interaction)
Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Explains spatial phenomena, but not reality; answers
questions
Why of Where - CORRECT ANSWER - Gives us spatial perspective
, Site - CORRECT ANSWER - Physical characteristics of a place
Scale - CORRECT ANSWER - Comparison to real world; Spatial extent of something
Scale of Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Level of representation, experience, and
organization of graphical events of processes
Local-Global Continuum - CORRECT ANSWER - What happens on a global scale affects
a local scale & vice versa (IAS)
Interdependencies Among Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - What happens on 1 scale
affects the others (LGC)
Distance Decay - CORRECT ANSWER - Time & distance cause time-distance decay.
Negative correlation - as distance increases, connectivity decreases. Internet & global pop culture
threaten it.
Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER - Arrangement of objects on Earth's surface in relation to
one another
Environmental Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER - Environment determines how a
society/culture is (predetermined)
Possibilism - CORRECT ANSWER - People shape society, although environment limits it
Globalization - CORRECT ANSWER - Flow of capital, people, ideas, and cultures across
national borders
Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER - How easy it is to reach one location from one
another
