AP Human Geography Test #1
Questions and Answers
Cultural Landscape - Answer-Human-modified natural landscape specifically
containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.
Sustainability - Answer-Concept of using earths resources in such a way that they,
provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing earth's ability to provide
for future generations.
Spatial Association/ Analysis - Answer-Concept that the distribution of one
phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of another phenomenon.
Formal Region - Answer-Regions based on common themes such as similarities in
language, climate, land use, etc.
Vernacular Region - Answer-A place that people believe exists as a part of their
cultural identity.
Functional Region - Answer-Definition of regions based on common interaction or
function, focused around a center point.
Hearth Diffusion - Answer-Region from which innovative ideas originate.
Diffusion - Answer-The process by which some characteristics spreads over space.
Relocation - Answer-The diffusion of ideas; innovations, behaviors, and so on from
one place to another through migration.
Expansion - Answer-Spread of ideas, innovations, fashion, or other phenomena to
surrounding areas through contact & exchange.
Hierarchical - Answer-Something is transmitted between places because of a
physical or cultural community between those places.
Contagious - Answer-Spread of a disease, innovation, or cultural traits through direct
contact with another person or place.
Stimulus - Answer-Underlying principle but not the entire concept.
Distance Decay - Answer-Increase in interaction between two phenomena, places or
people as the distance between them increases.
Space Time Compression - Answer-Increasing sense of connectivity that seems to
be bringing people closer together even though their distances are the same.
Questions and Answers
Cultural Landscape - Answer-Human-modified natural landscape specifically
containing the imprint of a particular culture or society.
Sustainability - Answer-Concept of using earths resources in such a way that they,
provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing earth's ability to provide
for future generations.
Spatial Association/ Analysis - Answer-Concept that the distribution of one
phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of another phenomenon.
Formal Region - Answer-Regions based on common themes such as similarities in
language, climate, land use, etc.
Vernacular Region - Answer-A place that people believe exists as a part of their
cultural identity.
Functional Region - Answer-Definition of regions based on common interaction or
function, focused around a center point.
Hearth Diffusion - Answer-Region from which innovative ideas originate.
Diffusion - Answer-The process by which some characteristics spreads over space.
Relocation - Answer-The diffusion of ideas; innovations, behaviors, and so on from
one place to another through migration.
Expansion - Answer-Spread of ideas, innovations, fashion, or other phenomena to
surrounding areas through contact & exchange.
Hierarchical - Answer-Something is transmitted between places because of a
physical or cultural community between those places.
Contagious - Answer-Spread of a disease, innovation, or cultural traits through direct
contact with another person or place.
Stimulus - Answer-Underlying principle but not the entire concept.
Distance Decay - Answer-Increase in interaction between two phenomena, places or
people as the distance between them increases.
Space Time Compression - Answer-Increasing sense of connectivity that seems to
be bringing people closer together even though their distances are the same.
