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AP Environmental Science Unit 1-5 Comprehensive Review The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature - Answer>> Environmental Science a particular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components - Answer>> Ecosystem a person who participates in environmentalism - Answer>> Environmentalist the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and a...

AP Human Geography Industrialization and Urbanization Exam Practice Test with Answers 1. Weber's Least Cost Theory - Answer>> Minimize transportation cost, minimize labor costs, and Maximize Economies of Agglomeration. 2. Chrystaller's Central Place Model - Answer>> Attempts to explain the pattern of Settlements and Urban Hierarchy. 3. Concentric Zone Model - Answer>> A city grows outward from a central are in a series of concentric rings. 4. Sector Model - Answer&g...

Ap Human Unit 7: Urbanization Exam Questions and Answers 1. Annexation - Answer>> Legally adding land area to a city in the United States 2. Barriadas - Answer>> Squatter settlements found in the periphery of Latin American cities. Ex. Shelters 3. CBD - Answer>> The nucleus or "downtown" of a city, where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated, mass transit systems converge, and land values and building densities are high. Ex. Skyscrapers

AP Human Geography Unit 5 Comprehensive Review Exam Prep Agrarian - Answer>> characteristic of farmers or their way of life agribusiness - Answer>> highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership agriculture - Answer>> the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals aquaculture - Answer>> the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 4 Exam Study Guide 2024 Political Geography - Answer>> The study of the spatial aspects of political affairs Territoriality - Answer>> Strong attachment to or defensive control of a place or an area Sovereignty - Answer>> Supreme authority of a state over its own affairs and freedom fr control by outside forces

AP Human Geography Unit 3 Exam Study Guide 1. culture - Answer>> a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people 2. folk/local culture - Answer>> a culture that incorporates a homogeneous population that is typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits. 3. folklore - Answer>> the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through generations by word of mouth

AP Human Geography Unit 2 Exam Review Agricultural Population Density - Answer>> Number of Farmers divided by the arable land Arable Land - Answer>> Land suitable for farming/agriculture Physiological Population Density - Answer>> Population of a region / arable (farmable) land Arithmetic Population Density - Answer>> Population of a region divided by total land area. Baby Boom - Answer>> Temporary marked increase in the birth rate

AP Human Geography Unit 1 2024 Exam Review spatial approach The way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns and the connections of various locations. physical geography the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes human geography The study of where and why human activities are located where they are

AP Human Geography-1.1-1.7 Comprehensive review 1. Regions - Answer>> an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features 2. Formal/Uniform Regions - Answer>> an area that is united by one or more shared trait 3. Functional/Nodal Regions - Answer>> an area organized by its function around a focal point, or the center of an interest or activity 4. Perceptual/Vernacular Regions - Answer>> an area that reflects people's feelings and attitudes about...

AP Human Geography Economic Geography Exam Study Guide Economy - Answer>> A system of production, distribution, and consumption Primary Sector - Answer>> -Extraction or harvest of natural resources -Countries where the primary sector drives the economy are considered "subsistence" or "pre-industrial -Mining, agriculture, fishing, forestry