AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions And
Answers 2025
1. Globalization is actions or processes that involve the entire world result in making something
worldwide in scope. Local diversity is the unique cultural distinctions that can be found in the different
parts of an area. Ideas from these areas can result or lead to globalized ideas that become part of
the global economy. Correct Answer: What is the relationship between globalization and local
diversity?
2. Human geography (who is there, why they are there, influences) is the study of the
distribution of humans and their activities on the surface of the earth and of the processes that
generate these distributions. Physical geography (natural factors) is something that relates to the
actual landscape. For example, how tall a mountain is or how deep is an ocean. Geography is the
spatial variation between objects. Correct Answer: What is the difference between human geography
and physical geography?
a 2-dimensional representation of an area on the globe.
A map can be used as a reference tool to find locations and routes without carrying a globe around.
Can also show information such as density or topography. (shows statistics) Correct Answer: What is
a map?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a specific characteristic.
Place can be used to show where things originated and then diffused from as well as how
humanenvironmental interaction has occurred in an area. They use places to explain similarities,
differences, and changes within countries and regions. Correct Answer: What is a place?
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
• Used to state and categorize places: Formal, vernacular, and functional regions
• Used to organize countries/cities and towns into groups (middle-east, Fairfield county) Correct
Answer: What is a region?
The ratio of map distance to earth distance, measured in the same units. (part of the Earth to whole
Earth)
Used to be able to create map projections and map out specific areas using, for example, inches to
represent miles. Correct Answer: What is a scale?
The area that exists between 2 objects
• To explain the distances between different types of cultures and then explain why they separated
and why they live there.
• To explain why and how far cultures moved (resources, economy, etc.) Correct Answer: What is
space?
Relationships among people and objects across space
AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 2025
, • To see where different cultures started and went (ie: how cultures merged and where part of it
originated)
• To map places with similar activities and traditions Correct Answer: What are connections?
Global Positioning System
• Shows a geographer where something is currently on the globe, as well as where something is
relative to something else.
• Tell where they are (how to get from point A-B)
• Geographers use it to place anything in locations and find out where different people/places are
through the use of satellites and other radio devices. Correct Answer: What is GPS?
The collection of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet.
• Shows geographers topography, weather, temperature, etc. Correct Answer: What is remote
sensing?
The division of a county with some corporate power, or a survey system used in the US to identify
land parcels of significantly underdeveloped countries(not populated/commercial)
• Use it to find and map separations
• Use it to map large quantities of something Correct Answer: What is township and range?
(Geographic Information System)
• Use it to create maps
• Use it to view mapped information
• Use it to collect information and then map it yourself Correct Answer: What is GIS?
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group Correct Answer: What is meant by "cultural
landscape"?
An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics (Ex: English in
America) Correct Answer: What is a formal region?
An area organized around a node or focal point (Ex: Jobs and apartments in Downtown Stamford)
Correct Answer: What is a functional region?
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity (defined by a common cultural
aspect )(Ex: Chinatown) Correct Answer: What is a vernacular region?
Rubenstein's ideas go against this idea because this is a small scale, and to know where cancer
rates are truly highest, a larger scale must be used to be more specific. Correct Answer: What is
Rubinstein's example of map scale?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's
distinct tradition. Correct Answer: What is culture?
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relations. (The ways in which human
society and the natural environment affect each other) Correct Answer: What is cultural ecology?
the belief that some cultures may be affected by a physical environment rather than sociology Correct
AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 2025
Answers 2025
1. Globalization is actions or processes that involve the entire world result in making something
worldwide in scope. Local diversity is the unique cultural distinctions that can be found in the different
parts of an area. Ideas from these areas can result or lead to globalized ideas that become part of
the global economy. Correct Answer: What is the relationship between globalization and local
diversity?
2. Human geography (who is there, why they are there, influences) is the study of the
distribution of humans and their activities on the surface of the earth and of the processes that
generate these distributions. Physical geography (natural factors) is something that relates to the
actual landscape. For example, how tall a mountain is or how deep is an ocean. Geography is the
spatial variation between objects. Correct Answer: What is the difference between human geography
and physical geography?
a 2-dimensional representation of an area on the globe.
A map can be used as a reference tool to find locations and routes without carrying a globe around.
Can also show information such as density or topography. (shows statistics) Correct Answer: What is
a map?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a specific characteristic.
Place can be used to show where things originated and then diffused from as well as how
humanenvironmental interaction has occurred in an area. They use places to explain similarities,
differences, and changes within countries and regions. Correct Answer: What is a place?
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
• Used to state and categorize places: Formal, vernacular, and functional regions
• Used to organize countries/cities and towns into groups (middle-east, Fairfield county) Correct
Answer: What is a region?
The ratio of map distance to earth distance, measured in the same units. (part of the Earth to whole
Earth)
Used to be able to create map projections and map out specific areas using, for example, inches to
represent miles. Correct Answer: What is a scale?
The area that exists between 2 objects
• To explain the distances between different types of cultures and then explain why they separated
and why they live there.
• To explain why and how far cultures moved (resources, economy, etc.) Correct Answer: What is
space?
Relationships among people and objects across space
AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 2025
, • To see where different cultures started and went (ie: how cultures merged and where part of it
originated)
• To map places with similar activities and traditions Correct Answer: What are connections?
Global Positioning System
• Shows a geographer where something is currently on the globe, as well as where something is
relative to something else.
• Tell where they are (how to get from point A-B)
• Geographers use it to place anything in locations and find out where different people/places are
through the use of satellites and other radio devices. Correct Answer: What is GPS?
The collection of data about the Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet.
• Shows geographers topography, weather, temperature, etc. Correct Answer: What is remote
sensing?
The division of a county with some corporate power, or a survey system used in the US to identify
land parcels of significantly underdeveloped countries(not populated/commercial)
• Use it to find and map separations
• Use it to map large quantities of something Correct Answer: What is township and range?
(Geographic Information System)
• Use it to create maps
• Use it to view mapped information
• Use it to collect information and then map it yourself Correct Answer: What is GIS?
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group Correct Answer: What is meant by "cultural
landscape"?
An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics (Ex: English in
America) Correct Answer: What is a formal region?
An area organized around a node or focal point (Ex: Jobs and apartments in Downtown Stamford)
Correct Answer: What is a functional region?
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity (defined by a common cultural
aspect )(Ex: Chinatown) Correct Answer: What is a vernacular region?
Rubenstein's ideas go against this idea because this is a small scale, and to know where cancer
rates are truly highest, a larger scale must be used to be more specific. Correct Answer: What is
Rubinstein's example of map scale?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's
distinct tradition. Correct Answer: What is culture?
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relations. (The ways in which human
society and the natural environment affect each other) Correct Answer: What is cultural ecology?
the belief that some cultures may be affected by a physical environment rather than sociology Correct
AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 2025
