AP Human Geography Semester 1 Final Exam Review Questions With Complete Solutions An area organized around a central interest or activity. (AKA
Nodal Region.) (Examples: TV or radio station.) - Correct
Answers ✅Functional Region An area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics. (AKA Uniform Region and Homogeneous
Region.) (Examples: Canada, the Rocky Mountains.) - Correct
Answers ✅Formal Region A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and
receivers. In America, a GPS has 3 elements: GPS has to find
- satellites in orbit, tracking stations have to be connected
and controlling those satellites, and the tracking station must take the satellites' info and send it to the phone to tell the coordinates of the GPS. - Correct Answers ✅GPS (Geographic Information Systems) A computer system that organizes, stores, analyzes, and displays geographic data. - Correct Answers ✅GIS Why things (characteristics) are distributed and where. - Correct Answers ✅Why of Where Scales that show a smaller amount of area and a greater amount of detail. - Correct Answers ✅Large-Scale 1 / 2
AP Human Geography Semester 1 Final Exam Review Questions With Complete Solutions Scales that show a large amount of area but less detail. - Correct Answers ✅Small Scale You can't take a 3D model of the Earth and flatten it to make a perfect map without distortions. The Mercator Projection has extreme distortion of higher latitudes. Goode's Holomosine Projection is an equal area projection with the expense of interruptions in the oceans. The Robinson Projection shows the north and south poles as slightly more than half the length of the equator, thus exaggerating distances and areas near the poles. - Correct Answers ✅Map Projection Problems How things are impacting on different scales, such as local, global, and regional. - Correct Answers ✅Scale of Inquiry A map designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geography of the area. - Correct Answers ✅Thematic Map A map that emphasizes the geographic location of features.
Example: The map of the U.S. with names of states. - Correct
Answers ✅Reference Map
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