AP Human Geo Unit 1 Terms - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Study of where and why human activities are located	Human Geography	54%
Exact location on Earth	Absolute	51%
Science of mapmaking	Cartography	47%
Location in relation to other places	Relative	44%
Projection that maintains accurate direction, but distorts land size at the poles	Mercator	43%
Computer system that stores and can show layers of geographic data	GIS	40%
Directions based on people's surroundings	Relative	36%
Accurately determines the position of something on Earth	GPS	34%
Rapid widespread diffusion of an idea throughout a population	Contagious	29%
Process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of increased trade and cultural exchange	Globalization	29%
Projection that attempts to balance all 4 projection errors	Robinson	29%
Diffusion of an idea from persons/nodes of authority to other people	Hierarchical	27%
Map where lines show equal data, for example topographic map	Isoline	27%
Map where size of place is scaled to fit data	Cartogram	26%
Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain	Natural Resources	24%
Scale at which a geographer analyzes a particular phenomenom	Scale of Analysis	24%
Map where areas are shaded in proportion to data	Choropleth	23%
Spread of an idea through physical movement of people	Relocation	23%
Acquisition of data about Earth's surface via a satellite	Remote Sensing	23%
Founder of geography	Eratosthenes	21%
Data associated with cultural and regional geography because it is more descriptive of unique places	Qualitative Data	21%
Data that uses mathematical techniques that are important for economic, political, and population geography	Quantitative Data	21%
Diffusion of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself fails to diffuse	Stimulus	21%
Effect where the farther an idea is from the source, the less likely it is to be adopted	Distance Decay	20%
A region organized around a node or focal point	Functional	20%
Focal points of innovation and invention	Hearth	20%
Study of where and why natural forces occur as they do	Physical Geography	20%
People have the ability to adjust to their environment	Possibilism	20%
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs	Sustainability	20%
A region that people believe exist as a part of their cultural identity. Defined by how people perceive it	Vernacular	20%
Compass direction such as North or South	Absolute	19%
Frequency of which something occurs in space	Density	19%
Physical characteristics of a place	Site	19%
Map where one point shows a particular phenomenon	Dot	17%
The physical environment causes social development	Environmental Determinism	17%
Type of region in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics	Formal	17%
Trait diffuses from lower class or less populated area to higher class or more populated centers	Reverse Hierarchical	17%
Location of a place relative to other places	Situation	17%
Spread of an idea outward from a hearth	Expansion	16%
Projection that maintains area, but distorts shape at the poles	Gall-Peters	14%
Relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth	Map Scale	14%
A combination of cultural features and physical features that characterizes a region	Cultural Landscape	13%
Extent of a features spread over space	Concentration	11%
Geometric arrangement of objects in space	Pattern	11%
Map that shows information for a particular place, useful for navigation	Reference	10%
Idea that relative distance is shrinking with increasing technology	Time-Space Convergence	10%
An individual's internal geographic understanding of a place	Mental Map	9%
Map where size of a symbol reflects relative magnitude of data	Proportional Symbol	7%
Conducts research, operates factories, and sells produces in many countries	Transnational Corporation	6%
Differences that are maintained around the world no matter how much globalization occurs	Local Diversity	4%

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