AP Human Geography Chapter 1 Cultural Landscape Test

Create an image representing a detailed geographical map overlaying a cultural landscape, showcasing landmarks, natural features, and human activity in a vibrant color palette.

Cultural Landscape Quiz

Test your knowledge on the fundamental concepts and geographical terminology in AP Human Geography with our comprehensive quiz. Covering key topics from mapping techniques to cultural landscapes, this quiz challenges your understanding of spatial analysis.

Whether you're a student preparing for exams or just curious about human geography, this quiz is perfect for you. Join us and discover:

Geography fundamentals
Cultural landscape concepts
Map reading skills
Spatial associations and distributions

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Scale is

The system used by geographers to transfer locations from a globe to a map

The spread of a phenomenon over a given area

The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

The ration of largest to smallest areas on a map

Which statement is more accurate?

Every meridian is actually a circle rather than a curved line

Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end

Every parallel begins and ends at the poles

Every parallel is the same length

You see coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. You do not need to look at a map in order to deduce that this location is

Near bot the equator and the prime meridian

Near the equator but quite far from the prime meridian

Near the International Date Line as well as the North Pole

Near the International Date Line and the prime meridian

Without looking at a map, we might deduce that the coordinates 170 W longitude, 11 S latitude are likely

Just west of the International Date Line and just north of the equator

Just south of the equator and just east of the prime meridian

Just east of the International Date Line and just south of the equator

Just east of the prime meridian and just south of the equator

Situation identifies a place by its

Location relative to other objects or places

Mathematical location on Earth's surface

Nominal locations

Primary dimensions

Site identifies a place by its

Location relative to other objects and places

Mathematical location on Earth's surface

Nominal locations

Unique physical characteristics

The state of Texas is BEST considered a formal region becuase

Only one language is spoken in most of the cities of the region

The same state laws apply everywhere in the region

Religion is the same everywhere in the region

It is part of the US

The South is established as a vernacular region of the United States by

Climate, low education attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of talk radio stations

Climate, low high-school graduation rates, and Roman Catholic and Baptist churches

Low high school graduation rates, climate, cotton and corn

Climate, low educational attainment, cotton production, and the prevalence of Baptist churches

Which of the following best describes the idea of cultural landscape?

A landscape where human activity has modified the natural environment in some way

A landscape untouched by human activity, featuring mountains, rivers, and plants

A landscape that has been completely modified, like a city center

The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of another phenomenon is

Geographic analysis

Spatial analysis

Spatial association

Spatial distribution

Among the elements of globalization of culture are tendencies toward

Uniform consumption preferences, enhanced communications, unequal access to resources, and uniformity in cultural forms

Uniform consumption preferences, slower communications, unequal access to resources, greater access to entertainment, and a mixture of uniformity and variety in cultural forms

The township and range system

Established a grid-like pattern for much of present day land use in the US

Established a grid-like pattern for much of present day land use in the US and Europe

Was used for navigation by early pioneers, traders, and explorers of NA

US Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the country into a system of

States, towns, cities

Ranges, distances, scales, and projections

Vernacular regions

Townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections

A hearth is

A region from which innovation originates

The process by which a feature or trend spreads

An area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends

Which of the following are forms of expansion diffusion?

Contagious and eponymous

Hierarchical and formal

Economic and relocation

Contagious and hierarchical

Mormonism is most concentrated in the counties surrounding Salt Lake City, Utah, and the population of Mormons as a percentage of total county population begins to decline the further away from Salt Lake City. This is an example of

Distance decay

Assimilation

Acculturation

Which of the following pairs of resources and renew ability is incorrect?

Coal - nonrenewable

Solar - renewable

Petroleum - renewable

Bamboo - renewable

A development plan that uses the earth's resources prudently to ensure availability in the future is

Sustainable plan

Impossible plan

Conservative plan

Sustainability

Curtails the use of nonrenewable resources and controlling the use of renewable resources to ensure availability in the future

Curtails the use of renewable resources and controlling the use of nonrenewable resources to ensure availability in the future

Eliminates the use of nonrenewable resources

The concept that the physical environment sets broad limits on human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of physical environments

Climate

Possibilism

Environmental determinism

According to environmental determinism

Physical environment causes different types of social and cultural developments

Physical environment sets loose limits on cultural and social actions

People determine their physical environment

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