9th Grade AP Human Geography Exam Review Vocabulary Questions With Complete Solutions the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture - Correct Answers ✅agricultural density the total number of people divided by the total land area - Correct Answers ✅arithmetic density an east-west line designated under the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the United States. - Correct Answers ✅base line the science of making maps - Correct Answers ✅cartography the spread of something over a given area - Correct Answers ✅concentration relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space - Correct Answers ✅connections the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population - Correct Answers ✅contagious diffusion 1 / 4
9th Grade AP Human Geography Exam Review Vocabulary Questions With Complete Solutions geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships - Correct Answers ✅cultural ecology fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group - Correct Answers ✅cultural landscape the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition - Correct Answers ✅culture the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area - Correct Answers ✅density the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time - Correct Answers ✅diffusion the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin - Correct Answers ✅distance decay the arrangement of something across Earth's surface - Correct Answers ✅distribution A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought 2 / 4
9th Grade AP Human Geography Exam Review Vocabulary Questions With Complete Solutions by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. - Correct Answers ✅environmental determinism the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. - Correct Answers ✅expansion diffusion An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. - Correct Answers ✅formal region (or uniform or homogenous region) an area organized around a node or focal point - Correct Answers ✅functional (or nodal) region a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data. - Correct Answers ✅Geographic Information System (GIS) a system that determines accurately the precise position of something on Earth. - Correct Answers ✅Global Positioning System (GPS) 3 / 4
9th Grade AP Human Geography Exam Review Vocabulary Questions With Complete Solutions actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. - Correct Answers ✅globalization the time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude. - Correct Answers ✅Greenwich Mean Time the region from which innovative ideas originate. - Correct Answers ✅hearth the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. - Correct Answers ✅hierarchical diffusion an arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas.When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day. - Correct Answers ✅International Date Line a law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. - Correct Answers ✅Land Ordinance of 1785
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