AP Flashcards

4747602405	Place is a	Point	0
4747602406	Region is an	Area	1
4747602407	Location	The position something occupies on earths surface	2
4747602408	Toponym	The name given to a place on earth	3
4747602409	Four ways in which places can receive names	Physical environment, famous person/founder, religion, ancient history	4
4747602410	3 reasons why places can change names	Political upheaves, in honor of a hero, offensive place names	5
4747602411	Site	The physical character of a place	6
4747602412	What are some site characteristics	Climate, water sources, soil, vegetation, latitude	7
4747602413	Human actions have the ability to ____ the characteristics of a site	Modify	8
4747602414	Situation	The location of a place relative to other places	9
4747602415	What role do familiar places have understating SITUATION of unfamiliar places?	situation helps us find an unfamiliar place by comparing its location w/ a familiar one	10
4747602416	What place is designated as 0 degrees longitude?	Greenwich, England	11
4747602417	What is the name for the line drawn @ 0 degrees longitude?	Prime meridian	12
4747602418	How is a degree of longitude or latitude further subdivided	Dividing each degree into 60 minutes (') and each minute into 60 seconds	13
4747602419	Give an example	46^ N 37' 10'' 35^ W 25' 30''	14
4747602420	How many degrees of longitude do you need to travel across to pass through one "hour" of time	15 degrees of longitude	15
4747602421	How many time zones are there	24	16
4747602422	Where and why were the standard time zones first adopted	1714, Great Britain 'axe the longitude Act. Due to the fact that not being able to measure longitude	17
4747602423	What is the longitude of the international date line	180 degrees	18
4747602424	What is a cultural landscape	Convo of cultural feature such as language and religion	19
4747602425	A region is	An area of earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics	20
4747602426	Geographers using the regional studies approach argue that the distinctive landscapes of different regions result in what	Social relationships and Physical processes	21
4747602427	Uniform region & example	An area within which everyone shares in common one of more distinctive characteristics. Common language	22
4747602428	Functional region & example	An area organized around a node or focal point. Louisville	23
4747602429	Vernacular region and example	A place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity	24
4747602430	CULTURE BELIEFS	customary beliefs, material traits, social forms	25
4747602431	What people take care of	Food, clothing, shelter	26
4747602432	Cultural ecology	Geographic study of human-environment relationship	27
4747602433	Environmental determination	A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argues that the general laws sought by human geographers	28
4747602434	How many major types of climates are there	Tropical, Dry, Warm-Mid, Cold amid, polar	29
4747602435	In what major way does climate influence human activities	People avoid places where it's too hot, too cold, too wet and too dry	30
4747602436	4 major biomes	Forest, savanna, grassland, desert	31
4747602437	What are 2 major problems with which geography are concerned as far as soil is concerned	Erosion and Depletion of nutrients	32
4747602438	Erosion	Occurs when the soil washes away in the rains and blows away	33
4747602439	Depletion of nutrients	Occurs when plants withdraw	34
4747602440	Deomorphology		35
4747602441	Topographic maps		36