APHG Unit I Questions
1. Why is geography important as a field of study?
2. How can geography help us understand human-environmental interactions?
3. What is location?
4. What is place?
5. What is scale?
6. What is a small-scale map?
7. What is a large-scale map?
8. How is a network a geographic concept?
9. What is regionalization?
10. What is globalization and how can geography help us understand it?
11. What is landscape analysis?
12. How can landscape analysis help us understand the location of people?
13. How can landscape analysis help us understand human-environment relationships?
14. How can landscape analysis help us understand interconnections between places and
regions?
15. What is meant by the phrase “human organization of space”?
16. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand population and
migration?
17. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand cultural patterns and
processes?
18. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand political organization of
space?
19. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand agriculture, food
production, and rural land use?
20. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand industrialization and
economic development?
21. How can spacial concepts be used to interpret and understand cities and urban land
use?
22. What is a political map? What is an example of how it could be used?
23. What is a physical map? What is an example of how it could be used?
24. What is a choropleth map? What is an example of how it could be used?
25. What is a dot map? What is an example of how it could be used?
26. What is a graduated symbol map? What is an example of how it could be used?
27. What is an isoline map? What is an example of how it could be used?
28. What is a cartogram? What is an example of how it could be used?
29. Describe map projection.
30. What is accurate on a Mercator projection? What is distorted?
31. What is the rate of natural increase in population (NRI)? What does that mean?
32. What is population doubling time? How can that number be determined?
33. What is rank-size rule for cities?
34. What is distance-decay? What are the functions for it?
35. What is a region?
36. Define and give an example of a formal region.
37. Define and give an example of a functional region.
38. Define and give an example of a perceptual region.
39. What is regionalism?
40. How are pollutants an example of interconnections among places?
41. How is money an example of interconnections among places?
42. What is GIS?
43. What is GPS?
44. What is remote sensing?
45. How are geospatial technologies used for personal purposes?
46. How are geospatial technologies used for business purposes?
47. How are geospatial technologies used for governmental purposes?
48. How is field study used in gathering geographic information?
49. What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative geographic data?
50. Give examples of how qualitative geographic data could be used in economic,
environmental, political, or social decision making.
51. Give examples of how quantitative geographic data could be used in economic,
environmental, political, or social decision making.