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AP Human Geography Exam Review 2022 with complete solution absolute location - The exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system. cartography - scien... ce or art of making maps circular pattern - Objects that circle another object, another name for it is Centralized Pattern; For example, in an Islamic city, houses and public buildings may circle around the mosque, or house of worship. cultural landscapes - The products of complex interactions between humans and their environments. daylight savings time - the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less distortion - a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map environmental geography - The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa. equator - an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. Eratosthenes - The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "geography." formal regions - Also called uniform regions, an area that has striking similarities in terms of one or a few physical or cultural features. functional (nodal) regions - areas organized around cores, or nodes GIS - Geographic Information System; a computer system that captures, stores, analyzes, and displays data. globalization - Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. Greenwich Mean Time - The time in that time zone ecompassing the Prime Meridian, or 0 degrees longitude GPS - Global Positioning System; uses a system of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth. grid pattern - Also called a rectilinear pattern, reflects a rectangular system of land survey adopted in much of the country under the Ordinance of 1785. Streets form grids and are sometimes labeled "1st", "2nd", "3rd" streets and so on. Hecataeus - Lived in the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.E.C., a Greek scientist, he wrote a book about geography and illustrated a map of the countries and inhabitants of the known world. [Show More]

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