APHG Unit One Test Concepts

You should be able to do the following for your test on Thursday and Friday, (9/28 and 9/29). Your test will consist of 35 multiple-choice questions, ten map questions, and one Free Response Questions. You will only have one class period to take the map test and write your FRQ, and one class period to answer the multiple-choice questions.

  1. Explain the importance of geography as a field of study.
  2. Explain major geographical concepts underlying the geographic perspective.
  3. location, place, scale, space, pattern, nature and society, networks, flows, regionalization, and globalization
  4. Use landscape analysis to examine the human organization of space.
  5. Use spatial thinking to analyze the human organization of space.
  6. Use and interpret maps.
  7. types of maps, map distortion
  8. Apply mathematical formulas and graphs to interpret geographic concepts.
  9. arithmetic, physiological, and agricultural density
  10. Use and interpret geographic models.
  11. Use concepts such as space, place, and region to examine geographic issues.
  12. Interpret processes and patterns at different scales.
  13. Define region as a concept, identify world regions, and understand regionalization processes.
  14. Formal, functional, and perceptual regions; world regions map
  15. Explain and evaluate the regionalization process.
  16. apply at local, national, and global scales
  17. Analyze changing interconnections among places.
  18. Use and interpret geospatial data.
  19. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), satellite navigation, remote sensing
  20. Use quantitative and qualitative geographic data.

Tips for writing FRQ’s:

·  Write in complete sentences.

·  Stay organized. If you are answering Part A, indicate that on your writing.

·  Write NEATLY, and in pen. You can always cross something out if you make a mistake.

·  Write in third person. (No “I”)

·  Do not write an intro or conclusion.

·  Do not use abbreviations, contractions, or slang.

·  Geographers want simple answers to their questions. You cannot impress me by writing a novel.

·  Writing is ALWAYS formal.

·  Skip lines between parts of the question.