AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 1.6 Flashcards

The geographic level at which a pattern or process is studied and data are organized, summarized, or differentiated

Analysis that treats the world as a whole or examines a worldwide system

Analysis that uses regions—such as world regions, groups of countries, states, provinces, or multicounty areas—as its geographic units

Analysis that uses countries as its units, either examining one country as a whole or comparing countries

Analysis focused on small geographic units such as municipalities, villages, neighborhoods, census tracts, streets, or individual sites

Combining observations from smaller geographic units into a total, average, rate, or percentage for a larger unit, which conceals some internal variation

Separating a larger value into its component geographic units to reveal clusters, gaps, outliers, inequalities, and other internal variation

Examining a phenomenon at more than one scale to connect broad processes with their effects in particular places

The total area covered by a map or investigation, distinct from the geographic units used to organize its data

The mathematical relationship between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on Earth

A large-scale map has a smaller denominator, covers less area, and shows more detail; a small-scale map has a larger denominator, covers more area, and shows less detail