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AP Human Geography

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1. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Relocation and expansion.
The Netherlands.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

2. For what three reasons is the study of population critically important right now?

3. What is ecumene?

4. Define the agricultural revolution.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It declines.

5. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The demographic transition.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Portuguese.

6. What is possibilism?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Dutch.
The counter to environmental determinism; the belief that while environment may limit certain actions of a people - it cannot TOTALLY predestine their development - and humans may adapt.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

7. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
80 million
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
1. More people are alive now than any other point in Earth's history. 2. The world's population has increased a lot lately 3. Virtually all population growth is concentrated in LDCs.

8. What is CBR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
LDCs

9. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Stayed around zero.
1.2%

10. What is CDR?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
1. More people are alive now than any other point in Earth's history. 2. The world's population has increased a lot lately 3. Virtually all population growth is concentrated in LDCs.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

11. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The Netherlands.

12. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

13. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

14. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Aristotle.
The industrial revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

15. What is a region?
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

16. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

17. What is a polder?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

18. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

19. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Dutch.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
LDCs

20. What is agricultural density?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

21. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The Netherlands.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

22. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
80 million
Stayed around zero.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

23. What is a mental map?

24. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

25. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
CBR and CDR.
The first.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

26. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

27. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
1. More people are alive now than any other point in Earth's history. 2. The world's population has increased a lot lately 3. Virtually all population growth is concentrated in LDCs.
Aristotle.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

28. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The agricultural revolution.
Dutch.

29. What is a toponym?
China.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
LDCs
The name given to a place on Earth.

30. What is physiological density?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

31. What is concentration?

32. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
Portuguese.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

33. How is NIR in stage 3?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
It declines.
Around the 1950s.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

34. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

35. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The name given to a place on Earth.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Babylonian clay tablets.
1.2%

36. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The physical character of a place.
Globalization allows money and products to be transacted very - very quickly - with thanks to modern technology. However - it has heightened economic differences among some places.

37. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Florida.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Portuguese.

38. What is GMT?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
MDCs
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

39. What is a place?
The industrial revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

40. What is distance decay?
The industrial revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

41. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Yangtze and Huang.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

42. What is a functional region?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

43. What is location?

44. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Eratosthenes.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

45. Define the medical revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

46. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The Netherlands.
The industrial revolution.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

47. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
LDCs
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

48. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The industrial revolution.
The medical revolution.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

49. What is TFR?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

50. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
LDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Babylonian clay tablets.