AP Human Geography

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1. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The first.
80 million
Eratosthenes.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


2. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Aristotle.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


3. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The first.
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.


4. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Zero duh fatso.
The industrial revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


5. What is the International Date Line?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


6. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


7. What is the world's most populous country?
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.
China.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


8. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
LDCs
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
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.


9. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


10. What is a map?

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11. What is GMT?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
1.2%
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


12. What is contagious diffusion?
CBR and CDR.
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.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


13. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Aristotle.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The industrial revolution.
Portuguese.


14. What are connections?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
1.2%
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


15. What is pattern?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


16. What is scale?

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17. What is agricultural density?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
LDCs
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


18. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Relocation and expansion.


19. What is a place?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


20. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


21. Define the medical revolution.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The first.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


22. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


23. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


24. What is a mental map?

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25. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The industrial revolution.
1.2%
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


26. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Florida.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The physical character of a place.


27. What is site?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The physical character of a place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


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

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29. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
1/5.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


30. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The science of map-making.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


31. What is a polder?
The location of a place relative to other places.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Yangtze and Huang.


32. What is a functional region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


33. How is NIR in stage 3?
Babylonian clay tablets.
It declines.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


34. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
It declines.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The name given to a place on Earth.


35. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs


36. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
1/5.
- Improved medical technologies ensure newborns to live a full life - so parents will have less. - People are more likely to work in offices or shops rather than in farms - so they don't need lots of kids to help with chores on the farm.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


37. What is GPS?

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38. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
It declines.
Relocation and expansion.
Aristotle.


39. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Babylonian clay tablets.


40. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
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.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


41. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The industrial revolution.
The Netherlands.


42. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Spatial association.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
MDCs


43. What is overpopulation?
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.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Hearths.


44. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Aristotle.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


45. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The location of a place relative to other places.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hearths.
Yangtze and Huang.


46. Parallel
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The demographic transition.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


47. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Relocation and expansion.
The demographic transition.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


48. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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49. What is expansion diffusion?

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50. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.