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AP Human Geography

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1. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

2. How is NIR in stage 3?
LDCs
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Around the 1950s.
It declines.

3. What is cultural landscape?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Florida.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

4. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Hearths.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

5. What is a map?

6. Factors with similar distributions have what?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Spatial association.

7. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

8. What is contagious diffusion?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

9. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Zero duh fatso.
Dutch.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

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

11. What are resources?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
China.

12. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Aristotle.

13. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
1/5.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

14. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Hearths.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

15. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
- 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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

16. What is a mental map?

17. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The industrial revolution.
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.
Zero duh fatso.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

18. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The agricultural revolution.

19. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

20. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The name given to a place on Earth.

21. What is agricultural density?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

22. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Spatial association.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Yangtze and Huang.

23. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Relocation and expansion.
The medical revolution.

24. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Aristotle.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

25. What is possibilism?
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.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

26. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Around the 1950s.
CBR and CDR.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Relocation and expansion.

27. What is the International Date Line?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
CBR and CDR.
The physical character of a place.

28. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
- 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.
Aristotle.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

29. What is CDR?
The Netherlands.
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

30. What is culture?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Eratosthenes.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

31. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

32. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

33. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

34. What is scale?

35. What is a polder?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The physical character of a place.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

36. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The Netherlands.

37. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

38. What is the world's most populous country?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
1.2%
China.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

39. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Hearths.
Around the 1950s.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

40. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Portuguese.

41. What is environmental determinism?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

42. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Dutch.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

43. Define the medical revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

44. What is GMT?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
CBR and CDR.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

45. What is a functional region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

46. What is ecumene?

47. What is pattern?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

48. What is distribution?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

49. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

50. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The medical revolution.
Yangtze and Huang.
Around the 1950s.
The name given to a place on Earth.