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AP Human Geography

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1. What is globalization?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The location of a place relative to other places.
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.

2. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
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.
Spatial association.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

3. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
MDCs

4. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.

5. What is site?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Stayed around zero.
The physical character of a place.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

6. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Spatial association.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

7. What is CDR?
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.
Hearths.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

8. What is TFR?
MDCs
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 extent of a feature's spread of space.

9. What is culture?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
MDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

10. Define the agricultural revolution.
Around the 1950s.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

11. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

12. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

13. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Hearths.

14. 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.
Babylonian clay tablets.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

15. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
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.

16. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Relocation and expansion.
The medical revolution.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

17. What was the industrial revolution?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

18. What is location?

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19. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It declines.
Dutch.

20. What is remote sensing?

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21. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The Netherlands.

22. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
CBR and CDR.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.

23. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The industrial revolution.

24. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

25. What is distance decay?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
It declines.
Stayed around zero.

26. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Relocation and expansion.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

27. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

28. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

29. What is GMT?
Spatial association.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
China.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

30. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Florida.
Yangtze and Huang.
China.

31. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
German Vladimir Koppen.

32. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Relocation and expansion.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

33. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

34. What is a functional region?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

35. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Florida.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

36. What is scale?

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37. What is IMR?
Dutch.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

38. What is concentration?

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39. What are resources?
The physical character of a place.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The industrial revolution.

40. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The name given to a place on Earth.

41. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The medical revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Portuguese.

42. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Dutch.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

43. What is pattern?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

44. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
1.2%
German Vladimir Koppen.
The industrial revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

45. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

46. What is cultural ecology?
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.
LDCs
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

47. What is Meridian?
The medical revolution.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

48. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Spatial association.

49. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
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.
1/5.
1.2%
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

50. What is diffusion?
China.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.