AP Human Geography

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1. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


2. What is scale?

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3. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


4. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
1/5.
The industrial revolution.
The agricultural revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


5. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Around the 1950s.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


6. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Aristotle.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


7. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


8. What is expansion diffusion?

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9. What is remote sensing?

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10. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.


11. What is site?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The physical character of a place.
The medical revolution.
1.2%


12. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
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.


13. What is GMT?
Stayed around zero.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


14. What is culture?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


15. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
China.


16. What is the world's most populous country?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
China.
The science of map-making.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


17. What is Meridian?
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.
Eratosthenes.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


18. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Relocation and expansion.
The agricultural revolution.
80 million
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


19. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


20. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The medical revolution.


21. What countries does the East Asian region include?
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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


22. What is a mental map?

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23. What is a map?

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24. What is a region?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


25. What is distribution?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
1/5.


26. What is density?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Portuguese.
80 million
The frequency with which something occurs.


27. What is relocation diffusion?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


28. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Portuguese.
Florida.
Yangtze and Huang.


29. What is overpopulation?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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.


30. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
It declines.
Zero duh fatso.


31. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


32. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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33. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


34. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The name given to a place on Earth.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Aristotle.
The demographic transition.


35. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The industrial revolution.


36. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
LDCs
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


37. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


38. What is space-time compression?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The agricultural revolution.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Spatial association.


39. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
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.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


40. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
1.2%


41. What is agricultural density?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The Netherlands.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


42. What is a place?
The name given to a place on Earth.
MDCs
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


43. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Eratosthenes.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


44. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Portuguese.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


45. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The Netherlands.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


46. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
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.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


47. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Portuguese.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


48. What is projection?

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49. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
- 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.


50. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Stayed around zero.