AP Human Geography

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1. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Aristotle.


2. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
MDCs
LDCs
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


3. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The demographic transition.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
CBR and CDR.
LDCs


4. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.


5. What is a map?

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6. What is a formal region?
LDCs
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


7. What is stimulus diffusion?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The Netherlands.


8. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
It declines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


9. What was the industrial revolution?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Hearths.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


10. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Aristotle.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


11. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Eratosthenes.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The medical revolution.


12. What is globalization?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Aristotle.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


13. What is GPS?

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14. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


15. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The physical character of a place.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
- 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.
80 million


16. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Spatial association.
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 geometric arrangement of objects in space.


17. What countries does the East Asian region include?
CBR and CDR.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


18. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
China.
LDCs
The agricultural revolution.


19. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
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.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


20. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Spatial association.
The industrial revolution.
MDCs


21. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


22. What is the world's most populous country?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Stayed around zero.
China.


23. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The medical revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Zero duh fatso.
Spatial association.


24. What is cultural landscape?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


25. Define the medical revolution.
China.
Aristotle.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


26. What is projection?

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27. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Hearths.


28. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
1.2%
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


29. What is density?
China.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


30. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Aristotle.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


31. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Portuguese.
Around the 1950s.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


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

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33. What is CBR?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
It declines.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


34. What is a toponym?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


35. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Around the 1950s.


36. What is arithmetic density?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
China.
The medical revolution.


37. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Zero duh fatso.


38. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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39. What is culture?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


40. What is a place?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


41. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Spatial association.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


42. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
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 diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


43. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
CBR and CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


44. What is life expectancy?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


45. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
1.2%
80 million


46. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


47. What is pattern?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


48. What is a mental map?

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49. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The first.


50. What is a polder?
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.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
LDCs
Spatial association.