AP Human Geography

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1. Define the medical revolution.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Yangtze and Huang.


2. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
The science of map-making.
Yangtze and Huang.
The medical revolution.


3. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
CBR and CDR.
Portuguese.
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.


4. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The science of map-making.


5. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
CBR and CDR.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


6. What is NIR?
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.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


7. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The Netherlands.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


8. What is expansion diffusion?

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9. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


10. How is the NIR in stage 2?
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.
It declines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


11. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The industrial revolution.


12. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
German Vladimir Koppen.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


13. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Hearths.
The frequency with which something occurs.


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

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15. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
- 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.
The demographic transition.


16. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


17. What is distribution?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Relocation and expansion.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


18. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The arrangement of a feature in a 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.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


19. What is GPS?

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20. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The industrial revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


21. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
80 million
The industrial revolution.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


22. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Florida.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


23. What is cultural ecology?
The demographic transition.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


24. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Eratosthenes.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


25. What is stimulus diffusion?
LDCs
The demographic transition.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The location of a place relative to other places.


26. What is arithmetic density?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


27. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
CBR and CDR.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


28. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The agricultural revolution.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


29. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Eratosthenes.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


30. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


31. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Spatial association.


32. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Stayed around zero.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Portuguese.
Aristotle.


33. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The industrial revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
Around the 1950s.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


34. What is demography?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
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 scientific study of population characteristics.


35. What is diffusion?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
German Vladimir Koppen.


36. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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37. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Zero duh fatso.
MDCs


38. What is remote sensing?

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39. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


40. What is doubling time?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


41. What is a place?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


42. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


43. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
- 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.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


44. What is IMR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Aristotle.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


45. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The science of map-making.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


46. What is pattern?
The agricultural revolution.
Florida.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
LDCs


47. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Aristotle.
Around the 1950s.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


49. What is possibilism?
The industrial revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
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.


50. What is distance decay?
The first.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Spatial association.