AP Human Geography

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1. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Relocation and expansion.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Portuguese.


2. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


3. What is arithmetic density?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


4. What is distribution?
Aristotle.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
LDCs


5. What is a mental map?

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6. What is diffusion?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Hearths.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


7. What is location?

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8. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Zero duh fatso.
LDCs


9. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


10. What is scale?

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11. What is cartography?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The science of map-making.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1.2%


12. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Spatial association.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


13. What is overpopulation?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The Netherlands.


14. What is the world's most populous country?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
China.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Dutch.


15. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


16. What is concentration?

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17. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
It declines.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


18. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
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.
MDCs


19. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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20. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
CBR and CDR.


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

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22. What is a polder?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The first.
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 relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It declines.


24. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


25. What is ecumene?

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26. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


27. What is a map?

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28. What is GMT?
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.
Portuguese.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


29. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
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.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


30. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The medical revolution.
Relocation and expansion.
The Netherlands.


31. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


32. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
German Vladimir Koppen.
CBR and CDR.


33. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Zero duh fatso.
1.2%
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.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


34. What is environmental determinism?
Aristotle.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
80 million
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


35. 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.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The name given to a place on Earth.
CBR and CDR.


36. What is expansion diffusion?

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37. What is NIR?
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.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Zero duh fatso.


38. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The industrial revolution.


39. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The first.
Aristotle.


40. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Relocation and expansion.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


41. What is CDR?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


42. What is pattern?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The demographic transition.
The name given to a place on Earth.


43. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
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.


44. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
80 million


45. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


46. What is a toponym?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The name given to a place on Earth.
CBR and CDR.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


47. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
80 million


48. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Eratosthenes.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


49. What is stimulus diffusion?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The industrial revolution.


50. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Dutch.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
China.