AP Human Geography

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1. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Eratosthenes.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.


2. What is demography?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
80 million
CBR and CDR.


3. What is site?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The physical character of a place.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
80 million


4. What is cultural landscape?
Relocation and expansion.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


5. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The first.
CBR and CDR.


6. What is situation?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
1/5.
The location of a place relative to other places.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


7. What is distance decay?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Stayed around zero.


8. What is relocation diffusion?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
MDCs


9. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Aristotle.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Spatial association.


10. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of 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.
The first.


11. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The Netherlands.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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.


12. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


13. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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14. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The demographic transition.
Florida.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


15. What is ecumene?

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16. What is space-time compression?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Aristotle.


17. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
The medical revolution.
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.


18. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The medical revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


19. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
LDCs
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


20. What is culture?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


21. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The agricultural revolution.


22. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The first.


23. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
Around the 1950s.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


24. Define the agricultural revolution.
China.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
1.2%
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


25. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


26. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


27. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


28. What is CBR?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


29. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Yangtze and Huang.
The Netherlands.


30. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


31. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Eratosthenes.
Aristotle.
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.


32. What is physiological density?
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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
- 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.


33. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


34. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


35. What is cultural ecology?
MDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


36. What is Meridian?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


37. What is contagious diffusion?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Eratosthenes.
1.2%
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


38. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Florida.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


39. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The geometric arrangement of objects in 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.


40. 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.
It declines.
The frequency with which something occurs.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


41. What is a map?

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42. What is distribution?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The arrangement of a feature in a 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.


43. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


44. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The medical revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
It declines.


45. What is projection?

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46. What is overall population like during stage 3?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


47. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Babylonian clay tablets.
1/5.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Around the 1950s.


49. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The agricultural revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


50. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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