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AP Human Geography

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1. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relocation and expansion.
The location of a place relative to other places.
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.

2. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
LDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The location of a place relative to other places.

3. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Dutch.

4. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

5. What is GPS?

6. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Spatial association.
80 million
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

7. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Eratosthenes.

8. What is space-time compression?
The Netherlands.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The first.

9. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Aristotle.
Stayed around zero.
The Netherlands.

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

11. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Zero duh fatso.
Eratosthenes.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

12. What is projection?

13. What is arithmetic density?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

14. What are connections?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Portuguese.

15. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Relocation and expansion.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
China.
German Vladimir Koppen.

16. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The Netherlands.

17. What is a place?
1.2%
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Babylonian clay tablets.

18. What is situation?
80 million
The first.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The demographic transition.

19. What is CDR?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

20. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
LDCs
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Aristotle.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

21. What is a toponym?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Around the 1950s.

22. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
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.

23. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.

24. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

25. What is expansion diffusion?

26. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The Netherlands.
Stayed around zero.
CBR and CDR.

27. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Hearths.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

28. What is environmental determinism?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Eratosthenes.

29. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

30. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.

31. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

32. What is density?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Relocation and expansion.
The science of map-making.

33. What is NIR?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The demographic transition.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

34. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The demographic transition.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

35. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Spatial association.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

36. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

37. What is distance decay?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Spatial association.
China.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

38. What is cultural landscape?
The Netherlands.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

39. What is life expectancy?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The industrial revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

40. What is a formal region?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1.2%
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

41. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Stayed around zero.
1/5.
1.2%
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

42. What is IMR?
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.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

43. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
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.
Portuguese.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

44. What is physiological density?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The science of map-making.

45. What is relocation diffusion?
MDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

46. What is ecumene?

47. What is demography?
The physical character of a place.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

48. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
LDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

49. What is distribution?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

50. What is the International Date Line?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Zero duh fatso.
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.