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AP Human Geography

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1. What are connections?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

2. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
CBR and CDR.

3. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

4. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The Netherlands.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

5. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Aristotle.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Relocation and expansion.

6. What is a place?
Hearths.
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.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

7. What is the International Date Line?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

8. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
- 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.
Florida.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

9. What is physiological density?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
LDCs
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

10. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

11. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
80 million
German Vladimir Koppen.

12. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
- 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.
1.2%
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Around the 1950s.

13. Define the medical revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

14. What is GPS?

15. What is GMT?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
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.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

16. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

17. What is culture?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The location of a place relative to other places.

18. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Relocation and expansion.

19. What is globalization?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Zero duh fatso.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

20. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Relocation and expansion.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

21. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

22. What is remote sensing?

23. 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.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.

24. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

25. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
LDCs
German Vladimir Koppen.
MDCs
- 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.

26. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
It declines.

27. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The first.
Portuguese.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

28. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

29. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The science of map-making.
Aristotle.

30. What is IMR?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The industrial revolution.
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.

31. What is a region?
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
80 million

32. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

33. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Dutch.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

34. What is diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

35. What was the industrial revolution?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The first.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

36. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

37. What is environmental determinism?
1/5.
Stayed around zero.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

38. Define the agricultural revolution.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

39. What is distribution?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

40. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
- 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.

41. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The demographic transition.

42. What is scale?

43. What is site?
Portuguese.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The physical character of a place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

44. What are resources?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

45. What is concentration?

46. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Dutch.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

47. What is CDR?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.

48. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

49. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

50. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
The Netherlands.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.