AP Human Geography

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1. What is TFR?
Yangtze and Huang.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Hearths.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


2. What is cultural landscape?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The physical character of a place.


3. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
- 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 medical revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The frequency with which something occurs.


4. What is a region?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
- 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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


5. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
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.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
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.


6. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


7. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


8. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
German Vladimir Koppen.


9. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
1/5.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


10. What countries does the South Asian region include?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The industrial revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


11. What is remote sensing?

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12. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The medical revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


13. What was the industrial revolution?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Around the 1950s.


14. What is distribution?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Portuguese.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


15. What is life expectancy?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The physical character of a place.


16. What is a formal region?
Spatial association.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The physical character of a place.


17. What is ecumene?

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18. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
It declines.
80 million
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


19. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
CBR and CDR.
Zero duh fatso.
Yangtze and Huang.
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.


20. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
80 million
The physical character of a place.


21. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


22. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The location of a place relative to other places.


23. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The name given to a place on Earth.


24. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


25. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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26. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The medical revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


27. What is the world's most populous country?
Portuguese.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


28. What is arithmetic density?
MDCs
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The demographic transition.


29. What is environmental determinism?
China.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Babylonian clay tablets.


30. What is culture?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


31. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Yangtze and Huang.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


32. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
CBR and CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


33. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
1/5.
The Netherlands.


34. What is a mental map?

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35. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
MDCs


36. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
German Vladimir Koppen.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


37. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


38. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The agricultural revolution.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Florida.


39. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
China.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The industrial revolution.


40. What is the International Date Line?
Relocation and expansion.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
1.2%
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


41. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


42. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
LDCs


43. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
Stayed around zero.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Babylonian clay tablets.


44. What is a polder?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
It declines.


45. What is site?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
1.2%
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The physical character of a place.


46. What is a map?

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47. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


48. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


49. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
CBR and CDR.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


50. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The first.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
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.