AP Human Geography

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1. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The Netherlands.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


2. What is TFR?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


3. What is arithmetic density?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


4. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


5. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Dutch.
German Vladimir Koppen.


6. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


7. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
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.


8. What is Meridian?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The science of map-making.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


9. What is physiological density?
Stayed around zero.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


10. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The Netherlands.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


11. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The Netherlands.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


12. What is diffusion?
The first.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Eratosthenes.
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.


13. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
MDCs
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


14. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Zero duh fatso.


15. What is relocation diffusion?
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.
China.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


16. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Aristotle.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


17. What is globalization?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
80 million
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


18. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The physical character of a place.


19. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Portuguese.
MDCs
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


20. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


21. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
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.
The first.
Stayed around zero.


22. What is location?

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23. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
1.2%
LDCs
Stayed around zero.


24. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
1.2%
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
80 million
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


25. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
The medical revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


26. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The medical revolution.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


27. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


28. What is ecumene?

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29. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
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.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


30. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Florida.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


31. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
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.
Relocation and expansion.


32. What is expansion diffusion?

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33. What is density?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


34. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The agricultural revolution.
Stayed around zero.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


35. What is CDR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


36. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Spatial association.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


37. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
LDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


38. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The first.
Eratosthenes.


39. What is culture?
Zero duh fatso.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


40. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Hearths.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


41. Define the medical revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
1/5.


42. What is projection?

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43. What is CBR?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
China.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


44. What is cartography?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The science of map-making.


45. What is scale?

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46. What is agricultural density?
The demographic transition.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


47. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


48. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
MDCs
CBR and CDR.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


49. What is GMT?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Eratosthenes.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


50. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
LDCs
Relocation and expansion.
Around the 1950s.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.