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AP Human Geography

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1. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The agricultural revolution.
1.2%
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

2. What is a functional region?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Aristotle.

3. What is situation?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
LDCs
It declines.
The location of a place relative to other places.

4. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
MDCs
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

5. What is possibilism?
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 diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
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 shoots up like a rocket ship.

6. What is concentration?

7. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relocation and expansion.

8. What is expansion diffusion?

9. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Portuguese.
Florida.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

10. What is cultural landscape?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Zero duh fatso.

11. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Stayed around zero.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

12. What is ecumene?

13. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Yangtze and Huang.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Stayed around zero.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

14. What is TFR?
Aristotle.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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.
Hearths.

15. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

16. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

17. What is demography?
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.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

18. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The industrial revolution.
The Netherlands.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Zero duh fatso.

19. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dutch.
MDCs

20. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Florida.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

21. What is physiological density?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Relocation and expansion.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

22. What is a toponym?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
German Vladimir Koppen.

23. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Dutch.
1.2%
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

24. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Hearths.
The agricultural revolution.
Spatial association.

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

26. What is Meridian?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

27. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The Netherlands.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

28. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

29. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

30. What is remote sensing?

31. What is a formal region?
Yangtze and Huang.
Portuguese.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

32. What is GMT?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Aristotle.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

33. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The demographic transition.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

34. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

35. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
CBR and CDR.
Stayed around zero.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

36. What is life expectancy?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
China.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

37. How many countries are still in stage 1?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Around the 1950s.
Zero duh fatso.

38. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
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.
Stayed around zero.
1/5.

39. What is overpopulation?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

40. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

41. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
80 million
Hearths.

42. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Relocation and expansion.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

43. What are resources?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Stayed around zero.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

44. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The agricultural revolution.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

45. What is cartography?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The science of map-making.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

46. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Portuguese.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

47. What is a map?

48. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
80 million
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

49. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The first.
Yangtze and Huang.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

50. What is the International Date Line?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Portuguese.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.