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AP Human Geography

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1. What is NIR?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Zero duh fatso.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

2. What is IMR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

3. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

4. What is GIS?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

5. What is agricultural density?
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.
The physical character of a place.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

6. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Dutch.

7. What is cultural landscape?
China.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

8. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
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.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

9. What is projection?

10. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Dutch.
Hearths.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

11. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The demographic transition.

12. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Eratosthenes.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

13. What is a place?
Yangtze and Huang.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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.

14. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

15. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The agricultural revolution.
Around the 1950s.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

16. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
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.

17. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

18. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
MDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Yangtze and Huang.

19. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

20. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Portuguese.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The medical revolution.
Spatial association.

21. What is space-time compression?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The agricultural revolution.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

22. 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.
Relocation and expansion.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

23. What is environmental determinism?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

24. What is a formal region?
The physical character of a place.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

25. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
1/5.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Aristotle.
German Vladimir Koppen.

26. What is pattern?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

27. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The frequency with which something occurs.

28. What is a toponym?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

29. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
- 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.

30. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

31. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
LDCs

32. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The physical character of a place.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Dutch.

33. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

34. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
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 demographic transition.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

35. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The agricultural revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
1/5.
CBR and CDR.

36. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

37. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Relocation and expansion.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

38. What is stimulus diffusion?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Aristotle.

39. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Yangtze and Huang.
The first.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

40. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

41. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

42. What is a region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
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.

43. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
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 geographic study of human-environment relations.

44. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Spatial association.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Stayed around zero.

45. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Hearths.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

46. What is CBR?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The demographic transition.
Hearths.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

47. What is ecumene?

48. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

49. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

50. What is CDR?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.