AP Human Geography

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1. 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 portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
It declines.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


2. What is remote sensing?

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3. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Yangtze and Huang.
The science of map-making.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


4. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Portuguese.


5. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


6. What is doubling time?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The industrial revolution.


7. Define the medical revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The industrial revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


8. What is cultural landscape?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Zero duh fatso.


9. What is a place?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


10. What is ecumene?

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11. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
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 position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


12. What is CBR?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The agricultural revolution.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.


13. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Aristotle.


14. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Portuguese.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


15. 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.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Eratosthenes.


16. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The first.


17. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
CBR and CDR.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


18. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


19. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Florida.


20. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Yangtze and Huang.
The agricultural revolution.


21. What is a region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Florida.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


22. What is GIS?
The science of map-making.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


23. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


24. What are resources?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Eratosthenes.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


25. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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26. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The agricultural revolution.
1.2%


27. What is stimulus diffusion?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


28. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Aristotle.


29. What is culture?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


30. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The physical character of a place.
Eratosthenes.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


31. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Stayed around zero.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


32. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The medical revolution.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


33. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dutch.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Babylonian clay tablets.


34. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
China.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Relocation and expansion.
The first.


35. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


36. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


37. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Eratosthenes.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


38. What is a toponym?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


39. What is expansion diffusion?

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40. What is cartography?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The science of map-making.


41. What is projection?

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42. What is GPS?

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43. Define the agricultural revolution.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Relocation and expansion.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


44. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
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.
Stayed around zero.


45. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


46. What was the industrial revolution?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
1/5.
The physical character of a place.


47. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


48. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The name given to a place on Earth.


49. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Aristotle.
MDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


50. What is life expectancy?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.