AP Human Geography

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1. What is a place?
The industrial revolution.
Dutch.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


2. What is site?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The physical character of a place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


3. What is situation?
Portuguese.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Florida.


4. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


5. What is space-time compression?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
- 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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


6. What is ecumene?

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7. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
80 million
Eratosthenes.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
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?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


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

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10. What is overpopulation?
It declines.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


11. What countries does the South Asian region include?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


12. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Portuguese.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


13. What is agricultural density?
The physical character of a place.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


14. Define the agricultural revolution.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
LDCs
The agricultural revolution.


15. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
1.2%
Dutch.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


16. What is expansion diffusion?

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17. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


18. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


19. What is CBR?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
MDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


20. Parallel
Spatial association.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


21. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Hearths.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


22. What is possibilism?
Florida.
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.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


23. What is scale?

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24. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
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.
Florida.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


25. What is culture?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Hearths.


26. What are connections?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The agricultural revolution.


27. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
1.2%
Around the 1950s.
1/5.
Stayed around zero.


28. What is distance decay?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


29. What is a region?
It declines.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


30. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Babylonian clay tablets.
LDCs
Zero duh fatso.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


31. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
The medical revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The science of map-making.


32. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The medical revolution.
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.


33. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


34. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Florida.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


35. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
1.2%
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
MDCs


36. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Yangtze and Huang.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


37. What is GIS?
Aristotle.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


38. Define the medical revolution.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Aristotle.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


39. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The medical revolution.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


40. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Babylonian clay tablets.


41. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The physical character of a place.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


42. What is remote sensing?

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43. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Spatial association.
CBR and CDR.


44. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


45. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Aristotle.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


46. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
CBR and CDR.


47. What is projection?

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48. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The agricultural revolution.
LDCs
The Netherlands.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


49. What is physiological density?
China.
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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


50. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The location of a place relative to other places.
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.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.