AP Human Geography

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1. What is projection?

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2. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Zero duh fatso.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


3. What is a formal region?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


4. Define the medical revolution.
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.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


5. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
LDCs
The frequency with which something occurs.


6. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Relocation and expansion.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


7. What is pattern?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


8. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


9. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
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.
The industrial revolution.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


10. Define the agricultural revolution.
The science of map-making.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


11. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
It declines.
Hearths.


12. What is demography?
It declines.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Eratosthenes.


13. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The location of a place relative to other places.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


14. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Stayed around zero.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
German Vladimir Koppen.


15. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Around the 1950s.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


16. What is contagious diffusion?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The agricultural revolution.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


17. What is diffusion?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Stayed around zero.


18. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Yangtze and Huang.


19. What is remote sensing?

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20. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


21. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Stayed around zero.


22. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


23. What is GMT?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Babylonian clay tablets.


24. How is the NIR in stage 2?
1/5.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The agricultural revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


25. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


26. What is the world's most populous country?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
China.


27. What is a polder?
It declines.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The physical character of a place.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


28. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
1.2%


29. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The medical revolution.
China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
80 million


30. What is physiological density?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


31. What is scale?

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32. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Aristotle.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


33. What is doubling time?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
1/5.


34. What is IMR?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The location of a place relative to other places.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


35. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The medical revolution.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
MDCs


36. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
- 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.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


37. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


38. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Stayed around zero.
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.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


39. What is overpopulation?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


40. What is cartography?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The science of map-making.


41. What is space-time compression?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Babylonian clay tablets.


42. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Spatial association.
Stayed around zero.
The agricultural revolution.


43. What is a functional region?
1/5.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


44. Factors with similar distributions have what?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Spatial association.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
It declines.


45. What is a map?

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46. What is expansion diffusion?

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47. What is GIS?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
China.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


48. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
Aristotle.
MDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


49. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
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.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


50. What is ecumene?

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