AP Human Geography

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1. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Relocation and expansion.
CBR and CDR.


2. What is expansion diffusion?

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3. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
LDCs


4. What is physiological density?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


5. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The industrial revolution.


6. What is IMR?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


7. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Yangtze and Huang.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


8. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


9. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
China.
LDCs
1/5.


10. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


11. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Florida.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


12. What is situation?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Aristotle.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


13. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
MDCs
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


14. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Dutch.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


15. What is cultural landscape?
The industrial revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Yangtze and Huang.


16. What is concentration?

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17. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
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.


18. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


19. What is a functional region?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Around the 1950s.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


20. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


21. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Relocation and expansion.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


22. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The physical character of a place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Portuguese.


23. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


24. What is density?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The location of a place relative to other places.


25. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
80 million
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
LDCs
China.


26. What is ecumene?

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27. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


28. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
CBR and CDR.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


29. What is GPS?

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30. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Spatial association.
The agricultural revolution.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


31. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Hearths.
Aristotle.
LDCs
The Netherlands.


32. What was the industrial revolution?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
It declines.
Florida.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


33. What is scale?

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34. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Eratosthenes.


35. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
1.2%
MDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


36. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The science of map-making.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


37. What is projection?

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38. What is arithmetic density?
Yangtze and Huang.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


39. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The industrial revolution.


40. What is Meridian?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
CBR and CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


41. What is the International Date Line?
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.
Aristotle.
Spatial association.


42. What is site?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The physical character of a place.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


43. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Relocation and expansion.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Dutch.


44. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Eratosthenes.
The first.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


45. What is space-time compression?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The Netherlands.


46. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


47. What is possibilism?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.


48. What is NIR?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


49. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


50. How is NIR in stage 3?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It declines.