AP Human Geography

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1. What is cartography?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The science of map-making.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


2. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


3. What is cultural ecology?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


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

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5. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The industrial revolution.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


6. What is remote sensing?

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7. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Relocation and expansion.


8. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Florida.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Around the 1950s.


9. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Florida.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The frequency with which something occurs.


10. What is diffusion?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


11. Define the agricultural revolution.
Hearths.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Aristotle.


12. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


13. What is cultural landscape?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Zero duh fatso.
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.


14. What is physiological density?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
1.2%
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.


15. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The location of a place relative to other places.


16. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


17. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


18. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


19. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
LDCs
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
MDCs


20. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
It declines.


21. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The industrial revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dutch.


22. What is expansion diffusion?

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23. What is pattern?
80 million
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


24. What is a toponym?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


25. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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26. What is space-time compression?
CBR and CDR.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


27. What is 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.
The Netherlands.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


28. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Around the 1950s.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


29. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The industrial revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


30. Parallel
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Eratosthenes.


31. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


32. What is scale?

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33. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Stayed around zero.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


34. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The Netherlands.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


35. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The location of a place relative to other places.
1.2%


36. What is a formal region?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Spatial association.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Aristotle.


37. What is a functional region?
Florida.
The agricultural revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


38. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The agricultural revolution.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Dutch.


39. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


40. What is projection?

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41. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The physical character of a place.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
CBR and CDR.


42. What is a map?

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43. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
- 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.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


44. What is environmental determinism?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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 diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


45. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relocation and expansion.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


46. What is a mental map?

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47. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
80 million
The name given to a place on Earth.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


48. What is a polder?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


49. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
The demographic transition.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


50. What is GIS?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Stayed around zero.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.