AP Human Geography

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1. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


2. What is location?

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3. How many countries are still in stage 1?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Zero duh fatso.
Babylonian clay tablets.


4. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
LDCs
Portuguese.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


5. What is pattern?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The name given to a place on Earth.


6. What are connections?
Yangtze and Huang.
The agricultural revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


7. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
LDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The Netherlands.


8. What is distance decay?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


9. What is cartography?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Portuguese.
The science of map-making.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


10. What is distribution?
Hearths.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The medical revolution.


11. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
LDCs
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
German Vladimir Koppen.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


12. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The science of map-making.


13. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It declines.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
CBR and CDR.


14. Parallel
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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


15. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
MDCs
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


16. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Around the 1950s.
The Netherlands.
Florida.


17. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
LDCs


18. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Eratosthenes.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


19. What is a polder?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


20. What is GPS?

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21. What is a functional region?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


22. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Florida.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


23. What is overpopulation?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


24. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


25. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Babylonian clay tablets.
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 new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


26. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
The science of map-making.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The industrial revolution.


27. What is projection?

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28. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The first.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
80 million


29. Define the agricultural revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Zero duh fatso.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


30. What is NIR?
MDCs
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The medical revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


31. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
- 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.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The industrial revolution.


32. What is doubling time?
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.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


33. What is culture?
LDCs
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


34. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The medical revolution.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The Netherlands.


35. What is contagious diffusion?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Florida.


36. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
LDCs


37. What is a map?

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38. What is scale?

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39. What is CBR?
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.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


40. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


41. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Portuguese.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The medical revolution.


42. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Dutch.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


43. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The demographic transition.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


44. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


45. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


46. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Eratosthenes.
The name given to a place on Earth.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


47. What is demography?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
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.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


48. What is the International Date Line?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


49. What is a mental map?

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50. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
1/5.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.