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AP Human Geography

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1. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The location of a place relative to other places.
It declines.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

2. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It declines.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

3. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The physical character of a place.
80 million
- 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.

4. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

5. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Florida.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The industrial revolution.

6. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

7. What is distance decay?
The medical revolution.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

8. What are resources?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The first.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

9. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

10. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The demographic transition.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
1.2%

11. What is a toponym?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The science of map-making.
The physical character of a place.

12. What is TFR?
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.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The physical character of a place.

13. What is demography?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The first.

14. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Relocation and expansion.
The industrial revolution.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

15. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
MDCs
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
LDCs

16. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
80 million
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

17. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Dutch.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Zero duh fatso.

18. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Relocation and expansion.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

19. How is NIR in stage 3?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It declines.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

20. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Eratosthenes.
The first.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

21. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
MDCs

22. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
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.

23. What is relocation diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

24. What is CDR?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
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 total number of people per unit of arable land.

25. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hearths.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

26. What is CBR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

27. What is remote sensing?

28. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
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.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

29. What is doubling time?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The agricultural revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Florida.

30. What is pattern?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The medical revolution.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

31. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Around the 1950s.
1/5.
- 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.

32. What is density?
Around the 1950s.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The frequency with which something occurs.

33. What is overpopulation?
Around the 1950s.
Stayed around zero.
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.

34. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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 medical revolution.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

35. Factors with similar distributions have what?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
Spatial association.

36. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The industrial revolution.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
MDCs

37. What is a formal region?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The science of map-making.

38. What is projection?

39. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
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.
MDCs
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

40. What is a region?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

41. What is environmental determinism?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

42. What is possibilism?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The first.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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.

43. What is cultural ecology?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Hearths.

44. Parallel
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

45. What is space-time compression?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The industrial revolution.

46. What is the world's most populous country?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
China.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

47. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs

48. What was the industrial revolution?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Spatial association.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The agricultural revolution.

49. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

50. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
LDCs
The first.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.