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AP Human Geography

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1. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

2. What is environmental determinism?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Florida.

3. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The agricultural revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The first.

4. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The industrial revolution.

5. What is GPS?

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6. What countries does the South Asian region include?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

7. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The medical revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

8. What is contagious diffusion?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The industrial revolution.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

9. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

10. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

11. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Portuguese.

12. What is expansion diffusion?

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13. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Around the 1950s.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Eratosthenes.
Florida.

14. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The physical character of a place.
The agricultural revolution.

15. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The medical revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

16. What is NIR?
Eratosthenes.
MDCs
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

17. What is the world's most populous country?
Hearths.
China.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

18. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

19. What is GMT?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The agricultural revolution.

20. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
CBR and CDR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

21. What is doubling time?
Yangtze and Huang.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

22. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
LDCs
1/5.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

23. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

24. What is arithmetic density?
The first.
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.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

25. What is CDR?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
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.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

26. What is distance decay?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

27. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The science of map-making.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

28. What is a map?

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29. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Florida.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

30. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Dutch.
Florida.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Hearths.

31. What is a functional region?
Around the 1950s.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

32. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The frequency with which something occurs.

33. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Aristotle.
Eratosthenes.

34. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The Netherlands.

35. What is scale?

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36. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The industrial revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

37. What is pattern?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

38. What is CBR?
Stayed around zero.
1.2%
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

39. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Relocation and expansion.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Yangtze and Huang.
LDCs

40. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

41. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Florida.
The Netherlands.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Eratosthenes.

42. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Stayed around zero.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Hearths.

43. What is globalization?
Babylonian clay tablets.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
CBR and CDR.

44. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The agricultural revolution.
80 million
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

45. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Eratosthenes.

46. Define the agricultural revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

47. What is a region?
CBR and CDR.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

48. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Dutch.
Relocation and expansion.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Stayed around zero.

49. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

50. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The physical character of a place.
The frequency with which something occurs.