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AP Human Geography

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1. How is the NIR in stage 2?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

2. What is a map?

3. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

4. What is possibilism?
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.
It declines.
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 science of map-making.

5. What is pattern?
The demographic transition.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

6. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
China.
Hearths.
LDCs
The demographic transition.

7. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
China.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

8. What is GIS?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

9. What countries does the South Asian region include?
LDCs
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Portuguese.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

10. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
China.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

11. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Relocation and expansion.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Portuguese.
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.

12. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

13. What is concentration?

14. What is GMT?
80 million
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

15. What is scale?

16. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Portuguese.

17. What is the world's most populous country?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
China.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

18. What is cultural ecology?
Portuguese.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The industrial revolution.

19. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Dutch.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

20. What is agricultural density?
Portuguese.
MDCs
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

21. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

22. What is a mental map?

23. Define the agricultural revolution.
CBR and CDR.
Yangtze and Huang.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

24. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

25. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
LDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

26. What countries does the East Asian region include?
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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Spatial association.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

27. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Yangtze and Huang.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
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.

28. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
80 million
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Dutch.

29. What is diffusion?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

30. What is physiological density?
Zero duh fatso.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

31. What are resources?
Eratosthenes.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

32. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

33. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Dutch.
MDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

34. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The industrial revolution.

35. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The demographic transition.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The Netherlands.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

36. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The industrial revolution.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

37. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The demographic transition.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

38. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The name given to a place on Earth.
1/5.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

39. What is NIR?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Yangtze and Huang.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

40. 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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

41. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
1/5.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The frequency with which something occurs.

42. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
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 demographic transition.
The Netherlands.
The agricultural revolution.

43. What is a polder?
The industrial revolution.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

44. What is CBR?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

45. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
Eratosthenes.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The location of a place relative to other places.

46. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
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.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

47. What is a formal region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
MDCs
80 million
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

48. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
1.2%
Eratosthenes.
Zero duh fatso.

49. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

50. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
German Vladimir Koppen.
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 acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.