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1. What is agricultural density?
Around the 1950s.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
1/5.
The name given to a place on Earth.


2. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Portuguese.
MDCs


3. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Stayed around zero.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


4. What was the industrial revolution?
Babylonian clay tablets.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
China.


5. What is distance decay?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The physical character of a place.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


6. What is concentration?

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7. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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8. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
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.
1.2%
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
- 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.


9. What is a place?
Eratosthenes.
Zero duh fatso.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


10. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Portuguese.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
LDCs
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


11. What is arithmetic density?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
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.
Around the 1950s.


12. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


13. What is diffusion?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


14. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
1.2%
Aristotle.
CBR and CDR.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


15. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
CBR and CDR.


16. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The Netherlands.
LDCs


17. What are resources?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


18. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Yangtze and Huang.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


19. What is a map?

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20. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The physical character of a place.
The agricultural revolution.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


21. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
CBR and CDR.
Babylonian clay tablets.
MDCs
Stayed around zero.


22. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
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 shoots up like a rocket ship.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


23. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Zero duh fatso.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


24. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Yangtze and Huang.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


25. What is scale?

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26. What is demography?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


27. What is the world's most populous country?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The science of map-making.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
China.


28. What is GPS?

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29. Define the medical revolution.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The demographic transition.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relocation and expansion.


30. What is CDR?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The industrial revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


31. What is pattern?
1.2%
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


32. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Eratosthenes.
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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


33. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The medical revolution.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Around the 1950s.


34. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
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 specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


35. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The demographic transition.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Hearths.


36. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
1.2%
Portuguese.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


37. What is a toponym?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
1.2%
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The name given to a place on Earth.


38. What is space-time compression?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
80 million
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


39. What is expansion diffusion?

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40. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Florida.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


41. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Around the 1950s.


42. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
MDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Dutch.


43. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The medical revolution.
The science of map-making.


44. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Eratosthenes.
The demographic transition.
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


45. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


46. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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47. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


48. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Portuguese.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
1.2%
Stayed around zero.


49. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Spatial association.
The medical revolution.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


50. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The industrial revolution.