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AP Human Geography

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1. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Portuguese.
Eratosthenes.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

2. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
MDCs
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

3. What is site?
Spatial association.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The physical character of a place.
Relocation and expansion.

4. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Dutch.
Zero duh fatso.

5. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

6. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

7. What is distribution?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

8. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

9. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The science of map-making.
Stayed around zero.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

10. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

11. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
1.2%
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

12. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
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.

13. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.

14. What is environmental determinism?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
LDCs
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Hearths.

15. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

16. What is concentration?

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17. What is cultural ecology?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Hearths.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

18. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
MDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

19. Define the agricultural revolution.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

20. What is a functional region?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Aristotle.

21. What is GMT?
80 million
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

22. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

23. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Eratosthenes.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

24. What is arithmetic density?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

25. Parallel
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

26. What is a mental map?

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27. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

28. What is the International Date Line?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
German Vladimir Koppen.

29. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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30. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

31. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
LDCs
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

32. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

33. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The science of map-making.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
1.2%

34. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
80 million

35. What is overpopulation?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
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 average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

36. What is space-time compression?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The first.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

37. What is Meridian?
Spatial association.
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

38. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The industrial revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

39. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The name given to a place on Earth.

40. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
LDCs
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

41. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
1.2%
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The medical revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

42. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

43. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Around the 1950s.

44. What is GPS?

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45. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
1/5.

46. What is culture?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The first.

47. What is a polder?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
1/5.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

48. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

49. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
LDCs
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

50. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.