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AP Human Geography

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1. Parallel
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The science of map-making.

2. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Yangtze and Huang.

3. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
1.2%
China.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

4. What is a formal region?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Around the 1950s.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

5. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
China.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The demographic transition.

6. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Hearths.
The first.

7. How is NIR in stage 3?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
It declines.

8. What is CDR?
1/5.
The science of map-making.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

9. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
1/5.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

10. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Spatial association.
The location of a place relative to other places.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
MDCs

11. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

12. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
1/5.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

13. What is contagious diffusion?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
CBR and CDR.
Spatial association.

14. What is remote sensing?

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15. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
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 spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
MDCs
Around the 1950s.

16. What is cultural landscape?
Stayed around zero.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

17. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

18. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The demographic transition.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

19. Define the medical revolution.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The medical revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

20. What is stimulus diffusion?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Dutch.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

21. What is space-time compression?
Yangtze and Huang.
The demographic transition.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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.

22. What is overpopulation?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Hearths.
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.

23. What is life expectancy?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.
Yangtze and Huang.

24. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Florida.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

25. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Zero duh fatso.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

26. What is the International Date Line?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The Netherlands.
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.

27. 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.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The industrial revolution.
It declines.

28. What is a map?

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29. What is cultural ecology?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

30. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The science of map-making.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

31. What is demography?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Portuguese.

32. What is physiological density?
China.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.

33. What is ecumene?

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34. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
CBR and CDR.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Spatial association.

35. What is a region?
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.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

36. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
1/5.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

37. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
1.2%

38. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
LDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The frequency with which something occurs.

39. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Around the 1950s.

40. What is NIR?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

41. What is distribution?
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 arrangement of a feature in a space.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

42. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The Netherlands.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

43. What countries does the South Asian region include?
MDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The name given to a place on Earth.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

44. What is density?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Eratosthenes.

45. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The demographic transition.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

46. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Florida.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Spatial association.

47. What is concentration?

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48. What is site?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The physical character of a place.
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.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

49. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

50. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Babylonian clay tablets.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
MDCs