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AP Human Geography

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1. What is physiological density?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
1/5.

2. What is NIR?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

3. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
China.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The medical revolution.

4. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

5. What is situation?
It declines.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

6. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The demographic transition.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

7. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
It declines.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The name given to a place on Earth.

8. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
80 million

9. What is location?

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10. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The location of a place relative to other places.
1.2%
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

11. What is a polder?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

12. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Yangtze and Huang.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

13. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Relocation and expansion.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

14. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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15. What is GMT?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

16. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The demographic transition.
Hearths.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

17. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

18. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The frequency with which something occurs.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
80 million

19. What is relocation diffusion?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

20. What is CDR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

21. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Spatial association.

22. What is overpopulation?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Portuguese.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

23. What is diffusion?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

24. What is globalization?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

25. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Zero duh fatso.

26. What is demography?
Eratosthenes.
LDCs
The scientific study of population characteristics.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

27. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
MDCs
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
LDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

28. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The demographic transition.

29. What was the industrial revolution?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The industrial revolution.

30. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

31. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The industrial revolution.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

32. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dutch.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

33. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Spatial association.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

34. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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35. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The agricultural revolution.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

36. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Portuguese.

37. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The physical character of a place.

38. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

39. How many countries are still in stage 1?
China.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.

40. What is space-time compression?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Dutch.
CBR and CDR.

41. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Spatial association.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

42. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Stayed around zero.
Babylonian clay tablets.
China.

43. What is a region?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The physical character of a place.

44. What is possibilism?
Aristotle.
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.
Portuguese.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

45. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

46. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

47. What is a formal region?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
LDCs
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

48. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first.
Relocation and expansion.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

49. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dutch.

50. For what three reasons is the study of population critically important right now?

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