AP Human Geography

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1. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
MDCs
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


2. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
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.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as 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 arrangement of a feature in a space.


3. What is a map?

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4. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Portuguese.
MDCs
1.2%
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


5. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The Netherlands.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Zero duh fatso.


6. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The first.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


7. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
1/5.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Portuguese.


8. What is scale?

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9. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Around the 1950s.


10. What are resources?
Babylonian clay tablets.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Eratosthenes.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


11. What is expansion diffusion?

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12. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
China.
LDCs
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


13. What is ecumene?

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14. What is CDR?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


15. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Relocation and expansion.
Around the 1950s.


16. What is culture?
Zero duh fatso.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


17. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The name given to a place on Earth.
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.


18. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


19. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
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.
LDCs


20. What is diffusion?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


21. What is cultural ecology?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


22. What is distance decay?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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 number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


23. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
1/5.
Zero duh fatso.
Portuguese.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


24. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The demographic transition.


25. What is GPS?

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26. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Hearths.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


27. What is environmental determinism?
Eratosthenes.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


28. Define the agricultural revolution.
MDCs
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


29. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


30. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Florida.


31. 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.
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 new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


32. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Portuguese.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


33. What is location?

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34. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Stayed around zero.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


35. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The demographic transition.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


36. What is remote sensing?

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

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38. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
LDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


39. Define the medical revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


40. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Aristotle.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


41. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


42. What is the International Date Line?
Hearths.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Aristotle.


43. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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44. What is contagious diffusion?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
China.


45. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The frequency with which something occurs.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


46. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Around the 1950s.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


47. What is a functional region?
The industrial revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relocation and expansion.


48. What is the world's most populous country?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
80 million
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
China.


49. What was the industrial revolution?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


50. What is overpopulation?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The physical character of a place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.