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AP Human Geography

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1. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Florida.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

2. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The Netherlands.
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.

3. What is possibilism?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
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.
CBR and CDR.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

4. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

5. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Yangtze and Huang.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

6. What is Meridian?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Yangtze and Huang.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

7. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The physical character of a place.

8. What is site?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The physical character of a place.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

9. What is projection?

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10. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

11. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

12. What is a polder?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Eratosthenes.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

13. Parallel
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

14. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Zero duh fatso.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

15. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
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.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

16. What is NIR?
Portuguese.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Hearths.

17. What is TFR?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Relocation and expansion.

18. What is agricultural density?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
China.
1/5.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

19. What is demography?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
1.2%
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

20. What is a place?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

21. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

22. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Hearths.
1.2%
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

23. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Portuguese.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

24. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Eratosthenes.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

25. What is concentration?

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26. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The agricultural revolution.

27. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The first.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

28. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The physical character of a place.

29. What is CDR?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Hearths.
The Netherlands.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

30. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The demographic transition.
The medical revolution.
LDCs
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

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

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32. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

33. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The industrial revolution.
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.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

34. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
Stayed around zero.
The agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

35. What is the International Date Line?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The agricultural revolution.

36. What is relocation diffusion?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
80 million
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

37. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Aristotle.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

38. What is diffusion?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

39. What are connections?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

40. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The physical character of a place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

41. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The first.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

42. What is life expectancy?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The first.

43. What is culture?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

44. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Spatial association.
MDCs
80 million
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

45. What is a formal region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

46. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
CBR and CDR.
LDCs
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

47. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Yangtze and Huang.
The location of a place relative to other places.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

48. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

49. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

50. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
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 method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.