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1. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


2. What is remote sensing?

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3. 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.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The physical character of a place.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


4. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


5. What is ecumene?

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6. What is contagious diffusion?
The name given to a place on Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


7. What is scale?

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8. What is CBR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


9. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The name given to a place on Earth.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1/5.


10. What is concentration?

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11. What is culture?
1.2%
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The demographic transition.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


12. What is globalization?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


13. What is agricultural density?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


14. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Florida.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


15. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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16. What are connections?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Around the 1950s.


17. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Around the 1950s.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
China.


18. What is demography?
The physical character of a place.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.


19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
1/5.
The industrial revolution.
MDCs


20. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The industrial revolution.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


21. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The name given to a place on Earth.


22. How is NIR in stage 3?
The medical revolution.
The physical character of a place.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
It declines.


23. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Around the 1950s.
Relocation and expansion.


24. What is NIR?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
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.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


25. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


26. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The first domestication of animals and plants.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


27. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The agricultural revolution.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


28. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


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

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30. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Hearths.
Portuguese.


31. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Florida.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


32. What is stimulus diffusion?
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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Spatial association.


33. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The physical character of a place.


34. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hearths.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Zero duh fatso.


35. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


36. What is a map?

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37. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Dutch.
Yangtze and Huang.


38. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.


39. What is possibilism?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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 physical character of a place.


40. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Stayed around zero.


41. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


42. What is environmental determinism?
The industrial revolution.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


43. What is the world's most populous country?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
China.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


44. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
80 million
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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.


45. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The science of map-making.
Yangtze and Huang.


46. What is a functional region?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The demographic transition.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
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.


47. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
German Vladimir Koppen.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


48. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Stayed around zero.


49. What is GPS?

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50. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The first.