AP Human Geography

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1. What is site?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The physical character of a place.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


2. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
LDCs
MDCs
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


3. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


4. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
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.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


5. Define the medical revolution.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


6. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
The demographic transition.
LDCs
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


7. What is a functional region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
MDCs
The medical revolution.


8. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
LDCs


9. Define the agricultural revolution.
CBR and CDR.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
80 million


10. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Zero duh fatso.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The industrial revolution.


11. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The medical revolution.
1/5.


12. What is a map?

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13. Parallel
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


14. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Around the 1950s.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
1/5.


15. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
CBR and CDR.
The industrial revolution.


16. What is a polder?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
1.2%
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


17. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The location of a place relative to other places.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


18. What is TFR?
Eratosthenes.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


19. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


20. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


21. What is distance decay?
LDCs
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.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


22. What is diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The Netherlands.
The location of a place relative to other places.


23. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


24. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


25. What is projection?

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26. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The location of a place relative to other places.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


27. What is arithmetic density?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


28. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Babylonian clay tablets.
MDCs


29. What is the International Date Line?
Around the 1950s.
Stayed around zero.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


30. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
1/5.
The Netherlands.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Aristotle.


31. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The industrial revolution.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
China.


32. What is remote sensing?

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33. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Florida.
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


34. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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35. What is GPS?

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36. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Around the 1950s.


37. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


38. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
1.2%
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The location of a place relative to other places.


39. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Yangtze and Huang.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The science of map-making.


40. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


41. What is life expectancy?
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.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


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

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43. What is IMR?
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.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


44. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
China.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


45. What is GIS?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Around the 1950s.
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.


46. What is ecumene?

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47. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
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 reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The first.


48. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


49. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
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.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The agricultural revolution.


50. What is environmental determinism?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.