AP Human Geography

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1. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


2. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Yangtze and Huang.


3. How many countries are still in stage 1?
LDCs
Zero duh fatso.
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 name given to a place on Earth.


4. What is contagious diffusion?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
CBR and CDR.
Relocation and expansion.


5. What is demography?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The medical revolution.


6. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The Netherlands.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
LDCs
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


7. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
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.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


8. What is IMR?
Florida.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


9. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


10. What is environmental determinism?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


11. What is physiological density?
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.
Dutch.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


12. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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13. What is ecumene?

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14. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Around the 1950s.


15. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
1.2%
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


16. What is relocation diffusion?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


17. What is scale?

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18. What is GMT?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


19. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Yangtze and Huang.
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.


20. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
1.2%
It declines.
Dutch.
Hearths.


21. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
1/5.
Aristotle.
The first.


22. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


23. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
It declines.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


24. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


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

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26. What is CDR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
It declines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


27. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The Netherlands.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Spatial association.
The medical revolution.


28. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


29. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Hearths.
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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


30. What is a place?
Zero duh fatso.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Dutch.


31. How is NIR in stage 3?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It declines.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


32. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Florida.
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.
It declines.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


33. Define the agricultural revolution.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


34. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The Netherlands.
80 million


35. What is life expectancy?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The location of a place relative to other places.


36. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The name given to a place on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Dutch.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


37. What is cultural landscape?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


38. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


39. What is GIS?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Relocation and expansion.


40. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
China.


41. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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42. What is globalization?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


43. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Florida.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Stayed around zero.


44. What is a region?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


45. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
LDCs
The industrial revolution.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


46. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


47. What is possibilism?
Zero duh fatso.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
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.


48. What is expansion diffusion?

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49. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The frequency with which something occurs.


50. What is stimulus diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.