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AP Human Geography

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1. What is a map?

2. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The agricultural revolution.
The Netherlands.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

3. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.

4. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The medical revolution.

5. What is GPS?

6. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

7. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Portuguese.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

8. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Hearths.

9. What is GMT?
Dutch.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

10. What is density?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
MDCs

11. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Around the 1950s.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

12. What is hierarchical diffusion?
1/5.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The agricultural revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

13. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
It declines.
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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

14. What is remote sensing?

15. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
LDCs
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Zero duh fatso.

16. What is expansion diffusion?

17. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Hearths.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dutch.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

18. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The medical revolution.
Stayed around zero.

19. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Relocation and expansion.

20. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
China.
MDCs
CBR and CDR.

21. What is a place?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

22. What is situation?
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.
The medical revolution.
The location of a place relative to other places.

23. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
- Improved medical technologies ensure newborns to live a full life - so parents will have less. - People are more likely to work in offices or shops rather than in farms - so they don't need lots of kids to help with chores on the farm.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Florida.

24. What is IMR?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

25. What is ecumene?

26. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Eratosthenes.
The frequency with which something occurs.

27. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

28. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
- Improved medical technologies ensure newborns to live a full life - so parents will have less. - People are more likely to work in offices or shops rather than in farms - so they don't need lots of kids to help with chores on the farm.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

29. What is environmental determinism?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The frequency with which something occurs.

30. What is space-time compression?
The agricultural revolution.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Relocation and expansion.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

31. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Dutch.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

32. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

33. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Aristotle.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The industrial revolution.

34. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

35. What is relocation diffusion?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
1.2%

36. What is a mental map?

37. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It declines.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

38. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Florida.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

39. What is concentration?

40. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It declines.
The first.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

41. What is contagious diffusion?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

42. What is site?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The physical character of a place.
The agricultural revolution.

43. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
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.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

44. Factors with similar distributions have what?
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.
Spatial association.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
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.

45. What is scale?

46. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Hearths.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Around the 1950s.

47. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

48. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The demographic transition.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Aristotle.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

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

50. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
LDCs
The medical revolution.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Aristotle.