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AP Human Geography

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1. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
China.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The agricultural revolution.
1/5.

2. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

3. What is the world's most populous country?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
China.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

4. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

5. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Dutch.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.

6. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Aristotle.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

7. What is a formal region?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

8. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Relocation and expansion.
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.

9. What is distribution?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
MDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
80 million

10. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

11. What is the International Date Line?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

12. 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.
Eratosthenes.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

13. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The name given to a place on Earth.

14. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

15. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The agricultural revolution.
Spatial association.
Eratosthenes.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

16. What is a polder?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Zero duh fatso.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The medical revolution.

17. What was the industrial revolution?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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.

18. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
German Vladimir Koppen.

19. What is relocation diffusion?
China.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
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 idea through the physical movements of people.

20. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
1.2%
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
- 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.

21. What is scale?

22. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Stayed around zero.

23. Parallel
LDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

24. What is a map?

25. What countries does the South Asian region include?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

26. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
80 million
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
1/5.

27. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Stayed around zero.

28. How is NIR in stage 3?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
It declines.
The frequency with which something occurs.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

29. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
It declines.
1/5.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Yangtze and Huang.

30. What are connections?
Eratosthenes.
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.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

31. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

32. What is space-time compression?
Hearths.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
1.2%

33. What is a functional region?
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.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

34. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Dutch.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

35. What is expansion diffusion?

36. What is a toponym?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The agricultural revolution.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The name given to a place on Earth.

37. What is location?

38. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
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.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

39. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
LDCs
MDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

40. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Stayed around zero.

41. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
LDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

42. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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.

43. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Eratosthenes.
80 million
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

44. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
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.

45. What is density?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Florida.
The science of map-making.
The frequency with which something occurs.

46. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
- 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 first.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

47. Define the agricultural revolution.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Stayed around zero.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

48. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

49. What is NIR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The medical revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

50. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Spatial association.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.