AP Human Geography

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1. What is a place?
The medical revolution.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


2. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
It declines.


3. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The medical revolution.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Dutch.


4. What is projection?

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5. What is CBR?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


6. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


7. What is ecumene?

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8. What is stimulus diffusion?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


9. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
Aristotle.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


10. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Around the 1950s.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


11. What is agricultural density?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The total number of farmers 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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


12. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The first.
The Netherlands.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


13. What is NIR?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The industrial revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


14. What are resources?
Portuguese.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.


15. What is the world's most populous country?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
MDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
China.


16. Define the medical revolution.
The name given to a place on Earth.
1.2%
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


17. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Hearths.


18. What is distribution?
It declines.
The medical revolution.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
MDCs


19. What is a formal region?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


20. What is globalization?
The name given to a place on Earth.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Spatial association.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


21. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Yangtze and Huang.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


22. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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23. What is density?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Yangtze and Huang.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The frequency with which something occurs.


24. What is a functional region?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Zero duh fatso.


25. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Eratosthenes.
The demographic transition.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


26. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The Netherlands.
The location of a place relative to other places.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


27. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Dutch.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.


28. What is a region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
German Vladimir Koppen.


29. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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 something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


30. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Eratosthenes.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


31. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
China.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
1.2%


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

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33. What is TFR?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


34. What are connections?
The Netherlands.
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.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


35. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
LDCs
The name given to a place on Earth.
The science of map-making.
The Netherlands.


36. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The Netherlands.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


37. What is overpopulation?
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 number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Relocation and expansion.


38. What is a polder?
Yangtze and Huang.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


39. What is cartography?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The science of map-making.


40. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Dutch.
Hearths.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
CBR and CDR.


41. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
1/5.
MDCs
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


42. What is possibilism?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Eratosthenes.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
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.


43. What is cultural ecology?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
LDCs
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


44. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Hearths.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


45. What is overall population like during stage 3?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


46. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The medical revolution.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Relocation and expansion.


47. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Florida.


48. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Florida.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


49. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The Netherlands.
LDCs
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


50. What is remote sensing?

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