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AP Human Geography

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1. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
80 million
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

2. What is arithmetic density?
The demographic transition.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Spatial association.

3. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
1/5.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Florida.

4. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

5. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
- 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.
80 million
Yangtze and Huang.

6. What is a polder?
Spatial association.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The name given to a place on Earth.
It declines.

7. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Dutch.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Stayed around zero.

8. What is location?

9. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Eratosthenes.

10. What is overpopulation?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The physical character of a place.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

11. What is a mental map?

12. What is site?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The physical character of a place.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

13. What are resources?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Portuguese.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

14. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

15. What is ecumene?

16. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
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.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

17. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
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.

18. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
Relocation and expansion.
Zero duh fatso.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

19. What is Meridian?
The agricultural revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

20. What is space-time compression?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

21. What is CDR?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The first.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It declines.

22. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
LDCs
Yangtze and Huang.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

23. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Around the 1950s.

24. What is a region?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

25. What is IMR?
CBR and CDR.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Portuguese.

26. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

27. What is projection?

28. What is expansion diffusion?

29. What is life expectancy?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Portuguese.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

30. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
LDCs
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

31. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

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

33. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The frequency with which something occurs.

34. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

35. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
China.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

36. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The demographic transition.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

37. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

38. What is cartography?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The science of map-making.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

39. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
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.

40. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Zero duh fatso.
Stayed around zero.

41. What is diffusion?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

42. What is globalization?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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 arrangement of a feature in a space.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

43. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Stayed around zero.
Relocation and expansion.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

44. How many countries are still in stage 1?
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.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

45. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The demographic transition.

46. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Portuguese.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
MDCs

47. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The first.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

48. Define the medical revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

49. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The first.
Portuguese.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

50. What is scale?