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AP Human Geography

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1. What is pattern?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The Netherlands.

2. Factors with similar distributions have what?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Spatial association.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

3. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
It declines.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

4. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
1/5.
The demographic transition.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The Netherlands.

5. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Aristotle.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

6. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.
1/5.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

7. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Florida.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

8. What is GMT?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
- 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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

9. What is IMR?
LDCs
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

10. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relocation and expansion.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

11. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Florida.
China.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

12. What is density?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The frequency with which something occurs.
MDCs

13. What is demography?
The Netherlands.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CBR and CDR.
Babylonian clay tablets.

14. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It declines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

15. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
1/5.

16. What is space-time compression?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

17. What is overpopulation?
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.
The frequency with which something occurs.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

18. What was the industrial revolution?
Aristotle.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

19. What is expansion diffusion?

20. What is diffusion?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

21. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

22. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Hearths.
Eratosthenes.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

23. What is stimulus diffusion?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

24. How many countries are still in stage 1?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Zero duh fatso.

25. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

26. What is scale?

27. What is a toponym?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Eratosthenes.
The name given to a place on Earth.

28. What is life expectancy?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

29. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
The physical character of a place.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
It declines.

30. What is contagious diffusion?
The Netherlands.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Relocation and expansion.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

31. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Eratosthenes.
Aristotle.

32. What is situation?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The Netherlands.
The location of a place relative to other places.
1.2%

33. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The extent of a feature's spread of 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.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Around the 1950s.

34. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Around the 1950s.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

35. What is agricultural density?
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It declines.

36. What is site?
- 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.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The physical character of a place.
MDCs

37. What is a formal region?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
It declines.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

38. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The frequency with which something occurs.

39. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
LDCs
Stayed around zero.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

40. What is physiological density?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

41. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

42. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
CBR and CDR.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

43. What is NIR?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

44. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Stayed around zero.
MDCs
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

45. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Around the 1950s.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Babylonian clay tablets.

46. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

47. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
China.
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.

48. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

49. What is GPS?

50. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.