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AP Human Geography

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1. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The location of a place relative to other places.

2. What is arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
China.
The total number of people 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.

3. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

4. What is NIR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Stayed around zero.

5. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

6. Define the agricultural revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

7. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
LDCs
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Florida.

8. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Relocation and expansion.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

9. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The first.
The demographic transition.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

10. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Eratosthenes.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

11. What is CDR?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

12. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

13. What is GMT?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
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.

14. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

15. What is cultural ecology?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

16. What is density?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Dutch.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.

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

18. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs
Eratosthenes.

19. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

20. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
China.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hearths.

21. What is a toponym?
The industrial revolution.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
MDCs
The name given to a place on Earth.

22. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Stayed around zero.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

23. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The industrial revolution.
It declines.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Hearths.

24. What is demography?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Hearths.

25. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The agricultural revolution.
Eratosthenes.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

26. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relocation and expansion.

27. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Spatial association.
Around the 1950s.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CBR and CDR.

28. What is concentration?

29. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

30. What is contagious diffusion?
1/5.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Relocation and expansion.

31. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The Netherlands.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

32. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The medical revolution.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

33. What is remote sensing?

34. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The physical character of a place.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

35. What is location?

36. What is environmental determinism?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

37. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Hearths.
Florida.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The medical revolution.

38. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

39. What is culture?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The medical revolution.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

40. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

41. What are connections?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Dutch.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

42. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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.

43. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
LDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The science of map-making.

44. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

45. What is stimulus diffusion?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

46. What is cultural landscape?
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.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

47. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

48. What is GPS?

49. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
LDCs
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
MDCs

50. What is pattern?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
MDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The medical revolution.