AP Human Geography

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1. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Around the 1950s.
China.
80 million
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


2. What is remote sensing?

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3. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Dutch.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


4. How is NIR in stage 3?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Relocation and expansion.
It declines.
80 million


5. What is demography?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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 scientific study of population characteristics.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


6. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Yangtze and Huang.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
1.2%


7. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The science of map-making.


8. What is doubling time?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Spatial association.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


9. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The demographic transition.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


10. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
1/5.


11. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over 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.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


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

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13. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Eratosthenes.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


14. What is a map?

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15. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
1.2%
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
- 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.
Yangtze and Huang.


16. What is a toponym?
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.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


17. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


18. What is density?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Spatial association.


19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The medical revolution.
MDCs
Spatial association.


20. What is expansion diffusion?

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21. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


22. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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 body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
LDCs
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


23. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
German Vladimir Koppen.


24. What is cultural ecology?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


25. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


26. What are resources?
Hearths.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The physical character of a place.
The frequency with which something occurs.


27. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
Aristotle.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
1/5.


28. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Spatial association.
The first.


29. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Aristotle.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


30. What is projection?

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31. What is a region?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It declines.
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


32. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
German Vladimir Koppen.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
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.


33. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
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.


34. Define the agricultural 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.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


35. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The science of map-making.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


36. What is NIR?
1.2%
Zero duh fatso.
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.


37. What is cultural landscape?
CBR and CDR.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
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.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


38. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


39. What is a mental map?

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40. What is arithmetic density?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
1/5.


41. What is scale?

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42. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
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.


43. What is the International Date Line?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Relocation and expansion.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


44. What is ecumene?

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45. What is TFR?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


46. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


47. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


48. What is distribution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The industrial revolution.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


49. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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 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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


50. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Aristotle.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.