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AP Human Geography

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1. What is space-time compression?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
80 million
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

2. What is projection?

3. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
CBR and CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs

4. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

5. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hearths.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

6. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The first.
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.

7. What is remote sensing?

8. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The first.

9. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The agricultural revolution.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

10. What is contagious diffusion?
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.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

11. What are resources?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Portuguese.

12. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

13. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
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.

14. What is CDR?
The science of map-making.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

15. What is site?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The physical character of a place.
The agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

16. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Yangtze and Huang.
1/5.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

17. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The agricultural revolution.

18. What is a region?
It declines.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

19. What is density?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The medical revolution.
The first.

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

21. What is pattern?
1/5.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

22. Define the agricultural revolution.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

23. What is a polder?
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.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

24. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Relocation and expansion.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

25. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Eratosthenes.
Spatial association.
1.2%
LDCs

26. What is GIS?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

27. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
MDCs
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

28. What is overall population like during stage 3?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

29. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

30. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

31. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

32. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
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.
Florida.

33. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The total number of farmers 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.
Eratosthenes.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

34. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
China.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Babylonian clay tablets.

35. What is cultural ecology?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

36. What is location?

37. What is overpopulation?
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.
Aristotle.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

38. What is agricultural density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

39. Define the medical revolution.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Hearths.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

40. What is life expectancy?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

41. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
The first.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

42. What is a place?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Around the 1950s.

43. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
China.
Stayed around zero.
Dutch.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

44. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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.
Around the 1950s.
Eratosthenes.

45. What is globalization?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The medical revolution.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

46. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Aristotle.
80 million
LDCs

47. What is IMR?
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.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

48. What is ecumene?

49. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The industrial revolution.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

50. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The agricultural revolution.
- 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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.