AP Human Geography

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1. What is contagious diffusion?
The Netherlands.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


2. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
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.


3. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Yangtze and Huang.
Aristotle.


4. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
LDCs
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The location of a place relative to other places.


5. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


6. What is a functional region?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
LDCs


7. What is scale?

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8. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
LDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


9. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
It declines.
LDCs


10. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


11. What is remote sensing?

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12. What is cultural landscape?
The physical character of a place.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The first.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


13. What is IMR?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The medical revolution.


14. What is a toponym?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Florida.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


15. What is location?

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16. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Eratosthenes.


17. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
CBR and CDR.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


18. What is a mental map?

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19. What is projection?

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20. What is agricultural density?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


21. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Portuguese.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
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.


22. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


23. Define the medical revolution.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
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.


24. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


25. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
- 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.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Florida.


26. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
LDCs
Stayed around zero.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


27. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


28. What countries does the East Asian region include?
MDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


29. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


30. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
China.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


31. What is GIS?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


32. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Florida.
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.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


33. What is space-time compression?
80 million
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


34. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Yangtze and Huang.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


35. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
German Vladimir Koppen.


36. How is NIR in stage 3?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It declines.


37. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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38. What is expansion diffusion?

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39. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Around the 1950s.


40. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


41. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The agricultural revolution.
Zero duh fatso.


42. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Zero duh fatso.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Yangtze and Huang.


43. What is a place?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
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.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


44. What is the world's most populous country?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
China.


45. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


46. What is stimulus diffusion?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Aristotle.


47. What is cartography?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Stayed around zero.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The science of map-making.


48. What is diffusion?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


49. What is a region?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
1/5.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


50. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
80 million
Eratosthenes.