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AP Human Geography

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1. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Hearths.
The agricultural revolution.

2. What is expansion diffusion?

3. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

4. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

5. What is a polder?
CBR and CDR.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

6. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
MDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

7. What is projection?

8. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Around the 1950s.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

9. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
1.2%
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The name given to a place on Earth.

10. What is overpopulation?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
80 million
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

11. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The first.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
- 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.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

12. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The medical revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

13. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
It declines.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

14. What is IMR?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

15. What is TFR?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
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.

16. What is space-time compression?
1/5.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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.

17. What are resources?
Stayed around zero.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
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.

18. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Hearths.

19. What is cultural ecology?
The science of map-making.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

20. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The demographic transition.
The location of a place relative to other places.

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

22. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Florida.
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

23. What is physiological density?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

24. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Stayed around zero.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The physical character of a place.

25. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

26. What is cartography?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The science of map-making.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

27. 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.
The demographic transition.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
German Vladimir Koppen.

28. What is scale?

29. What is life expectancy?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
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.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

30. What countries does the South Asian region include?
1/5.
Portuguese.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

31. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

32. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
Hearths.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
LDCs

33. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The science of map-making.

34. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The demographic transition.

35. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

36. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
- 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.
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.
The industrial revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

37. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Eratosthenes.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Yangtze and Huang.

38. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

39. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Dutch.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

40. What was the industrial revolution?
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.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

41. What is environmental determinism?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

42. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
Zero duh fatso.
The first.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

43. How is NIR in stage 3?
1.2%
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It declines.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

44. What is ecumene?

45. What is contagious diffusion?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

46. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
1/5.

47. What is a formal region?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Dutch.
The medical revolution.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Eratosthenes.

49. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The first.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

50. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Relocation and expansion.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.