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AP Human Geography

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1. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The demographic transition.
Florida.
The industrial revolution.

2. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Dutch.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

3. What is space-time compression?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

4. How many countries are still in stage 1?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Dutch.
Zero duh fatso.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

5. 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.
Florida.
The physical character of a place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

6. How is NIR in stage 3?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The medical revolution.
It declines.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

7. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

8. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
LDCs
China.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

9. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
80 million
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

10. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.
Eratosthenes.
The physical character of a place.

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

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12. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The industrial revolution.
Aristotle.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

13. What is cartography?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Portuguese.
The science of map-making.

14. What is agricultural density?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

15. What is physiological density?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
- 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.
1.2%

16. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Dutch.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The Netherlands.
The frequency with which something occurs.

17. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Around the 1950s.
1.2%

18. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Zero duh fatso.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

19. What is arithmetic density?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
1/5.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

20. What is cultural landscape?
Eratosthenes.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Zero duh fatso.

21. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The science of map-making.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
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.

22. What is a place?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The agricultural revolution.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Around the 1950s.

23. What is concentration?

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24. What is life expectancy?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

25. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The medical revolution.
Spatial association.

26. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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27. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Stayed around zero.
Portuguese.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

28. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The demographic transition.

29. What is density?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The frequency with which something occurs.

30. What is possibilism?
Eratosthenes.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
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.
Portuguese.

31. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Yangtze and Huang.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The industrial revolution.

32. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

33. What is a toponym?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

34. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
80 million
Portuguese.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

35. What is a functional region?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

36. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Spatial association.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

37. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The Netherlands.
It declines.
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.
Dutch.

38. What is distribution?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The industrial revolution.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

39. What is situation?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The location of a place relative to other places.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
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.

40. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Around the 1950s.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

41. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The first.
Around the 1950s.

42. Define the agricultural revolution.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

43. What is globalization?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Relocation and expansion.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

44. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
1.2%
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

45. What is a map?

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46. What is site?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The physical character of a place.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

47. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Yangtze and Huang.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
German Vladimir Koppen.
80 million

48. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

49. What is Meridian?
Zero duh fatso.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Relocation and expansion.
- 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.

50. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
LDCs
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1/5.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.