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AP Human Geography

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1. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
1/5.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
1.2%
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

2. What is projection?

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3. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The medical revolution.

4. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Spatial association.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

5. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Portuguese.

6. What is the world's most populous country?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
China.

7. 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 agricultural revolution.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

8. What countries does the East Asian region include?
It declines.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

9. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The demographic transition.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
LDCs

10. What is possibilism?
The industrial revolution.
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.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

11. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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12. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

13. What is a toponym?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

14. What are connections?
Aristotle.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

15. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

16. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.

17. What is diffusion?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

18. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Around the 1950s.

19. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Portuguese.
CBR and CDR.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

20. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
1.2%
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

21. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Portuguese.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

22. What is GIS?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Eratosthenes.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

23. What is a place?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Spatial association.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

24. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The Netherlands.
Babylonian clay tablets.

25. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The frequency with which something occurs.

26. What are resources?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

27. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Hearths.
The medical revolution.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

28. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
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.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

29. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
80 million
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
1/5.

30. What is environmental determinism?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

31. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a 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 relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
China.

32. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The location of a place relative to other places.

33. What is situation?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The medical revolution.
Babylonian clay tablets.

34. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
- 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.
LDCs
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The demographic transition.

35. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Spatial association.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

36. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The demographic transition.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Babylonian clay tablets.
MDCs

37. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Aristotle.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

38. What is Meridian?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

39. What is site?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Zero duh fatso.
The physical character of a place.
80 million

40. What is the International Date Line?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It declines.

41. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The science of map-making.
MDCs

42. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

43. What is doubling time?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Portuguese.

44. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

45. What is GPS?

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46. Define the medical revolution.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

47. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
1/5.

48. What is overpopulation?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
1/5.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

49. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Zero duh fatso.
It declines.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

50. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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