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AP Human Geography

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1. What is site?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.
LDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

2. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

3. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
MDCs
The medical revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

4. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

5. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

6. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
The first.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Zero duh fatso.

7. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
German Vladimir Koppen.

8. What is the world's most populous country?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
China.

9. What is ecumene?

10. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births 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.

11. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Zero duh fatso.
Relocation and expansion.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

12. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Babylonian clay tablets.

13. Parallel
Eratosthenes.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
MDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

14. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Dutch.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

15. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

16. What is cultural ecology?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Florida.
The physical character of a place.

17. What is distance decay?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

18. What is overpopulation?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

19. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

20. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

21. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
1/5.

22. What is demography?
The first.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

23. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The agricultural revolution.
The Netherlands.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

24. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
LDCs
Total number of people divided by total land area.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

25. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

26. What is GPS?

27. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

28. What is a region?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

29. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
- 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.
Florida.
China.

30. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
It declines.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The science of map-making.

31. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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

33. What is a toponym?
The first.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The name given to a place on Earth.

34. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

35. What is doubling time?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

36. What countries does the East Asian region include?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

37. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
1/5.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Yangtze and Huang.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

38. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
LDCs
The medical revolution.

39. What is distribution?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

40. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
1.2%
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

41. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.

42. What are connections?
1/5.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

43. What is a formal region?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

44. What is agricultural density?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

45. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
1/5.

46. Define the agricultural revolution.
Hearths.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

47. What is location?

48. What is CDR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

49. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

50. What is a functional region?
The first.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
An area organized around a node or focal point.