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AP Human Geography

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1. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The agricultural revolution.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
It declines.

2. What is distance decay?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
MDCs
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

3. What is physiological density?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The first.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

4. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The medical revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Aristotle.
The physical character of a place.

5. What is density?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The frequency with which something occurs.

6. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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 geographic study of human-environment relations.

7. What is diffusion?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Eratosthenes.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

8. What is CBR?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
LDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

9. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
- 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.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

10. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Aristotle.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

11. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Florida.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

12. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

13. What is cultural ecology?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

14. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The medical revolution.
The agricultural revolution.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Spatial association.

15. What is the world's most populous country?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
China.
MDCs
CBR and CDR.

16. What is contagious diffusion?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Stayed around zero.
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.

17. What is GPS?

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18. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The name given to a place on Earth.

19. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

20. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The Netherlands.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
MDCs

21. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

22. What is projection?

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23. What is a region?
80 million
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The frequency with which something occurs.

24. 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.
LDCs
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
China.

25. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The first.
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.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

26. Define the agricultural revolution.
It declines.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

27. What is a mental map?

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28. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
80 million
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Aristotle.

29. What is concentration?

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30. What is environmental determinism?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The physical character of a place.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

31. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Portuguese.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

32. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
German Vladimir Koppen.

33. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hearths.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

34. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
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.

35. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

36. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

37. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The science of map-making.
- 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 method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

38. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The medical revolution.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.

39. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Dutch.
China.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

40. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
1/5.

41. 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.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
LDCs

42. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
Around the 1950s.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

43. What is doubling time?
80 million
Aristotle.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

44. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The physical character of a place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Florida.

45. What are connections?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

46. What is a polder?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Florida.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

47. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

48. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

49. What is cultural landscape?
LDCs
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

50. What is space-time compression?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
China.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.