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AP Human Geography

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1. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

2. What is site?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The physical character of a place.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

3. What is concentration?

4. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
- 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.

5. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Zero duh fatso.
Relocation and expansion.

6. What is scale?

7. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
80 million
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

8. What is globalization?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
1/5.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

9. What is a formal region?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

10. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
80 million
Florida.
LDCs

11. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

12. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Yangtze and Huang.

13. What is cultural ecology?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.

14. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The demographic transition.

15. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Aristotle.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

16. How is NIR in stage 3?
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
It declines.

17. What is overpopulation?
The first.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Portuguese.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

18. Define the agricultural revolution.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
MDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

19. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The location of a place relative to other places.
1.2%
CBR and CDR.
Zero duh fatso.

20. What is cartography?
Relocation and expansion.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The science of map-making.

21. What is ecumene?

22. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Aristotle.
The demographic transition.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

23. What is CBR?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

24. Factors with similar distributions have what?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Spatial association.

25. What is physiological density?
The medical revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

26. What is GMT?
Hearths.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

27. What is the International Date Line?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It declines.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

28. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

29. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

30. What is NIR?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

31. What is contagious diffusion?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The industrial revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

32. What is location?

33. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
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.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

34. What is relocation diffusion?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

35. What is hierarchical diffusion?
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.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

36. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

37. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It declines.
The industrial revolution.
1.2%

38. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Spatial association.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

39. What is diffusion?
The Netherlands.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

40. What is life expectancy?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

41. What was the industrial revolution?
The demographic transition.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Spatial association.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

42. What is a place?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
LDCs
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

43. What is distance decay?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Hearths.

44. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
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.

45. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The location of a place relative to other places.
LDCs
CBR and CDR.

46. What countries does the East Asian region include?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

47. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
It declines.
Spatial association.
Eratosthenes.

48. What is possibilism?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The science of map-making.
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 rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

49. What are connections?
Spatial association.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

50. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The first domestication of animals and plants.