AP Human Geography

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1. What is a mental map?

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2. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Relocation and expansion.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


3. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Aristotle.
LDCs
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


4. Factors with similar distributions have what?
80 million
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Spatial association.
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.


5. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Relocation and expansion.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
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.


6. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Florida.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


7. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Zero duh fatso.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


8. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


9. What is projection?

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10. What is GIS?
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.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The location of a place relative to other places.


11. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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12. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


13. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Hearths.
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.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


14. What is distribution?
80 million
The science of map-making.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


15. What is doubling time?
1/5.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


16. What is stimulus diffusion?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The Netherlands.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


17. What is contagious diffusion?
The agricultural revolution.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Around the 1950s.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


18. What is space-time compression?
Around the 1950s.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


19. What is remote sensing?

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20. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


21. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


22. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Portuguese.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Florida.
1.2%


23. What is situation?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Aristotle.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


24. Parallel
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Zero duh fatso.


25. What is demography?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


26. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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27. What is arithmetic density?
The Netherlands.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


28. What is expansion diffusion?

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29. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The frequency with which something occurs.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The location of a place relative to other places.
German Vladimir Koppen.


30. What is concentration?

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31. What is agricultural density?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


32. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


33. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


34. What is possibilism?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Portuguese.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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.


35. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The physical character of a place.
MDCs
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.


36. What is scale?

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37. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Stayed around zero.
The medical revolution.
LDCs
The demographic transition.


38. What are connections?
Florida.
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 spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


39. What is physiological density?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


40. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
MDCs
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Yangtze and Huang.


41. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


42. 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.
LDCs
Relocation and expansion.
The first.


43. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


44. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The industrial revolution.
Stayed around zero.
The medical revolution.


45. What is site?
LDCs
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
MDCs
The physical character of a place.


46. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Babylonian clay tablets.


47. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


48. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Florida.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hearths.


49. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The demographic transition.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


50. What was the industrial revolution?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.