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AP Human Geography

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1. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Dutch.
The first.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

2. What is environmental determinism?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Relocation and expansion.

3. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
LDCs
1/5.
Zero duh fatso.

4. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
CBR and CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
LDCs

5. What is remote sensing?

6. What is GPS?

7. What is doubling time?
The Netherlands.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
- 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 spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

8. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
China.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

9. What is a polder?
Aristotle.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

10. What is a region?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Yangtze and Huang.

11. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Florida.
Stayed around zero.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

12. What is a formal region?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The Netherlands.

13. What is possibilism?
The Netherlands.
It declines.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

14. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Dutch.

15. What is location?

16. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Stayed around zero.
Florida.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The Netherlands.

17. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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

19. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Zero duh fatso.
China.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Relocation and expansion.

20. What is site?
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.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The physical character of a place.

21. What is a map?

22. What is relocation diffusion?
The demographic transition.
The science of map-making.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

23. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Hearths.
1.2%
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

24. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

25. What countries does the East Asian region include?
1.2%
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
1/5.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

26. What is culture?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
1/5.

27. What is pattern?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The demographic transition.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

28. What was the industrial revolution?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
- 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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

29. What are connections?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The first.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

30. What is a mental map?

31. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Relocation and expansion.

32. How is NIR in stage 3?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
- 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.
It declines.
Dutch.

33. What is the International Date Line?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

34. What is TFR?
Aristotle.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

35. 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
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

36. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

37. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
LDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

38. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
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.

39. What is situation?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The agricultural revolution.

40. What is concentration?

41. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

42. What is life expectancy?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The physical character of a place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The medical revolution.

43. What is overall population like during stage 3?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
It declines.

44. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The medical revolution.
Stayed around zero.
The industrial revolution.

45. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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 substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Stayed around zero.

46. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

47. What is contagious diffusion?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.

48. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Spatial association.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

49. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Aristotle.
The demographic transition.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

50. 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 reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
1/5.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.