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AP Human Geography

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1. What is doubling time?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The demographic transition.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

2. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
CBR and CDR.

3. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
LDCs
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Around the 1950s.

4. What is GIS?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

5. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The science of map-making.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

6. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The Netherlands.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
LDCs
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

7. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
Stayed around zero.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs

8. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
China.
LDCs
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

9. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The agricultural revolution.
The medical revolution.
- 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.
Yangtze and Huang.

10. What is a formal region?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
80 million

11. What is a polder?
The location of a place relative to other places.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

12. What is cultural ecology?
Stayed around zero.
The first.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
CBR and CDR.

13. What is a place?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

14. What is scale?

15. What is TFR?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

16. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
LDCs
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
- 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.

17. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

18. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The frequency with which something occurs.

19. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
China.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

20. What is CDR?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
CBR and CDR.
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.

21. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Stayed around zero.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
China.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

22. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Eratosthenes.
1/5.
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.

23. Define the medical revolution.
Portuguese.
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 average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

24. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
LDCs
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

25. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Relocation and expansion.

26. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Relocation and expansion.
The agricultural revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

27. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
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 new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

28. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The physical character of a place.
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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

29. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Dutch.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

30. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
MDCs
Stayed around zero.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

31. Parallel
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

32. What is contagious diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
LDCs
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

33. What is possibilism?
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 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.
CBR and CDR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

34. What is concentration?

35. What is expansion diffusion?

36. What is location?

37. What is physiological density?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
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.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

38. What is situation?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The Netherlands.
The industrial revolution.
The location of a place relative to other places.

39. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
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.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The industrial revolution.

40. What countries does the South Asian region include?
LDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Zero duh fatso.

41. What is a toponym?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The medical revolution.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

42. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Around the 1950s.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

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

44. What is density?
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.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

45. What is relocation diffusion?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Florida.

46. What is life expectancy?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

47. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Aristotle.
Around the 1950s.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
MDCs

49. Define the agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Eratosthenes.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

50. What is overpopulation?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The physical character of a place.
LDCs
The demographic transition.