AP Human Geography

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1. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
MDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


2. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


3. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


4. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Portuguese.
The agricultural revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


5. What is space-time compression?
80 million
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Eratosthenes.


6. What is cultural landscape?
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
German Vladimir Koppen.


7. What is contagious diffusion?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


8. What is distribution?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
It declines.
The first.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


9. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Hearths.
The science of map-making.
LDCs
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


10. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


11. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Aristotle.


12. 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.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The location of a place relative to other places.


13. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
China.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


14. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


15. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The Netherlands.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


16. What is a formal region?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The Netherlands.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Aristotle.


17. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The first.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


18. What is diffusion?
80 million
MDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


19. What is a mental map?

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20. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


21. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
LDCs
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Dutch.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


22. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


23. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Dutch.
Portuguese.
MDCs


24. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
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.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


25. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The frequency with which something occurs.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Hearths.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


26. What is a polder?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Hearths.
The name given to a place on Earth.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


27. What is site?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The industrial revolution.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The physical character of a place.


28. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
It declines.
The demographic transition.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


29. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.


30. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The science of map-making.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Relocation and expansion.


31. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
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 place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
MDCs
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


32. What is concentration?

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33. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The Netherlands.


34. What is overpopulation?
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 number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The physical character of a place.


35. What is a map?

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36. What is GIS?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The agricultural revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


37. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1/5.


38. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The medical revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


39. What is a place?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


40. What is CDR?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


41. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


42. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The name given to a place on Earth.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Stayed around zero.


43. What is NIR?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
China.


44. What is possibilism?
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 science of map-making.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Spatial association.


45. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
The science of map-making.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


46. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The medical revolution.
Dutch.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


47. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
CBR and CDR.


48. What is expansion diffusion?

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49. What is ecumene?

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50. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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