AP Human Geography

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1. What is a functional region?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


2. What is globalization?
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.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


3. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Florida.
Aristotle.
Yangtze and Huang.


4. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.
The medical revolution.
The location of a place relative to other places.


5. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The first.
Eratosthenes.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The medical revolution.


6. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


7. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
It declines.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The agricultural revolution.


8. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It declines.
Relocation and expansion.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


9. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
- 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.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The industrial revolution.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


10. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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11. What is agricultural density?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


12. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Yangtze and Huang.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


13. What is site?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The physical character of a place.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
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.


14. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.


15. What is concentration?

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16. What is a map?

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17. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


18. Parallel
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


19. What is location?

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20. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Hearths.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


21. What countries does the East Asian region include?
LDCs
Yangtze and Huang.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


22. What is space-time compression?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


23. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Around the 1950s.
1/5.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


24. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
Spatial association.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


25. What is stimulus diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


26. What is expansion diffusion?

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27. What is the International Date Line?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


28. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Portuguese.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Zero duh fatso.


29. 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.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


30. What is a mental map?

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31. What is ecumene?

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32. What is arithmetic density?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


33. What is situation?
Hearths.
The location of a place relative to other places.
LDCs
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


34. What is a place?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
1/5.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1/5.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


36. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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

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38. What is pattern?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The industrial revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


39. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The medical revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


40. What is projection?

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41. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The Netherlands.


42. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Spatial association.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The medical revolution.


43. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
MDCs
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Stayed around zero.


44. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
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 acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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. What is CDR?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


46. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
1/5.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Dutch.
Babylonian clay tablets.


47. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The medical revolution.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The agricultural revolution.


48. 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 belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
LDCs


49. What is IMR?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Yangtze and Huang.


50. What countries does the South Asian region include?
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.
Around the 1950s.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.