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AP Human Geography

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1. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
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 spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

2. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Eratosthenes.
Portuguese.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

3. What is the world's most populous country?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Dutch.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
China.

4. What is scale?

5. What is arithmetic density?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The industrial revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

6. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

7. How is NIR in stage 3?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Portuguese.
It declines.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

8. What is space-time compression?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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 longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

9. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Hearths.
The Netherlands.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

10. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The first.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

11. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
CBR and CDR.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

12. What is a polder?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The Netherlands.

13. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Florida.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

14. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Aristotle.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

15. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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 relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

16. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Around the 1950s.
MDCs

17. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Eratosthenes.
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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

18. What is projection?

19. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

20. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

21. What are resources?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Relocation and expansion.

22. What is CDR?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Yangtze and Huang.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

23. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Around the 1950s.
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.

24. What is ecumene?

25. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Hearths.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
China.

26. What is relocation diffusion?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The industrial revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

27. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Aristotle.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

28. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

29. What is site?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
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 physical character of a place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

30. What is a functional region?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

31. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The medical revolution.

32. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Yangtze and Huang.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

33. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
1.2%

34. What is situation?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The location of a place relative to other places.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

35. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
1/5.
The medical revolution.
Relocation and expansion.

36. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Yangtze and Huang.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

37. What is a place?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

38. What is IMR?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
- 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.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

39. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Around the 1950s.
Dutch.

40. What is a toponym?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
CBR and CDR.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The name given to a place on Earth.

41. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

42. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
It declines.
Stayed around zero.

43. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
German Vladimir Koppen.

44. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

45. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

46. What is CBR?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

47. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
1.2%
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

48. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Portuguese.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

49. What is the International Date Line?
1.2%
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

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.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The agricultural revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.