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AP Human Geography

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1. What is doubling time?
Stayed around zero.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

2. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
German Vladimir Koppen.

3. What are connections?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The frequency with which something occurs.

4. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

5. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

6. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The demographic transition.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Florida.
Eratosthenes.

7. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

8. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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9. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

10. What is arithmetic density?
Dutch.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

11. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CBR and CDR.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

12. What is life expectancy?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

13. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
German Vladimir Koppen.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

14. What is demography?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Eratosthenes.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

15. What is the world's most populous country?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
1.2%
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
China.

16. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Zero duh fatso.
Aristotle.

17. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Around the 1950s.
CBR and CDR.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

18. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
80 million
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

19. What is agricultural density?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

20. What is GIS?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

21. What is situation?
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.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The location of a place relative to other places.

22. What is a formal region?
- 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 frequency with which something occurs.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

23. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Eratosthenes.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

24. What is globalization?
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 process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

25. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

26. What is space-time compression?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Relocation and expansion.

27. What is IMR?
Stayed around zero.
The Netherlands.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

28. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The first.
The medical revolution.
Aristotle.

29. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
- 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 first.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

30. How is NIR in stage 3?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
It declines.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

31. What is pattern?
Dutch.
The frequency with which something occurs.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

32. What is scale?

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33. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The medical revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.

34. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
Yangtze and Huang.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The Netherlands.

35. What is possibilism?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Aristotle.
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.
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.

36. What is a toponym?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
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.

37. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Florida.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
1.2%

38. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

39. What is ecumene?

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40. What is GMT?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

41. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
80 million
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.
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

42. What is density?
Spatial association.
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

43. What is concentration?

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44. What is environmental determinism?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

45. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The agricultural revolution.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

46. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
MDCs
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Spatial association.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

47. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.
China.

48. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
1/5.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

49. What is contagious diffusion?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The industrial revolution.
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 rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

50. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The demographic transition.
MDCs
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.