AP Human Geography

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1. What was the industrial revolution?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
It declines.


2. What is agricultural density?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
CBR and CDR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


3. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The demographic transition.
80 million


4. What is scale?

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5. What is overpopulation?
1.2%
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


6. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


7. What is remote sensing?

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8. What is distance decay?
The physical character of a place.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
MDCs


9. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Around the 1950s.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


10. What is a toponym?
It declines.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


11. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Yangtze and Huang.
The physical character of a place.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Spatial association.


12. What is cultural ecology?
Zero duh fatso.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


13. What is density?
The industrial revolution.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


14. How is NIR in stage 3?
China.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The industrial revolution.
It declines.


15. What is culture?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


16. What is GPS?

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17. Parallel
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


18. What is NIR?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Stayed around zero.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


19. What is concentration?

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20. What is contagious diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The agricultural revolution.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


21. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Eratosthenes.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


22. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Florida.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
LDCs


23. What is environmental determinism?
The medical revolution.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Spatial association.


24. What is IMR?
The physical character of a place.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Zero duh fatso.


25. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Stayed around zero.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


26. What is TFR?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Hearths.


27. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Hearths.
Eratosthenes.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


28. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Eratosthenes.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


29. What is demography?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


30. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


31. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Yangtze and Huang.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


32. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


33. Define the medical revolution.
The physical character of a place.
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 rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


34. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


35. What is life expectancy?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Around the 1950s.
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.


36. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The agricultural revolution.
The demographic transition.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


37. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


38. What is situation?
Portuguese.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The location of a place relative to other places.


39. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The agricultural revolution.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


40. Define the agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It declines.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


41. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
It declines.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
- 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.


42. What is distribution?
Aristotle.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Around the 1950s.


43. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The industrial revolution.


44. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The science of map-making.
Aristotle.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


45. What is cartography?
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Florida.
The science of map-making.


46. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Stayed around zero.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


47. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The first.
The location of a place relative to other places.


48. What is GMT?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


49. What is ecumene?

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50. What is cultural landscape?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relocation and expansion.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.