AP Human Geography

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1. What is hierarchical diffusion?
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.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


2. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The name given to a place on Earth.
German Vladimir Koppen.


3. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
80 million
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The name given to a place on Earth.


4. What is scale?

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5. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Yangtze and Huang.
The industrial revolution.
It declines.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


6. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Yangtze and Huang.


7. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The industrial revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
LDCs


8. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


9. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Aristotle.
Relocation and expansion.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
LDCs


10. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


11. What are resources?
The science of map-making.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


12. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
1/5.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


13. What is CBR?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


14. What is cultural ecology?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


15. What is a toponym?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The name given to a place on Earth.


16. What are connections?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


17. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Relocation and expansion.
Hearths.


18. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Zero duh fatso.
MDCs
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


19. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The agricultural revolution.


20. What is concentration?

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21. What is a mental map?

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22. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
1.2%
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


23. What is TFR?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Relocation and expansion.
Hearths.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


24. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
It declines.


25. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
LDCs
Yangtze and Huang.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


26. What is projection?

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27. What is a place?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


28. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Hearths.


29. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
The name given to a place on Earth.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


30. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The medical revolution.
Around the 1950s.


31. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The science of map-making.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


32. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


33. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The science of map-making.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


34. What is relocation diffusion?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


35. What is contagious diffusion?
German Vladimir Koppen.
China.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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.


36. What is location?

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37. What is a region?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


38. What is pattern?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
1.2%
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


39. What is space-time compression?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Aristotle.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


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

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41. What is density?
It declines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The frequency with which something occurs.


42. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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43. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


44. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
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.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


45. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
German Vladimir Koppen.


46. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Stayed around zero.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The Netherlands.


47. What is environmental determinism?
LDCs
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Stayed around zero.


48. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


49. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
LDCs
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


50. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.