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AP Human Geography

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1. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

2. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The demographic transition.

3. What are connections?
Relocation and expansion.
Yangtze and Huang.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

4. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
MDCs
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

5. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
80 million
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

6. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Zero duh fatso.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Hearths.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

7. What is IMR?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Aristotle.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

8. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

9. What is life expectancy?
The first.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

10. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Florida.
Aristotle.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The demographic transition.

11. What is remote sensing?

12. What is TFR?
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.
1/5.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

13. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

14. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The demographic transition.
The Netherlands.
LDCs
The industrial revolution.

15. Parallel
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Around the 1950s.

16. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Florida.
China.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

17. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
1.2%
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
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.
MDCs

18. What is GMT?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

19. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

20. What is cultural ecology?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
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 spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

21. What is Meridian?
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.
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.

22. What is the world's most populous country?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
China.

23. What is expansion diffusion?

24. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

25. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The agricultural revolution.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

26. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Relocation and expansion.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
It declines.

27. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

28. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Yangtze and Huang.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The agricultural revolution.

29. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Stayed around zero.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

30. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

31. What is site?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The demographic transition.
The physical character of a place.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

32. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The physical character of a place.
Spatial association.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

33. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CBR and CDR.

34. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
1/5.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

35. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The demographic transition.

36. 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.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

37. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Yangtze and Huang.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
China.

38. What is a formal region?
Portuguese.
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.
LDCs

39. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Aristotle.
The agricultural revolution.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

40. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
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.
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.

41. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Hearths.
Babylonian clay tablets.

42. What is overpopulation?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

43. What is density?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Relocation and expansion.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Florida.

44. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

45. What is CBR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The industrial revolution.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

46. What is GPS?

47. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
The science of map-making.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

48. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

49. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

50. Define the medical revolution.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.