AP Human Geography

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1. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The location of a place relative to other places.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Eratosthenes.


2. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The physical character of a place.
The Netherlands.


3. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


4. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
CBR and CDR.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Aristotle.


5. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The physical character of a place.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


6. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Babylonian clay tablets.
LDCs
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


7. What is pattern?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
1.2%
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


8. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Relocation and expansion.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


9. What is life expectancy?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Yangtze and Huang.


10. What is GMT?
Yangtze and Huang.
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.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


11. What is location?

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12. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The first.


13. What countries does the South Asian region include?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


14. What is a toponym?
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.
The physical character of a place.
The name given to a place on Earth.


15. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Babylonian clay tablets.
1/5.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


16. What is ecumene?

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17. What is diffusion?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


18. What is physiological density?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
LDCs
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


19. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


20. 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 Netherlands.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


21. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Spatial association.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


22. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
CBR and CDR.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


23. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Around the 1950s.
The industrial revolution.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


24. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Stayed around zero.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Around the 1950s.


25. What is agricultural density?
Hearths.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


26. Define the medical revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Yangtze and Huang.


27. What is scale?

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28. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
Yangtze and Huang.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
- 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.


29. What is doubling time?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


30. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Around the 1950s.
The medical revolution.


31. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Hearths.
Florida.


32. What is situation?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The Netherlands.
The location of a place relative to other places.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


33. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


34. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


35. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


36. How is NIR in stage 3?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
It declines.


37. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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38. What is cultural ecology?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
China.


39. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The first.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


40. What is CBR?
LDCs
MDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


41. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Portuguese.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


42. Define the agricultural revolution.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It declines.


43. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The Netherlands.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


44. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
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.


45. What is remote sensing?

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46. What is a region?
Stayed around zero.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


47. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Eratosthenes.
Stayed around zero.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


48. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


49. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


50. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Dutch.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.