AP Human Geography

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1. What is environmental determinism?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


2. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Spatial association.
The medical revolution.
Yangtze and Huang.


3. What is cultural ecology?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


4. What is a region?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
German Vladimir Koppen.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
80 million


5. Define the medical revolution.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


6. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
80 million


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

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8. What is agricultural density?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Zero duh fatso.


9. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Aristotle.


10. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Portuguese.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


11. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
CBR and CDR.
Dutch.


12. What countries does the East Asian region include?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Hearths.


13. What is contagious diffusion?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


14. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


15. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The name given to a place on Earth.
80 million
The science of map-making.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


16. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Stayed around zero.


17. What is scale?

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18. Parallel
LDCs
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


19. What is expansion diffusion?

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20. What is a formal region?
The medical revolution.
The demographic transition.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


21. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


22. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


23. What is CBR?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Relocation and expansion.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


24. What is IMR?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


25. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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26. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.
- 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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


27. What is GPS?

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28. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The first.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Spatial association.


29. What is distance decay?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
China.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


30. What is location?

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31. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


32. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


33. What is a place?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
MDCs
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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.


34. 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.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


35. What is life expectancy?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The science of map-making.
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.


36. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
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 reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The industrial revolution.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


37. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


38. What is arithmetic density?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The name given to a place on Earth.


39. How is NIR in stage 3?
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 declines.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The industrial revolution.


40. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The demographic transition.
80 million
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


41. Define the agricultural revolution.
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.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Stayed around zero.
The industrial revolution.


42. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
80 million


43. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The agricultural revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


44. What is projection?

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45. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Zero duh fatso.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Relocation and expansion.
Eratosthenes.


46. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The science of map-making.
Zero duh fatso.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Hearths.


47. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


48. What is diffusion?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


49. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Hearths.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


50. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Florida.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.