AP Human Geography

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1. What is a polder?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


2. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Relocation and expansion.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


3. What is TFR?
LDCs
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The demographic transition.


4. What are connections?
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.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


5. How is NIR in stage 3?
The medical revolution.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
It declines.


6. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


7. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


8. What is globalization?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Eratosthenes.
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.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


9. What is overall population like during stage 3?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


10. What is projection?

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11. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
1.2%
Around the 1950s.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


12. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Spatial association.
1/5.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Portuguese.


13. What is stimulus diffusion?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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 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.


14. What is pattern?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


15. What is remote sensing?

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16. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
LDCs


17. What is cultural landscape?
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


18. What is contagious diffusion?
MDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


19. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
CBR and CDR.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


20. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The agricultural revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Babylonian clay tablets.


21. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The first.


22. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


23. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Eratosthenes.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


24. Define the medical revolution.
Dutch.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Hearths.


25. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Relocation and expansion.
Zero duh fatso.


26. What is GPS?

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27. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs


28. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


29. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


30. What is relocation diffusion?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
MDCs
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


31. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
China.
Babylonian clay tablets.
MDCs


32. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Florida.


33. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
- 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 number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


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

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35. What is the world's most populous country?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The science of map-making.
China.


36. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The agricultural revolution.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


37. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Yangtze and Huang.


38. What is expansion diffusion?

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39. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
80 million
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


40. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
1/5.
LDCs
Aristotle.


41. What is life expectancy?
LDCs
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


42. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
MDCs
Babylonian clay tablets.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


43. What is site?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The physical character of a place.
MDCs


44. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
MDCs
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


45. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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.
LDCs
Portuguese.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


46. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


47. What is a mental map?

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48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Around the 1950s.
Aristotle.


49. What is GMT?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


50. What is a place?
MDCs
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The medical revolution.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.