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AP Human Geography

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1. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
LDCs
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Eratosthenes.

2. Factors with similar distributions have what?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Spatial association.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Around the 1950s.

3. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Eratosthenes.
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.

4. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The medical revolution.
Around the 1950s.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

5. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The medical revolution.
1/5.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

6. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

7. What is possibilism?
LDCs
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
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.
1.2%

8. What is site?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The physical character of a place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

9. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
80 million

10. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
It declines.
The physical character of a place.
- 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.

11. What is stimulus diffusion?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
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.
LDCs

12. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
1.2%
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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.

13. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Hearths.
Yangtze and Huang.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

14. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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.
1/5.

15. What is situation?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The location of a place relative to other places.

16. Define the medical revolution.
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 diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Around the 1950s.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

17. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
MDCs

18. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Spatial association.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The physical character of a place.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

19. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Spatial association.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

20. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

21. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The first.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Aristotle.
Yangtze and Huang.

22. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Florida.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Stayed around zero.

23. What is distance decay?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

24. What is cultural ecology?
The physical character of a place.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

25. What is NIR?
Portuguese.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

26. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

27. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

28. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
Dutch.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

29. What is CDR?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
LDCs
LDCs
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

30. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

31. What is ecumene?

32. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

33. What is projection?

34. 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.
80 million
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Dutch.

35. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

36. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

37. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The Netherlands.

38. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

39. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
German Vladimir Koppen.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

40. What is culture?
1/5.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

41. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
LDCs

42. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The physical character of a place.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The demographic transition.

43. What is concentration?

44. What is TFR?
China.
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 physical character of a place.

45. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It declines.
The agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

46. What is scale?

47. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
LDCs
The frequency with which something occurs.
Yangtze and Huang.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

48. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

49. What is doubling time?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Relocation and expansion.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

50. Parallel
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.