AP Human Geography

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1. What is remote sensing?

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2. What is the world's most populous country?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
China.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


3. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Stayed around zero.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The demographic transition.


4. What is GIS?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Around the 1950s.


5. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


6. What is a polder?
1/5.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


7. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


8. What is GMT?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


9. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Around the 1950s.
MDCs
Yangtze and Huang.


10. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
- 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 arithmetic density?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


12. What is physiological density?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


13. What is density?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The frequency with which something occurs.


14. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
1.2%
German Vladimir Koppen.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The agricultural revolution.


15. 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.
Relocation and expansion.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Hearths.


16. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The physical character of a place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The location of a place relative to other places.


17. What is culture?
Portuguese.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Zero duh fatso.
The science of map-making.


18. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


19. What is agricultural density?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
CBR and CDR.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


20. What is scale?

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21. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Zero duh fatso.


22. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
CBR and CDR.


23. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Eratosthenes.


24. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
1/5.
Eratosthenes.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Relocation and expansion.


25. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


26. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Eratosthenes.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Zero duh fatso.


27. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


28. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
LDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The Netherlands.


29. What was the industrial revolution?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


30. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Florida.
The Netherlands.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


31. What is space-time compression?
Yangtze and Huang.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


32. What is overpopulation?
Stayed around zero.
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.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
MDCs


33. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


34. What is a formal region?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
1.2%


35. What is a mental map?

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36. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
MDCs


37. What is globalization?
1.2%
Relocation and expansion.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


38. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Aristotle.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


39. What is expansion diffusion?

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40. What is CDR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


41. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The demographic transition.
Yangtze and Huang.


42. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


43. What is a place?
Hearths.
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.
Yangtze and Huang.


44. What is possibilism?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
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.


45. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


46. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The agricultural 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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


47. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Around the 1950s.


48. What are connections?
The agricultural revolution.
Aristotle.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


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

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50. What is a region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.