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AP Human Geography

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1. What is overpopulation?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The demographic transition.

2. What is CBR?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
CBR and CDR.

3. What is GMT?
LDCs
Relocation and expansion.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

4. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

5. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The demographic transition.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

6. What is stimulus diffusion?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

7. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
The medical revolution.
Eratosthenes.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

8. What is possibilism?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
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.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

9. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

10. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Florida.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

11. What is a map?

12. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CBR and CDR.
Eratosthenes.

13. What is a place?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

14. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
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 demographic transition.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

15. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

16. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The demographic transition.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

17. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Portuguese.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

18. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
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.

19. What was the industrial revolution?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

20. What is CDR?
- 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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

21. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

22. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Eratosthenes.

23. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
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 industrial revolution.
Aristotle.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

24. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

25. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
1.2%
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Dutch.

26. What is ecumene?

27. What is globalization?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

28. What is TFR?
The industrial revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

29. What is relocation diffusion?
The science of map-making.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Around the 1950s.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

30. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dutch.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

31. What is location?

32. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
1/5.
The Netherlands.

33. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

34. What is GPS?

35. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

36. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

37. What is a formal region?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

38. What is concentration?

39. What is a region?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

40. What is scale?

41. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The medical revolution.
1.2%
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

42. What is expansion diffusion?

43. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
It declines.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
LDCs
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

44. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Stayed around zero.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The industrial revolution.

45. What is pattern?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
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.

46. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
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.
The medical revolution.
Around the 1950s.

47. What is remote sensing?

48. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

49. What is demography?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

50. What is environmental determinism?
Stayed around zero.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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.