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AP Human Geography

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1. What is life expectancy?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

2. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
LDCs
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

3. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

4. What is IMR?
Spatial association.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

5. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Around the 1950s.

6. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
German Vladimir Koppen.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

7. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
MDCs
Florida.

8. What is a place?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The frequency with which something occurs.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

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

10. What is overpopulation?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Aristotle.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

11. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
China.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

12. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
CBR and CDR.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

13. What is relocation diffusion?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
MDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

14. What is demography?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
The scientific study of population characteristics.

15. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
MDCs
China.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

16. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The medical revolution.
The demographic transition.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Portuguese.

17. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Relocation and expansion.
Florida.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The location of a place relative to other places.

18. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The science of map-making.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Eratosthenes.

19. What is ecumene?

20. What is diffusion?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

21. Factors with similar distributions have what?
LDCs
MDCs
Florida.
Spatial association.

22. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

23. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

24. What is the International Date Line?
Portuguese.
LDCs
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

25. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

26. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

27. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Florida.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

28. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
German Vladimir Koppen.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Hearths.

29. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

30. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Aristotle.
The Netherlands.

31. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Stayed around zero.

32. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

33. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
MDCs

34. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
It declines.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Around the 1950s.
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.

35. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Zero duh fatso.
The science of map-making.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Portuguese.

36. How is the NIR in stage 2?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Around the 1950s.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

37. What is agricultural density?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

38. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

39. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The medical revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

40. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The Netherlands.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

41. What is GPS?

42. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

43. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
German Vladimir Koppen.
LDCs

44. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The medical revolution.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The frequency with which something occurs.

45. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Aristotle.
The name given to a place on Earth.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

46. What is Meridian?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

47. What is site?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The physical character of a place.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

48. What is TFR?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

49. What is a region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

50. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The science of map-making.
The first.