AP Human Geography

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1. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


2. What is a polder?
It declines.
The demographic transition.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


3. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Relocation and expansion.
- 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.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


4. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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5. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Relocation and expansion.


6. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Aristotle.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


7. Parallel
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


8. What is scale?

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9. What is a toponym?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The name given to a place on Earth.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


10. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Around the 1950s.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


11. What is a mental map?

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12. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


13. What are resources?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Aristotle.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


14. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The demographic transition.


15. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Florida.


16. What is concentration?

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17. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The frequency with which something occurs.


18. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


19. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


20. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Portuguese.
Florida.
Relocation and expansion.
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.


21. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The Netherlands.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Hearths.


22. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
China.
Spatial association.
1/5.


23. What is IMR?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


24. What is remote sensing?

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25. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


26. What is relocation diffusion?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Spatial association.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


27. What is environmental determinism?
LDCs
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


28. What is contagious diffusion?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


29. What is a map?

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30. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
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.


31. What is cultural landscape?
1.2%
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


32. What is pattern?
CBR and CDR.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


33. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
- 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.


34. What is distribution?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


35. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Portuguese.
It declines.
Yangtze and Huang.


36. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The medical revolution.


37. Define the medical revolution.
Spatial association.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


38. 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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
80 million
LDCs


39. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Aristotle.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


40. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Stayed around zero.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


41. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Yangtze and Huang.


42. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Yangtze and Huang.
The name given to a place on Earth.


43. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
MDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


44. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The industrial revolution.
The agricultural revolution.
LDCs
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


45. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


46. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The Netherlands.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The demographic transition.


47. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Around the 1950s.
The location of a place relative to other places.
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.
CBR and CDR.


48. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


49. What is GPS?

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50. What is location?

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