AP Human Geography

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1. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
CBR and CDR.
Aristotle.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


2. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The first.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


3. What is a mental map?

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4. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
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.
Around the 1950s.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


5. What are resources?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The demographic transition.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


6. What is CBR?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It declines.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


7. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
1.2%
German Vladimir Koppen.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


8. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The frequency with which something occurs.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


9. What is Meridian?
Portuguese.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


10. What is contagious diffusion?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
CBR and CDR.


11. What is a polder?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


12. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Stayed around zero.
Zero duh fatso.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


13. What is physiological density?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


14. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The physical character of a place.
Aristotle.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


15. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
LDCs
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The medical revolution.


16. What is density?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Relocation and expansion.


17. What is GPS?

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18. What is a place?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


19. What is expansion diffusion?

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20. What is GMT?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


21. What is distance decay?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The physical character of a place.


22. What is a map?

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23. How is NIR in stage 3?
Hearths.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It declines.


24. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
LDCs
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


25. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The frequency with which something occurs.


26. What is GIS?
Dutch.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


27. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


28. What is a functional region?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Eratosthenes.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


29. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relocation and expansion.


30. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The science of map-making.
80 million
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


31. How is the NIR in stage 2?
German Vladimir Koppen.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
LDCs
The location of a place relative to other places.


32. What is CDR?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


33. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
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 distribution?
LDCs
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


35. What is doubling time?
CBR and CDR.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


36. Define the agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The demographic transition.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


37. What is the International Date Line?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Eratosthenes.


38. What is relocation diffusion?
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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
- 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.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


39. What is cultural landscape?
80 million
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
CBR and CDR.


40. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
80 million
Around the 1950s.


41. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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.


42. What is location?

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43. What is site?
The science of map-making.
The physical character of a place.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Relocation and expansion.


44. What is NIR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


45. Define the medical revolution.
The medical revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
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 diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


46. What is IMR?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Aristotle.
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.


47. What is concentration?

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48. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Dutch.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


49. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
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.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


50. What is TFR?
The medical revolution.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.