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AP Human Geography

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1. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

2. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
China.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

3. What is the world's most populous country?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
China.

4. What is a region?
The first.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

5. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Yangtze and Huang.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

6. What is GIS?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
MDCs

7. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Portuguese.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

8. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

9. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

10. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Aristotle.
1/5.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

11. What is remote sensing?

12. What is space-time compression?
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.
1/5.
Eratosthenes.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

13. What is density?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
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.

14. What is distribution?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
LDCs
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

15. What is arithmetic density?
- 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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
The demographic transition.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

16. What is CBR?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
1.2%
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.

17. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

18. Parallel
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The demographic transition.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

19. What was the industrial revolution?
Dutch.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CBR and CDR.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

20. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

21. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Hearths.
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.

22. What is culture?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

23. What is GPS?

24. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Aristotle.

25. What is globalization?
Yangtze and Huang.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

26. What is a toponym?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The Netherlands.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

27. What is physiological density?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
LDCs
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

28. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
1/5.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

29. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
80 million
The scientific study of population characteristics.
LDCs
Portuguese.

30. What is a mental map?

31. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
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.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The physical character of a place.
The frequency with which something occurs.

32. What is a place?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

33. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

34. What is contagious diffusion?
Portuguese.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

35. What is the International Date Line?
1.2%
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The agricultural revolution.

36. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
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.
Around the 1950s.
Eratosthenes.
The Netherlands.

37. What is situation?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Yangtze and Huang.
Florida.
The location of a place relative to other places.

38. What are connections?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

39. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
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.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

40. How is NIR in stage 3?
Around the 1950s.
It declines.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

41. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
LDCs
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

42. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Portuguese.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

43. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

44. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The demographic transition.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
MDCs
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

45. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
1/5.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Eratosthenes.

46. 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.
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

47. What is NIR?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Spatial association.

48. What is CDR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The first.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

49. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

50. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
LDCs
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.