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AP Human Geography

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1. Define the medical revolution.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

2. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
LDCs
The Netherlands.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

3. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Around the 1950s.
Babylonian clay tablets.
1/5.

4. What is physiological density?
Yangtze and Huang.
The first.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

5. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
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 portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

6. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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7. What is contagious diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

8. What is TFR?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Yangtze and Huang.

9. What is stimulus diffusion?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

10. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Aristotle.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

11. Parallel
LDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
LDCs

12. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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 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.

13. What is overpopulation?
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 number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

14. What is a map?

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15. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
LDCs
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
- 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.

16. What is space-time compression?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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.

17. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
CBR and CDR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
LDCs

18. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The demographic transition.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

19. What is IMR?
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.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The total number of people 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.

20. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The industrial revolution.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

21. What is distribution?
Around the 1950s.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
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 a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The frequency with which something occurs.

23. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
1/5.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

24. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The medical revolution.
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.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

25. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

26. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The demographic transition.

27. What is the International Date Line?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

28. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
80 million
- 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.

29. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Around the 1950s.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

30. What is pattern?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
80 million

31. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
MDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

32. What is scale?

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33. What is agricultural density?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

34. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The medical revolution.

35. What is the world's most populous country?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
China.

36. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

37. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
80 million
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.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

38. What is demography?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Zero duh fatso.

39. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

40. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

41. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
LDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

42. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

43. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

44. What was the industrial revolution?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

45. What is arithmetic density?
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The industrial revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

46. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Yangtze and Huang.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

47. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

48. What are resources?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

49. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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50. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
MDCs
The agricultural revolution.