AP Human Geography

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1. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Relocation and expansion.
Hearths.


2. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


3. What is possibilism?
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.
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


4. What is pattern?
Florida.
The industrial revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


5. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


6. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Portuguese.


7. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Florida.
German Vladimir Koppen.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


8. What is scale?

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9. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The first.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


10. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Relocation and expansion.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


11. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


12. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The science of map-making.
Portuguese.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
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.


13. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


14. What is life expectancy?
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.
Spatial association.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


15. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
CBR and CDR.


16. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
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.
MDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


17. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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18. What is globalization?
The first.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


19. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


20. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


21. What is contagious diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
MDCs


22. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


23. What is location?

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24. What is remote sensing?

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25. What is physiological density?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The demographic transition.


26. What is a mental map?

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27. Parallel
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The demographic transition.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


28. What is a map?

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29. What is Meridian?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Portuguese.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


30. What countries does the East Asian region include?
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.
Zero duh fatso.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


31. What is a polder?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


32. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Around the 1950s.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


33. What is stimulus diffusion?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The agricultural revolution.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


34. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
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.
MDCs


35. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The agricultural revolution.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Around the 1950s.


36. What is space-time compression?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It declines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


37. What is diffusion?
The physical character of a place.
The first.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


38. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
LDCs
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


39. What is situation?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The location of a place relative to other places.


40. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.


41. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
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.


42. What is the International Date Line?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Eratosthenes.


43. What is CBR?
Relocation and expansion.
The industrial revolution.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


44. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The science of map-making.


45. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
MDCs
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.


46. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


47. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The agricultural revolution.
Dutch.


48. How is NIR in stage 3?
Aristotle.
Eratosthenes.
It declines.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


49. What is environmental determinism?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


50. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
1/5.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.