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AP Human Geography

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1. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
LDCs
Florida.
Stayed around zero.

2. What is overpopulation?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

3. What is GIS?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
LDCs
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

4. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It declines.
Relocation and expansion.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

5. What is environmental determinism?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

6. What is pattern?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
German Vladimir Koppen.

7. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dutch.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

8. What is a functional region?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The science of map-making.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

9. What was the industrial revolution?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

10. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
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.
Aristotle.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

11. What is a map?

12. What is possibilism?
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.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hearths.

13. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

14. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The demographic transition.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

15. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The science of map-making.
MDCs
Stayed around zero.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

16. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The Netherlands.

17. What is ecumene?

18. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Aristotle.
The frequency with which something occurs.

19. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

20. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

21. What is scale?

22. What is a region?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

23. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
The Netherlands.
80 million
Yangtze and Huang.

24. What is GMT?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

25. What is concentration?

26. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Zero duh fatso.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

27. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Florida.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

28. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Yangtze and Huang.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The physical character of a place.

29. What is situation?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Hearths.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

30. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

31. What are resources?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

32. What is diffusion?
1.2%
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Stayed around zero.

33. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Florida.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

34. How is NIR in stage 3?
The Netherlands.
It declines.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

35. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The location of a place relative to other places.
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.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
1.2%

36. What is a place?
China.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

37. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The agricultural revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

38. What is distance decay?
Relocation and expansion.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

39. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
LDCs
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

40. What is cartography?
1.2%
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The science of map-making.
Stayed around zero.

41. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The agricultural revolution.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Hearths.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

42. What is location?

43. What are connections?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

44. What is a toponym?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The name given to a place on Earth.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

45. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
1.2%
Eratosthenes.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

46. What is globalization?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
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 spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

47. Define the agricultural revolution.
Portuguese.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

48. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
80 million
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
China.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

49. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Stayed around zero.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

50. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Florida.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.