AP Human Geography

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1. What is possibilism?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
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.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Aristotle.


2. What is relocation diffusion?
The industrial revolution.
The science of map-making.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


3. What is cultural landscape?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


4. What is a mental map?

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5. What is TFR?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Aristotle.
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.


6. What is doubling time?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The medical revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


7. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Aristotle.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
LDCs
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


8. What is IMR?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


9. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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10. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


11. What is remote sensing?

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12. What is agricultural density?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


13. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The agricultural revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


14. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
LDCs
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


15. What is location?

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16. What is density?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Yangtze and Huang.


17. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Portuguese.
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 the physical movements of people.


18. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The demographic transition.
LDCs
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


19. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Portuguese.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


20. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


21. What is GIS?
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.
It declines.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


22. What is demography?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


23. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The first.
Yangtze and Huang.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


24. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


25. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
1.2%
Zero duh fatso.


26. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Florida.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


27. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The industrial revolution.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Dutch.


28. What is globalization?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


29. Factors with similar distributions have what?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Spatial association.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Babylonian clay tablets.


30. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs
The Netherlands.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


31. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


32. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


33. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The industrial revolution.
The science of map-making.
The medical revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


34. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Yangtze and Huang.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


35. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.


36. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Stayed around zero.


37. What is distance decay?
The industrial revolution.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


38. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


39. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The medical revolution.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Hearths.


40. For what three reasons is the study of population critically important right now?

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41. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The agricultural revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
CBR and CDR.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


42. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
LDCs
The agricultural revolution.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
80 million


43. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
CBR and CDR.
1.2%


44. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
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.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The demographic transition.


45. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
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.
Relocation and expansion.


46. What is a region?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The demographic transition.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


47. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Portuguese.
Around the 1950s.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


48. What is diffusion?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


49. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


50. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Around the 1950s.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The name given to a place on Earth.