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AP Human Geography
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1. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
MDCs
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
2. What is GPS?
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3. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
4. What is CBR?
The demographic transition.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
- 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 new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
5. What is cartography?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The science of map-making.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Florida.
6. What is arithmetic density?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
7. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
8. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Aristotle.
German Vladimir Koppen.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The location of a place relative to other places.
9. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
China.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Babylonian clay tablets.
10. What is a map?
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11. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
80 million
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
12. Parallel
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The agricultural revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The medical revolution.
13. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
1.2%
14. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Babylonian clay tablets.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Relocation and expansion.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
15. What is projection?
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16. What is location?
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17. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Portuguese.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
18. What is relocation diffusion?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
19. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Stayed around zero.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
20. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The first.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
21. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?
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22. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Dutch.
23. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The medical revolution.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
24. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
German Vladimir Koppen.
25. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
26. What is physiological density?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The medical revolution.
The demographic transition.
27. For what three reasons is the study of population critically important right now?
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28. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
29. What is IMR?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
1.2%
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
30. What is doubling time?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Stayed around zero.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
31. What are resources?
The medical revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The name given to a place on Earth.
32. What is stimulus diffusion?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The agricultural revolution.
33. What is situation?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The location of a place relative to other places.
34. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
35. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Yangtze and Huang.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
36. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Spatial association.
1/5.
The first.
37. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Around the 1950s.
Yangtze and Huang.
38. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It declines.
39. What is cultural ecology?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
40. What is distribution?
Spatial association.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
41. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
MDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
42. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Aristotle.
43. What is a mental map?
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44. What is NIR?
Aristotle.
Eratosthenes.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
45. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
It declines.
46. What is contagious diffusion?
Aristotle.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Florida.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
47. What is overpopulation?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
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.
48. What is GIS?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
49. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
It declines.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Portuguese.
50. What is the International Date Line?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.