AP Human Geography

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1. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


2. What is cultural landscape?
LDCs
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


3. What is Meridian?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


4. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


5. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
LDCs
Hearths.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


6. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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7. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The medical revolution.


8. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Around the 1950s.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Portuguese.
1.2%


9. What is distribution?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


10. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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11. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
LDCs


12. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.


13. What is situation?
Zero duh fatso.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The location of a place relative to other places.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


14. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.


15. What are connections?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


16. What is site?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The physical character of a place.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


17. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


18. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Yangtze and Huang.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Florida.


19. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The Netherlands.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


20. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Eratosthenes.
Aristotle.
It declines.


21. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Spatial association.
The frequency with which something occurs.
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.


22. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.


23. What is projection?

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24. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Relocation and expansion.


25. 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.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


26. What is pattern?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


27. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The industrial revolution.


28. What is a map?

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29. What is a place?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The agricultural revolution.
1/5.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


30. What is doubling time?
It declines.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


31. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The agricultural revolution.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


32. What is hierarchical diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


33. What is environmental determinism?
80 million
CBR and CDR.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


34. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
MDCs
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.


35. What is a functional region?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


36. What is globalization?
Around the 1950s.
The demographic transition.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


37. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Aristotle.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


38. What is scale?

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39. What is cartography?
The first.
The science of map-making.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
LDCs


40. What is location?

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41. What is the International Date Line?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hearths.


42. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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 continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


43. What is a toponym?
The medical revolution.
Hearths.
The name given to a place on Earth.
1/5.


44. What is ecumene?

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45. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
1/5.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


46. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


47. What is GIS?
The Netherlands.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


48. What is relocation diffusion?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
It declines.
Spatial association.


49. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Florida.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The first.
CBR and CDR.


50. What is the world's most populous country?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
LDCs
China.