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AP Human Geography

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1. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Eratosthenes.
Aristotle.
Zero duh fatso.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

2. What is contagious diffusion?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

3. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Hearths.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs

4. What is IMR?
MDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

5. What is density?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The agricultural revolution.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Around the 1950s.

6. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
- 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.
Florida.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

7. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

8. What is the International Date Line?
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.
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.

9. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Babylonian clay tablets.
China.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

10. What is NIR?
Stayed around zero.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

11. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
German Vladimir Koppen.

12. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The demographic transition.
Eratosthenes.
The medical revolution.

13. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Yangtze and Huang.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The Netherlands.

14. What is ecumene?

15. What is site?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The physical character of a place.
Yangtze and Huang.
The location of a place relative to other places.

16. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
1/5.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The location of a place relative to other places.

17. What is GIS?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

18. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

19. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
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.

20. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Spatial association.
The first.

21. What are resources?
Around the 1950s.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The demographic transition.

22. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

23. What is space-time compression?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
80 million
Eratosthenes.

24. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
- 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.
80 million
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.
Around the 1950s.

25. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
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.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Dutch.

26. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Around the 1950s.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Portuguese.

27. What is CDR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
- 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.

28. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The science of map-making.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

29. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
The Netherlands.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

30. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

31. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
- 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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
German Vladimir Koppen.

32. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
80 million

33. What is physiological density?
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 science of map-making.
1.2%
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

34. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The total number of farmers 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 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.

35. What is GPS?

36. What is stimulus diffusion?
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.
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.
It declines.

37. What is a mental map?

38. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Eratosthenes.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

39. What is culture?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

40. What is scale?

41. What is relocation diffusion?
The medical revolution.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
CBR and CDR.

42. What is remote sensing?

43. What is CBR?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

44. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

45. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Eratosthenes.

46. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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.
China.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The demographic transition.

47. What is a functional region?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The physical character of a place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

48. What is a map?

49. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

50. What is a polder?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
80 million