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AP Human Geography

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1. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
1/5.
The Netherlands.

2. What is space-time compression?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

3. What is the world's most populous country?
1.2%
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
China.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

4. What is a toponym?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
1.2%
The name given to a place on Earth.

5. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
1.2%
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

6. How is NIR in stage 3?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Dutch.
It declines.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

7. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The science of map-making.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The physical character of a place.

8. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
China.
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 agricultural revolution.

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

10. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Portuguese.
Hearths.
MDCs
Aristotle.

11. What is culture?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

12. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Spatial association.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
80 million
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.

13. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The industrial revolution.

14. Define the agricultural revolution.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Aristotle.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

15. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

16. What is relocation diffusion?
The industrial revolution.
The medical revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

17. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

18. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Florida.

19. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

20. What is hierarchical diffusion?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

21. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CBR and CDR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
It declines.

22. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The demographic transition.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
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.
Hearths.

23. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The Netherlands.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
CBR and CDR.
- 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.

24. What is GIS?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The agricultural revolution.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

25. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Spatial association.
Around the 1950s.
LDCs
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

26. What is distribution?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Zero duh fatso.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Dutch.

27. Parallel
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
MDCs

28. What is concentration?

29. What is life expectancy?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Eratosthenes.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

30. What countries does the South Asian region include?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
80 million
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

31. What is doubling time?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

32. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
CBR and CDR.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
1.2%
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

33. Define the medical revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

34. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The demographic transition.

35. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

36. What is remote sensing?

37. What are resources?
Spatial association.
The name given to a place on Earth.
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.

38. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

39. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
1.2%
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

40. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Babylonian clay tablets.

41. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The industrial revolution.
The name given to a place on Earth.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The demographic transition.

42. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Dutch.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

43. What is agricultural density?
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

44. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The location of a place relative to other places.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Portuguese.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

45. What is cultural landscape?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

46. What is contagious diffusion?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

47. What is density?
The demographic transition.
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 frequency with which something occurs.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

48. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The physical character of a place.
CBR and CDR.
LDCs

49. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Dutch.

50. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The first.