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AP Human Geography

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1. What is diffusion?
Spatial association.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Florida.

2. Define the medical revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Zero duh fatso.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

3. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
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.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The location of a place relative to other places.

4. Define the agricultural revolution.
Dutch.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

5. What is NIR?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

6. What is a mental map?

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7. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Florida.

8. What is hierarchical diffusion?
CBR and CDR.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

9. What is stimulus diffusion?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The first.

10. What is TFR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

11. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
German Vladimir Koppen.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Around the 1950s.

12. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Hearths.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

13. What is GPS?

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14. What are connections?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Dutch.

15. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

16. What is space-time compression?
Around the 1950s.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Aristotle.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

17. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

18. 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.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

19. What is relocation 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.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The demographic transition.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

20. What was the industrial revolution?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

21. How many countries are still in stage 1?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Zero duh fatso.

22. How is NIR in stage 3?
The medical revolution.
The demographic transition.
It declines.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

23. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Eratosthenes.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

24. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
LDCs
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

25. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
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.
Dutch.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

26. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Stayed around zero.
Yangtze and Huang.

27. What is distribution?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
China.
Zero duh fatso.

28. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

29. What is scale?

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30. What is Meridian?
- 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.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Yangtze and Huang.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

31. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

32. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

33. What is environmental determinism?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

34. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Stayed around zero.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

35. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Relocation and expansion.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Around the 1950s.

36. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
- 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.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

37. What is GIS?
The first.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

38. What is ecumene?

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39. What is a place?
- 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.
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 first.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

40. What is IMR?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

41. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

42. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
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.
Florida.
The industrial revolution.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

43. What is culture?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
80 million
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

44. What is CBR?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

45. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
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 substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

46. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Hearths.
The agricultural revolution.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

47. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

48. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The science of map-making.
CBR and CDR.
The industrial revolution.
LDCs

49. How is the NIR in stage 2?
Florida.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

50. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It declines.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.