Test your basic knowledge |

AP Human Geography

Subjects : humanities, ap

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What is distance decay?
The Netherlands.
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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

2. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Zero duh fatso.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

3. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
LDCs

4. What is possibilism?
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.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

5. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

6. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Portuguese.
The industrial revolution.
The first.

7. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The medical revolution.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
German Vladimir Koppen.

8. What is scale?

9. What is agricultural density?
The demographic transition.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

10. What is distribution?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
MDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

11. What is overpopulation?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Yangtze and Huang.
Around the 1950s.

12. What is Meridian?
80 million
The science of map-making.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

13. What is environmental determinism?
Dutch.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Stayed around zero.
Relocation and expansion.

14. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The first.

15. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The first.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

16. How is the NIR in stage 2?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

17. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Around the 1950s.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

18. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

19. What is projection?

20. What is diffusion?
1/5.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Aristotle.

21. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Stayed around zero.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

22. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
80 million
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

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

24. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The agricultural revolution.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

25. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
China.
LDCs
Relocation and expansion.

26. What is a region?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The agricultural revolution.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

27. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The Netherlands.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

28. What is remote sensing?

29. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The location of a place relative to other places.

30. What is doubling time?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

31. What is the world's most populous country?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
China.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

32. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
China.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

33. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It declines.

34. What is physiological density?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Babylonian clay tablets.

35. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

36. Define the medical revolution.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
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.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

37. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

38. What is concentration?

39. What is a toponym?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.

40. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
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.

41. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

42. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

43. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The Netherlands.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Relocation and expansion.
80 million

44. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

45. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The frequency with which something occurs.
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.

46. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

47. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
CBR and CDR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

48. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Aristotle.
LDCs
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.

49. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
German Vladimir Koppen.

50. What is demography?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.