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AP Human Geography

Subjects : humanities, ap
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1. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...






2. What is arithmetic density?






3. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?






4. What is NIR?






5. What happens to CDR during stage 3?






6. Define the agricultural revolution.






7. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?






8. What are the two kinds of diffusion?






9. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?






10. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?






11. What is CDR?






12. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?






13. What is GMT?






14. How is globalization affecting world cultures?


15. What is cultural ecology?






16. What is density?






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


18. What is CBR?






19. What countries does the South Asian region include?






20. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?






21. What is a toponym?






22. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?






23. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...






24. What is demography?






25. What is TFR?






26. What is The Board of Geographical Names?






27. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?






28. What is concentration?


29. What is agricultural density?






30. What is contagious diffusion?






31. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?






32. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?






33. What is remote sensing?


34. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?






35. What is location?


36. What is environmental determinism?






37. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?






38. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?






39. What is culture?






40. What is the world's most populous country?






41. What are connections?






42. What is a polder?






43. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?






44. What countries does the East Asian region include?






45. What is stimulus diffusion?






46. What is cultural landscape?






47. What is IMR?






48. What is GPS?


49. What is space-time compression?






50. What is pattern?