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AP Human Geography

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1. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

2. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Around the 1950s.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The industrial revolution.

3. What is culture?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

4. What was the industrial revolution?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Dutch.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

5. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Portuguese.

6. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The physical character of a place.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

7. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The demographic transition.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

8. Define the medical revolution.
The demographic transition.
Around the 1950s.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
80 million

9. What is pattern?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
LDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

10. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The Netherlands.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

11. What is site?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The physical character of a place.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

12. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

13. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The Netherlands.

14. Parallel
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

15. What is situation?
Yangtze and Huang.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

16. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The agricultural revolution.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

17. What is GMT?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

18. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Dutch.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

19. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The first.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

20. What is agricultural density?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The medical revolution.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

21. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Aristotle.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
80 million

22. What is life expectancy?
MDCs
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Babylonian clay tablets.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

23. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

24. What is stimulus diffusion?
80 million
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

25. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Aristotle.
Yangtze and Huang.
The science of map-making.

26. What is location?

27. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The medical revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

28. What is a map?

29. What is demography?
LDCs
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

30. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

31. What countries does the East Asian region include?
MDCs
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

32. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
1/5.
Yangtze and Huang.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

33. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

34. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The first.
Aristotle.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

35. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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.
1/5.
CBR and CDR.

36. What is concentration?

37. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

38. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

39. What is a functional region?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

40. What is cultural ecology?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

41. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Dutch.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

42. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
1.2%
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

43. How is NIR in stage 3?
Zero duh fatso.
It declines.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

44. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
The frequency with which something occurs.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

45. What is projection?

46. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
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.
Eratosthenes.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

47. What is CBR?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
1/5.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

48. What is density?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Spatial association.
The frequency with which something occurs.

49. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Yangtze and Huang.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The industrial revolution.

50. What is TFR?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.