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AP Human Geography

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1. What is the world's most populous country?
The name given to a place on Earth.
China.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
LDCs

2. What is situation?
The first.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Dutch.
Aristotle.

3. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
It declines.
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 science of map-making.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

4. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

5. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Hearths.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
80 million

6. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
1/5.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

7. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Hearths.
Babylonian clay tablets.
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.

8. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Stayed around zero.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

9. What is cartography?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The science of map-making.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The frequency with which something occurs.

10. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

11. What is GMT?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relocation and expansion.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
MDCs

12. What is stimulus diffusion?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The Netherlands.

13. What is possibilism?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
German Vladimir Koppen.
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 science of map-making.

14. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The science of map-making.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
1.2%

15. How is NIR in stage 3?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The industrial revolution.
It declines.

16. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The agricultural revolution.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

17. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
Hearths.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

18. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Zero duh fatso.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The physical character of a place.

19. What countries does the South Asian region include?
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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

20. What is concentration?

21. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

22. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
CBR and CDR.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

23. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The location of a place relative to other places.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The industrial revolution.

24. Define the medical revolution.
China.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

25. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

26. What is IMR?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

27. What is a place?
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.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

28. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The agricultural revolution.

29. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
80 million
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

30. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

31. What is expansion diffusion?

32. What is the International Date Line?
Zero duh fatso.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

33. What is cultural landscape?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
China.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

34. Define the agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Dutch.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The physical character of a place.

35. What is environmental determinism?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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.

36. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
CBR and CDR.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

37. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
MDCs

38. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The Netherlands.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

39. What is demography?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

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

41. What is contagious diffusion?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The demographic transition.

42. What is GPS?

43. Parallel
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
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.
Aristotle.

44. What is pattern?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
CBR and CDR.
Yangtze and Huang.

45. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

46. What is relocation diffusion?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
LDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The medical revolution.

47. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

48. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

49. What is site?
LDCs
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The physical character of a place.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

50. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
LDCs
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.