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AP Human Geography

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1. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The science of map-making.
The first.

2. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Aristotle.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

3. What is agricultural density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

4. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

5. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

6. What is pattern?
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 medical revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

7. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
1/5.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

8. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

9. 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.
1/5.

10. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The agricultural revolution.

11. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
80 million

12. What is TFR?
The science of map-making.
Hearths.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

13. What is cultural ecology?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Florida.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

14. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Hearths.

15. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

16. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Babylonian clay tablets.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

17. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Aristotle.
1.2%
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

18. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Spatial association.

19. What is a region?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
1.2%

20. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The first.
Florida.

21. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
1.2%
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

22. What is diffusion?
- 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.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The frequency with which something occurs.

23. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The medical revolution.
The name given to a place on Earth.

24. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
LDCs
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The name given to a place on Earth.

25. What is situation?
Around the 1950s.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

26. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
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 spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

27. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
80 million

28. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
CBR and CDR.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

29. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The industrial revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Aristotle.
Relocation and expansion.

30. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Stayed around zero.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Babylonian clay tablets.

31. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

32. What is site?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The physical character of a place.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

33. What is Meridian?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
CBR and CDR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

34. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
China.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

35. What is the International Date Line?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Dutch.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

36. What is scale?

37. What is CDR?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The demographic transition.

38. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Aristotle.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

39. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Stayed around zero.
CBR and CDR.
The agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

40. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
1.2%
Zero duh fatso.

41. What is IMR?
Dutch.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

42. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Portuguese.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

43. What is contagious diffusion?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
80 million
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

44. What is expansion diffusion?

45. What is the world's most populous country?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
China.
Around the 1950s.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

46. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The Netherlands.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Dutch.
Relocation and expansion.

47. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Stayed around zero.
Spatial association.

48. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

49. What is NIR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

50. What is a mental map?