AP Human Geography

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1. What is pattern?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


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

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3. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Stayed around zero.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
LDCs
CBR and CDR.


4. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Relocation and expansion.


5. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
CBR and CDR.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The industrial revolution.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


6. What is a formal region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


7. What is life expectancy?
Dutch.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Yangtze and Huang.
Florida.


8. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Relocation and expansion.


9. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Spatial association.
Florida.


10. How is the NIR in stage 2?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The location of a place relative to other places.


11. What is GMT?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


12. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
LDCs
1.2%
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


13. Define the medical revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


14. What is ecumene?

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15. What is environmental determinism?
The physical character of a place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


16. What is projection?

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17. What is stimulus diffusion?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


18. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


19. How is NIR in stage 3?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
CBR and CDR.
It declines.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


20. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
CBR and CDR.


21. What is contagious diffusion?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


22. What is location?

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23. What is demography?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Relocation and expansion.
The science of map-making.


24. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.


25. What is distribution?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
LDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


26. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
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 diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


27. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Aristotle.
1.2%
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


28. What is a map?

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29. Parallel
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


30. What is distance decay?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
LDCs
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


31. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Babylonian clay tablets.
Spatial association.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
China.


32. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The medical revolution.
Around the 1950s.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


33. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The Netherlands.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Florida.


34. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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35. What is diffusion?
Florida.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The name given to a place on Earth.


36. What is doubling time?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


37. What is density?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Yangtze and Huang.


38. What is agricultural density?
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
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 portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


39. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Eratosthenes.
Relocation and expansion.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Around the 1950s.


40. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
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 geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


41. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


42. What is possibilism?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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.
Eratosthenes.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


43. What is NIR?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.


44. What is Meridian?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Portuguese.
The medical revolution.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


45. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The Netherlands.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


46. What is cartography?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The science of map-making.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


47. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The industrial revolution.


48. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Dutch.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.


49. What is a polder?
It declines.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
LDCs
Stayed around zero.


50. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.