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AP Human Geography

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1. What is a region?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The medical revolution.
The agricultural revolution.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

2. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Relocation and expansion.

3. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Portuguese.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

4. Parallel
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
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.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

5. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

6. What is remote sensing?

7. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
LDCs
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

8. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
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.
Yangtze and Huang.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

9. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
The medical revolution.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Stayed around zero.

10. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Zero duh fatso.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

11. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
LDCs
Florida.
Eratosthenes.

12. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

13. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
China.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

14. What is doubling time?
80 million
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

15. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

16. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Spatial association.
The physical character of a place.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

17. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Around the 1950s.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Stayed around zero.

18. 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.
LDCs
80 million
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.

19. What is demography?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Aristotle.
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 scientific study of population characteristics.

20. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Yangtze and Huang.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
China.
MDCs

21. What is GPS?

22. What is ecumene?

23. What is contagious diffusion?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The agricultural revolution.
The first.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

24. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Aristotle.
It declines.
Hearths.

25. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

26. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Zero duh fatso.
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.

27. What is environmental determinism?
Dutch.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
CBR and CDR.
MDCs

28. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
China.
The science of map-making.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

29. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Dutch.

30. What is scale?

31. What is distribution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

32. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Aristotle.

33. What are resources?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

34. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
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.

35. What is GIS?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
- 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.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

36. What is site?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The physical character of a place.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

37. What is CDR?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
1/5.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

38. What is possibilism?
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 agricultural revolution.
Spatial association.
The medical revolution.

39. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Hearths.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

40. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The Netherlands.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

41. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The frequency with which something occurs.
LDCs
- 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.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

42. What is overpopulation?
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 total number of people per unit of arable land.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

43. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Spatial association.
It declines.

44. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
1.2%
Yangtze and Huang.

45. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Yangtze and Huang.
Zero duh fatso.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

46. What is cartography?
The science of map-making.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Dutch.

47. What are connections?
MDCs
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

48. Define the medical revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

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

50. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The physical character of a place.
Hearths.