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AP Human Geography

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1. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Aristotle.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
German Vladimir Koppen.

2. What are connections?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

3. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
China.
Dutch.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

4. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The medical revolution.

5. What is contagious diffusion?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

6. What is doubling time?
The Netherlands.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The name given to a place on Earth.

7. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
Relocation and expansion.

8. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

9. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
CBR and CDR.

10. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Spatial association.
1.2%
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

11. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
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.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Hearths.

12. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
German Vladimir Koppen.
LDCs
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.

13. What is a polder?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

14. What is a formal region?
It declines.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

15. What are resources?
Stayed around zero.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
1/5.
MDCs

16. What is possibilism?
MDCs
Eratosthenes.
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.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

17. How is NIR in stage 3?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It declines.
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 acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

18. What is IMR?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
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.

19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
MDCs

20. Parallel
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

21. What is GMT?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Spatial association.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

22. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Relocation and expansion.

23. What is Meridian?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

24. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Eratosthenes.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

25. What is physiological density?
The Netherlands.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

26. 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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Relocation and expansion.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

27. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
LDCs
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

28. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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29. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Hearths.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

30. What is environmental determinism?
Stayed around zero.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

31. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
German Vladimir Koppen.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

32. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
MDCs
LDCs
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

33. What is pattern?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Florida.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

34. What is cartography?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The science of map-making.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

35. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Stayed around zero.

36. What is a region?
LDCs
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

37. What is overpopulation?
MDCs
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

38. What is density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Yangtze and Huang.
The frequency with which something occurs.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

39. What is agricultural density?
The medical revolution.
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.
Stayed around zero.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

40. What is a mental map?

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

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42. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
LDCs

43. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Stayed around zero.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

44. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The first.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

45. Define the agricultural revolution.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Dutch.
The location of a place relative to other places.

46. What is life expectancy?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

47. What was the industrial revolution?
The first.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Stayed around zero.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

48. What is demography?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

49. What is hierarchical diffusion?
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.
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 substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

50. What is globalization?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.