AP Human Geography

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1. How many countries are still in stage 1?
1/5.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Zero duh fatso.


2. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Aristotle.


3. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The industrial revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Yangtze and Huang.


4. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


5. What is distribution?
LDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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 arrangement of a feature in a space.


6. What is a toponym?
The name given to a place on Earth.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


7. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Yangtze and Huang.
The first.
LDCs
The scientific study of population characteristics.


8. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


9. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Spatial association.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


10. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Hearths.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


11. What is a mental map?

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12. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
LDCs


13. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Relocation and expansion.


14. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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15. What is CDR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


16. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Around the 1950s.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The medical revolution.


17. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Stayed around zero.


18. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Florida.
The first.
LDCs
Hearths.


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

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20. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Florida.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


21. What is GMT?
1/5.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


22. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


23. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The medical revolution.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


24. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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25. What is concentration?

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26. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


27. What is GPS?

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28. What is pattern?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Portuguese.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


29. How is NIR in stage 3?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
It declines.
80 million
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


30. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
80 million


31. What is projection?

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32. Parallel
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Hearths.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


33. What is a map?

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34. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
China.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It declines.


35. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The Netherlands.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
80 million


36. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The first.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


37. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Stayed around zero.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Eratosthenes.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


38. What is a functional region?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It declines.
Florida.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


39. What is cultural ecology?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The industrial revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


40. What is environmental determinism?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Yangtze and Huang.


41. What is diffusion?
1.2%
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
MDCs
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


42. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Yangtze and Huang.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


43. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Around the 1950s.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


44. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
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.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


45. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The agricultural revolution.
The demographic transition.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


46. What is possibilism?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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 portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


47. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
Eratosthenes.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


48. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The physical character of a place.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


49. What is a place?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The demographic transition.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


50. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
LDCs
Yangtze and Huang.