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AP Human Geography

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1. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The name given to a place on Earth.

2. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dutch.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Eratosthenes.

3. What is diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

4. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The Netherlands.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

5. What is concentration?

6. What is physiological density?
Hearths.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
- 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.

7. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
80 million
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

8. What is location?

9. 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.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
LDCs

10. What is distribution?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

11. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Spatial association.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Florida.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

12. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The industrial revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

13. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
LDCs

14. What is GIS?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
LDCs
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

15. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Stayed around zero.

16. What is CBR?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Stayed around zero.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

17. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
80 million
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

18. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The demographic transition.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.

19. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Around the 1950s.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Babylonian clay tablets.

20. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The science of map-making.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

21. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Portuguese.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Zero duh fatso.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

22. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
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.

23. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The Netherlands.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
LDCs

24. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

25. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The agricultural revolution.

26. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

27. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The location of a place relative to other places.
MDCs
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
LDCs

28. What is projection?

29. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The demographic transition.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
1/5.
German Vladimir Koppen.

30. What is overpopulation?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
LDCs
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

31. What is culture?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

32. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The medical revolution.
The first.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

33. What is IMR?
1.2%
Spatial association.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

34. What is a polder?
Hearths.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

35. What is the world's most populous country?
LDCs
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
China.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

36. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

37. What is relocation diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

38. What is pattern?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
China.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

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

40. What is space-time compression?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The agricultural revolution.

41. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Portuguese.
The agricultural revolution.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

42. What is scale?

43. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
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.
80 million

44. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The physical character of a place.

45. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Aristotle.
Zero duh fatso.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

46. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The medical revolution.
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.
German Vladimir Koppen.

47. What is environmental determinism?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Dutch.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

48. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

49. What is NIR?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It declines.

50. What is density?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
LDCs
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.