AP Human Geography

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1. 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.
Dutch.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


2. What is CBR?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


3. Define 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.
Around the 1950s.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


4. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
1/5.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


5. What is hierarchical diffusion?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


6. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


7. What is remote sensing?

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8. What is ecumene?

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9. What is pattern?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Florida.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


10. What is a map?

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11. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
It declines.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
80 million


12. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
LDCs
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
80 million


13. What is demography?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The scientific study of population 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.
Aristotle.


14. What are resources?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
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.


15. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Relocation and expansion.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


16. How is NIR in stage 3?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
It declines.


17. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
80 million
Florida.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


18. What is cultural ecology?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Hearths.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
LDCs


19. What countries does the South Asian region include?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The Netherlands.


20. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
The science of map-making.
80 million
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


21. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The first.
The physical character of a place.
It declines.
LDCs


22. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


23. What is a place?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


24. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


25. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
MDCs
China.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


26. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Yangtze and Huang.
Relocation and expansion.
Hearths.


27. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The physical character of a place.


28. What is environmental determinism?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.


29. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
The industrial revolution.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.


30. What is location?

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31. Parallel
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The medical revolution.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.


32. What is a functional region?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Stayed around zero.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


33. What is site?
Florida.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The physical character of a place.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


34. What is the world's most populous country?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
China.
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.


35. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


36. What is overall population like during stage 3?
Hearths.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
80 million


37. What is cartography?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The science of map-making.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


38. What is a mental map?

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39. What is stimulus diffusion?
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.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Yangtze and Huang.


40. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Zero duh fatso.


41. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The demographic transition.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


42. What is a formal region?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The Netherlands.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.


43. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
1.2%
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


44. What is space-time compression?
The science of map-making.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


45. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Aristotle.
Around the 1950s.
Stayed around zero.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


46. What is life expectancy?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
German Vladimir Koppen.
- 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 average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


47. What is culture?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The first.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.


48. What is NIR?
The medical revolution.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


49. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Stayed around zero.
China.


50. What is expansion diffusion?

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