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AP Human Geography

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1. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Florida.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

2. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

3. 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.
1.2%
Yangtze and Huang.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

4. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The demographic transition.
The Netherlands.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

5. What is GIS?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

6. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

7. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

8. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
1.2%
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

9. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The location of a place relative to other places.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Hearths.

10. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

11. What is density?
China.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Eratosthenes.

12. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Yangtze and Huang.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Portuguese.

13. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Eratosthenes.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The first.

14. What is GMT?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of 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.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

15. What is life expectancy?
The demographic transition.
1/5.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

16. What is distribution?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Yangtze and Huang.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

17. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Relocation and expansion.

18. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
1/5.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Zero duh fatso.

19. What is the International Date Line?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
The science of map-making.

20. Parallel
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

21. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
The Netherlands.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

22. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.

23. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

24. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

25. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Hearths.
The physical character of a place.

26. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
The name given to a place on Earth.
Zero duh fatso.
The industrial revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

27. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

28. What is doubling time?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

29. What is culture?
Florida.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Stayed around zero.
Spatial association.

30. What is environmental determinism?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

31. Factors with similar distributions have what?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Spatial association.

32. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
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.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The industrial revolution.

33. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The agricultural revolution.
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.

34. What is scale?

35. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
Spatial association.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

36. What is site?
The physical character of a place.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

37. What is expansion diffusion?

38. What was the industrial revolution?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

39. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

40. What is possibilism?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
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.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

41. What is location?

42. What is overpopulation?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
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.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

43. What is a mental map?

44. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs
Spatial association.

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

46. What is CBR?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
CBR and CDR.

47. How is the NIR in stage 2?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Dutch.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Yangtze and Huang.

48. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Relocation and expansion.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Eratosthenes.

49. What is a toponym?
The physical character of a place.
The name given to a place on Earth.
LDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

50. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The location of a place relative to other places.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
CBR and CDR.