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AP Human Geography

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1. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

2. What is overall population like during stage 3?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

3. What is agricultural density?
The total number of farmers 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.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

4. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
- 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 medical revolution.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

5. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

6. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Portuguese.
Yangtze and Huang.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

7. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
1/5.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Eratosthenes.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

8. What is a mental map?

9. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Hearths.

10. What is demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Portuguese.
80 million

11. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
LDCs
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

12. What is a place?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Hearths.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

13. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
LDCs
Aristotle.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

14. Parallel
Eratosthenes.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

15. What is arithmetic density?
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

16. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Dutch.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

17. What is possibilism?
Around the 1950s.
The industrial 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.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

18. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
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 belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The medical revolution.

19. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Eratosthenes.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

20. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Relocation and expansion.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The industrial revolution.

21. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

22. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The science of map-making.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

23. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
80 million
LDCs

24. What is concentration?

25. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Spatial association.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

26. What is a toponym?
- 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 position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The name given to a place on Earth.

27. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Babylonian clay tablets.

28. Define the medical revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It declines.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

29. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
80 million

30. What is location?

31. What is life expectancy?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.
The demographic transition.

32. What is cultural ecology?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The location of a place relative to other places.

33. What is ecumene?

34. What countries does the East Asian region include?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Hearths.

35. What is physiological density?
The first.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

36. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
1.2%
German Vladimir Koppen.
LDCs
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

37. What is GPS?

38. What is space-time compression?
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

39. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The name given to a place on Earth.
LDCs
1.2%

40. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

41. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Florida.

42. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
The agricultural revolution.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

43. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Aristotle.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.

44. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Portuguese.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
80 million
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

45. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Aristotle.

46. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

47. What is distribution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The name given to a place on Earth.
China.

48. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

49. What is stimulus diffusion?
Around the 1950s.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

50. What is diffusion?
The science of map-making.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Dutch.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.