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AP Human Geography

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1. What is relocation diffusion?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Dutch.
Aristotle.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

2. What are resources?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The medical revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The physical character of a place.

3. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

4. What is distribution?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The medical revolution.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

5. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
CBR and CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

6. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The first.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

7. What is situation?
The physical character of a place.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Aristotle.
The location of a place relative to other places.

8. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Stayed around zero.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
LDCs
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

9. What is cultural landscape?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

10. What is remote sensing?

11. What was the industrial revolution?
Dutch.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.

12. How is NIR in stage 3?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It declines.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

13. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Around the 1950s.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

14. Parallel
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

15. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
Stayed around zero.
Eratosthenes.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

16. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
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.
MDCs

17. What is TFR?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Relocation and expansion.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
It declines.

18. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
Relocation and expansion.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Stayed around zero.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

19. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Aristotle.
The medical revolution.
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.

20. What is diffusion?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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 rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

21. How many countries are still in stage 1?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Zero duh fatso.
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 spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

22. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The Netherlands.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

23. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
80 million
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

24. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The Netherlands.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

25. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Around the 1950s.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Yangtze and Huang.

26. 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.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
- 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.

27. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The physical character of a place.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

28. What is environmental determinism?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
LDCs
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

29. What is CDR?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Eratosthenes.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

30. What is cultural ecology?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

31. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The medical revolution.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

32. What is location?

33. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
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.
LDCs

34. How is the NIR in stage 2?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Dutch.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

35. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
Florida.
The demographic transition.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

36. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The first.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

37. What is Meridian?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
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.

38. What is cartography?
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 science of map-making.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.

39. What is overpopulation?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Babylonian clay tablets.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

40. Define the agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Portuguese.
It declines.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

41. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
MDCs
1/5.

42. What is stimulus diffusion?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

43. What is distance decay?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs

44. What is possibilism?
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.
80 million
LDCs
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

45. What is pattern?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Relocation and expansion.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

46. What is a functional region?
Florida.
Around the 1950s.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

47. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The science of map-making.

48. What is GIS?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

49. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

50. 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 substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Spatial association.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.