AP Human Geography

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1. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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2. What is a mental map?

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3. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
80 million


4. What is GPS?

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5. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The physical character of a place.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


6. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
80 million
China.
Stayed around zero.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


7. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
80 million
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.


8. What is TFR?
Zero duh fatso.
Aristotle.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


9. What is NIR?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
LDCs


10. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The science of map-making.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


11. What is location?

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12. What is situation?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
LDCs
The location of a place relative to other places.
Relocation and expansion.


13. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


14. What is density?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The physical character of a place.


15. What is distance decay?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
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.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


16. What is cultural landscape?
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.
Hearths.
1.2%


17. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
Relocation and expansion.
The agricultural revolution.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


18. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
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.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


19. Parallel
German Vladimir Koppen.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


20. What is stimulus diffusion?
- 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 diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.


21. What is projection?

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22. What is a toponym?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The name given to a place on Earth.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


23. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
1/5.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


24. What is life expectancy?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Dutch.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


25. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Aristotle.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


26. What is site?
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The physical character of a place.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


27. Factors with similar distributions have what?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Spatial association.


28. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Zero duh fatso.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Dutch.


29. What is agricultural density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The industrial revolution.
Dutch.


30. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Hearths.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


31. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
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.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


32. What is the International Date Line?
Stayed around zero.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
China.


33. What is space-time compression?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
- 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 reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.


34. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Around the 1950s.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The industrial revolution.


35. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
The science of map-making.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


36. What is scale?

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37. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


38. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Stayed around zero.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


39. What is cartography?
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The science of map-making.
The demographic transition.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


40. What is a functional region?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


41. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Zero duh fatso.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
LDCs


42. What is expansion diffusion?

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43. What is remote sensing?

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44. What is ecumene?

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45. What is cultural ecology?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


46. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Florida.
The medical revolution.


47. What is hierarchical diffusion?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
German Vladimir Koppen.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


48. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
CBR and CDR.
The frequency with which something occurs.
It declines.


49. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


50. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.