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1. What is GIS?
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.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
- 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.

2. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
1/5.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

3. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The industrial revolution.
The frequency with which something occurs.

4. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
German Vladimir Koppen.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

5. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
MDCs
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

6. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The demographic transition.

7. What is doubling time?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
China.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

8. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
1.2%
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

9. What is CDR?
1.2%
Babylonian clay tablets.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

10. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The agricultural revolution.
80 million
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

11. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The science of map-making.
Florida.

12. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
1/5.

13. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

14. What is a polder?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
- 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.

15. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.

16. What is remote sensing?

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17. What is CBR?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The Netherlands.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

18. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Yangtze and Huang.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Aristotle.
1.2%

19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
It declines.
The first.

20. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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21. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The medical revolution.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The Netherlands.

22. What is GMT?
LDCs
The Netherlands.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

23. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
MDCs
Portuguese.

24. What is situation?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The location of a place relative to other places.

25. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
Aristotle.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The agricultural revolution.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

26. What is cultural landscape?
Eratosthenes.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

27. What is space-time compression?
The agricultural revolution.
Relocation and expansion.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
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.

28. Define the agricultural revolution.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

29. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The industrial revolution.

30. What is IMR?
The science of map-making.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
1/5.

31. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The first.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

32. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Relocation and expansion.
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 Netherlands.

33. What is distance decay?
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 number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

34. What is agricultural density?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Around the 1950s.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

35. What is pattern?
CBR and CDR.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

36. What is the world's most populous country?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
China.
The science of map-making.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

37. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Florida.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

38. What is possibilism?
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
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

39. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
CBR and CDR.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

40. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
German Vladimir Koppen.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Portuguese.

41. What is life expectancy?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

42. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

43. What is Meridian?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

44. Factors with similar distributions have what?
The agricultural revolution.
Spatial association.
Around the 1950s.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

45. What is concentration?

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46. What are connections?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

47. What is a mental map?

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48. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Yangtze and Huang.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

49. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Yangtze and Huang.

50. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The agricultural revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.