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AP Human Geography

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1. What is the world's most populous country?
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
China.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

2. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
Relocation and expansion.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
80 million

3. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
It declines.
Portuguese.
The demographic transition.

4. How is NIR in stage 3?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It declines.
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 portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

5. What was the industrial revolution?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
The frequency with which something occurs.

6. What is projection?

7. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
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.
The first.
Yangtze and Huang.

8. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
1/5.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

9. What is ecumene?

10. What is stimulus diffusion?
The first.
Relocation and expansion.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.

11. 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 acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The physical character of a place.

12. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Eratosthenes.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

13. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Florida.
The agricultural revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

14. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
- 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.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

15. What is diffusion?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

16. What is life expectancy?
Hearths.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
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.

17. What is the International Date Line?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The Netherlands.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

18. What is contagious diffusion?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The industrial revolution.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
Around the 1950s.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
MDCs
China.

20. What is concentration?

21. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Eratosthenes.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

22. Define the medical revolution.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
MDCs

23. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It declines.
The agricultural revolution.
The name given to a place on Earth.

24. What is GPS?

25. What is overpopulation?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
It declines.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

26. How many countries are still in stage 1?
1/5.
Portuguese.
Zero duh fatso.
Around the 1950s.

27. What is a place?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
1/5.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

28. What is IMR?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Yangtze and Huang.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

29. What is relocation 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 new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

30. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Eratosthenes.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

31. What is distance decay?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The demographic transition.

32. What is a toponym?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
China.
Spatial association.
The name given to a place on Earth.

33. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

34. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

35. What is a region?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

36. What is possibilism?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
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.

37. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
1/5.
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.
MDCs
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

38. Define the agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

39. What is expansion diffusion?

40. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Zero duh fatso.
The Netherlands.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

41. What is remote sensing?

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

43. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
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.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

44. What is distribution?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
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.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

45. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
The demographic transition.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Dutch.

46. What is a functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Yangtze and Huang.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

47. What is doubling time?
Around the 1950s.
It declines.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

48. What is physiological density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Stayed around zero.
MDCs
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

49. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
Aristotle.
Portuguese.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
Yangtze and Huang.

50. What is pattern?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
1/5.
Total number of people divided by total land area.