AP Human Geography

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1. What is concentration?

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2. What is possibilism?
Around the 1950s.
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 Netherlands.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


3. What is IMR?
The Netherlands.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


4. What are resources?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


5. What is ecumene?

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6. Parallel
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The agricultural revolution.
German Vladimir Koppen.


7. What is expansion diffusion?

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8. What is CBR?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


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

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10. What is overpopulation?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


11. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
German Vladimir Koppen.
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.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


12. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
The agricultural revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Zero duh fatso.
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.


13. What is Meridian?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


14. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
It declines.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


15. What is GPS?

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16. What is GIS?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


17. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The agricultural revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


18. What is physiological density?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
LDCs
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


19. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Florida.


20. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


21. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The agricultural revolution.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
MDCs


22. What is a place?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


23. What is a mental map?

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24. What is a region?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.


25. How is NIR in stage 3?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It declines.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


26. What is distribution?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The industrial revolution.
80 million
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


27. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
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.
The agricultural revolution.


28. What is a map?

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29. What is arithmetic density?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The name given to a place on Earth.


30. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
LDCs
Babylonian clay tablets.
MDCs
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


31. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.


32. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.


33. What is the world's most populous country?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
1.2%
CBR and CDR.
China.


34. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Portuguese.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


35. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Eratosthenes.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


36. What is site?
Around the 1950s.
Aristotle.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The physical character of a place.


37. What is the International Date Line?
Zero duh fatso.
The demographic transition.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Hearths.


38. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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39. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The first.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
80 million
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


40. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The demographic transition.
LDCs
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.


41. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Florida.


42. What is density?
The medical revolution.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The frequency with which something occurs.


43. What is pattern?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Around the 1950s.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.


44. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
CBR and CDR.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
80 million
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


45. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Aristotle.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The Netherlands.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.


46. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
German Vladimir Koppen.
LDCs
China.


47. What is distance decay?
1.2%
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.


48. What is culture?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The Netherlands.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.


49. What is demography?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.


50. What is scale?

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