AP Human Geography

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1. What is environmental determinism?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
80 million
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The location of a place relative to other places.


2. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


3. What is scale?

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4. What is distance decay?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.


5. What is stimulus diffusion?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Dutch.
LDCs


6. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


7. What is TFR?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
LDCs
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.


8. What is a mental map?

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9. What is hierarchical diffusion?
1.2%
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The scientific study of population characteristics.


10. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


11. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.


12. What is a toponym?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The name given to a place on Earth.


13. What is life expectancy?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The industrial revolution.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.


14. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
80 million
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Total number of people divided by total land area.


15. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
80 million
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Hearths.


16. Define the agricultural revolution.
Eratosthenes.
The demographic transition.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


17. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
MDCs
The industrial revolution.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.


18. How is NIR in stage 3?
German Vladimir Koppen.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
It declines.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


19. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
MDCs


20. What is a formal region?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.


21. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
LDCs
The Netherlands.


22. What is GMT?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Spatial association.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


23. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
Dutch.
Eratosthenes.


24. What is physiological density?
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
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.
Dutch.


25. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Around the 1950s.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


26. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Around the 1950s.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


27. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
China.
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
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.


28. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Around the 1950s.
The agricultural revolution.


29. What are connections?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The agricultural revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


30. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
Aristotle.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Portuguese.


31. What is remote sensing?

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32. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
1.2%
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.


33. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It declines.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


34. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


35. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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36. What is situation?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The demographic transition.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


37. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


38. What is ecumene?

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39. What is GPS?

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40. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Hearths.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.


41. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Zero duh fatso.


42. What is a functional region?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Spatial association.
The first.
An area organized around a node or focal point.


43. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
LDCs
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


44. What is demography?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


45. What is a map?

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46. What is site?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The physical character of a place.


47. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
1/5.


48. What is the International Date Line?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
CBR and CDR.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.


49. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
CBR and CDR.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Zero duh fatso.
Stayed around zero.


50. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.