AP Human Geography

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1. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.


2. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Eratosthenes.
The demographic transition.
CBR and CDR.


3. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
LDCs
Spatial association.


4. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The Netherlands.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


5. What is doubling time?
The agricultural revolution.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


6. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The first.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


7. What is distribution?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


8. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
Yangtze and Huang.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
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.


9. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
1.2%
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 arrangement of a feature in a space.


10. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


11. What is the International Date Line?
- 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 total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Eratosthenes.


12. What is projection?

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13. What is a place?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.


14. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.


15. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The agricultural revolution.
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.
Dutch.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


16. What is overpopulation?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Around the 1950s.


17. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Around the 1950s.


18. What is ecumene?

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19. What is stimulus diffusion?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


20. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Dutch.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Yangtze and Huang.


21. What is GIS?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


22. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


23. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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24. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
Eratosthenes.
The science of map-making.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.


25. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
China.
The medical revolution.


26. What is a region?
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


27. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


28. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Florida.
Relocation and expansion.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.


29. What is a formal region?
The first.
Spatial association.
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The name given to a place on Earth.


30. What is the world's most populous country?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
China.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


31. What is CDR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The physical character of a place.


32. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It declines.


33. What is contagious 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.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


34. What is expansion diffusion?

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35. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Around the 1950s.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.


36. What is diffusion?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.


37. What is globalization?
Hearths.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
LDCs


38. How is NIR in stage 3?
It declines.
Portuguese.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


39. What is relocation diffusion?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
The physical character of a place.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.


40. What countries does the South Asian region include?
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.


41. Define the medical revolution.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.


42. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.


43. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
MDCs


44. 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.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.


45. What are connections?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
- 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.


46. What is location?

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47. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Dutch.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relocation and expansion.
The first.


48. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The demographic transition.


49. What is IMR?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.


50. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The Netherlands.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.