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AP Human Geography

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1. What is relocation diffusion?
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.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

2. Define the medical revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

3. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The first.
MDCs
The industrial revolution.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

4. What is a mental map?

5. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
It declines.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

6. What are resources?
The industrial revolution.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The first.

7. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Stayed around zero.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
The name given to a place on Earth.

8. What is distance decay?
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

9. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

10. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.

11. What is the world's most populous country?
The medical revolution.
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.
China.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

12. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
The agricultural revolution.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
China.

13. All of the top population clusters have what similarities?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
CBR and CDR.

14. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Spatial association.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

15. What are the 3 subgroups of expansion diffusion?
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Florida.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.

16. What is NIR?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Yangtze and Huang.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

17. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
- 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 number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Zero duh fatso.

18. What is contagious diffusion?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The frequency with which something occurs.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

19. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Yangtze and Huang.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.

20. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

21. How is the NIR in stage 2?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

22. What is arithmetic density?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Zero duh fatso.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

23. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

24. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Portuguese.
1.2%
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

25. What is GMT?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Spatial association.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

26. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
China.
Eratosthenes.
The science of map-making.

27. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
Babylonian clay tablets.
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.

28. What is agricultural density?
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The physical character of a place.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

29. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

30. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

31. What is a map?

32. What is pattern?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
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.

33. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

34. What is environmental determinism?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The name given to a place on Earth.
It declines.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

35. What is globalization?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

36. What is remote sensing?

37. What is distribution?
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.
Yangtze and Huang.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

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

39. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The first.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

40. Parallel
The location of a place relative to other places.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

41. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
The science of map-making.
1.2%
Hearths.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

42. What is doubling time?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

43. What was the industrial revolution?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

44. What is expansion diffusion?

45. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
China.
Eratosthenes.

46. What is IMR?
Spatial association.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Aristotle.

47. What are connections?
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

48. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The medical revolution.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The science of map-making.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.

49. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
Spatial association.
The first.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
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.

50. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The frequency with which something occurs.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Aristotle.