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AP Human Geography

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1. What is possibilism?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
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.

2. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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3. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Spatial association.
Around the 1950s.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Dutch.

4. What is ecumene?

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5. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
Florida.
Babylonian clay tablets.
German Vladimir Koppen.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

6. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The location of a place relative to other places.
80 million
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

7. How is the NIR in stage 2?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

8. What is CBR?
The physical character of a place.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

9. What is the world's most populous country?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The demographic transition.
Around the 1950s.
China.

10. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Babylonian clay tablets.

11. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
China.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

12. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
MDCs
The first.

13. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
Relocation and expansion.
CBR and CDR.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.

14. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
Dutch.
China.
LDCs
Florida.

15. What is contagious diffusion?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
The medical revolution.

16. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
LDCs

17. Define the medical revolution.
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 diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

18. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
80 million
The agricultural revolution.

19. What is environmental determinism?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

20. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Hearths.

21. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Eratosthenes.
1.2%
China.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

22. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
MDCs

23. What is a mental map?

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24. What is stimulus diffusion?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

25. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
LDCs
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
The location of a place relative to other places.

26. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

27. What are connections?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
80 million
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

28. What is the International Date Line?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

29. What is globalization?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

30. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

31. What is IMR?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

32. What is a place?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

33. What was the industrial revolution?
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A period of improvements in industrial technology - like the invention of steam engines and mass production.
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.

34. What is agricultural density?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
MDCs
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

35. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

36. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The first.
Florida.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.

37. What happens to CDR during stage 3?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
CBR and CDR.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

38. What countries does the South Asian region include?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
It declines.
1.2%
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.

39. What is CDR?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.

40. How many countries are still in stage 1?
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Zero duh fatso.

41. What is a toponym?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The name given to a place on Earth.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

42. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
CBR and CDR.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.

43. What is cultural landscape?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
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.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Dutch.

44. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
LDCs
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
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 spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

45. What is life expectancy?
MDCs
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.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

46. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

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47. What is overpopulation?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Florida.
German Vladimir Koppen.
Dutch.

48. What is NIR?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

49. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
Hearths.
Portuguese.
The name given to a place on Earth.
China.

50. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
LDCs
The demographic transition.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.