AP Human Geography

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1. What is stimulus diffusion?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
1/5.


2. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Stayed around zero.
LDCs
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Spatial association.


3. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Around the 1950s.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.


4. What is GPS?

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5. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Hearths.
Relocation and expansion.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


6. Parallel
The demographic transition.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


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

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8. What is ecumene?

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9. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Florida.
The medical revolution.
Around the 1950s.


10. What is a polder?
- 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.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.


11. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
LDCs
Portuguese.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.


12. What countries does the East Asian region include?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Relocation and expansion.
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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.


13. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
Eratosthenes.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The first domestication of animals and plants.


14. What is contagious diffusion?
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Babylonian clay tablets.


15. What is a formal region?
An area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.


16. What is a map?

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17. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
Yangtze and Huang.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
Florida.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.


18. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The first.
CBR and CDR.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The name given to a place on Earth.


19. What is a mental map?

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20. What is pattern?
LDCs
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


21. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
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.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.


22. What is scale?

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23. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

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24. What is CDR?
The frequency with which something occurs.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.


25. What is the equation for arithmetic density?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Relocation and expansion.
1/5.
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.


26. Define the medical revolution.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
Relocation and expansion.


27. What is TFR?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The scientific study of population characteristics.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.


28. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The first.


29. 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.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Stayed around zero.


30. What is cultural landscape?
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Hearths.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


31. What is GMT?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.


32. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Spatial association.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
The demographic transition.


33. What is expansion diffusion?

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34. What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
- 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 spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.


35. What is location?

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36. What is distance decay?
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 diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Eratosthenes.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.


37. What is density?
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
Yangtze and Huang.
The frequency with which something occurs.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.


38. How is globalization affecting the world's economy?
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.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
It declines.
Hierarchical - contagious - and stimulus.


39. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
China.
Florida.
Stayed around zero.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.


40. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The agricultural revolution.
Zero duh fatso.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.


41. What is space-time compression?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 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.


42. What is life expectancy?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Babylonian clay tablets.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Aristotle.


43. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
Around the 1950s.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.


44. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
The Netherlands.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.


45. Define the agricultural revolution.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
Dutch.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.


46. What are the two kinds of diffusion?
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
Relocation and expansion.
Hearths.
Yangtze and Huang.


47. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Dutch.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.


48. What is CBR?
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
1.2%
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.


49. What is a place?
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.


50. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Yangtze and Huang.
The industrial revolution.