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AP Human Geography

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1. What is a polder?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
MDCs

2. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

3. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
MDCs
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

4. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
Dutch.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
German Vladimir Koppen.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.

5. What is distribution?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

6. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
CBR and CDR.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
- 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.

7. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The industrial revolution.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
80 million

8. What is expansion diffusion?

9. What is IMR?
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Aristotle.
The industrial revolution.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

10. What is the world's most populous country?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The frequency with which something occurs.
China.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.

11. What is a mental map?

12. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.

13. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
Portuguese.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
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. How is NIR in stage 3?
Hearths.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
It declines.

15. What is possibilism?
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.
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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
China.

16. What European country has been thoroughly modified again and again?
Relocation and expansion.
The Netherlands.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.

17. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Yangtze and Huang.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

18. What is a geographic model that divides a country's development into 4 stages based on its population growth patterns?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The demographic transition.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

19. What are connections?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

20. What is arithmetic density?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

21. Why did the industrial revolution decrease CDR?
Aristotle.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

22. What is overall population like during stage 3?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

23. In stage 2 what happens to CDR and CBR?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
CDR plummets and CBR stays pretty much the same.

24. What is cartography?
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
Portuguese.
The science of map-making.
Relocation and expansion.

25. What is contagious diffusion?
The name given to a place on Earth.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Yangtze and Huang.

26. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

27. What is distance decay?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The Netherlands.
Eratosthenes.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

28. Parallel
Eratosthenes.
Portuguese.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

29. What is situation?
The location of a place relative to other places.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

30. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
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.
Eratosthenes.
Aristotle.

31. How many countries are still in stage 1?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Zero duh fatso.

32. What is CBR?
Around the 1950s.
The location of a place relative to other places.
It declines.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.

33. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
The medical revolution.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

34. What is cultural ecology?
Spatial association.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.

35. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.

36. What is a place?
LDCs
1/5.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
The physical character of a place.

37. What are resources?
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
LDCs
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

38. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
The frequency with which something occurs.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
LDCs
Eratosthenes.

39. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
Portuguese.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Florida.

40. Around 8000 BC - the world population started increasing because of what?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Around the 1950s.
The agricultural revolution.

41. What is overpopulation?
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
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 globalization?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

43. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
The location of a place relative to other places.
Yangtze and Huang.
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.

44. Virtually 100% of the world's Natural Increase is located where?
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
LDCs
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.

45. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The medical 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.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

46. What is physiological density?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.

47. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

48. What is life expectancy?
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.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
MDCs
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

49. Climate of often classified using a system developed by who?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Portuguese.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

50. What is cultural landscape?
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The industrial revolution.