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AP Human Geography

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1. Where is two-thirds of the world's population clustered - in order of highest population to lowest population?
The first.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
CBR and CDR.

2. Where is NIR -TFR - CBR - CDR - IMR highest?
LDCs
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

3. What is diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The physical character of a place.
LDCs
The name given to a place on Earth.

4. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
Zero duh fatso.
The Netherlands.
An area organized around a node or focal point.
Babylonian clay tablets.

5. What is a region?
China.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

6. What is scale?

7. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The medical revolution.

8. What is cultural landscape?
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The Netherlands.
Hearths.

9. Factors with similar distributions have what?
Spatial association.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

10. 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.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

11. What are resources?
The frequency with which something occurs.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
LDCs
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.

12. What is overall population like during stage 3?
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

13. What is a mental map?

14. What is GMT?
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.
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.

15. How much of the world's population live in East Asia?
CBR and CDR.
German Vladimir Koppen.
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.

16. Who were the pioneers of environmental determinism?
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Aristotle.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

17. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The medical revolution.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.

18. What countries does the Southeast Asian region include?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The medical revolution.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

19. What is ecumene?

20. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Yangtze and Huang.
1.2%
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.

21. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

22. Place names have what kind of origins in Brazil?
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
LDCs
Portuguese.
The first domestication of animals and plants.

23. What is globalization?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

24. What are connections?
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
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.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

25. What is a functional region?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Spatial association.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

26. What is culture?
Relocation and expansion.
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.

27. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
CBR and CDR.
Crude death rate. The total number of deaths per every 1000 people per year.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.

28. What is GPS?

29. Vladimir Koppen's climate classifications divides Earth into 5 climate regions - which are...
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Zero duh fatso.

30. What is the International Date Line?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
The scientific study of population characteristics.

31. What is The Board of Geographical Names?
The diffufsion of medical technology from MDCs to the LDCs.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.

32. What is possibilism?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
Eratosthenes.
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.

33. Who was the first to demonstrate that Earth is spherical?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The relationship between a map's distances and the actual distances on Earth.
Aristotle.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.

34. 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.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
Babylonian clay tablets.
Zero duh fatso.

35. What is IMR?
1/5.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

36. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
Around the 1950s.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Infant mortality rate. The annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared to number of live births.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

37. What is a toponym?
Zero duh fatso.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
The name given to a place on Earth.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.

38. Define the agricultural revolution.
A committee established in the late nineteenth century to be the final arbiter of names on U.S. maps.
The portion of Earth's surface permanently occupied by humans.
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.

39. What is density?
Relocation and expansion.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The frequency with which something occurs.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.

40. What is Meridian?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Aristotle.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.

41. What is pattern?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Portuguese.

42. Innovations spread from the place they originated - called...
The first domestication of animals and plants.
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
Hearths.

43. Humans sparsely inhabit lands that are too...
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The frequency with which something occurs.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

44. What is projection?

45. Parallel
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
Florida.
One's perceived image of the surrounding landscape's organization.

46. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Yangtze and Huang.
Eratosthenes.

47. What is environmental determinism?
The medical revolution.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

48. What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

49. What is doubling time?
Babylonian clay tablets.
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.

50. What were the results of the medical revolution in recent LDCs?
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
They eliminated many traditional causes of death and enambled more people to experience longer and healthier lives.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.