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AP Human Geography

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1. What is site?
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Dutch.
The physical character of a place.
The extent of a feature's spread of space.

2. What is a functional region?
The Netherlands.
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Dry - wet - cold - or high.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

3. Where is life expectancy and doubling time highest?
MDCs
The extent of a feature's spread of space.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
The method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map.

4. What is a polder?
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.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
An area organized around a node or focal point.

5. 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 something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.
The first.
Total number of people divided by total land area.

6. During the first stage of the demographic transition - which two levels vary considerably but stay relatively high?
The rapid - widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
LDCs
CBR and CDR.

7. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 for a different reason than the previous countries had. What was this push?
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
Islands of Java - Sumatra - Borneo - Sulawesi - and Philippines.
Latitude. A circle drawn around the globe PARALLEL to the equator.
The medical revolution.

8. What is GMT?
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
The process by which a characteristic spreads over space.
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.

9. What is GIS?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.

10. What is a vernacular/perceptual region?
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
LDCs
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

11. What is a region?
An area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features.
The agricultural revolution.
The Netherlands.
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.

12. About how many people are being added to the world yearly?
The new machines resulted in fact agricultural production - which caused more wealth - which meant more money towards sanitation and personal hygiene.
Florida.
China.
80 million

13. What is environmental determinism?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
It declines.
The belief that the physical environment directly CAUSES social development.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.

14. What is culture?
Dutch.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.

15. What is life expectancy?
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Crude birth rate. The total number of live births per every 1000 people per year.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

16. What countries does the East Asian region include?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Japan - Korea - and Taiwan - and China.
Portuguese.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.

17. What countries does the South Asian region include?
The geographic study of human-environment relations.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - and Sri Lanka.
Relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space.
Yangtze and Huang.

18. The worlds NIR in the first decade of the 21st century is...?
Zero duh fatso.
1.2%
The scientific study of population characteristics.
The Netherlands.

19. What is distance decay?
It shoots up like a rocket ship.
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
The body of customary beliefs - material traits - and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

20. What is TFR?
LDCs
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
The frequency with which something occurs.

21. Africa - Asia - and Latin America entered stage 2 when?
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
East Asia - South Asia - Europe - Southeast Asia.
MDCs
Around the 1950s.

22. How is globalization affecting world cultures?

23. How is NIR in stage 3?
Longitude. An arc drawn between the North and South poles.
It declines.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Geographic Information System. A computer that can capture - store - query - analyze - and display geographic data.

24. Place names have what kind of origins in S. Africa?
- 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.
CBR and CDR.
Dutch.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.

25. What is NIR?
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
Total fertility rate. The average number of births a woman will have in her lifetime during her childbearing years.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.

26. What is relocation diffusion?
German Vladimir Koppen.
Dutch.
Zero duh fatso.
The spread of an idea through the physical movements of people.

27. What is a mental map?

28. A country moves from stage 2 to 3 when CBR does what?
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
The agricultural 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.

29. What is hierarchical diffusion?
The agricultural revolution.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.
The spread of something from one key person or node of authority and power to other lower persons or places.

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

31. Most of humanitys occupancy on Earth was characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
The demographic transition.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
The first.
Florida.

32. Why does CBR decline in stage 3?

33. The reason behind many countries entering stage 2 after 1750 was...?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
The industrial revolution.
The geometric arrangement of objects in space.
- 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.

34. What was the NIR like in the first stage of the demographic transition?
China.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.
Alex con Humboldt and Carl Ritter.
Stayed around zero.

35. What is agricultural density?
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
It continues to grow - because CBR is higher than CDR.
The total number of farmers per unit of arable land.
The average a number of years a newborn can expect to live at current mortality levels.

36. Who was the first person to use the word 'geography'?
The industrial revolution.
A process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
Global Positioning System. A system that determines one's exact location on Earth.
Eratosthenes.

37. What kind of agricultural density do MDCs have - and why?
The physical character of a place.
A low agricultural density because they have technology to make up for farmers. This frees farmers to work in factories and such.
The agricultural revolution.
Aristotle.

38. What is space-time compression?
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.
1/5.
The first.

39. What is the world's most populous country?
China.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
Tropical climates - dry climates - warm mid-latitude climates - cold mid-latitude climates - and polar climates.
Smaller cultures are slowly diminishing as popular culture takes over - and many argue that 'western' culture is destroying many other cultures.

40. What is a map?

41. What is situation?
Natural increase rate. The percentage by which a population grows in a year - excluding migration.
The location of a place relative to other places.
The arrangement of a feature in a space.
Greenwich Mean Time. The internationally agreed upon official time reference for Earth.

42. What is concentration?

43. What is remote sensing?

44. Where are the highest populations in Europe?
China.
The spread of an underlying principle - even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse.
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
Near the coalfields of England - Germany - and Belgium.

45. Where did the earliest surviving maps come from?
The number of years needed to double a population - assuming a constant NIR.
Easy access to water - low lying areas - fertile soil - temperate climate.
Total number of people divided by total land area.
Babylonian clay tablets.

46. What US state has been insensitively altered to a great extent?
The longitude at which one moves forward or backward 1 day.
LDCs
Florida.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.

47. What is cultural landscape?
When CBR begans to drop sharply.
Defined by Carl Sauer - it is the area of Earth modified by human habitation.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
Aristotle.

48. What are resources?
It declines.
The substances found on Earth that are useful to people.
LDCs
Hearths.

49. What is physiological density?
Portuguese.
The total number of people per unit of arable land.
It continues to decline - but not as rapidly as in stage 2.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.

50. Name some of the fertile valleys in China that population is clustered around/in.
Yangtze and Huang.
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite.
A two dimensional model of Earth's surface - or a portion of it.
The spread of an idea through 'snowballing.' This is further divided into 3 subgroups.