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AP Human Geography Vocabulary
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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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Define pastoralism
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are killed in a season pattern
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Fragmented
Elongated
Compact
Perforated
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The rate of natural increase is
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population+Migrants
Population-Migrants
4
What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
5
What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Subsistence
Nomadism
Plantation
Horticulture
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Industry
Profit Agriculture
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Percieved location
Around location
Mental location
Relative location
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Fragmented
Prorupt
Enlongated
Compact
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
The Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Colonialism
Imperalism
Controlism
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Perforated State
Fragmented State
Enlongated State
Compacted State
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What is the dependency ratio?
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
Children: Adults
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Perceptual Region
Populous Region
Vernacular Region
Fancy Region
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Relocation
Deagglomeration
Agglomeration
Franchise
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
The United States East Coast
Russia
France
England
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocation
Irredentism
Relocotatism
Reclaimation
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Rostow
Mendel
Malthus
Von Thünen
18
Define Megacity
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
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What model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
Concentric Zones
Sector
Urban Realms
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What is a centripetal force?
Different religions
One language
Different ethnicities
Different cultural backgrounds
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language
Creole
Language Family
Pidgin
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
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What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Mega city
Megalopolis
World city
Global city
24
In Lleast cost theory the _____ when locating an industry.
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
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One god:many gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
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What is CBR?
Crude birth rate
Crude baby rate
Crude bid rent
Crude business rate
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Socioism
Segregation
Atheism
Secularism
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mendel
Mackinder
Malthus
Rostow
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An exclave is a....
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
Government:state
State:nation-state
State:government
Nation-state:state
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What is imperialism?
A country colonizing other countries
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country by force
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Monoculture
Soloculture
Oneculture
34
What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Superimposed boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
Forced boundaries
Amendment boundaries
35
Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The address of the location.
The location using a map.
36
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Brazil
United States
Haiti
Afghanistan
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Basic
Nonbasic
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
GPS
Remote sensing
GIS
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Migration
Urbanization
Ruralization
Suburbanization
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling time
Doubling population
Doubling growth
Population growth
43
Who created the concentric zone model?
Weber
Rostow
Burgess
Malthus
44
What is an example of a dialect?
A French speaker speaks only French
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Creole
Lingua franca
Pidgin
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Sector Model
Rostow's Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Concentric Zone Model
47
Which is a megalopolis?
The Tristate Area
The Corn Belt
Toyko
London
48
A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Nomadism
Shifting Agriculture
Subsistence Farming
Plantation Farming
49
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
War
Power
Laws
Sovereignty
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
the destruction of arable land
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
52
A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
The population by job and economics
Population by age and sex
The population by state and job
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Supervising
54
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Subsistence Farming
Freedom Farming
Truck Farming
United Farming
55
What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Spiritalism
Animalism
Animism
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Relic Boundary
Relict Boundary
Former Boundary
Ancient Boundary
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Power House
Compact State
Unitary State
Federal State
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Quintary
Secondary
Primary
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
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What is site?
The culture of a place
The population density of a place
The physical location of a place
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Primary:Secondary
Quinary:Quaternary
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primary City
Superior City
Primate City
Megacity
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Andecent
Conquescent
Subsequent
Anquescent
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between economic and business growth
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Edge City
Megacity
Global city
Megalopolis
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Unfair
Fair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Population Size Rule
Doublication
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The absolute location of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The agricultural density of a place
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Cultural diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
73
What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Renovatation
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
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A formal region is a region with...
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
a percieved image of a region
a connection to transportation
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
77
An example of a perceptual region is...
The Rocky Mountains
Canada
The Tristate Area
The Deep South
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The urban complex outside of a city
A rural complex outside of a city
