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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and much more as significant
Primary City
Megacity
Superior City
Primate City
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A formal region is a region with...
a percieved image of a region
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
a connection to transportation
3
The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
4
State where over 90%+ of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
Nation-state:state
State:nation-state
Government:state
State:government
5
A state that is long and narrow in shape
Fragmented State
Enlongated State
Compacted State
Perforated State
6
What is a centripetal force?
One language
Different religions
Different ethnicities
Different cultural backgrounds
7
The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Gentrification
Renovatation
Rejuvenation
8
This is an example of which type of diffusion
Hierarchical
Stimulus
X
What the heck
9
One god:many gods
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
10
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Sovereignty
War
Laws
Power
11
What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Mentifact
Artifact
Sociofact
12
What is site?
The physical location of a place
The culture of a place
The population density of a place
13
What is decolonization?
People go to another country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go back to their home country
14
What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Afghanistan
United States
Haiti
Brazil
15
A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Plantation Farming
Nomadism
Shifting Agriculture
Subsistence Farming
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between population and economic growth
17
What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
18
Define Megacity
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 10 thousand people
19
Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Friction decay
Distance decay
Migration
Gentrification
20
What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Controlism
Colonialism
Claimstake
Superiorism
21
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
22
The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
GPS
GIS
Remote sensing
23
Define absolute location
The address of the location.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using a map.
24
A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Pidgin
Language
Creole
Simplistic Language
25
A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Shamanism
Buddhism
Ancient Belief
Christianity
26
The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population-Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
27
What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Spiritalism
Animism
Animalism
28
What is situation?
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The culture of a place
The absolute location of a place
The agricultural density of a place
29
What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
30
An exclave is a....
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
Piece of island that is surrounded by another territory
31
Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
United States: PRC
Canada: United States
Confederate: Federal
Federal: Confederate
32
Which is a megalopolis?
Toyko
The Corn Belt
London
Boswash
33
What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
34
Define pastoralism
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are killed in a season pattern
35
What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
36
The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Relative location
Around location
Mental location
Percieved location
37
The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
38
What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business Disclosure
Central Business District
39
Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decision making
Quinary:Quaternary
Primary:Secondary
Secondary:Primary
Quaternary:Quinary
40
The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Duplification
Rank Size Rule
Population Size Rule
Doublication
41
What is the dependency ratio?
People 25-65:People under 15 & older than 65
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
Children: Adults
42
A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
Population by age and sex
The population by job and economics
The population by state and job
43
A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
44
What is CBR?
Crude birth rate
Crude baby rate
Crude business rate
Crude bid rent
45
The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
46
Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Mendel
Malthus
Rostow
47
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
United Farming
Freedom Farming
Subsistence Farming
Truck Farming
48
What is a popular region named for the way people perceive it?
Fancy Region
Perceptual Region
Vernacular Region
Populous Region
49
An example of a perceptual region is...
The South
Canada
The Tristate Area
The Rocky Mountains
50
The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling population
Population growth
Doubling growth
Doubling time
51
What type of economic activities provide services?
Primary
Tertiary
Quintary
Secondary
52
The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Replacement Level
Secularism
Fertility Rate
Equality Level
53
The adoption of something by a ruler or administrator diffused downward into the society is
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
54
The gerrymandering process is...
Fair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Unfair
55
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals come?
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
56
What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
urban-to-suburban migration
rural-to-suburban migration
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-rural migration
57
Define antecedent boundary
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
58
What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The urban complex outside of a city
59
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
Russia
The United States East Coast
France
England
60
Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Third Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
61
An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
EEZs
62
Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Pidgin
Business language
Creole
Lingua franca
63
Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
Determinism
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Prorupt
Enlongated
Compact
Fragmented
65
What is step migration?
A series of small moves to reach a destination
Migrating up a set of stairs
Moving only a small bit away
66
What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Conquescent
Anquescent
Andecent
Subsequent
67
This model is
Malthus
Griffin Ford
McGee
Concentric Zone
68
The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Oneculture
Soloculture
Monoculture
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Unitary State
Power House
Compact State
Federal State
70
Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
the destruction of arable land
71
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
72
A state that totally surrounds another country.
Compact
Elongated
Perforated
Fragmented
73
A urban area away from the CBD that consists of more workers than residents
Megacity
Edge City
Megalopolis
Global city
74
What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Profit Agriculture
Agribusiness
Industry
Agriculture
75
What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Migration
Urbanization
Ruralization
Suburbanization
76
What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Vengeful boundaries
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Amendment boundaries
77
What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Relict Boundary
Former Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relic Boundary
78
Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Gravity model
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
Migration termination
79
What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Global city
World city
Megalopolis
Mega city
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Horticulture
Nomadism
Subsistence
Plantation
