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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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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Artifact
Sociofact
Mentifact
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megacity
Global city
Megalopolis
Edge City
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What is a centripetal force?
One language
Different ethnicities
Different religions
Different cultural backgrounds
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Nomadism
Subsistence
Plantation
Horticulture
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
Remote sensing
map
GIS
GPS
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What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies rejoin their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go to another country
People go back to their home country
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
State:government
Nation-state:state
State:nation-state
Government:state
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Supervising
Repurposing
Offshoring
Outsourcing
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Mendel
Rostow
Malthus
Von Thünen
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What is environmental determinism?
Human behavior controls the environment
The environment controls human behavior
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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What is an example of a dialect?
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
A French speaker speaks only French
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
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One god:many gods
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Monotheism:Polytheism
Gods:God
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Compacted State
Fragmented State
Enlongated State
Perforated State
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-urban migration
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Urbanization
Ruralization
Migration
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Rejuvenation
Gentrification
Renovatation
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Spiritalism
Animalism
Animism
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
Remote sensing
Overlaying
GIS
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Artifact
Mentifact
Sociofact
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
GIS
Remote sensing
Overlaying
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
The United States East Coast
France
England
Russia
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Colonialism
Controlism
Imperalism
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Fancy Region
Populous Region
Perceptual Region
Vernacular Region
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Weber
Burgess
Rostow
Malthus
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
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Define absolute location
The location using a map.
The address of the location.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The location using longitude and latitude .
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An exclave is a....
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Relative location
Around location
Percieved location
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocation
Relocotatism
Reclaimation
Irredentism
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
The population by state and job
Population by age and sex
The population by job and economics
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Federal State
Power House
Unitary State
Compact State
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An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
EEZs
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What model is this?
Sector
Multiple Nuclei
Urban Realms
Concentric Zones
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What is CBR?
Crude bid rent
Crude business rate
Crude baby rate
Crude birth rate
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primate City
Megacity
Primary City
Superior City
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An example of a perceptual region is...
Canada
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
The Tristate Area
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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Define pastoralism
Animals are killed in a season pattern
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Unfair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Fair
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
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Define Megacity
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
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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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The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Population-Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Primary
Tertiary
Quintary
Secondary
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Truck Farming
Freedom Farming
Subsistence Farming
United Farming
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Soloculture
Oneculture
Monoculture
Unoculture
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Quinary:Quaternary
Primary:Secondary
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What is situation?
The agricultural density of a place
The absolute location of a place
The culture of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Gravity model
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
Migration termination
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Brazil
Afghanistan
United States
Haiti
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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 do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
Relic Boundary
Ancient Boundary
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
the destruction of arable land
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What is the domino theory?
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language
Pidgin
Creole
Language Family
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Subsequent
Andecent
Anquescent
Conquescent
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Imperialism
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
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A formal region is a region with...
a percieved image of a region
a connection to transportation
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
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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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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Equality Level
Replacement Level
Secularism
Fertility Rate
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Second Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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Migrants try to minimize the
friction
of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Distance decay
Migration
Gentrification
Friction decay
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling growth
Doubling time
Population growth
Doubling population
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What is the gravity model?
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Population Size Rule
Doublication
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Heirachical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Socioism
Segregation
Atheism
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
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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
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What is site?
The population density of a place
The culture of a place
The physical location of a place
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Relocation
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Agglomeration
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mackinder
Rostow
Malthus
Mendel
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Superimposed boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Forced boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Profit Agriculture
Agribusiness
Industry
Agriculture
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What is the hinterlands?
The urban complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Pidgin
Creole
Lingua franca
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Nomadism
Subsistence Farming
Plantation Farming
