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Duplicate of AP Human Geography Vocabulary
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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
urban-to-rural migration
rural-to-suburban migration
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The agricultural density of a place
The absolute location of a place
3
Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Locational Depedence Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Location Theory
Middlism
4
Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Gentrification
Friction decay
Distance decay
Migration
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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 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 400 people
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
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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 process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
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What is site?
The population density of a place
The physical location of a place
The culture of a place
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One god:many gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
God:Gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Ancient Boundary
Relic Boundary
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
12
What is CBR?
Crude business rate
Crude bid rent
Crude baby rate
Crude birth rate
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
Renovatation
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What is a charter group?
A large group of people go to a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Compact
Fragmented
Enlongated
Prorupt
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Quintary
Primary
Secondary
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Soloculture
Oneculture
Unoculture
Monoculture
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
The Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First 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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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Doublication
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Population Size Rule
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Creole
Language
Pidgin
Language Family
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Define Megacity
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
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An example of a perceptual region is...
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
Canada
The Tristate Area
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
25
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
26
What is an example of channelized migration?
Senior citizens move to California
A Mexican family move to Texas
Young adult singles move to Chicago
A Cuban family comes to Florida
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that require maximum transport firms
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Rostow's Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
29
What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primary City
Megacity
Primate City
Superior City
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Plantation
Nomadism
Subsistence
Horticulture
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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 economic and business growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
33
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
Sovereignty
War
Laws
34
What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Brazil
Haiti
Afghanistan
United States
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Fragmented
Elongated
Compact
Perforated
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Migration termination
Gravity model
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
Canada: United States
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
United States: Canada
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What model is this?
Concentric Zones
Urban Realms
Sector
Multiple Nuclei
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Possibilism
Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
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What is step migration?
A series of small moves to reach a destination
Moving only a small bit away
Migrating up a set of stairs
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
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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
43
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 form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Shamanism
Buddhism
Christianity
Ancient Belief
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
Imperialism
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants move to a country
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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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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Irredentism
Relocation
Relocotatism
Reclaimation
51
What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Nonbasic
Basic
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EPZs
EEZs
53
Define absolute location
The location using a map.
The location using longitude and latitude .
The address of the location.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
54
What is a charter group?
The most recent group of people to go to a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
A large group of people go to a place
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population-Migrants
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
New Culture: Old Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Agglomeration
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Relocation
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
the destruction of arable land
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Controlism
Colonialism
Superiorism
Imperalism
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
GPS
Remote sensing
Overlaying
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What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business Disclosure
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
State:nation-state
State:government
Nation-state:state
Government:state
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What is the domino theory?
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Perforated State
Enlongated State
Compacted State
Fragmented State
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Global city
Megalopolis
Megacity
Edge City
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supervising
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Mentifact
Sociofact
Artifact
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritalism
Animalism
Spiritism
Animism
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Rostow
Mendel
Mackinder
Malthus
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
Remote sensing
GIS
GPS
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What is the multiplier effect
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
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What is the dependency ratio?
Children: Adults
People working:People unemployed
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Populous Region
Fancy Region
Vernacular Region
Perceptual Region
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Second Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supervising
Repurposing
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What is an example of a dialect?
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
A French speaker speaks only French
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Which is a megalopolis?
The Tristate Area
London
The Corn Belt
Toyko
82
Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Pidgin
Business language
Lingua franca
Creole
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Unitary State
Power House
Federal State
Compact State
85
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Freedom Farming
Subsistence Farming
Truck Farming
United Farming
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Secondary:Primary
Primary:Secondary
Quaternary:Quinary
Quinary:Quaternary
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Forced boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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What is the hinterlands?
The urban complex outside of a city
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
90
What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Global city
Megalopolis
Mega city
World city
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An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EEZs
EPZs
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Pidgin
Language Family
Creole
Language
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Migration
Ruralization
Urbanization
94
What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Socioism
Segregation
Atheism
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What is decolonization?
People go to another country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go back to their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country by force
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country colonizing other countries
A country decolonizing from another country
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
98
What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Hiearchical
Contagious
Spatial
Spreading
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Malthus
Rostow
Mendel
Von Thünen
100
A population pyramid reflects on the
Population by age and sex
The population by age and job
The population by job and economics
The population by state and job
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Nomadism
Plantation Farming
Subsistence Farming
Shifting Agriculture
102
Who created the concentric zone model?
Rostow
Weber
Malthus
Burgess
103
The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling time
Population growth
Doubling population
Doubling growth
104
The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GNP
GDP
105
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
England
The United States East Coast
Russia
France
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Relative location
Percieved location
Around location
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Andecent
Conquescent
Subsequent
Anquescent
108
Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Profit Agriculture
Industry
Agribusiness
Agriculture
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Mentifact
Sociofact
Artifact
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What is a centripetal force?
Different cultural backgrounds
Different religions
Different ethnicities
One language
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The gerrymandering process is...
Fair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Unfair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Replacement Level
Fertility Rate
Secularism
Equality Level
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Pidgin
Simplistic Language
Creole
Language
