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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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What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Rostow's Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
3
A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Superior City
Megacity
Primate City
Primary City
4
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
France
England
The United States East Coast
Russia
5
What is a charter group?
The first group of people to settle at a place
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
6
Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language Family
Creole
Language
Pidgin
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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
United States: Canada
Confederate: Federal
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Supervising
Offshoring
Outsourcing
Repurposing
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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
Government:state
State:government
Nation-state:state
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Enlongated State
Fragmented State
Perforated State
Compacted State
12
Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Pidgin
Creole
Lingua franca
Business language
13
A state that totally surrounds another country.
Fragmented
Elongated
Compact
Perforated
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Subsequent
Andecent
Conquescent
Anquescent
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
Imperialism
Superiorism
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move to a country
18
The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
GIS
GPS
Remote sensing
19
A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Global city
Edge City
Megalopolis
Megacity
20
A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Ancient Belief
Buddhism
Shamanism
Christianity
21
What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Imperalism
Colonialism
Controlism
22
What is an example of channelized migration?
A Mexican family move to Texas
Senior citizens move to California
A Cuban family comes to Florida
Young adult singles move to Chicago
23
What is decolonization?
People go to another country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go back to their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
24
An example of a perceptual region is...
The Tristate Area
The Deep South
Canada
The Rocky Mountains
25
What is the hinterlands?
The urban complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
26
What is CBR?
Crude birth rate
Crude bid rent
Crude baby rate
Crude business rate
27
Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
28
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Subsistence Farming
Truck Farming
Freedom Farming
United Farming
29
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
War
Power
Sovereignty
Laws
30
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
31
The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Percieved location
Relative location
Around location
32
What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
33
An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
EEZs
34
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
35
Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Burgess
Weber
Rostow
36
Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The location using a map.
The address of the location.
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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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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
39
What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
Afghanistan
Brazil
United States
40
Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Migration
Gentrification
Distance decay
Friction decay
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Intervening opportunity
Migration termination
Gravity model
Location diffusion
42
What is situation?
The absolute location of a place
The culture of a place
The agricultural density of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
43
What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country by force
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country decolonizing from another country
A country colonizing other countries
44
What is the domino theory?
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
A group of people move, so more people will move
If a family moves, their relatives will move
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Population growth
Doubling population
Doubling growth
Doubling time
46
When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Agglomeration
Deagglomeration
Franchise
Relocation
47
What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-rural migration
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GPS
49
What is a charter group?
The most recent group of people to go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
A large group of people go to a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
50
Define pastoralism
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are killed in a season pattern
51
What is the heartland-rimland theory?
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
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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
53
Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mendel
Malthus
Rostow
Mackinder
54
A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
New Culture: Old Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
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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
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Animism
Spiritalism
Animalism
Spiritism
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What model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
Sector
Concentric Zones
Urban Realms
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Secularism
Fertility Rate
Replacement Level
Equality Level
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Define Megacity
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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What is the multiplier effect
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Spreading
Spatial
Contagious
Hiearchical
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Malthus
Von Thünen
Mendel
Rostow
65
A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Pidgin
Language Family
Creole
Language
66
A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by job and economics
The population by state and job
The population by age and job
Population by age and sex
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Renovatation
Rejuvenation
Gentrification
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What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
70
What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Subsistence
Plantation
Horticulture
Nomadism
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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
72
What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Megalopolis
World city
Mega city
Global city
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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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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Reclaimation
Relocation
Irredentism
Relocotatism
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Fair
Unfair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Perceptual Region
Fancy Region
Populous Region
Vernacular Region
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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 production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Repurposing
Supervising
Outsourcing
Offshoring
79
What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business Disclosure
Citizen Business District
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Segregation
Atheism
Socioism
Secularism
81
What is a centripetal force?
One language
Different religions
Different cultural backgrounds
Different ethnicities
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
83
What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Urbanization
Migration
Ruralization
Suburbanization
84
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
85
Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
86
A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Sociofact
Artifact
Mentifact
87
What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Nonbasic
Basic
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
89
A formal region is a region with...
a connection to transportation
a percieved image of a region
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Vengeful boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
91
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
92
What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Relic Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relict Boundary
Former Boundary
93
One god:many gods
God:Gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
Gods:God
Polytheism:Monotheism
94
What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Secondary
Primary
Quintary
95
The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
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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
98
What is step migration?
Migrating up a set of stairs
A series of small moves to reach a destination
Moving only a small bit away
99
The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
100
The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Oneculture
Soloculture
Monoculture
101
What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agriculture
Agribusiness
Profit Agriculture
Industry
102
A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Prorupt
Fragmented
Compact
Enlongated
103
What is assimilation?
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
104
A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Language
Simplistic Language
Pidgin
Creole
105
A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Nomadism
Subsistence Farming
Plantation Farming
Shifting Agriculture
106
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
107
What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
108
Which is a megalopolis?
The Corn Belt
The Tristate Area
Toyko
London
109
What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Artifact
Mentifact
Sociofact
110
Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Primary:Secondary
Secondary:Primary
Quaternary:Quinary
Quinary:Quaternary
111
The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Doublication
Population Size Rule
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
112
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
113
A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Power House
Unitary State
Compact State
Federal State
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What is an example of a dialect?
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
