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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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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
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What is site?
The physical location of a place
Circumstances that effect that place
The culture of a place
The population density of a place
3
A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Power House
Compact State
Unitary State
Federal State
4
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
5
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
England
France
Russia
The United States East Coast
6
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
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Nomadism
Shifting Agriculture
Plantation Farming
Subsistence Farming
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Creole
Pidgin
Language Family
Language
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
10
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
11
Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Middlism
Locational Depedence Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Location Theory
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Monoculture
Oneculture
Unoculture
Soloculture
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Populous Region
Nodal Region
Vernacular Region
Fancy Region
15
Mandarin is to Sino-tibetan as ___________ is to Romance
Altaic
French
German
English
16
What type of economic activities provide services?
Secondary
Primary
Quintary
Tertiary
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Compact
Fragmented
Enlongated
Prorupt
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
GPS
Remote sensing
GIS
map
19
What is the heartland theory?
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
is a theory made by Spkman
20
Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that no longer exists
21
What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Colonialism
Controlism
Imperalism
22
What is the domino theory?
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
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
24
What is the ultimate insult you can say to a Coloradoan
Call them a Yankee
Ask them where their horse is
Call them sir or Ma'am
Call them midwestern
25
The rate of natural increase is
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Population-Migrants
Population+Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Stimulus diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
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Footloose firms are firms that
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
28
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
29
What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Afghanistan
Haiti
Brazil
United States
30
What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Rostow's Model
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Migration
Urbanization
Ruralization
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Colonialization
Laws
War
Sovereignty
33
When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Agglomeration
Relocation
Deagglomeration
Franchise
34
What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Subsequent
Andecent
Conquescent
Anquescent
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What is this?
Homosoline
Mercator projection
Cartogram
Map
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What is the dependency ratio?
People 15-65:People under 15 & younger than 65
People under 15 & older than 65:
People working:People unemployed
Children: Adults
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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
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What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
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The lasting effects of several cultures in one particular are over time
Subsequent Boundary
Folk Culture
Isotropic Plain
Sequent occupance
40
What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
41
The Greatest Football team on the planet
Patriots
Panthers
Bengals
Broncos
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Horticulture
Commercial
Subsistence
Plantation
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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The agricultural density of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The absolute location of a place
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Outsourcing
Repurposing
Supervising
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Creole
Pidgin
Simplistic Language
Language
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What is CBR?
Crude birth rate
Crude baby rate
Crude bid rent
Crude business rate
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Replacement Level
Fertility Rate
Equality Level
Secularism
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go back to their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go to another country
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Sociofact
Artifact
Mentifact
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An exclave is a....
form of popular culture
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
Separated from the main area of a country
Migrants leaving a country
51
Define absolute location
The address of the location.
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using a map.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
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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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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Relative location
Percieved location
Mental location
Around location
54
A state that totally surrounds another country.
Elongated
Compact
Fragmented
Perforated
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Animalism
Spiritalism
Animism
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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 growth
Population growth
Doubling population
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Define pastoralism
Animals are killed in a season pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
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What is a charter group?
A large group of people go to a place
A group of people to settle at a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
the destruction of arable land
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Rostow
Mendel
Malthus
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Define Megacity
A city with over 10 thousand people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city with over 10 million people
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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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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Lingua franca
Creole
Pidgin
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An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
Exclusive economic zones
Special economic zones
MIcrostates
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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 group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Population Culture: Folk Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
Overlaying
68
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Freedom Farming
Truck Farming
United Farming
Subsistence Farming
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What is environmental determinism?
Human behavior controls the environment
Uniform landscape
possiblism
The environment controls human behavior
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What does CBD stand for?
Central Business Disclosure
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Profit Agriculture
Industry
Agriculture
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
Per capita
PPP
GDP
GNI
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Fragmented State
Compacted State
Perforated State
Enlongated State
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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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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between population and economic growth
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One god:many gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocotatism
Reclaimation
Irredentism
Relocation
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What is a centripetal force?
One language
Different cultural backgrounds
Different ethnicities
Different religions
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Amendment boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Forced boundaries
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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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What is acculturation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep some customs and add some new traits
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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What model is this?
Concentric Zones
Urban Realms
Sector
Multiple Nuclei
83
A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
State:government
Government:state
State:nation-state
Nation-state:state
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What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
85
Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Rostow
Weber
Burgess
86
What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Segregation
Secularism
Socioism
Atheism
87
Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Quinary:Quaternary
Primary:Secondary
88
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
89
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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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
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Spreading
Contagious
Spatial
Hiearchical
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An example of a perceptual region is...
The Tristate Area
The Rocky Mountains
Canada
The Deep South
93
The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Rank Size Rule
Population Size Rule
Duplification
Doublication
94
The greatest college football team on the planet
Georgia
Clemson
Texas
South Carolina
95
Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mackinder
Rostow
Mendel
Malthus
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
per capita
GNP
CBR
GDP
97
Which is a megalopolis?
BosWash
The Corn Belt
London
Toyko
98
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
99
A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megacity
Edge City
Global city
Megalopolis
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
