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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 type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Plantation
Nomadism
Subsistence
Horticulture
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
State:government
State:nation-state
Nation-state:state
Government:state
3
The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GNP
GDP
4
Which is a megalopolis?
Toyko
The Tristate Area
The Corn Belt
London
5
Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Weber
Rostow
Burgess
6
What is the domino theory?
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
If a family moves, their relatives will move
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What model is this?
Sector
Multiple Nuclei
Urban Realms
Concentric Zones
8
A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Enlongated
Compact
Prorupt
Fragmented
9
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
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and agricultural 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 economic growth
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
12
What is the heartland-rimland theory?
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoism
Imperialism
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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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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
17
What is CBR?
Crude bid rent
Crude birth rate
Crude business rate
Crude baby rate
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The gerrymandering process is...
Unfair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Fair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country by force
A country decolonizing from another country
A country colonizing other countries
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
20
What is the multiplier effect
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go to another country
People go back to their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
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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
23
The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Percieved location
Around location
Relative location
24
What is a charter group?
The first group of people to establish a culture 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 settle at a place
25
What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
rural-to-urban migration
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
Renovatation
27
What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Hiearchical
Spatial
Spreading
Contagious
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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
29
Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Mendel
Rostow
Malthus
Von Thünen
30
A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Buddhism
Christianity
Ancient Belief
Shamanism
31
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supervising
Repurposing
33
Footloose firms are firms that
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
34
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
35
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
36
What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
Central Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Creole
Pidgin
Business language
Lingua franca
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What is an example of a dialect?
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
A French speaker speaks only French
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What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Truck Farming
Subsistence Farming
Freedom Farming
United Farming
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One god:many gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
Gods:God
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
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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
43
What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
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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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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnoism
Superiorism
Ethnocentrism
46
When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Agglomeration
Relocation
47
What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Global city
Megalopolis
World city
Mega city
48
The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Outsourcing
Supervising
Offshoring
Repurposing
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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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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The absolute location of a place
The agricultural density of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
51
The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Doublication
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Population Size Rule
52
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
53
Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
54
What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Rostow's Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
55
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
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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 is step migration?
Migrating up a set of stairs
Moving only a small bit away
A series of small moves to reach a destination
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A population pyramid reflects on the
Population by age and sex
The population by age and job
The population by state and job
The population by job and economics
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Monoculture
Soloculture
Oneculture
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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 is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary that no longer exists
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
the destruction of arable land
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
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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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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Brazil
Afghanistan
United States
Haiti
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Gravity model
Migration termination
Location diffusion
Intervening opportunity
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Gentrification
Migration
Friction decay
Distance decay
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agriculture
Profit Agriculture
Agribusiness
Industry
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Spiritalism
Animism
Animalism
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
Russia
England
The United States East Coast
France
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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 type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Amendment boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Anquescent
Andecent
Conquescent
Subsequent
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Superior City
Primary City
Primate City
Megacity
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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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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Atheism
Secularism
Socioism
Segregation
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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 Tristate Area
Canada
The Deep South
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
United States: Canada
Confederate: Federal
Canada: United States
Federal: Confederate
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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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What type of economic activities provide services?
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
Quintary
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Locational Depedence Theory
Location Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Middlism
83
A state that totally surrounds another country.
Elongated
Perforated
Compact
Fragmented
84
The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Equality Level
Fertility Rate
Replacement Level
Secularism
85
The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Population-Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
86
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
87
Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Malthus
Rostow
Mendel
Mackinder
88
What is a centripetal force?
Different ethnicities
Different cultural backgrounds
One language
Different religions
89
A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Global city
Megalopolis
Megacity
Edge City
90
Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Primary:Secondary
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Quinary:Quaternary
91
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Simplistic Language
Language
Creole
Pidgin
93
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.
94
What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Artifact
Mentifact
Sociofact
95
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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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Urbanization
Migration
Suburbanization
Ruralization
97
Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Possibilism
Determinism
98
What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
A rural complex outside of a city
The urban complex outside of a city
99
Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Green Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
100
What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Nonbasic
Basic
101
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
102
When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Reclaimation
Irredentism
Relocation
Relocotatism
103
What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Colonialism
Imperalism
Controlism
104
What is a charter group?
A large group of people go to 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
The first group of people to settle at a place
105
What is an example of channelized migration?
A Mexican family move to Texas
Senior citizens move to California
Young adult singles move to Chicago
A Cuban family comes to Florida
106
A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Federal State
Unitary State
Compact State
Power House
107
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Laws
War
Sovereignty
Power
108
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
Overlaying
GIS
GPS
109
A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
110
The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
111
A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Artifact
Mentifact
Sociofact
112
What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Relic Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Nomadism
Plantation Farming
Subsistence Farming
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What is the dependency ratio?
Children: Adults
People working:People unemployed
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
