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AP Human Geography Vocabulary 2020
AP Human Geography Vocabulary 2020
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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The address of the location.
The location using a map.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Mendel
Malthus
Rostow
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Subsistence Farming
Nomadism
Plantation Farming
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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
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What is the domino theory?
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
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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 imperialism?
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country decolonizing from another country
A country colonizing other countries
A country taking over another country by force
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Revolution
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Fragmented
Prorupt
Compact
Enlongated
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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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One god:many gods
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
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What is an example of channelized migration?
Senior citizens move to California
A Cuban family comes to Florida
A Mexican family move to Texas
Young adult singles move to Chicago
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Vernacular Region
Fancy Region
Populous Region
Perceptual Region
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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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What is the gravity model?
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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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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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Conquescent
Subsequent
Anquescent
Andecent
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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
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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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A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Buddhism
Christianity
Shamanism
Ancient Belief
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Simplistic Language
Creole
Language
Pidgin
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Mentifact
Sociofact
Artifact
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
Migration termination
Gravity model
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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 assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Reclaimation
Relocotatism
Irredentism
Relocation
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
War
Laws
Sovereignty
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Superiorism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoism
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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 first group of people to settle at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quinary:Quaternary
Quaternary:Quinary
Primary:Secondary
Secondary:Primary
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Colonialism
Controlism
Imperalism
Superiorism
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Gentrification
Distance decay
Friction decay
Migration
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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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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Compact
Elongated
Fragmented
Perforated
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Atheism
Secularism
Segregation
Socioism
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A formal region is a region with...
a connection to transportation
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
a percieved image of a region
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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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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and business
Business language
Lingua franca
Creole
Pidgin
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Analytical Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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An exclave is a....
geographically separated from the main part
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
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What is site?
The physical location of a place
The culture of a place
The population density of a place
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An example of a perceptual region is...
Canada
The Tristate Area
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
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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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What is decolonization?
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go back to their home country
People go to another country
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What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritalism
Animalism
Animism
Spiritism
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Fragmented State
Perforated State
Compacted State
Enlongated State
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
Afghanistan
United States
Brazil
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Industry
Profit Agriculture
Agriculture
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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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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Around location
Percieved location
Mental location
Relative location
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Monoculture
Unoculture
Oneculture
Soloculture
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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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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EPZs
EEZs
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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 does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by state and job
The population by age and job
Population by age and sex
The population by job and economics
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relic Boundary
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Heirachical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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What is the dependency ratio?
People working:People unemployed
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
Children: Adults
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Federal State
Unitary State
Compact State
Power House
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What is the demographic transition model?
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
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Fertility Rate
Secularism
Replacement Level
Equality Level
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What is a centripetal force?
Different religions
Different cultural backgrounds
Different ethnicities
One language
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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 Nicholas Spykman
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling growth
Population growth
Doubling time
Doubling population
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Quintary
Secondary
Primary
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Creating district boundaries to create equality
Unfair
Fair
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Agglomeration
Relocation
Deagglomeration
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
France
Russia
The United States East Coast
England
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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What is CBR?
Crude business rate
Crude birth rate
Crude bid rent
Crude baby rate
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The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Population-Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
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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 type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Subsistence
Nomadism
Horticulture
Plantation
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What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The urban complex outside of a city
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-rural migration
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
