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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
New Culture: Old Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go to another country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go back to their home country
3
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
4
What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Populous Region
Fancy Region
Perceptual Region
Vernacular Region
5
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
War
Sovereignty
Power
Laws
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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 the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
8
A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Artifact
Sociofact
Mentifact
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What is the domino theory?
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
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An example of a perceptual region is...
The Tristate Area
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
Canada
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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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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
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Ruralization
Migration
Urbanization
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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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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Mendel
Malthus
Rostow
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Equality Level
Fertility Rate
Secularism
Replacement Level
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Malthus
Rostow
Mendel
Mackinder
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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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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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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Middlism
Location Theory
Locational Depedence Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
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What does CBD stand for?
Central Business Disclosure
Citizen Board of Discretion
Citizen Business District
Central Business District
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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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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Percieved location
Relative location
Around location
Mental location
25
A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
The population by state and job
The population by job and economics
Population by age and sex
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Megacity
Primate City
Superior City
Primary City
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What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Nonbasic
Basic
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
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What is the dependency ratio?
Children: Adults
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Doublication
Population Size Rule
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
Canada: United States
United States: Canada
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
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What model is this?
Urban Realms
Sector
Concentric Zones
Multiple Nuclei
34
A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GIS
GPS
35
When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Relocation
Agglomeration
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Federal State
Power House
Compact State
Unitary State
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Atheism
Segregation
Secularism
Socioism
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language
Language Family
Pidgin
Creole
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
40
What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
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One god:many gods
God:Gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Subsistence Farming
United Farming
Truck Farming
Freedom Farming
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Ancient Boundary
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
Relic Boundary
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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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Who created the concentric zone model?
Weber
Malthus
Rostow
Burgess
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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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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Plantation Farming
Nomadism
Subsistence Farming
Shifting Agriculture
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EPZs
EEZs
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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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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritism
Animism
Animalism
Spiritalism
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Sector Model
Concentric Zone Model
Rostow's Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
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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 is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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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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What is CBR?
Crude birth rate
Crude bid rent
Crude business rate
Crude baby rate
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What is the multiplier effect
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Profit Agriculture
Industry
Agriculture
Agribusiness
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What is situation?
The absolute location of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The culture of a place
The agricultural density of a place
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
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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
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Supervising
Offshoring
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
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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
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
Russia
The United States East Coast
England
France
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
Government:state
Nation-state:state
State:government
State:nation-state
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A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Buddhism
Ancient Belief
Christianity
Shamanism
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
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What is step migration?
Moving only a small bit away
Migrating up a set of stairs
A series of small moves to reach a destination
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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 first group of people to settle at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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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 tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
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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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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Soloculture
Oneculture
Monoculture
Unoculture
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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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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Forced boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
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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
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The gerrymandering process is...
Fair
Unfair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Enlongated State
Perforated State
Compacted State
Fragmented State
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Conquescent
Subsequent
Andecent
Anquescent
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Primary
Quintary
Tertiary
Secondary
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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 agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
The Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Enlongated
Prorupt
Compact
Fragmented
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
produce something that require maximum transport firms
Cut loose other businesses
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
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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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What is a centripetal force?
Different ethnicities
One language
Different cultural backgrounds
Different religions
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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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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megacity
Megalopolis
Edge City
Global city
90
Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Pidgin
Creole
Lingua franca
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Imperalism
Controlism
Colonialism
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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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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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country by force
A country colonizing other countries
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country decolonizing from another country
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Outsourcing
Supervising
Repurposing
Offshoring
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Gentrification
Distance decay
Migration
Friction decay
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Sociofact
Mentifact
Artifact
99
What is the gravity model?
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Perforated
Elongated
Fragmented
Compact
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Which is a megalopolis?
Toyko
London
The Corn Belt
The Tristate Area
102
What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
United States
Afghanistan
Brazil
103
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Spatial
Spreading
Hiearchical
Contagious
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An exclave is a....
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
106
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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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Pidgin
Creole
Language
Simplistic Language
108
Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using a map.
The address of the location.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
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Define Megacity
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
GPS
GIS
Remote sensing
111
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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What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Mega city
Global city
Megalopolis
World city
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The rate of natural increase is
Population-Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Population+Migrants
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What is environmental determinism?
Human behavior controls the environment
The environment controls human behavior
