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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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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Plantation Farming
Subsistence Farming
Nomadism
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Which of the following is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
Brazil
United States
Afghanistan
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Fertility Rate
Equality Level
Secularism
Replacement Level
4
What is imperialism?
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country colonizing other countries
A country taking over another country by force
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
United States: Canada
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
Canada: United States
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What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The urban complex outside of a city
A rural complex outside of a city
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A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Christianity
Buddhism
Shamanism
Ancient Belief
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One god:many gods
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
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A state where most 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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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Industry
Agriculture
Agribusiness
Profit Agriculture
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Deagglomeration
Relocation
Agglomeration
Franchise
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What is an example of a dialect?
A British upper-class person would not speak Cockney
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
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What is site?
The culture of a place
The population density of a place
The physical location of a place
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What is a popular region named for the way people perceive it?
Populous Region
Fancy Region
Perceptual Region
Vernacular Region
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What is the dependency ratio?
Children: Adults
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
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Migrant wants to move to primate city, but stable employment is available in a smaller city
Migration termination
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
Gravity model
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Sending parts of the business to be done by other companies or countries
Offshoring
Outsourcing
Repurposing
Supervising
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Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The address of the location.
The location using a map.
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primate City
Megacity
Primary City
Superior City
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
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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
22
A suburban area that grows to the point that it takes on characteristics of the central city
Global city
Megalopolis
Edge City
Megacity
23
What is situation?
The culture of a place
The absolute location of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The agricultural density of a place
24
Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
25
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Compact State
Power House
Unitary State
Federal State
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Burgess
Rostow
Weber
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Which is a megalopolis?
The Northeast Corridor of North America
London
Toyko
The Corn Belt
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Colonialism
Superiorism
Controlism
Absolutism
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Relic Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Old Boundary
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The gerrymandering process is...
Unfair
Fair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Monoculture
Oneculture
Soloculture
Unoculture
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Mentifact
Sociofact
Artifact
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Amendment boundaries
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
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The rate of natural increase is
Population+Migrants
Population-Migrants
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
France
England
The United States East Coast
Russia
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What model is this?
Concentric Zones
Sector
Multiple Nuclei
Urban Realms
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The establishment of a Jewish state in Israel; reclaiming the homeland
Zionism
Diaspora
Reclamation
Relocation
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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
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Quintary
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and economic 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 agricultural growth
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Friction decay
Gentrification
Distance decay
Migration
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Define pastoralism
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are killed in a season pattern
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An exclave is a territory...
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
That has been separated from the rest of the country
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling population
Doubling growth
Doubling time
Population growth
48
Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mendel
Malthus
Mackinder
Rostow
49
The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Relative location
Around location
Mental location
Percieved location
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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 type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Subsistence
Horticulture
Nomadism
Plantation
52
What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Mega city
Megalopolis
Global city
World city
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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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What is the gravity model?
A single man will move to a city with 100000 people
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
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A fully functional language that is a mixture of two or more languages
Creole
Language
Language Family
Pidgin
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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 belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Animism
Animalism
Spiritalism
Spiritism
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Possibilism
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Perforated
Compact
Fragmented
Elongated
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Define Megacity
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Anquescent
Subsequent
Conquescent
Andecent
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
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What does MDC and LDC stand for?
MDC: med. developed countries LDC: lower developed countries
MDC: more developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: less dependent countries
65
What is CBR?
Crude baby rate
Crude bid rent
Crude birth rate
Crude business rate
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
Explains rise of USSR
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go to another country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go back to their home country
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Malthus
Rostow
Mendel
69
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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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GIS
GPS
Overlaying
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle: Culture in a globalized society
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
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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 the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Socioism
Atheism
Segregation
74
A simplified mixture of two or more languages; never one's native language
Language
Language Family
Pidgin
Creole
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Sociofact
Mentifact
Artifact
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by job and economics
Population by age and sex
The population by age and job
The population by state and job
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Rejuvenation
Gentrification
Renovatation
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Ruralization
Urbanization
Suburbanization
Migration
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Population Size Rule
Doublication
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
urban-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
rural-to-urban migration
rural-to-suburban migration
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
Laws
Sovereignty
War
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrator diffused downward into the society
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
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A state that is initially round and has a large extension
Fragmented
Enlongated
Prorupt
Compact
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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What is a centripetal force?
Different cultural backgrounds
Different religions
Different ethnicities
One language
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Middlism
Least Cost Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Location Theory
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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 that is long and narrow in shape
Enlongated State
Perforated State
Fragmented State
Compacted State
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
Remote sensing
map
GIS
GPS
92
An example of a perceptual region is...
The Tristate Area
Canada
The Deep South
The Rocky Mountains
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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
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Total value of goods and services w/i country plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
