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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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Define Megacity
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Old Culture: New Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
3
What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
4
A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Pidgin
Language
Creole
Simplistic Language
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Plantation
Horticulture
Subsistence
Nomadism
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Freedom Farming
United Farming
Truck Farming
Subsistence Farming
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Rostow
Mendel
Mackinder
Malthus
8
What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Imperalism
Controlism
Colonialism
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
Remote sensing
Overlaying
GIS
10
The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Imperialism
Ethnoism
Ethnocentrism
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Creole
Language
Pidgin
Language Family
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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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 type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Vengeful boundaries
Forced boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Amendment boundaries
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
Possibilism
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Primary:Secondary
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Quinary:Quaternary
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megalopolis
Edge City
Megacity
Global 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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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
France
The United States East Coast
England
Russia
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Sociofact
Mentifact
Artifact
21
Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Rostow
Von Thünen
Malthus
Mendel
22
An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EEZs
EPZs
23
A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Compact
Prorupt
Enlongated
Fragmented
24
Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
25
What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Sociofact
Mentifact
Artifact
26
A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Shamanism
Ancient Belief
Christianity
Buddhism
27
What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
28
In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
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What model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
Sector
Urban Realms
Concentric Zones
30
The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Equality Level
Replacement Level
Fertility Rate
Secularism
31
What is the hinterlands?
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The urban complex outside of a city
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Pidgin
Creole
Language
Language Family
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One god:many gods
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnoism
Superiorism
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
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What is an example of a dialect?
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
36
The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
37
The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Population growth
Doubling population
Doubling growth
Doubling time
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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
Nation-state:state
State:government
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
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What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
Citizen Board of Discretion
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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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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Around location
Percieved location
Relative location
Mental location
43
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
44
An example of a perceptual region is...
Canada
The Tristate Area
The Rocky Mountains
The Deep South
45
A state that is long and narrow in shape
Compacted State
Perforated State
Fragmented State
Enlongated State
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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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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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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
49
Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Lingua franca
Business language
Creole
Pidgin
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Subsequent
Conquescent
Andecent
Anquescent
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Profit Agriculture
Agribusiness
Industry
Agriculture
52
What is the multiplier effect
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
53
What is the heartland-rimland 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 Halford Mackinder
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
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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
56
Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
Federal: Confederate
United States: Canada
Confederate: Federal
Canada: United States
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by job and economics
Population by age and sex
The population by state and job
The population by age and job
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What is a charter group?
The first group of people to settle at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
A large group of people go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocotatism
Irredentism
Relocation
Reclaimation
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What is the domino theory?
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
If a family moves, their relatives will move
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Elongated
Fragmented
Perforated
Compact
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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 a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Global city
Mega city
Megalopolis
World city
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Migration termination
Location diffusion
Intervening opportunity
Gravity model
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Populous Region
Perceptual Region
Fancy Region
Vernacular Region
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Unfair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Fair
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Supervising
Repurposing
Outsourcing
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Outsourcing
Offshoring
Supervising
Repurposing
69
Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
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What is environmental determinism?
The environment controls human behavior
Human behavior controls the environment
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Footloose firms are firms that
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
produce something that require maximum transport firms
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Plantation Farming
Nomadism
Shifting Agriculture
Subsistence Farming
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Federal State
Power House
Unitary State
Compact State
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Cultural diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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What is the gravity model?
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Contagious
Hiearchical
Spatial
Spreading
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
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What is the dependency ratio?
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
Children: Adults
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People working:People unemployed
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
GPS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Monoculture
Oneculture
Soloculture
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What is a centripetal force?
Different ethnicities
Different religions
One language
Different cultural backgrounds
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Sector Model
Concentric Zone Model
Rostow's Model
85
What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Segregation
Socioism
Atheism
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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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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 CBR?
Crude bid rent
Crude birth rate
Crude baby rate
Crude business rate
89
Which is a megalopolis?
Toyko
The Corn Belt
London
The Tristate Area
90
The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Population Size Rule
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
Doublication
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What is decolonization?
Former colonies rejoin their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go to another country
People go back to their home country
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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
Primary City
Superior City
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Malthus
Rostow
Burgess
Weber
95
The rate of natural increase is
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population+Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Population-Migrants
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Location Theory
Middlism
Locational Depedence Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
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What is an example of channelized migration?
A Mexican family move to Texas
A Cuban family comes to Florida
Senior citizens move to California
Young adult singles move to Chicago
98
What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
99
What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
War
Sovereignty
Laws
100
What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
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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
102
What is situation?
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The absolute location of a place
The culture of a place
The agricultural density of a place
103
What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Relic Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
104
Define absolute location
The location using a map.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
The address of the location.
The location using longitude and latitude .
105
What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Animism
Spiritism
Animalism
Spiritalism
106
What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Ruralization
Migration
Urbanization
Suburbanization
107
What is imperialism?
A country colonizing other countries
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country taking over another country by force
108
When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Relocation
Agglomeration
Deagglomeration
109
What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Basic
Nonbasic
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Quintary
Secondary
Primary
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Renovatation
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
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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 a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Afghanistan
United States
Brazil
Haiti
