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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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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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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Doublication
Population Size Rule
Rank Size Rule
Duplification
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What model is this?
Concentric Zones
Multiple Nuclei
Urban Realms
Sector
4
What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
United Farming
Truck Farming
Freedom Farming
Subsistence Farming
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
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What is a centripetal force?
Different religions
One language
Different cultural backgrounds
Different ethnicities
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What is decolonization?
People go back to their home country
People go to another country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Relocation
Agglomeration
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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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What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
Central Business District
Citizen Board of Discretion
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Controlism
Imperalism
Colonialism
Superiorism
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Fertility Rate
Replacement Level
Equality Level
Secularism
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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 boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Conquescent
Anquescent
Subsequent
Andecent
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Populous Region
Perceptual Region
Vernacular Region
Fancy Region
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Nomadism
Horticulture
Subsistence
Plantation
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Unfair
Fair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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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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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Sociofact
Artifact
Mentifact
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Ruralization
Suburbanization
Urbanization
Migration
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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
Green Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Vengeful boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Forced boundaries
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Pidgin
Business language
Lingua franca
Creole
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Around location
Percieved location
Relative location
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GIS
Overlaying
GPS
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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
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
map
Remote sensing
GIS
GPS
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Animalism
Spiritism
Spiritalism
Animism
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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 population
Population growth
Doubling growth
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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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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 a tangible piece of material culture?
Sociofact
Artifact
Mentifact
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What is the gravity model?
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
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Compact State
Power House
Federal State
Unitary State
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoism
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What is the demographic transition model?
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
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Edge City
Megacity
Megalopolis
Global city
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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
Gentrification
Renovatation
Rejuvenation
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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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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Secularism
Socioism
Atheism
Segregation
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
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An example of a perceptual region is...
The Deep South
The Rocky Mountains
The Tristate Area
Canada
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Soloculture
Monoculture
Oneculture
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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 dependency ratio?
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
People working:People unemployed
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
Children: Adults
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A formal region is a region with...
a percieved image of a region
a connection to transportation
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
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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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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Rostow
Mendel
Malthus
Mackinder
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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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One god:many gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
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Define Megacity
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relict Boundary
Relic Boundary
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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
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
If a family moves, their relatives will move
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Supervising
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocotatism
Relocation
Reclaimation
Irredentism
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
England
France
Russia
The United States East Coast
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Primary
Quintary
Tertiary
Secondary
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Migrants try to minimize the
friction
of
distance
by moving to locations closer to them
Migration
Gentrification
Friction decay
Distance decay
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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
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Rostow
Von Thünen
Malthus
Mendel
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quaternary:Quinary
Primary:Secondary
Quinary:Quaternary
Secondary:Primary
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by job and economics
The population by age and job
Population by age and sex
The population by state and job
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Weber
Malthus
Burgess
Rostow
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Superior City
Megacity
Primary City
Primate City
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What is CBR?
Crude bid rent
Crude baby rate
Crude birth rate
Crude business rate
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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
Government:state
Nation-state:state
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language Family
Language
Creole
Pidgin
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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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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Gravity model
Migration termination
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
United States
Afghanistan
Brazil
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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.
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Imperialism
Superiorism
Ethnoism
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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 step migration?
Moving only a small bit away
A series of small moves to reach a destination
Migrating up a set of stairs
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Possibilism
Determinism
Environmental Potentialism
Environmental Determinism
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What is an example of a dialect?
Spanish speaker speaks English w/ a Spanish accent/influence (ex: Miami FL)
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
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What is the hinterlands?
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
A rural complex outside of a city
The urban complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Population Culture: Folk Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
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What is imperialism?
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country taking over another country by force
A country colonizing other countries
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The rate of natural increase is
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population-Migrants
Population+Migrants
