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AP Human Rubenstein Chapters 1-7

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Created the first map of the known world   Anaximander of Miletus  
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Coined the word geography   Erasthosthenes  
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Wrote 17 volumes about geography using the regional approach to describe distinctive relationships between nature and society   Strabo  
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Extensive use of coordinates to describe places   Ptolemy  
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Which two geographers concentrated on how the physical environment affect people (environmental determinism)?   Humboldt and Ritter  
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Established differences between space and time to differentiate between geography and history   Kant  
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Which two geographers believed in the idea of possibilism?   Ratzel and Sauer  
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Believed that unless controlled, population will outstrip food supply (food will not support the population)   Malthus  
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How do agriculture and efficient agriculture relate?   High agricultural density = not necessarily high efficiency  
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What is the most fundamental concept in geography?   Location  
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How many climate regions does the Koppen system divide the world into?   5  
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What are the types of expansion diffusion?   Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus  
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What is the number of people living per unit of arable land?   Physiological Density  
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What is the arrangement of objects along a river, road, or valley?   linear  
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What is the extent of a feature's spread over an area?   concentration  
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What is the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place?   time-space prism  
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What is the number of farmers per unit of arable land?   agricultural density  
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What is the number of people for each unit of land?   arithmetic density  
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What is the region of the globe that has the wettest climate?   between 0 to 20 degrees North and South of the Equator  
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What is the formula to calculate the natural increase rate?   CBR - CDR  
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What is the formula to calculate doubling time?   70/(CBR - CDR)  
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Which country has the highest physiological density?   Netherlands  
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What system has been set by the US government to control the flow of immigrants?   Quota System  
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Which country encouraged interregonal migration by moving its capital city, in 1960, from the overcrowded coastline to the sparsely populated interior?   Brazil  
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Most of the migration in the world today is going from the _____ to ______ areas.   rural to urban areas  
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Where has the center of the populaton in the United States moved to over the past 200 years?   continuosly to the west  
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What is migration from urban to rural areas?   counterurbanization  
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What are the slums in Brazil caused?   Favalas  
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Which religion does not have a taboo against eating certain meat?   Christianity  
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What is the adoption of cultural traits of another culture?   Acculturation  
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a language of international communication   lingua franca  
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what is the lingua franca of east Africa?   swahili  
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What is the lingua franca of South Asia?   Hindustani  
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What was the lingua franca of the former Soviet Union?   Russian  
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What is the official dialect used by many African Americans?   Ebonics  
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What 3 German tribes invaded the British Isles and influenced the language there?   Jutes, Saxons, and Angles  
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What is the standard dialect of England?   British Recieved Pronunciation  
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What is a word-usage boundary?   Isogloss  
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What is the Kurgan hearth theory?   a theory that the Kurgans (lived near Russia), were responsible for the origin and diffusion of the Indo-European branch  
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What are religions that preach in order to convert people?   Proseyltic  
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What if the first recorded religion to preach monotheism?   Judiasm  
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80% of all Muslims are...   Sunnis  
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What two countries does the Auzou Strip lie between?   Chad and Libya  
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