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AP Human Geo.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| homogeneous | sameness of a group |
| heterogeneous | differences within a group |
| demographics | the characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important demographics (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream) |
| demography | the study of demographics in a population |
| developement | the process of improving material conditions and standard of living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology |
| MDCs | more developed countries |
| LDCs | less developed countries |
| culture | the integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristic of a group of people |
| non-material culture | ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e,g,, language, religion, ethics |
| material culture | the physical items of a group of people usually determined by non-material culture, e.g., food, clothing, music, housing, places of worship |
| local culture (folk culture) | the homogeneous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish |
| global culture (popular culture) | rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization |
| globalization | the process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure |
| states | in Geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states |
| diffusion | the movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a youtube video goes viral |
| agricultural revolution | domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE) Lead to the development of cities |
| industrial revolution | 1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of the modern world |
| medical revolution | the diffusion of medical technology from MDCs to LDCs |
| One Billion | 1,000 millions; what I want you to know is that 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., if you say that China has 1 million people, then you are 1,000 times wrong! |
| population of the world | 7.3 Billion |
| NIR | 1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year |
| population of the United States | 330 million |
| China's population | 1.3 BILLION |
| India's population | 1.1 BILLION |
| Population of Tokyo, Japan | World's largest city; 30 million |