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Rundy Tri 1 Final
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 10 - AP Human Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The position of anything on Earth's surface | Location |
| When a person or persons interacts with the environment. | Human-Environment Interaction |
| An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. | Region |
| A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular character. | Place |
| Moving from one place to another, mobility. | Movement |
| An area where everyone shares at least one common characteristic. | Formal Region |
| An area organized around a node or as focal point. | Functional Region |
| An area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity. | Perceptual Region (Vernacular Region) |
| An internal representation of a portion of the Earth's surface. | Mental Map |
| Spread of a trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | Relocation Diffusion |
| The spread of a trend in a snowballing process. | Expansion Diffusion |
| Spread of a trend from one higher ranking person to other people or places. | Hierarchical Diffusion |
| Spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. (Ex. Ipods, Iphones, Technologies) | Stimulus Diffusion |
| The exact distance of something. | Absolute Distance |
| The approximate distance of something. | Realative Distance |
| The region where innovative ideas originate. | Hearth |
| The further you are away from something the less interaction you'll have with it. | Distance Decay |
| A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. | GIS |
| The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite. | Remote Sensing |
| Determines the exact location or position of something. | GPS |
| Name given to a portion of Earth's surface. | Toponym |
| Reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place. | Space-Time Compression |
| Total number of people divided by total land area. | Arithmetic Denstiy |
| Number of people per unit of area of arable land (land suitable for agrictulture). | Physiological Density |
| Ratio of number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture. | Agricultural Density |
| A bar graph showing age and sex. | Population Pyramid |
| The scientific study of population characteristics. | Demography |
| Percentage of population growth in a year- CBR minus CDR. | Natural Increase Rate |
| Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive. | Crude Birth Rate |
| Total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive. | Crude Death Rate |
| Average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. | Total Fertility Rate |
| Total number of infant deaths within the age of 1 for every 1,000 live births in a society. | Infant Mortality Rate |
| Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area that affects many people. | Pandemic |
| Migration to a new location. | Immigration |
| Migration from a location. | Emigration |
| Something that makes you want to leave the place you are residing in. | Push Factors |
| Something that makes you want to live in a place. | Pull Factors |
| When you choose to migrate somewhere. | Voluntary Migration |
| Not your choice to migrate, usually because of cultural factors. | Forced Migration |
| People that migrate to different countries. They either hike or go to a camp and get flown out. | International Refugees |
| People that migrate to different parts of a country. They usually walk. | Intranational Refugees |
| They leave their home and look for a better place to live, but they eventually return home. | Temporary Refugees |
| They leave their home and look for a better place to live and they never return home. | Permanent Refugees |
| Large scale emigration by talented people. | Brain Drain |
| A law that puts limits on the number of people that can immigrate to a country each year. | Quotas |
| Permanent migration from one region of a country to another. | Interregional Migration |
| Permanent movement within one region of a country. | Intraregional Migration |
| Environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders or slows down migration. | Intervening Obstacle |
| Keeping moving to new places, never back to the same one. | Step Migration |
| Difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | Net Migration |
| Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | Counterurbanization |
| Migration of people to a specific location because realatives, people of the same culture, or people of the same nationality have migrated there. | Chain Migration |
| Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technologies, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. | Green Revolution |
| Agriculture primarily for selling products off the farm. | Commercial Agriculture |
| Degradation of land because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. | Desertification |
| Agriculture primarily for direct consumption of the farmer and the farmer's family. | Subsistence Agriculture |
| The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied. | Milkshed |
| A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | Pastoral Nomadism |
| Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization. | Seed Agriculture |
| Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | Transhumance |
| Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants. | Vegetative Planting |
| Fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | Slash and Burn Agriculture |
| Harvesting twice a year from the same field. | Double Cropping |
| Dogs | Domestication |
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