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AP Human Geography > Semester Exam Review > Flashcards

Semester Exam Review Flashcards

1
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Globalization

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Expansion of economic political and cultural processes globally in impact but can occur at ALL scales

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Pandemic

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A WORLDWIDE OUTBREAK of disease

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Culture hearth

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An area where cultural traits develop and from which the culture traits diffuse and ORIGINATE

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Cartography

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Art and science of MAKING MAPS

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GPS

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Global Positioning System

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GIS

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Geographic Information System

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Expansion diffusion

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Category of diffusion: idea develops in hearth and remains strong there while CONTINUOUSLY spreading outward

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Relocation diffusion

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Category of diffusion: when people move their culture spreads

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9
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Possibilism

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If it’s available you get it and it is your choice

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Arithmetic population density

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Total population divided by total land area

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Physiological population density

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Total population divided by arable land MOST TRUE

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12
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Megalopolis

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A big bunch of cities

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13
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Cyclic movement

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Day to day movement

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14
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Activity space

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Local areas where your daily routine is

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Periodic movement

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Longer periods from home EX. Migrant laborer, college student

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16
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Transhumance

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System of pastoral farming where ranchers move livestock according to season

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17
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Migration

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PERMANENT movement

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18
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Emigrant

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Someone who LEAVES their country

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19
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Immigrant

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Someone who moves into another country

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20
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Local culture

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Culture in a particular place

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21
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Custom

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Practice routinely followed by a group of people

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Cultural appropriation

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Other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit

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23
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Barriozation

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Hispanic neighborhoods

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24
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Absolute location

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Longitude latitude location

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Centrality

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Draws people to a place EX. Football game

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Functional region

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Set of activities or interactions occur within it ; connectedness EX. City and its highway system

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Perceptual region

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Region in the minds of people

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28
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Demography

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Study of population

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29
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Genocide

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Acts committed with intents to destroy a certain group

30
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Island of development

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Coastal cities where foreign investment goes

31
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Remittance

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Money sent back home

32
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Repatriation

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Sending refugees back home; safe to go home NOT illegal

33
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Quota

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Limits number of immigrants into a country

34
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Succession

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Another group moved in your place

35
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Assimilation

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Immigrant loses customs over time including religion language they adopt the dominant culture

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Spatial arrangement/ perspective

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How places are laid out organized and arranged

37
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What did dr snow do to trace cholera deaths to the London water pumps

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Mapped the number of cases in the soho neighborhood

38
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5 themes of geography

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Place location human environment interaction movement amd region

39
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Types of expansion diffusion

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Contagious hierarchical and stimulus

40
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Contagious diffusion

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Spread of the common cold

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Hierarchical diffusion

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Spread of new fashion trends

42
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Stimulus diffusion

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Genuine invention diffused in from another culture EX. tofu burger in India

43
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Largest population clusters

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East Asia South Asia and Europe

44
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Malthus theory

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Population grew exponentially/geometrically and food grew linearly/arithmetically

45
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Natural increase

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Difference between number of births and deaths

46
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Highest natural increase

47
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Stage 1

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High death high birth no growth Africa Uganda

48
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Stage 2

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Decline in death rate high birth rate growth

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Stage 3

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Lower birth and death growth

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Stage 4

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Low birth rate low death rate stationary growth USA Japan U.K. France

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Stage 5

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ZPG Japan and Germany

52
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Wide base small top pop pyramid

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Rapid growth Uganda

53
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Base is same as top pop pyramid

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Moderate growth USA and U.K.

54
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Base is smaller than top pop pyramid

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Population decline Russia

55
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Internal migration

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Movement within a country borders

56
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External migration

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Outside country borders

57
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For every migration there is a

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Countermigration

58
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Majority of migrants move _____ distance

59
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Migrants choose_____ destinations

60
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Urban is _____ migratory than rural

61
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Families move_____ distances

62
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Refugee

A

Cross international border
Only have what they can carry
Foot bicycle wagon or boat
No official documentation

63
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Popular culture

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Urban
Changing
Heterogeneous
Large

64
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Lowest life expectancy

65
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Expansive population

66
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Eugenic population

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Only certain babies

67
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Restrictive population

68
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Push factor

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Centrifugal

69
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Pull factor

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Centripetal

70
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Best reason for migration

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Economic opportunity

AP Human Geography (13 decks)

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