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AP Human Geography All Chapters Questions & Detailed Answers 2024
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AP Human Geography All Chaptersglobalization - ANS greater cultural and economic interaction among people all
over the world
geography - ANS The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of
life on the earth, including human life
human geography - ANS The study of where and why human activities are located
where they are
physical geography - ANS The study where and why natural forces occur as they do
map - ANS A two-dimension or flat scale model of something
place - ANS A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
region - ANS an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural
and physical features
scale - ANS the relationship between the portion of Earth being studies and Earth
as a whole
,space - ANS the physical gap or intervals between two objects
connections - ANS relationships among people and objects across the barrier of
space
cartography - ANS the science of mapmaking
map projection - ANS the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's
surface to a flat map
Land Ordinance of 1785 - ANS divided much of the country into a system of
townships and ranges to facilitate the sale of land to settlers
GIS (geographic information system) - ANS a computer system that can capture,
store, query, analyze, and display geographic date
remote sensing - ANS the acquisition of data from a satellite orbiting Earth or from
another long-distance method
GPS (global positioning system) - ANS a system that accurately determines the
precise position of something on Earth
location - ANS the position that something occupies on Earth
,toponym - ANS the name given to a place on Earth
site - ANS physical character of a place
situation - ANS the location of a place relative to other places
meridian(longitude) - ANS an arc drawn between North and South poles
parallel(latitude) - ANS a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator
prime meridian - ANS 0 degrees longitude - passes through Greenwich, England
equator - ANS 0 degrees latitude
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - ANS master reference time for all points on Earth
Age distribution - ANS The proportion of individuals of different ages within a
population. You can use an age distribution to estimat survival by calculating the
difference in proportion of individuals in succeeding age classes
Agricultural revolution - ANS the development of farming
, Arithmetic Population Density - ANS The total number of people divided by the
total land area
Capacity - ANS the amount of people an area can support
Census - ANS A period count of the population
Child Mortality Rate - ANS A figure that describes the number of children that die
between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population
Chronic Diseases - ANS Generally long - lasting afflictions now more common
because of higher life expectancies
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) - ANS The number of live births yearly per 1,000 people in a
population. (natality)
Crude Death Rate (CDR) - ANS The number of deaths yearly per 1,000 people in a
population
Demographic momentum - ANS is the tendency for growing population to
continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution.
This is important because once this happens a country moves to a different stage
in the demographic transition model
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