AP Human Geography Study Guide Bundle 2024.

E - Answer All the following have been considered new industrial countries EXCEPT (A) Hong Kong (D) China (B) South Korea (E) Indonesia (C) Brazil C - Answer Which of the following is an example of a quinary-sector economic activity? (A) Working at a cash register at McDonald's (B) Serv...

Political Geography - Answer The study of the "political" organization of the world. State - Answer ~A politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a system of government. ~Must be recognized by other states as a state in order to be considered a st...

Space - Answer the general surface of the earth. Place - Answer A particular space with physical and human meaning Scale - Answer Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a ...

agriculture - Answer The planting and harvesting of domesticated plants and the raising of domesticated animals for food domesticated plants - Answer A plant that is deliberately planted, protected, cared for, and used by humans and is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors domestica...

Walt Rostow's modernization model: - Answer assumes that all countries follow a similar path to development or modernization, advancing through five stages of development: 1)The society is traditional, - Answer and the dominant activity is subsistence farming. 2)Preconditions of takeoff: ...

Dispersion/Concentration- Dispersed/Scattered, Clustered/Agglomerated - Answer Dispersion- The spacing of people within geographic population boundaries. Concentration- The spread of a feature over space. Dispersed/ Scattered- If objects are relatively far apart. Clustered/ Agglomerated- If ob...

Agricultural Density - Answer Ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. Low- MDC High- LDC Physiological Density - Answer Ratio of the number of people to arable land. High- LDC Low- MDC Arithmetic Density - Answer Ratio of the number of population by the land are...

agglomeration economics - Answer the savings to an individual enterprise derived from locational association with a cluster of other similar economic activites, such as other factories or retail stores break - of - bulk point - Answer a location where transfer is possible from one mode of tra...

Agrarian - Answer characteristic of farmers or their way of life agribusiness - Answer highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership agriculture - Answer the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals aquaculture - Answer th...

agriculture - Answer the purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber subsistence agriculture - Answer level of farming in which a person raises only enough food to feed his or her family plant domestication - Answer altering the behaviors, size and geneti...

Definition of a State - Answer A politically organized territory that is administered by sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. Sove...

State - Answer Definition:the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation Example: United States Geopolitics - Answer Definition:the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state Example: border conflicts Regionalism - Answer ...

What is folk culture? - Answer a culture traditionally practiced by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas What is popular culture? - Answer a culture found in large, heterogenous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics How...

Popular Culture - Answer -The practices, attitudes, and preferences that many people in a particular group have in common. -heterogenus -changes frequently -found anywhere on cultural landscape -large societies Homogenization Thesis - Answer -globalization makes culture more alike EX: f...

spatial approach - Answer The way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns and the connections of various locations. physical geography - Answer the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes human geography - Answer The study of whe...

Culture - Answer The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. Folk Culture - Answer cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities. Popular Cul...

Antecedent Boundary - Answer A boundary that was drawn across an area prior to the area becoming substantially-populated (e.g. border between Malaysia and Indonesia) Balance of Power - Answer A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or allies Boundary - Answer An ...

D - Answer Compared to North American ranchers, commercial ranchers in the Pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil are more likely to... (A) raise mostly sheep (B) lease their grazing land (C) rely on feedlots (D) raise livestock primarily for export (E) use practices developed by ...

Development - Answer A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology Gross domestic product (GDP) - Answer The value of total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year). Gross nat...

Which country led the world in manufacturing in the nineteenth century? A. Germany B. United States C. France D. United Kingdom - Answer D. United Kingdom Which his country had made the least progress toward industrialization during the late 19th century? A. Russia B. France C. Germany ...

With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment A) few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment. B) religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment. C) religion is no longer an i...

What is the difference between a habit and a custom? - Answer Habit is a repetitive act of an individual person - wearing jeans every day. Custom is a repetitive act of a group so much that it becomes characteristics of that group - college students wearing jeans every day. Define folk cultur...

Cartography - Answer the making of maps and charts Map Distortion - Answer Happens when a round surface is made flat; distortion may be in size or shape of land forms, distance between land forms, or in direction. Map Projection - Answer a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a ...

barter - Answer the form of trade in which a good or service is traded for another good or service, as agreed upon by the people doing the trading. *first form of trade* cash exchanges - Answer a form of trade in which cash, a way to place an abstract value on a *product* or *service* that al...

The construction of makeshift housing in a country within the periphery, as shown in the photograph, is often the result of A)natural disasters that moved through the area, damaging homes B)government housing projects that were neglected as a result of government corruption C)an increasing numbe...

Accent - Answer a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation Dialect - Answer a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular soc...

what percent of the world population is malnourished? - Answer 1/6th Where does much of kenya's incme come from? - Answer foreign tea and coffee exports what are the set of processes thar are increasing interactions, deepening relationships and heighteniing interdependence regardless of n...

C. Indo-European - Answer People in London, Melbourne, Vancouver, and Mumbai all speak- A. Mandarin B. Romance C. Indo-European D. Germanic E. Sino-Tibetan E. Niger-Congo - Answer The most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa is- A. Afro-Asiatic. B. Khoisan. C. Nilo-Sahara...