Ap World History Geography Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images
| 14667056375 | Nile River |  | 0 | |
| 14667056376 | Indus River |  | 1 | |
| 14667056377 | Huang He |  | 2 | |
| 14667056378 | Tigris River |  | 3 | |
| 14667056379 | Euphrates River |  | 4 | |
| 14667056380 | Amazon River |  | 5 | |
| 14667056381 | Atlantic Ocean |  | 6 | |
| 14667056382 | Pacific Ocean |  | 7 | |
| 14667056383 | Indian Ocean |  | 8 | |
| 14667056384 | Mediterranean Sea |  | 9 | |
| 14667056385 | Black Sea |  | 10 | |
| 14667056386 | Red Sea |  | 11 | |
| 14667056387 | Caspian Sea |  | 12 | |
| 14667056388 | Arabian Sea |  | 13 | |
| 14667056389 | Himalayas |  | 14 | |
| 14667056390 | Alps |  | 15 | |
| 14667056391 | Caucasus Mountains |  | 16 | |
| 14667056392 | Ural Mountains |  | 17 | |
| 14667056393 | Andes |  | 18 | |
| 14667056440 | Hindu-Kush | a mountain range extending west of the Himalayas | 19 | |
| 14667056394 | Gobi Desert |  | 20 | |
| 14667056395 | Sahara Desert |  | 21 | |
| 14667056396 | Kalahari Desert |  | 22 | |
| 14667056397 | Arabian Peninsula |  | 23 | |
| 14667056398 | Korean Peninsula |  | 24 | |
| 14667056399 | Caribbean |  | 25 | |
| 14667056400 | Middle East |  | 26 | |
| 14667056401 | South Asia |  | 27 | |
| 14667056402 | Southeast Asia |  | 28 | |
| 14667056403 | Indonesia |  | 29 | |
| 14667056404 | Philippines |  | 30 | |
| 14667056405 | Japan |  | 31 | |
| 14667056406 | Canton |  | 32 | |
| 14667056407 | Baghdad |  | 33 | |
| 14667056408 | Batavia |  | 34 | |
| 14667056409 | Mecca |  | 35 | |
| 14667056410 | Malacca (Melaka) |  | 36 | |
| 14667056411 | Constantinople/Istanbul |  | 37 | |
| 14667056412 | Cordoba |  | 38 | |
| 14667056413 | Jerusalem |  | 39 | |
| 14667056414 | Tenochtitlan |  | 40 | |
| 14667056415 | Timbuktu |  | 41 | |
| 14667056416 | Beijing |  | 42 | |
| 14667056417 | Kilwa |  | 43 | |
| 14667056418 | Calcutta |  | 44 | |
| 14667056419 | Jenne |  | 45 | |
| 14667056420 | Moscow |  | 46 | |
| 14667056421 | South China Sea |  | 47 | |
| 14667056422 | Strait of Gibraltar |  | 48 | |
| 14667056423 | Bering Sea |  | 49 | |
| 14667056424 | Sea of Japan |  | 50 | |
| 14667056425 | Bosporus |  | 51 | |
| 14667056426 | Persian Gulf |  | 52 | |
| 14667056427 | Niger River |  | 53 | |
| 14667056428 | Tiber River |  | 54 | |
| 14667056429 | Ganges River |  | 55 | |
| 14667056430 | Yangtze River |  | 56 | |
| 14667056431 | Pyrenees Mountains |  | 57 | |
| 14667056432 | Indian Subcontinent |  | 58 | |
| 14667056433 | Swahili Coast |  | 59 | |
| 14667056441 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara. |  | 60 |
| 14667056434 | Iberian Peninsula |  | 61 | |
| 14667056435 | Sumatra |  | 62 | |
| 14667056436 | Malaysian Peninsula |  | 63 | |
| 14667056437 | Crimean Peninsula |  | 64 | |
| 14667056442 | Anatolia | A large peninsula at the western edge of Asia; also called Asia Minor |  | 65 |
| 14667056438 | Central Asia Steppes |  | 66 | |
| 14667056439 | caribbean sea |  | 67 |
Flashcards
Flashcards
AP World History Period 1 Flashcards
From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins
Original from MrsBHatchTEACHER
Terms : Hide Images
| 13870143381 | hunting and gathering | Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization |  | 0 |
| 13870143382 | civilization | Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups | 1 | |
| 13870143383 | neolithic | The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished |  | 2 |
| 13870143384 | nomadic societies | livestock hearding societies that do not have a permanent settlement. normally found on the fringes of civilized (urban) societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies |  | 3 |
| 13870143385 | culture | Combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction |  | 4 |
| 13870143386 | agrarian revolution | Occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture |  | 5 |
| 13870143387 | pastoralism | A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies |  | 6 |
| 13870143388 | Catal Huyuk | Early urban culture/civiization based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification |  | 7 |
| 13870143389 | Bronze Age | From 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing |  | 8 |
| 13870143390 | Mesopotamia | Literally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys |  | 9 |
| 13870143391 | potter's wheel | A technological advance in pottery making; invented circa 6000 B.C.E.; encouraged faster and higher-quality ceramic pottery products |  | 10 |
| 13870143392 | Sumerians | People who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states |  | 11 |
| 13870143393 | cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets |  | 12 |
| 13870143394 | city-state | A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king |  | 13 |
| 13870143395 | ziggurat | a massive tower building usually associated with Mesopotamian temple connections |  | 14 |
| 13870143396 | Babylonian Empire | Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion circa 1600 B.C.E. |  | 15 |
| 13870143397 | Hammurabi | The most important Babylonian ruler; responsible for codification of the law |  | 16 |
| 13870143398 | Pharaoh | The term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; the term, "great house" refers to the palace of the pharaohs |  | 17 |
| 13870143399 | pyramids | Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs |  | 18 |
| 13870143400 | hieroglyphs | Form of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictorial than Mesopotamian cuneiform |  | 19 |
| 13870143401 | Kush | African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries | 20 | |
| 13870143402 | monotheism | The exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization |  | 21 |
| 13870143403 | Phoenicians | Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean |  | 22 |
| 13870143404 | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro | Major urban complexes of Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern |  | 23 |
| 13870143405 | Aryans | Indo-European nomadic, warlike, pastorialists who replaced Harappan civilization |  | 24 |
| 13870143406 | Huanghe (Yellow) River Basin | Site of the development of sedentary agriculture in China |  | 25 |
| 13870143407 | Shang | 1st Chinese dynasty (after the legendary Xia) |  | 26 |
| 13870143408 | Oracles | Shamans or priests in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpreting animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing |  | 27 |
| 13870143409 | ideographic writing | Pictograph characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing | 28 | |
| 13870143410 | Big Geography | A term that draws attention to the global nature of world history. |  | 29 |
| 13870143411 | Paleolithic | The period that ended about 3,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, it lasted until about 10,000 years ago. (Old Stone Age) The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period. |  | 30 |
| 13870143412 | Human migration during Paleolithic era | movement of humans from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas | 31 | |
| 13870143413 | eglitarian | equality among people (no social levels) | 32 | |
| 13870143414 | tools | Humans developed a wider range of ____ specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra | 33 | |
| 13870143415 | Neolithic Revolution | period of change from hunter-gatherer lifesyle to agricultural lifestyles associated with domestication, farming, and settlement |  | 34 |
| 13870143416 | patriarchy | father based/male dominated society |  | 35 |
| 13870143417 | climatic change | Permanent agricultural villages emerged first in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly as a response to what? | 36 | |
| 13870143418 | weapons | Pastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of of ____ and forms of transportation that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations | 37 | |
| 13870143419 | horses | name one mode of new transportation by the pastoralists | 38 | |
| 13870143420 | art | Elites, both political and religious, promoted ____. | 39 | |
| 13870143421 | record-keeping systems | ___ arose independently in all early civilization sand subsequently were diffused | 40 | |
| 13870143422 | Nile River | This river flooded regularly. |  | 41 |
| 13870143423 | Tigris River | This river's floods were unpredictable. |  | 42 |
| 13870143424 | Mesopotamian | Unpredictable weather patterns affected the development of the _____ civilization. | 43 | |
| 13870143425 | Egyptian | _______art demonstrated little change for nearly 1000 years. | 44 | |
| 13870143426 | Nubia and Kush | Kingdoms upriver from Egypt. | 45 | |
| 13870143429 | Standard of Ur |  | 46 | |
| 13870143430 | Harappan King or Priest Figure |  | 47 | |
| 13870143427 | Jericho | One of the earliest cities: located in modern Israel. |  | 48 |
| 13870143428 | Catal-Hyouk | One of the earliest cities: located in modern Turkey. | 49 |
Flashcards
Small Engine Repair Unit 1 Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images
| 8276829368 | Name Plate | Information plate attached by the manufacturer giving their name, the engine make, model, serial number, and other information | 0 | |
| 8276842871 | Exhaust port | Opening to the outside of the combustion chamber for the release of exhaust gases. | 1 | |
| 8276853165 | Combustion Chamber | Area between the piston and cylinder head when the piston is at the top of its stroke. | 2 | |
| 8276863539 | Crankcase | Housing for the crankshaft and other related internal parts | 3 | |
| 8276871699 | Two-stroke cycle | Engine design permitting a power stroke once for each revolution of the crankshaft | 4 | |
| 8276892056 | Intake Port | Opening into the combustion chamber for the intake of the fuel-air charge. | 5 | |
| 8276915197 | Four-stroke cycle engine | Engine design which develops a power stroke every other revolution of the crankshaft | 6 | |
| 8276923329 | Cycle | Completion of a series of events to produce a power impulse. | 7 |
AP English Language and Composition Literary Terms #1 Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images
| 9962361680 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 9962361681 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 10554455892 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 2 | |
| 10554458058 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 10554459537 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 10554461018 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 10554462026 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 6 | |
| 10554465469 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 10554465470 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 8 | |
| 10554466729 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 9 |
Flashcards
Ap unit 5 vocab Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images
| 9960771573 | Agribusiness | industrialized, corporate form of agricultural production | 0 | |
| 9960786718 | Agriculture production in the US | range livestock dominates agricultural production in the western region of country | 1 | |
| 9960801491 | Agriculture | growing crops or tending livestock for subsistence purposes and/ or for sale or exchange | 2 | |
| 9960816077 | Aquaculture | fish farming | 3 | |
| 9960831429 | Biomass | Alternative energy source that involves converting a variety of biological materials into fuel for automobiles/ engines | 4 | |
| 9960871485 | Biopharming | a particular form of biotechnology in which genes form other life forms and are inserted into a host plant | 5 | |
| 9960882651 | Biotechnology | includes all technological improvements on biological systems to either make or enhance specific agricultural goods or food products (GMO's) | 6 | |
| 9960912711 | Capital intensive vs labor intensive agriculture | Capital intensive- use of mechanical goods, including machinery, tools, vehicles. large production of agricultural goods. Labor intensive- goods use human hands in large abundance to produce a given amount of output | 7 | |
| 9960948261 | commercial agriculture | food production for sale from a farm farm goods to food processing companies rather than consumers dairy farming, fruits, vegetables, meat | 8 | |
| 9960971310 | commercial grain farming | wheat and corn in the great plains, southern Russia, and china large portion of output goes to feeding livestock | 9 | |
| 9960994378 | commercial livestock farming | livestock ranching and dairying wide spread in Australia , North America, southern Africa and Asia | 10 | |
| 9961016970 | crop rotation | rotating the sequence of crops planted in particular fields to avoid depleting nutrients in the soil | 11 | |
| 9961054869 | Deforestation | the need for fuel wood and wood resource, cutting down tropical rain forests | 12 | |
| 9961100596 | Desertification | when marginal lands are over cultivated or overgrazed, soil gets stripped of vegitation | 13 | |
| 9961117521 | economic systems | goods and services created for use of producer and his or her family producers produce goods for the goal of profit | 14 | |
| 9961137163 | environmental implications of agriculture | pesticides have harmed wildlife populations, polluted rivers, lakes, and oceans. topsoil loss, fragile soils | 15 | |
| 9961173759 | Extensive Subsistence Agriculture | Nomadic Heading(Seasonal movement of herds) and Shifting Cultivation(Slash and Burn) | 16 | |
| 9962504296 | Extensive vs Intensive Agriculture | extensive- large areas of land and minimal labor input per acre intensive-smaller plots of land with substantial amounts of labor | 17 | |
| 9962515344 | Feedlots/CAFOs | animals concentrated in small spaces and given antibiotics and other fattening grains to prepare them for slaughter. | 18 | |
| 9962531320 | Fertile Crescent | Middle East, the areas fertile soil were attributed to its location in the Euphrates, Nile, and Tigris Rivers floodplains | 19 | |
| 9962551705 | Fishing | accounts for about 15% of global protein consumption. overfishing and pollution effects fish stocks | 20 | |
| 9962563934 | Food Regime | The links that exist between food producers, food consumers, and investment/accumulation opportunities that support a dominant type of food during a particular time period. | 21 | |
| 9962585639 | Food Production vs Agriculture | Agriculture doesn't always lead to food and food is not always produced through agriculture. | 22 | |
| 9962598533 | Food Security | Refers to reliable access, at all scales, to enough food to ensure active and healthy lives. | 23 | |
| 9962631148 | Forestry | Most forest industries are in developed countries like the US, Canada, and Russia. Used for wood supply and fuel supply. | 24 | |
| 9962656611 | GMOs | Plants and animals who's DNA have been genetically modified. | 25 | |
| 9962663654 | Geothermal power | type of energy that uses heat from the interior of the earth in the form of steam, which powers turbines to create electricity | 26 | |
| 9962672339 | Globalization of agriculture | improvements in transportation and communication effecting agriculture | 27 | |
| 9962724305 | Hunting and Gathering | Before technology people survived by this. Males usually hunted and females gathered | 28 | |
| 9962736619 | Hydroelectric Power | form of energy where water turns turbines to generate electricity. | 29 | |
| 9962744063 | Industrial revolution's Effect in Agriculture | Machines made it easier to produce and harvest more food/products faster and more efficiently. | 30 | |
| 9962764766 | Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | People producing food or raising animals to provide for themselves and their families. | 31 | |
| 9962771666 | Land Survey Patterns | Log Lots: French- Houses exist on narrow lots perpendicular to a river. Metes and Bonds: English- local geography with directions and distances to define boundaries for particular price of land Township and Range: US- system dividing land and sold to customers equally | 32 | |
| 9962804220 | Local Food Production | Refers to a food production system where food are produced locally | 33 | |
| 9962807535 | Luxury Crops | Luxury food items not necessary for everyday loving and not indigenous for the areas they are exporting to | 34 | |
| 9962824498 | Maladaptive Diffusion | Diffusion of an idea or technology that works well in one are or region but is not suitable for the area it diffuses to | 35 | |
| 9962841748 | Metallic and nonmetallic minerals | if metal can be obtained cheaper mines may not develop or they may shut down temporarily nonmetallic materials are generally only mined near the site where they will be used | 36 | |
| 9962861933 | Mineral Fuels | (Coal, petroleum, and natural gas) energy generated from these is a huge economic development indicator | 37 | |
| 9962871465 | Mining and Quarrying | provides energy base for way of life existent in advanced economies, as this includes harvesting of fossil fuels | 38 | |
| 9962900411 | Mixed and Specialty Crop Farming | Truck farms or market gardens produce mixed and specialty crops; climate largely determines production. Mediterranean agriculture is also an example of this. | 39 | |
| 9962917011 | Negative Impacts of the Green revolution | plant fertilizers devastated much of local land, decreased local biodiversity, multinational organizations steered economies away form producing local consumption and towards producing specialty crops. | 40 | |
| 9962940275 | Nuclear Energy | Form of energy, nuclear reaction generates a lot of heat which is used to make tea, and is turned in turbines to make electricity. Very controversial | 41 | |
| 9962964266 | Organic Agriculture | Farming without input of artificial aids. has grown tremendously across the last couple decades | 42 | |
| 9962974216 | Origins of Agriculture | Converted people from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture societies through domestication of plants and animals | 43 | |
| 9963004758 | Pastoralism/Transhumance | -breeding and herding animals to provide humans with food, shelter, and clothing -pastoralism that involves seasonal movements of herds | 44 | |
| 9963018341 | Petroleum | Modern industrial society is heavily dependent on this. nonrenewable | 45 | |
| 9963031396 | Primary economic activities | involve direct extraction or harvesting of a resource from the land. ex: fishing, mining, forestry | 46 | |
| 9963044831 | Resource Terminology | Natural Resource- naturally occurring minerals that humans use when beneficially towards economy Renewable- can be replenished quick enough to not deplete the resource Nonrenewable- Can not be replenished quick enough to not deplete the resource | 47 | |
| 9963071826 | Rural Settlement Types | Dispersed- widespread farms, relatively isolated from neighbors Nucleated-settlements contain a number of families living closer together with fields surrounding settlement | 48 | |
| 9963082582 | Rural Settlement | Sparsely settles areas moved from the influence of larger cities. Economy is usually based on primary activities. | 49 | |
| 9963099509 | Shifting Cultivation/ Slash-and-Burn/ Swidden | -rotating the fields to maintain soil fertility -cutting and burning the old crops to improve the quality of nutrients in the soil -land that has been cleared for cultivation | 50 | |
| 9963114131 | The Boserup Hypothesis | Better soil fertility can accommodate growing populations. More food for more people | 51 | |
| 9963129526 | The Green Revolution | 1970s-1980s: Increased food availability to rapidly growing populations by better technology, techniques, and communications. | 52 | |
| 9963144025 | Transhumance | Pastoral practice of seasonal migration of livestock | 53 | |
| 9963153261 | Transportation and Agriculture | industrial revolution and commercial agriculture Subsistence remains subsistence because lack of transportation techniques technology has helped transportation and agriculture | 54 | |
| 9963167399 | Tropical Plantations | Crops that grow well in tropical climates are grown and mostly exposed and barley consumed by local consumers | 55 | |
| 9963178150 | Urban Sprawl and Agriculture | Sprawl does not benefit agriculture because it rids the land of space for food plots. However selling land in some cases is more profitable than farming it. | 56 | |
| 9963187713 | Urban Agriculture | Establishment of agriculture practices in or very near a city. | 57 | |
| 9963196614 | Wind Farms | areas of land use giant wind turbines that convert wind energy into renewable energy source. | 58 | |
| 9963203307 | von Thünen Model |  | 59 | |
| 9963207682 | von Thünen results | predicts agricultural patterns well. model can be altered to account for transportation and competing markets | 60 | |
| 9963218143 | Agglomeration | Grouping together of many firms, in similar industry, in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources. | 61 |
Pages
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!
