AP Exam Flashcards

13837233113	environmental determinism	Belief that our environment influences and controls our actions, lifestyle, and culture	0
13837233114	What is human geography concerned with?	The physical and cultural environments and how humans function and interact with them	1
13837233115	Situation	Relative location of a place relative to neighboring places	2
13837233116	Site	Absolute location of a place	3
13837233117	How is site usually described	in physical terms using water bodies, mountains plains, etc.	4
13837233118	Function	The purpose of a religion or place in relation to another religion or place	5
13837233119	Geological history	The scientific study of the earths history from its beginning up until now	6
13837233120	What are some reasons people move to urban areas	For employment opportunities, better healthcare, and better education	7
13837233121	The demographic transition model assumes that birth and death rates will ___ overtime as the country develops economically	Drop	8
13837233122	Environmental perception	Theory that people of different cultures look at their environments in different ways	9
13837233123	Possibilism	Theory that humans have a choice in how they think, act, and live within a range of available possibilities given to them by their physical environment	10
13837233124	Environmentalism	Movement to preserve and protect the physical environment from pollution and misuse by humans	11
13837233125	Culture system	Group of culture complexes that form the common identity of a group	12
13837233126	6 largest countries in terms of territory	1) Russia 2) Canada 3) US 4) China 5) Brazil 6) Australia	13
13837233127	Physiological Density	total population divided by arable land area	14
13837233128	Arithmetic density	the number of people per unit area of land	15
13837233129	Other names for Arithmetic density	Population and crude density	16
13837233130	nation-state	State or political territory with only one nation on people within its borders (all people in the area share a common identity)	17
13837233131	Examples of nation-states	Japan and Iceland	18
13837233132	State/Country	Definite territory with borders and full sovereignty	19
13837233133	Examples of states	US and Thailand	20
13837233134	Nation	a group of people with a common culture and history who occupy an area	21
13837233135	Enclave	an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it Ex. Vatican City	22
13837233136	Exclave	A part of a country that is isolated from the main part Ex. Alaska	23
13837233137	Colony	Territory under the control of another political state	24
13837233138	Edge City	A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area that has more workers than residents	25
13837233139	Unitary state	Country with a strong central government Ex. France	26
13837233140	Cultural Hearth	Birthplaces of major hearths Ex. Indus River Valley, Nile River Valley, West Africa, and Mesopotamia	27
13837233141	Cultural basins	Basins it repositories of culture	28
13837233142	cultural convergence	The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technologies	29
13837233143	culture complex	Set of traits or practices that revolve around basic activity in a culture, such as food preparation	30
13837233144	cultural divergence	The trend for 2 cultures to become more different overtime	31
13837233145	Which minority group is the fastest growing in the US?	Hispanic	32
13837671246	Most migrants today are	Young singles	33
13837671247	Buddhists worship in ___	Temple pagodas	34
13837671248	Those who practice Shinto worship in ___	Shrines	35
13837671249	Muslims worship in ___	mosques	36
13837671250	Jews worship in ___	Temples or synagogues	37
13837671251	A population pyramid represents a population's ___ and ___ composition	Age; sex	38
13837671252	Mentifacts	Main categories of culture's values and beliefs, such as religion, language, folklore, etc.	39
13837671253	Artifacts	Material parts of culture, such as houses, clothing, tools, etc.	40
13837671254	Dialects	variations of a language	41
13837671255	Ethnocentrism	the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture	42