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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY EXAM WITH {1093}DETAILED QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
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fieldwork - ANSWER the study of geography by visiting areas and seeing the
people that live there and how they react to changes.
*Human geography - ANSWER the study of humans and their cultures, activities,
and landscapes; how people make places, how we organize space and society, how
we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of
others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world; the spatial analysis of
human populations, their cultures, activities, and landscapes.
*globalization - ANSWER the extension of economic, political, and cultural
processes to the point where they become global in scale and impact; set of
processes that are increasing interactions, strengthening relationships, and speeding
interdependence beyond national borders.
*Physical geography is the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and
placement of Earth's natural phenomena, such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and
topography.
*spatial - ANSWER about space on the Earth's natural phenomena such as climate,
soil, vegetation, animals, and terrain.
geographical distribution - ANSWER actual position of geographic phenomena
throughout space; can be the first step in understanding a phenomenon; how
something is spread across space
*pattern- ANSWER the design of a spatial distribution (e.g., scattered or
concentrated); specific distributions
,Medical geography is the study of health and disease in a geographic context and
from a geographical standpoint. Medical geography, among other things, examines
the sources, dissemination pathways, and distributions of diseases; mapping the
distribution of a disease
*pandemic - ANSWER global outbreak of a disease.
*Epidemic - ANSWER regional outbreak of a disease; disease specific to region or
locality.
*What is the distinction between pandemics and epidemics? - ANSWER A
pandemic is global, whereas an epidemic is regional.
*spatial perspective - ANSWER examining differences in geographic phenomena
throughout space, studying a variety of topics ranging from political electrons and
urban shantytowns to LGBT communities and folk music
*five themes (of geography)- ANSWER created by Geography Educational
National Implementation Project (GENIP); location, human-environment
interaction, region, place, and movement; drawn from geography's spatial concerns.
*location - ANSWER illustrates how the geographical position of people and
things on Earth's surface affects what happens and why.
Location theory is an ANSWER part of current human geography that seeks
solutions to a wide range of questions--some theoretical, others highly practical;
*logical endeavour to explain the locational pattern of economic activity and the
method in which its producing areas are interrelated*
*human-environment interaction - answer the relationship between humans and the
physical world; the reciprocal relationship between humans and the environment.
,*region - ANSWER specific areas; an area on the earth's surface with a degree of
formal, functional, or perceptual uniformity of some phenomenon
*place - ANSWER distinct human and physical traits.
sense of place - ANSWER state of mind formed via the infusion of a location with
meaning and emotion by recalling major events that occurred in that place or by
designating a place with a specific character.
perceptions of places - ANSWER belief or "understanding" of a place established
via books, movies, stories, or photographs.
*movement - ANSWER: the movement of people, things, and ideas across the
surface of the planet
spatial interaction is the movement of people, objects, and ideas inside and across
geographic space; it depends on the distances between places.
Distance is the measurable physical space between two points.
Accessibility is the ease of getting from one area to another.
Connectivity is the degree of linkage between sites in a network.
*landscape - ANSWER the material character of a place, the complex of natural
elements, human constructions, and other tangible objects that give a location its
distinct shape; an area's overall appearance. Most landscapes are made up of a
blend of natural and human-caused factors.
*cultural landscape: the visible imprint of human activities on the landscape.
, *sequent occupancy - ANSWER sequential footprints of inhabitants, whose
influences are piled one on top of the other, with each layer having some impacts
on the next.
**How many people around the world are malnourished? - ANSWER: 1 billion
people, or one-seventh of the planet (mostly women and children).
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert.
What are some of the most malnourished countries? Guatemala, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, Bolivia, the Congo, Chad, Angola, Zambia, Malawi,
Ethiopia, Yemen, Niger, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Madagascar,
Mocambique, Armenia, Sudan, South Sudan, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, North
Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Cameroon, and Togo
What are the major causes of malnutrition? - ANSWER poverty, failure of food
distribution systems (when food reaches the poor, its price may be exorbitant), and
cultural and political practices that favour some groups over others
ANSWER: farmable.
What are some of the elements contributing to poverty? - ANSWER: Foreign firms
dominate poor countries' economies, farms are unproductive, and a gendered legal
system.
agro-pastoralists—answer farmers who cultivate crops and cattle.
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