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Ap Human Geography Semester 1Review
5 Themes of Geography - answer location, space, scale, place, and pattern
spatial perspective - answer the common bond that causes us to notice patterns of both
natural and human environment, distributions of people, and locations of all kinds of
objects
spatial organization - answer the location of people, places, and events, and the
connections among landscapes
cartography - answer the art and science of map-making
Mercator Projection - answer invented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569; intended to aid
ship navigation across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas. Makes direction
accurate, but distorts size, especially near the Poles
Robinson Projection - answer curves the Poles inward to fix distortions of the Mercator
projection, but stretches them into long lines. Attempts to balance distortions in shape,
size, distance and direction
Peter's Projection - answerinvented by Arno Peters in 1974, and focuses on making
land masses equal in area, therefore distorting shape
grid pattern - answerrectangular system of land survey, adopted universally by the
Ordinance of 1785
scale - answera. size of unit studied, on a scale of small to large in terms of local,
regional, or global scale
b. map scale; the mathematical relationship between size of an area on a map and its
actual size on earth
GIS - answerGeographic Information System; a computer system that captures, stores,
analyzes and displays geography data, combined in layers
GPS - answerGlobal Positioning System; technology that uses a series of satellites,
tracking stations and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth
demography - answerdescription of people or populations
population density - answerthe number of people that live in a given area of land
, physiological density - answermeasures the pressure people may place on the land to
produce a sustainable amount of food
arithmetic density - answertotal number of people divided by total land area
overpopulation - answerthe circumstance of too many people for the land to support
carrying capacity - answerthe number of people an area can support on a sustained
basis
population pyramids - answerrepresent a population's age and sex composition
rate of natural increase - answera percentage of population growth
Total Fertility Rate - answerthe average number of children a woman is expected to
have in her lifetime
Agricultural Revolution - answerthe domestication of plants and animals, started in the
Fertile Crescent around 1000 BCE
Industrial Revolution - answera period starting in the late eighteenth century in Britain
that saw the introduction of mass production
Green Revolution - answerthe introduction of high-yielding crops and chemical fertilizers
and pesticides into tradition Asian agricultural systems
doubling rate - answerthe length of time needed to double a population
crude birth rate - answerthe number of births in a given population per one thousand
people
crude death rate - answerthe number of deaths in a given population per one thousand
people
Zero Population Growth - answera stabilized population, created when an average of
only two children per couple survive to adulthood
exponential growth rate - answera growth rate illustrated by a series of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32
linear growth rate - answera growth rate illustrated by a series of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Neo-Malthusians - answerAdhere to Thomas Malthus' theory that populations increase
too rapidly for food supplies to sustain
infant mortality rate - answerthe number of deaths among infants younger than one year
of age in a population
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