AP Human🧑🏻‍🦳 ✨Midterm✨

A map that shows physical features

Map that dramatizes physical features

• map that shows boundaries,labels,names,people etc

Map that shows the entire world(landmasses and bodies of water)

• connections and similarities in a certain region

• Ex: South Florida

• a map that only shows one country

• a local map is a large-scale map that shows a small area in great detail

• its a map that one refers to a map to find a specific location

A map that shows movement(roads,etc)

Using colors to demonstrate the theme of the map

• often used for the climate map

• uses a little or many dots with a theme

• Population map

• uses size/different gradients of color to identify a theme

• any map focused on any specific theme

• map that shows elevation(above and below sea level)

• Creates images with lines

uses different elevations to create a visual such as a city

Cuts out a lot of the water and focuses on the land forms

• teaches students about the looks of the earth and relationships with the earth

• Often found in classrooms

• Map distorts distance and direction

• distort size and shape

• Absolute in distance

• Care about how far away land is and how to get their(Vikings)

• see poles

• Everything past equater is distorted

• only shows South Pole to equator

• Only one hemisphere

• land photographed by a satellite

Takes a map and inflates a certain area based on a topic

• Fractional Scale: ratio representing the map measurements: real life measurements (1 inch:24,000 miles)

• Verbal Scale: geographical scope used to analyze and understand the phenomenon (local,national,and globa)

The term describes how the primary methodology behind geography is spatial analysis and that two questions make up this methodology.

• Where are things located?

• Why are they located where they are?

• Refers to the geographical position of people/things on the earth(absolute;latitude,longitude)

• Understanding where something is/should be located and why it is there: Location Theory

1. absolute location: precise coordinates/ (latitude,longitude)

2. relative location: location of a place or attribute relative to another place or attribute

• relationship between humans and the physical world and how they mutually affect each other

• How people adapt and alter a new place and vice versa

• concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to and alteration of the enviornment

• what you can do is limited by your physical enviornment

As humans became more advanced through tecnology and ideas, people overcame what the enviorment determined a certain place to be

• similarities between places

• Examples:Human phenomenon(language,religion), Physical Phenomenon(tornadoes and earthquakes)

• shared physical/cultural traits(one or more)

• Shares a specific geographical feature Ex: l’arts of China

• area with a shared common purposes such as trade

• Shared economical,political,social purpose

• Defined by the fact of how people within a certain region function together politically socially or economically

• images people carry in their minds of certain people,places,and things

• Can include people and their cultural traits,places and physical traits, and build enviornments

• Involves pictures while vernacular region involves words

• The emotions and feeling associated with a certain place

• one develops a perception of a place that they have never been to by reading books,seeing pictures,watching movies,hearing stories,etc

• mobility of people,goods and ideas

• Migration

• Expresses how people are interconnected

• spread of idea,innovation from its hearth(origin) to other people/places

• degree of connectedness or contact among certain people/places

• Another term for distance-decay

• Dépends on distance between places, accessibility of other places and the transportation/communication connectivity among certain places

Innovation or idea that develops in a hearth and remains strong while spreading outward

• visible imprint of human activity on the land

• composed of the « forms superimposed on the physical landscape » by human activity

• People living in a certain area leave behind some of their culture when they locate

• Geographical information system

• combine computers hardware and software to analyse And solve geographical problem by layering maps

• geographical positioning system

• Enables us to find features on Earth accurately

• Location

• Often satellite based

• method that collects data through instruments that are far away from the area being studied

• Examples:satellite,aircrafts, and drones

Space we move through routinely

• map made from our own personal experiences differs between indivisuals

Relationship with the things around you

Measure of total population relative to land area

Amount of people per square mile of land in a country

• amount of people per square land of arable land

• More people per square mile

• More accurate than arithmetic population density

1. East Asia: China,Korea,Japan

2. South Asia: India,Pakistani,Bangladesh

3. Europe

4. North America

Refer to a huge urban agglomeration such as the one that stretches along the areas of the East coast in the United States and Canada

• British economist

• He warned the world that about ow the world’s population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it

• Reasoned that food growled linearly and that population grows exponentially

He did not foresee how goods would be spread through globalization and the advancements of new agricultural methods

• support Malthus

• Say that overpopulation will cause disaster on earth

• Difference between number of births and deaths in a year. Positive if births exceed deaths and negative if deaths exceed births. Does not include emigration and immigration.

Number of live births per year per thousand people

• number of deaths per year per thousand people

• used to repersent population distribution

• Each dot on the map represents a certain number of people

The time required for a population to double in size

The amount of people/animals that a certain area of land can hold

• the average number of children born to women of childbearing age(15-49)

TFR 2.1

Model suggesting that a country’s birth and death rate change in predictable ways over stages of economic development

• fluctuating birth and death rates

• Low population growth

• Pre agricultural stage to agricultural revolution stage

• Marked by high birth and death rates(plagues and epidemics)

• Europe was hit by bubonic plague and several people died causing low population growth despite high birth rates

• 18th century

• high birth rates and rapidly declining death rates and very high natrual increase rates

• “Population explosion” in Europe

• Improvements in medical technology,food,sanitation,healthcare

• Increased life span

• 20th century

• increasing population growth

• Gradually decreasing deaths and slightly increasing births

• From agriculture to industry

• Machines make work easier

• Second agricultural revolution

• 19th century

• 21st century

• Low birth rates,low death rates, stable/slowing rates of natural increase

• Happened due to modern contraceptives and more women in the workforce

• Include higher income countries

• Represent certain structures of the population such as age and sex

1. Chimney/Peripheral

• poor country

• Workforce starts young at age 10

• Short life span/only live till late 40s

• Need a lot of children to take care of the few adults by working

2. Inverted Pyramid

• Japan

• Elderly is the biggest portion as the population isn’t having many children

• Issue as there is no future workforce

3. Normal/Perfect

4)round vase

• rural/farming

• Dependent on agriculture

• Central America/Asian countries

5. Vase

• dependent on industry

• Wealthy countries

• Big workforce and smaller youth

Probability that a child will die before the age of 1

probability a child will die when between the ages of 1-5

• Average number of years a person is supposed to live for

• Differs between men and women

• many people are dieing due to this

• Shortened people’s life span in Africa

• Affected Africa’s economy and the amount of people that are able to work

• Began to spread to other countries

• resulting from an invasion of parasites and their multiplication in the body

• infects youths weak immune system

A disease that prevails over a very small area

A disease that spreads throughout one country

A disease that has spread to more than one country

• A disease transmitted by a carrier with disease from person to person

• Ex: Example:

1. a mosquito stings a person that is infected with malaria

2)The mosquito sucks up some of that blood along with parasities that reach the bug’s saliva

3)These mosquitos’s then sting someone else and the disease is injected into someone’s blood stream

4)Now that person develops malaria as the parasites grow in the infected person’s body

Policy that encourages large families and raises the rate of natrual increase

• Ulyanovsk Provice held a national day of conception(Russia)

• More companies such as France and widen began promoting gender equality and boosting fertility rates by adopting family friendly policies

• Offered tas incentives,job leaves,etc to parents

• More women were in the work force meaning less kids meaning less future workers leading to these policies

• Policies designed to discourage/ostracize different groups of people from having children

• In the Holocast the Nazi’s targeted the Jewish population from reproducing as they wanted to get rid of them

• policies designed to restrict a population’s birth/fertility rate

• Example: China’s one-child policy restricts how many children the citizens of China were able to have by penalizing them

Describes a regular journey that begins at a certain place and returns to the same place in a short period of time

• going from home to school and going back home again

a longer period of time away from the home base than cyclic movement but still coming home eventually

Going home to college for a long period of time then going home to spring break

• way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically

• Move around based on trade and carry goods to places to trade

• a specialized form of pastoralism that is practiced on a mountain when ranchers move livestock to move up and down the mountain during summer months and winter months

Intent to make a permanent move to a destination different from starting point

• Intent to cross some country border to permanently reside somewhere else outside of the country’s borders

• leave one place with internet to permantley reside somewhere else within the same country

Crossing a border and entering a country

Crossing a countries’ borders to leave that country

• Migration imposed on a group of people from one place to another

• Jewish people in Germany were forced to flee during the holocaust as their lives were in danger