Ap human 1 + 2

Question 1

Absolute Direction

Answer 1

the cardinal directions; north, south, east, west

Question 2

Absolute distance

Answer 2

distance that can be measured by a standard unit of length

Question 3

Census

Answer 3

a official count of the number of ppl in a define area; state

Question 4

site

Answer 4

a places absolte location, as well as it physical characteristics

Question 5

situation

Answer 5

location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features

Question 6

semi-periphery

Answer 6

classicfication of a country or region that has qualities of both core and perpheral areas and is often in the process of industrailizing

Question 7

node

Answer 7

the focal point of a functional region

Question 8

periphery

Answer 8

classicfication of a country or region that has less wealth, lower education levels, and less sophisticated techonologies and also tends to have and unstable govermnet and poor healthcare systems

Question 9

core

Answer 9

classification of a country or regio that has wealth higher education levels, more advanced technology, many resources, strong military and powerful allies

Question 10

scale

Answer 10

the area of the world being studied

Question 11

Relative distance

Answer 11

distance determined in relative to other places or objects

Question 12

Relative direction

Answer 12

direction based on a persona perception; left, right, up and down

Question 13

Choropleth map

Answer 13

display divided geographical areas or regions that are coloured, shaded or patterned in relation to a data variable.

Question 14

Cartogram

Answer 14

a person that creates maps

Question 15

Isoline map

Answer 15

uses lines to connect point locations with similar values

Question 16

DTM (demographic transition model)

Answer 16

a simplified way of looking at how population is changing and has changed around the world.

Question 17

doubling time

Answer 17

The number of years required for a specified population to double in size at the current rate of population growth.

Question 18

land degradation

Answer 18

A negative trend in land condition, caused by direct or indirect human-induced processes including anthropogenic climate change, expressed as long-term reduction or loss of at least one of the following: biological productivity, ecological integrity, or value to humans.

Question 19

agricultural density

Answer 19

A measures the number of farmers per unit area of farmland

Question 20

arable land

Answer 20

any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

Question 21

arithmetic density

Answer 21

the total number of people divided by the total land area

Question 22

total fertility rate (TFR)

Answer 22

the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.

Question 23

population distribution

Answer 23

a measure of how spread out a population is in any given area.

Question 24

population density

Answer 24

the number of people per unit of area

Question 25

mortality

Answer 25

The estimated total number of deaths in a population of a given sex and/or age, divided by the total number of this population, expressed per 100,000 population, for a given year, in a given country, territory, or geographic area.

Question 26

carrying capacity

Answer 26

a species’ average population size in a particular habitat

Question 27

dependency ratio

Answer 27

The average number of economically dependent population per 100 economically productive population, for a given country, territory, or geographic area, at a specific point in time.

Question 28

Demographics

Answer 28

the study of demographics, the social characteristics and statistics of a human population

Question 29

Overpopulation

Answer 29

the state whereby the human population rises to an extent exceeding the carrying capacity of the ecological setting.

Question 30

Anti-Natalist

Answer 30

The policy of the government to slow the population growth by attempting to limit the number of births.

Question 31

Pro-Natalist

Answer 31

policies which are designed with the purpose of increasing the birth rate/fertility rate of an area.

Question 32

brain drain

Answer 32

a situation whereby talented professionals flee one country to another in search of better pay and working conditions

Question 33

distance decay

Answer 33

describes how the strength of a relationship between people, places, or systems decreases as the separation between them increases.

Question 34

immigration

Answer 34

the physical movement of people from one place to another

Question 35

emigration

Answer 35

the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere

Question 36

intervening obstacle

Answer 36

an object that interferes with how humans arrive at their destinations.

Question 37

intervening opportunity

Answer 37

a feature (usually economic) that causes a migrant to choose a destination other than his original one.

Question 38

Push Factor

Answer 38

reasons for leaving a country

Question 39

diffusion

Answer 39

the spread of ideas, objects, inventions, and other practices from place to place.

Question 40

Pull Factor

Answer 40

reasons for going to a country

Question 41

friction of distance

Answer 41

movement over space requires effort, resulting in an undesirable loss of resources, typically called a cost or impedance, that is directly proportional to the distance between a source and destination.

Question 42

Transhumance

Answer 42

the seasonal movement of livestock (herding) between mountains and lowland pastures

Question 43

Chain Migration

Answer 43

the social process by which immigrants from a particular area follow others from that area to a particular destination.

Question 44

Step Migration

Answer 44

When a migrant follows a path of a series of stages, or steps toward a final destination.

Question 45

guest workers

Answer 45

foreign national who is permitted to live and work temporarily in a host country.

Question 46

Asylum

Answer 46

a country that provides refugee and safety to people coming from other areas

Question 47

repatriate

Answer 47

the act of returning to your own country

Question 48

Quotas

Answer 48

government-imposed trade restrictions that limit the number or monetary value of goods that a country can import or export during a particular period.