AP Human Geography Chapter 2 Study Guide Terms: · population density - a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land · arithmetic population density - the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area · physiologic population density - the number of people per unit area of arable land · population distribution - description of locations on the Earth’s surface where populations live · dot maps - maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon
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a. Social Location- the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. In the city of Mumbai‚ there is a thriving city and successful businesses like Bollywood. It’s beautiful‚ but in the center there is 1 square mile area that is different. This is the slum called Dharavi. To the unknown eye‚ Dharavi is a dirty poor district that has nothing to give to the community. There is garbage that is dug through‚ poverty‚ and disease. That is what you would think upon
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over other countries. Ex: Nazis Nationality Distinctive national or ethnic character Ex: Chinese Nation-state A political entity (a state) associated with a particular cultural entity (a nation) Ex: Japan Race A categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics Ex: African American Racism Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals‚ it is an ideology of difference that ascribes significance and meaning
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Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It
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Chapter 25 Process of fossilization · Moving water can suspend sediment – inorganic particles · Moving water fills into still body of water o Sediment flats to the bottom o Forms a layer o More layers form with different compositions on the bottom of the lake or ocean · Living things in the ocean die and get buried in the sediments in the ocean · A lot of weight and pressure pushing down · The organic material is replaced by rocks – mineralization resulting
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Chapter 8 Annexation: Incorporation of a territory into another geo-political entity. Antarctica: Southernmost continent in the world. It has no permanent residents and doesn’t belong to any country. Apartheid: Afrikaans for apartness‚ it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority. Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation
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Writing Prompt 1 Table 1: Clinical United States (High Income Country) Somalia (Low Income Country) High life expectancy. Low life expectancy. Low mortality rate. High mortality rate. Low infant mortality rate. High infant mortality rate. Low adult mortality rate. High adult mortality rate. Cause-specific morbidity and mortality (low mortality rate due to communicable‚ non-communicable‚ and injury). Cause-specific
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Chapter 1 -What is Scale? What is the difference between local and global scale? -What are the three methods of scale and describe them. 1.) 2.) 3.) -What is projection and what are the 4 types of distortion that can result from projection? What are the differences between the Mercator and Peter’s projections? -What does the saying “uniform global landscape” mean? -What does the idea the world is shrinking mean? (4 things) 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) -What is a transnational corporation
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StudyAP Human Geography Notes Bartula 4/15/09 General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism‚ the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical
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Total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years Demographic momentum- where the large group of young people grow past childbearing age and the population decreases Crude death rate- aka mortality rate‚ number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population Infant mortality rate- number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births per year Natural increase- the difference between the crude
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