AP Human Geography
vocab
People and borders
politics
100
What does ESPeN stand for?
Economic, Social, Political, Environmental
100
Land suitable for growing crops
What is Arable land?
100
A group of people that share values, traditions, and ethnicity
Nation
100
government free from external control
What is sovereignty?
200
What 3 religions are associated with Jerusalem?
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
200
Small projects a large area and large projects a small area.
What is map scale?
200
What type of thematic map is being shown?
What is a chloropleth map?
200
An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group, an example would be Japan
What is Nation-State?
300
Moderate population growth; population mostly in the secondary sector
Newly Industrialized
Country (NIC)
300
This describes the history of landform transformation by the humans that lived there.
What is sequent occupance?
300
Religions that worship only one god
Monotheistic
300
Average amount of time people live
Life Expectancy
400
Dividing a region’s population by its total area
What is Arithmetic Density
400
Comparison between size of workforce and dependents
Dependency Ratio
400
What projection is this?
What is Mercator?
400
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
What is Multinational state?
500
The measure of the average population per square mile or kilometer of an area
Population Density
500
When transporting an item takes less and less time using technology. For example, people used to move via horse, then train, then car, then plane.
What is time-space compression?
500
Border that is no longer there but it holds social significance
Relic
500
Numbers of births per year for each 1000 people
Crude Birth rate