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AP Human Geo.
Question | Answer |
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homogeneous | sameness of a group |
heterogeneous | differences within a group |
demographics | the characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important demographics (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream) |
demography | the study of demographics in a population |
developement | the process of improving material conditions and standard of living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology |
MDCs | more developed countries |
LDCs | less developed countries |
culture | the integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristic of a group of people |
non-material culture | ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e,g,, language, religion, ethics |
material culture | the physical items of a group of people usually determined by non-material culture, e.g., food, clothing, music, housing, places of worship |
local culture (folk culture) | the homogeneous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish |
global culture (popular culture) | rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization |
globalization | the process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure |
states | in Geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states |
diffusion | the movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a youtube video goes viral |
agricultural revolution | domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE) Lead to the development of cities |
industrial revolution | 1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of the modern world |
medical revolution | the diffusion of medical technology from MDCs to LDCs |
One Billion | 1,000 millions; what I want you to know is that 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., if you say that China has 1 million people, then you are 1,000 times wrong! |
population of the world | 7.3 Billion |
NIR | 1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year |
population of the United States | 330 million |
China's population | 1.3 BILLION |
India's population | 1.1 BILLION |
Population of Tokyo, Japan | World's largest city; 30 million |