Core AP Human Geography vocabulary: population, culture, political, and economic geography.
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- What is a population pyramid?
- A bar graph showing the population distribution by age and sex for a given country or region.
- Define the demographic transition model.
- A model showing how populations move through stages of high birth/death rates to low birth/death rates as development increases.
- What is the natural increase rate?
- The percentage of population growth calculated by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate.
- Define forced migration.
- Movement of people forced to leave their homes by violence, war, persecution, or natural disaster.
- What is a push factor in migration?
- A negative characteristic of a place that encourages people to leave.
- Define carrying capacity.
- The maximum population size that a given environment can sustain indefinitely.
- What is population density?
- The number of people per unit area of land, typically measured per square kilometer or square mile.
- Define infant mortality rate.
- The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a population.
- What is life expectancy?
- The average number of years a person born in a given year is expected to live.
- Define crude birth rate.
- The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.
- What is the crude death rate?
- The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.
- Define culture.
- The shared beliefs, values, behaviors, and material objects that characterize a group or society.
- What is cultural diffusion?
- The spread of cultural traits, technologies, or practices from one group or place to another.
- Name the three major language families.
- Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger-Congo (or Afro-Asiatic depending on classification system).
- What is a cultural hearth?
- A region where cultural or technological traits originate and from which they spread.