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