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AP Human Geography Vocab Test

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  1. Industrial Revolution
  2. Agricultural Revolution
  3. Medical Revolution
  4. Activity Space
  5. Step Migration
  1. a A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
  2. b Migration to a distant distance that occurs in stages, for example, from a farm to a nearby village and later to a town and a city.
  3. c The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
  4. d Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.
  5. e The space within which daily activity occurs

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
  2. Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
  3. The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement.
  4. Factors that induce people to move to a new location.
  5. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures

5 True/False Questions

  1. OverpopulationThe number of males per 100 females in the population.

          

  2. Cyclic MovementA model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

          

  3. Space-time compressionThe total number of people divided by the total land area.

          

  4. J-Curveshape of the trend of a country's trade balance following a devaluation of the domestic currency.

          

  5. Ravenstein's Migration LawsPermanent movement within a particular country.