Human Geography Chapter 2 Outline Where in the world do people live and why? * When geographers study population‚ we explain population traits across space. * Demography is the study of population * The US has an average of 81 people per square mile * This is misleading because the amount of population isn’t constant across an entire country (Nebraska vs. NYC) * 98% of Egypt’s population lives in 3% of the land Physiologic Population Density * A countries physiologic
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Chapter Review Human migration began in eastern Africa‚ where remains of the earliest types of human remains were found to originate. Gradual migration was caused by the need to find scarce food and slowly caused the spread of the human population across to the Americas and Australia. Agricultural societies first emerged in the middle east. Since population was increasing‚ it encouraged people to find a more reliable food source and since the ice age had come to an end‚ it brought the retreat
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Manipulating data can distort the desired results on a thematic map. A- Define what a choropleth‚ dot‚ and symbolic map is and how they measure intensity B- Discuss how each map can distort a map when you manipulate data for each. C- Discuss how a choropleth map can give false impressions when using a smaller (distance) scale versus a larger (distance) scale D- Discuss how changing the natural breaks to quintiles can give false impressions on a choropleth map. Thematic Map- A
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Ap human chapter 8 political geo. Key issue #1: where are states 1.State: A state is an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. 2.Sovereignty: A state has sovereignty‚ which means independence from control of its internal affairs by other states. 3. A. korea : The division of these zones became permanent in the late 1940s‚ when the two superpowers established separate
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AlexisMari Wilson April 22nd‚ 2013 AP Human Geography: 6th Block Gone Forever St. Ann‚ the toponym (Unit 1) given to my city (unit 7) in the state (Unit 4) of Alabama‚ was a beautiful region (Unit 1). But today was just like any one of the other 365 days of the year. The pastures (Unit 5) were greener than green with cows spotted here and there and the spring wheat (Unit 5) was coming in nicely over across the way. The streets are always quiet in this part of the city (Unit 7)‚ so all that
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1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth I. Hunter Gather Life i. Hunter gatherers use fires to cook their food‚ so it was more edible and easier to swallow and digest. ii. Hunter gatherers used stone tools for most of their chores such as kill animals‚ harvest plants‚ clear brush‚ and start fire to cook food. iii. Kinship groups tried to make the population grow and start an early agricultural movement. II. Personal Reflection Questions
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When I first entered high school I was in a much more immature state of mind. At this time I was less willing to do my work and would never stop talking. Despite being aware of this‚ I decided to remain signed up for AP Human Geography because I was told that AP classes looks good to colleges. I figured that I would be able to easily get by barely doing anything‚ similarly to how I got through middle school. This line of thinking worked out the first week of school perfectly when the only thing we
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Chapter 1 -What is Scale? What is the difference between local and global scale? -What are the three methods of scale and describe them. 1.) 2.) 3.) -What is projection and what are the 4 types of distortion that can result from projection? What are the differences between the Mercator and Peter’s projections? -What does the saying “uniform global landscape” mean? -What does the idea the world is shrinking mean? (4 things) 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) -What is a transnational corporation
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Kaleigh Tinsley AP Human Geography Mr. Lowe 5/28/2013 Globalization has many definitions in the concept of human geography‚ but there’s one that really sums it up perfectly: globalization is the world becoming more connected‚ through trade‚ financial flows‚ the exchange of technology and information‚ and the movement of people. Now‚ globalization affects many places in many ways‚ negatively and positively. One place especially: Africa. We all know Africa is a poor‚ underdeveloped country
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Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It
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