AP Geography

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Across
  1. 2. A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.(IDK)
  2. 5. A group of people who think of themselves as one based on a sense of shared culture and history, and who seek some degree of political- territorial autonomy.(CC)
  3. 6. Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker- owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.(IDK)
  4. 8. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a political party, group, or incumbent(VIT)
  5. 9. Measure used by the United Nations that calculates development in terms of human welfare rather than money or productivity. Evaluates human welfare based on life expectancy, education, and income. ON a global scale, pattern of human development closely matches pattern of GNP, but some discrepancies do exist. For example, many countries in southern Europe (Greece, Portugal, and Spain) fare better on social welfare than GNP.(CC)
  6. 10. The number live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.(VIT)
  7. 13. something made in nature un modified(CC)
  8. 15. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.(IDK)
  9. 18. A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region. (IDK)
  10. 19. The number of people per unit area of arable land(CC)
  11. 21. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.(VIT)
  12. 23. The relationship between the distribution of one feature and thedistribution of another feature.(IDK)
  13. 26. Offer low tax rates and privacy laws for wealthy corporations and individuals(IDK)
  14. 29. The European colonization of Africa and Asia, or empire building and it characterized the political landscapes during the 19 th and early 20 th centuries.(IDK)
  15. 30. Practiced by small homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.(CC)
  16. 31. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. May be used in place of, or in conjunction with, New Urbanism.(CC)
  17. 33. The location of a place relative to other places; valuable to indicate location finding an unfamiliar place and understanding its importance by comparing location with familiar one and learning their accessibility to other places(CC)
  18. 34. Ethno regional movements that do not seek to create their own independent country but rather, to separate from their existing state in order to join a neighboring state.(IDK)
Down
  1. 1. The number deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.(VIT)
  2. 3. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.(IDK)
  3. 4. A physical character of a place, such as characteristics like climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation(VIT)
  4. 7. The total number of people divided by the total land area.(CC)
  5. 11. Form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.(IDK)
  6. 12. World Trade Organization works to negotiate rules of trade among the member states(VIT)
  7. 14. Provide for people without diminishing ability to provide for future generations(CC)
  8. 16. Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are(VIT)
  9. 17. The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.(IDK)
  10. 20. Measure of opportunities given to women compared to men within a given country. Not necessarily correlated with GNP; some places, such as Italy, Japan, and Kuwait, have high GNP, but low gender equity, usually because of cultural traditions that discourage women’s achievement in education, government, and business. United Nations developed the GEM or “gender empowerment measure” that evaluates women’s status in a country based on participation in national economic political, and professional affairs. GEM criticized for being Western-centric and not considering standards and values accepted in other cultures.(CC)
  11. 22. A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.(IDK)
  12. 24. Found in large heterogeneous societies that share certain customs despite differences in other personal characteristics.(CC)
  13. 25. Sending industrial processes out for external production, typically where labor is cheaper than internal labor. In terms of manufacturing, bulk-gaining industries are not typically outsourced because of high transportation costs. Originally, most outsourcing occurred in secondary, manufacturing related activities. Increasingly, firms are outsourcing service-based jobs.(IDK)
  14. 27. A politically organized territory that is administered by sovereign(CC)
  15. 28. modified orginisms that help the growth and the size of the orginism(CC)
  16. 32. The total value of goods and services produced within the borders of a country during a specific time period, usually one year.(VIT)