AP Human Geography Unit Summaries - Ms. Newell



AP Human Geography Unit Summaries

|Unit I: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives |Unit III: Cultural Patterns and Processes |

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|Geography as a field of inquiry |Concepts of culture |

|Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with |Traits |

|notable Geographers |Diffusion |

|Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective: space, place, and scale |Acculturation |

|Key geographical skills |Cultural regions |

|How to use and think about maps and spatial data sets |Cultural differences |

|How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among |Language |

|phenomena in places |Religion |

|How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among |Ethnicity |

|patterns and processes |Gender |

|How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process |Popular and folk culture |

|How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places |Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices |

|New geographic technologies such as GIS and GPS. |Cultural landscapes and cultural identity |

|Sources of geographical ideas and data: the field, census data |Values and preferences |

| |Symbolic landscapes and sense of place |

|Unit II: Population and Migration |Unit IV: Political Organization of Space |

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|Geographical analysis of population |Territorial dimensions of politics |

|Density, distribution, and scale |The concept of territoriality |

|Consequences of various densities and distribution |The nature and meaning of boundaries |

|Patterns of composition; age, sex, race, and ethnicity |Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange |

|Population and natural hazards; past, present, and future |Federal and unitary states |

|Population growth and decline over time and space |Spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, |

|Historical trends and projections for the future |economy and environment |

|Theories of population growth, including the Demographic Model |Evolution of the contemporary political pattern |

|Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health |The nation-state concept |

|Regional variations of demographic transitions |Colonialism and imperialism |

|Effects of population policies |Democratization |

|Population movement |Changes in political-territorial arrangements |

|Push and pull factors |Changing nature of sovereignty |

|Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales |Fragmentation, unification, alliance |

|Migration selectivity |Supranationalism and devolution |

|Short term, local movements, and activity space |Electoral geography, including gerrymandering |

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|Unit V: Agriculture and Rural Land Use |Unit VII – Cities and Urban Land Use |

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|Development and diffusion of agriculture |Origin and evolution of cities |

|Neolithic Agricultural Revolution |Historical patterns of urbanization |

|Second Agricultural Revolution |Rural-urban migration and urban growth |

|Major agricultural production regions |Global cities and megacities |

|Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones |Models of urban systems |

|Variations within major zones and effects of markets |Functional character of contemporary cities |

|Linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption |Changing employment mix |

|Rural land use and settlement patterns |Changing demographic and social structures |

|Models of agricultural land use, including von Thünen’s model |Built environment and social space |

|Settlement patterns associated with major agricultural types |Models of internal city structure in North America and around the world |

|Land use/land cover change (desertification, deforestation) |Transportation and infrastructure |

|Modern commercial agricultural |Political organization of urban areas |

|Third Agricultural Revolution |Urban planning and design |

|Green Revolution |Patterns of race, gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status |

|Biotechnology |Uneven development, ghettoization and gentrification |

|Spatial organization and diffusion of industrial agriculture |Impacts of suburbanization and edge-cities |

|Future food supplies and environmental impacts of agriculture | |

|Unit VI – Industrialization and Development | |

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|Growth and diffusion of industrialization | |

|The changing roles of energy and technology | |

|Industrial Revolution | |

|Evolution of economic cores and peripheries | |

|Geographic critiques of models of economic localization (i.e., land rent, | |

|comparative costs of transportation), industrial location, economic | |

|development, and world systems | |

|Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development | |

|Spatial organization of world economy | |

|Variations in levels of development | |

|Deindustrialization and economic restructuring | |

|Pollution, health, and quality of life | |

|Industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability | |

|Local development initiatives: government policies | |

|Globalization and international division of labor | |

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