AP Human Geography Unit 1 Thinking Geographically: Basic Concepts: 2021 ...

AP Human Geography Unit 1 ¨C Thinking Geographically: Basic Concepts: 2021-2022

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Complete a vocabulary chart with the terms listed below. Refer to the reading assignments and the AP Human

Geography Vocab Chart file listed below. The terms are listed in the order of the reading for each book.

#1-73: Read Chapter 1 (pg. 2-41) of the AP Human Geography textbook A link to the Pdf file of this chapter is

posted below for you to reference until the textbooks are distributed:

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#74-96: Read chapters 1-2 (pg.1-34) of the AP Exam test prep book: AMSCO Advanced Placement Human

Geography, edition 2020 or 2021 by David Palmer. (Do NOT acquire/refer to any edition that was published

before 2020!! It is outdated) The Publisher offers the least expensive option for new copies at this website:

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AP Human Geography Vocabulary Chart: (see file below)

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o You may choose to download the chart to complete this assignment. Or, the chart may be re-created on your

own notebook paper.

o You may choose to organize the information for each term vertically (from top to bottom) rather than

horizontally like the chart, if that is your preference.

o The terms must be numbered and listed in this order and there must be a line separating each term, definition

& example (as shown in the chart.) (Points will be deducted if not numbered.)

o DEFINITIONS MUST COME FROM THE READING ASSIGNMENT!! (Note that not all terms are bold,

highlighted or underlined in the reading passages! And, DO YOUR OWN WORK!!! This is NOT an

exercise in Googling/copy-pasting!!! Do the reading and learn the content!!!).

o The written descriptions of the examples should also come from the reading passages.

o When the term relates to a visual concept, it is appropriate to use an image for the example. It would

then be acceptable to do an internet search using Google images to find an example.

o Work can be hand-written or typed. (NOTE: Studies show that students who hand

write their work/notes have better retention rates.)

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**You will need to refer back to these terms throughout the entire school year so do a good job!

Be sure to keep your notes safe and organized in a binder! You will need a 1 1/2¡± (one and a half inch) binder

with 7 dividers for this class!!!

TEXTBOOK TERMS #1-73:

1. Human Geography

2. Physical Geography

3. Map

4. Cartography

5. Connections

6. Place

7. Region

8. Scale

9. Space

10. Map Scale

11. Ratio or Fraction Scale

12. Written Scale

13. Graphic Scale

14. Projection

15. 4 types of distortion created

by projections

16. Land Ordinance of 1785

17. Base line

18. Section

19. Township

20. Principal meridian

21. Global Positioning System

(GPS)

22. Remote sensing

23. Geographic information

system (GIS)

24. Location

25. Toponym

26. Site

27. Situation (or Relative

Location)

28. Mathematical Location (or

Absolute Location)

29. Longitude

30. Meridian

31. Prime meridian

32. Parallel

33. Latitude

34. Cultural landscape

35. Regional Studies Approach

(or Cultural landscape

Approach)

36. Formal region

(or uniform region

or homogeneous region)

37. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

38. International Date Line

39. Functional region (or nodal

region)

40. Vernacular region (or

perceptual region)

41. Mental map (Cognitive map)

42. Culture

43. MDC¡¯s

44. LDC¡¯s

45. Cultural ecology (or Human ¨C

Environmental Interaction)

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47.

48.

49.

50.

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

59.

60.

61.

62.

63.

64.

65.

66.

67.

68.

69.

70.

71.

72.

73.

Environmental determinism

Possibilism

Resource (Natural Resource)

Polder

Globalization

Transnational corporation

Distribution

Density

Arithmetic density

Physiological density

Agricultural density

Housing density

Concentration

Clustered

Dispersed

Pattern

Space-time compression

Distance decay

Diffusion

Hearth

Relocation diffusion

Expansion diffusion

Hierarchical diffusion

Contagious diffusion

Stimulus diffusion

Core regions

Periphery regions

Uneven development

AMSCO BOOK TERMS #74-95:

74. Ghost towns

75. Sense of Place

76. Spatial association

77. Geographic Scale

78. Scale of data (Scale of

analysis)

79. Reference Map (General

Purpose Map)

80. Political Map

81.

82.

83.

84.

85.

86.

87.

88.

89.

Physical map

Thematic map

Choropleth map

Dot distribution map

Graduated (Proportional)

symbol map

Isoline map

Topographic map

Cartogram

Mercator projection

90.

91.

92.

93.

94.

95.

96.

Peters projection

Conic projection

Robinson projection

World Regions***See below

Fieldwork

Quantitative data

Qualitative data

***#93: In addition to knowing these terms, it is also important to know the following locations and regions used in AP

Human Geography: Large Regions (World Regions: A Big Picture View) and Subregions (World Regions: A Closer Look)

These regions are explained/shown on pgs. 25-26 of the AMSCO book.

These are the notes that we will be covering for the first unit this year. It is preferable for you to get a

head-start on the information as we will be moving very quickly through the content. Having some prior

knowledge of these terms will really help you to have a better understanding of the lectures and activities

that we will be covering at the beginning of the year.

My advice to you for success in my class is to do your own work with enough time to

review, pace yourself and don¡¯t procrastinate.

Cramming is not an advisable strategy!!

If there are any questions regarding this assignment, you may contact me at this email address:

heather.mattson@

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