Assignment Calendar for AP Human Geography



Independent Study Schedule for APHGTake into account EOC/STAAR Testing first week of May!April/May 21811Practice Exam12Practice Exam-Order Review Book or download iScore5 ($4.99 on iTunes)13-Review Chapter One Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide14-Review Topic Outline for Unit One (make sure you can define all bolded terms)-Study the World Regional Maps15-Review Chapter Two Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review types of densities and the Demographic Transition Model18-Review Chapter Three Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review types of migration-Push and Pull Factors-Major Migration Chains19-Review Topic Outline for Unit Two (make sure you can define all bolded terms)20-Review Chapters Four and Six Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide21-Review the differences between Folk and Pop Culture (Amish)-Review language tree (Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan)22Review Chapter Five Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review historic African-American Migration Patterns-Review Case Studies (Yugoslavia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka)25Review Chapter Seven Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review Ethnic vs Global religions-Study religious distribution map-Know the branches of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism26-Review Topic Outline for Unit Three (make sure you can define all bolded terms)27-Review Chapter Eight Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide28-Review shapes of states-Review supranational organizations-Understand Balkanization (Yugoslavia)29-Review Topic Outline for Unit Four (make sure you can define all bolded terms)-Study your FRQ Protocols and ESPN Chart2-Review Chapter Eleven Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review the Von Thunen Model-Review World Agricultural Regions Map3-Review Topic Outline for Unit Five (make sure you can define all bolded terms)-Review Agricultural Revolutions-Review types of agriculture4-Review Chapters Ten and Twelve Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review Industrial Revolution-Review Rostow and Wallerstein’s models5-Review Topic Outline for Unit Six (make sure you can define all bolded terms)-Review Weber, Hotelling, and Losch’s models6--Review Chapter Nine Reading Quizzes and Reading Guide-Review Borchert and Christaller, Gravity models, primate cities, rank-size rule, urban hierarchies9-Review Urban models (Burgess, Hoyt, Harris-Ullman, Griffin-Ford, Galactic City, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa Cities)10-Review Topic Outline for Unit Seven (make sure you can define all bolded terms)-Review Urban Issues11-Review FRQ Strategies-Review Case Studies12-Review Demographic Transition Model, Von Thunen, Burgess, Hoyt, and Harris-Ullman models13APHG Exam at 8:00 amCase Studies:-Population (China’s One Child Policy, Japan’s Angel Policy)-Migration (Ireland Potato Famine, Chinese Rural residents to Urban areas, African-American Migration Patterns, Vietnam Boat People)-Folk Culture (Amish)-Language (Hebrew, Basque)-Religion (Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland)-Race and Ethnicity (Yugoslavia, Rwanda, South Africa, United States Civil Rights Movement)-Political (North and South Korea, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan to Pakistan, Kurds, Palestine)-Agriculture (Bedouins, Chinese farmers, New Zealand for Dairy)-Industry (Asian Tigers/Dragons, call centers in India, SEZ in China)-Urban (Latin America and India squatter settlements, Chicago)Topic Outline:I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–10%A. Geography as a field of inquiryB. Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issuesC. Key geographical skills1. How to use and think about maps and geospatial data2. How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places3. How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes4. How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process5. How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among placesD. Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and online mapsE. Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and satellite imageryF. Identification of major world regions (see World Regional Map)II. Population and Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Geographical analysis of population1. Density, distribution, and scale2. Implications of various densities and distributions3. Composition: age, sex, income, education, and ethnicity (Population Pyramids)4. Patterns of fertility, mortality, and healthB. Population growth and decline over time and space1. Historical trends and projections for the future2. Theories of population growth and decline, including the Demographic Transition Model3. Regional variations of demographic transition4. Effects of national population policies: promoting population growth in some countries or reducing fertility rates in others5. Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity, the atmosphere, and climate6. Population and natural hazards: impacts on policy, economy, and societyC. Migration1. Types of migration: transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture (e.g., transhumance), and rural to urban2. Major historical migrations3. Push and pull factors, and migration in relation to employment and quality of life4. Refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons5. Consequences of migration: socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and political; immigration policies; remittancesIII. Cultural Patterns and Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Concepts of culture1. Culture traits2. Diffusion patterns3. Acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism4. Cultural region, vernacular regions, and culture hearths5. Globalization and the effects of technology on culturesB. Cultural differences and regional patterns1. Language and communications2. Religion and sacred space3. Ethnicity and nationalism4. Cultural differences in attitudes toward gender5. Popular and folk culture6. Cultural conflicts, and law and policy to protect cultureC. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity1. Symbolic landscapes and sense of place2. The formation of identity and place making3. Differences in cultural attitudes and practices toward the environment4. Indigenous peoplesIV. Political Organization of Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Territorial dimensions of politics1. The concepts of political power and territoriality2. The nature, meaning, and function of boundaries3. Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange4. Federal and unitary states, confederations, centralized government, and forms of governance5. Spatial relationships between political systems and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and gender6. Political ecology: impacts of law and policy on the environment and environmental justiceB. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern1. The nation-state concept2. Colonialism and imperialism3. Democratization4. Fall of communism and legacy of the Cold War5. Patterns of local, regional, and metropolitan governanceC. Changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements1. Changing nature of sovereignty2. Fragmentation, unification, and cooperation3. Supranationalism and international alliances4. Devolution of countries: centripetal and centrifugal forces5. Electoral geography: redistricting and gerrymandering6. Armed conflicts, war, and terrorismV. Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Development and diffusion of agriculture1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution2. Second Agricultural Revolution3. Green Revolution4. Large-scale commercial agriculture and agribusinessB. Major agricultural production regions1. Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones2. Variations within major zones and effects of markets3. Interdependence among regions of food production and consumptionC. Rural land use and settlement patterns1. Models of agricultural land use, including von Thünen’s model2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types: subsistence, cash cropping, plantation, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism, ranching, forestry, fishing and aquaculture3. Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification, deforestation, wetland destruction, conservation efforts to protect or restore natural land cover, and global impacts4. Roles of women in agricultural production and farming communitiesD. Issues in contemporary commercial agriculture1. Biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms (GMO)2. Spatial organization of industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to large-scale commercial farming and factors affecting the location of processing facilities3. Environmental issues: soil degradation, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion, animal wastes, and extensive fertilizer and pesticide use4. Organic farming, crop rotation, value-added specialty foods, regional appellations, fair trade, and eat-local-food movements5. Global food distribution, malnutrition, and famineVI. Industrialization and Economic Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Growth and diffusion of industrialization1. The changing roles of energy and technology2. Industrial Revolution3. Models of economic development: Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth and Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory4. Geographic critiques of models of industrial location: bid rent, Weber’s comparative costs of transportation and industrial location in relation to resources, location of retailing and service industries, and local economic development within competitive global systems of corporations and financeB. Social and economic measures of development1. Gross domestic product and GDP per capita2. Human Development Index3. Gender Inequality Index4. Income disparity and the Gini coefficient5. Changes in fertility and mortality6. Access to health care, education, utilities, and sanitationC. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development1. Spatial organization of the world economy2. Variations in levels of development (uneven development)3. Deindustrialization, economic restructuring, and the rise of service and high technology economies4. Globalization, manufacturing in newly industrialized countries (NICs), and the international division of labor5. Natural resource depletion, pollution, and climate change6. Sustainable development7. Government development initiatives: local, regional, and national policies8. Women in development and gender equity in the workforceVII. Cities and Urban Land Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–17%A. Development and character of cities1. Origin of cities; site and situation characteristics2. Forces driving urbanization3. Borchert’s epochs of urban transportation development4. World cities and megacities5. Suburbanization processesB. Models of urban hierarchies: reasons for the distribution and size of cities1. Gravity model2. Christaller’s central place theory3. Rank-size rule4. Primate citiesC. Models of internal city structure and urban development: strengths and limitations of models1. Burgess concentric zone model2. Hoyt sector model3. Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model4. Galactic city model5. Models of cities in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South AsiaD. Built environment and social space1. Types of residential buildings2. Transportation and utility infrastructure3. Political organization of urban areas4. Urban planning and design (e.g., gated communities, New Urbanism, and smart-growth policies)5. Census data on urban ethnicity, gender, migration, and socioeconomic status6. Characteristics and types of edge cities: boomburgs, greenfields, uptownsE. Contemporary urban issues1. Housing and insurance discrimination, and access to food stores2. Changing demographic, employment, and social structures3. Uneven development, zones of abandonment, disamenity, and gentrification4. Suburban sprawl and urban sustainability problems: land and energy use, cost of expanding public education services, home financing and debt crises5. Urban environmental issues: transportation, sanitation, air and water quality, remediation of brownfields, and farmland protection ................
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