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AP Human Geography Basic Background Knowledge List

Part of entering an AP class is an assumption of a certain level of background knowledge and skills. Please review and be prepared to take assessments within the first quarter of school relating to this list. The assessment will be mastery based which means you can take the assessment multiple times but must attain 80% or above to pass. The assessment will be primarily a matching identifying assessment – do not worry about spelling. Don’t stress out about this, but do some review and familiarize yourself with this information. Think of this knowledge as the ABC’s and 1,2,3’s of geography.

Basic map and atlas skills –

❑ Using an atlas to locate information

❑ Reading and interpreting a map

❑ Using latitude and longitude to locate and find places

Be able to locate on a map the following places-

|General Stuff |Major Mountain Ranges |Major Rivers |

|4 Oceans |Himalayas |Rhine |

|7 continents |Rockies |Amazon |

|Equator |Andes |Yangtze |

|Tropic of Cancer |Alps |Mississippi |

|Tropic of Capricorn |Caucasus |Ganges |

| |Urals |Nile |

| |Appalachian |Congo |

|Major Deserts / random other stuff |Major Climate Regions- which parts of the |Major Bodies of Water |

|Sahara |world fit each category |Great Lakes |

|Great Sandy Desert Australia |Tropical |Mediterranean Sea |

|Gobi |Dry |Black Sea |

|Siberia |Mild |Caspian Sea |

| |Continental |Red Sea |

| |Polar |Arabian Sea |

| | |South China Sea |

| | |Caribbean Sea |

| | |Aral Sea |

|Chokepoints (Straits and Channels) |Major World Cities | |

|Strait of Gibraltar |New York City |Chicago |

|Panama Canal |London |Beijing |

|Suez Canal |Tokyo |Bombay (Mumbai) |

|Strait of Malacca |Paris |Mexico City |

|English Channel |Cairo |Tehran |

|Bosphorus & Dardanelles |Sydney |Washington D.C. |

|Strait of Hormuz |Sao Paulo |Lagos |

| |Johannesburg |Calcutta |

| |Moscow |Toronto |

| |Hong Kong |Singapore |

|Canadian Provinces |Have some sense of development levels of |Major World Regions – |

|British Columbia |regions? Rich (Highly Developed), |Middle East |

|Yukon Territory |Developing (Middle Income), Poor (Less |South East Asia |

|Alberta |Developed) |South Asia |

|Saskatchewan | |Sub-Saharan Africa Sahel Africa |

|Northwest Territories |Know some cultural characteristics of |Latin America |

|Manitoba |regions – major religions, languages, |Central America |

|Quebec |ethnicities etc |Caribbean |

|New Brunswick | |Western Europe |

|Nova Scotia | |Eastern Europe |

|Newfoundland and Labrador | |Former USSR |

|Nunavut | |Oceania |

|Ontario | | |

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Country identification – you need to be able to identify where these countries are on a map.

|Africa |North America & South America |Asia |

|South Africa |United States |Vietnam |

|Madagascar |Argentina |Thailand |

|Sudan |Guatemala |Japan |

|Niger |Bolivia |India |

|Algeria |Cuba |Singapore |

|Nigeria |Brazil |Burma |

|Somalia |Haiti |Mongolia |

|Morocco |Chile |China |

|Libya |Honduras |Cambodia |

|Egypt |Colombia |Indonesia |

|Kenya |Costa Rica |South Korea |

|Chad |Ecuador |Philippines |

|Mali |Bahamas | |

|Congo/Zaire |Peru | |

|Rwanda |Panama |Other: |

|Botswana |Venezuela |Australia |

|Ethiopia |Nicaragua |New Zealand |

|Zimbabwe |El Salvador | |

| |Canada | |

| |Mexico | |

|Europe |Southwest Asia |Blank Outline Maps: |

|Ireland |Kuwait | |

|Russia |Syria | |

|Sweden |Iraq |Online Map Quizzes: |

|Greece |Lebanon | |

|Romania |Saudi Arabia | |

|Slovakia |Israel | |

|Czech Republic |Iran | |

|Norway |Jordan |Other Resources: |

|Spain |Turkey | |

|Croatia |Afghanistan | |

|Yugoslavia | | |

|Germany |All 50 US States and Regions | |

|France |Northeast | |

|United Kingdom |Southeast | |

|Italy |Midwest |You may also want to consult a world atlas |

|Poland |Southwest | |

|Finland |Rocky Mountain | |

|Bosnia |Pacific West | |

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