AP Human Geography Midterm Review

Guide 2017

(Jan 17th =1st Block A/B, Jan. 18th = 2nd Block A/B, Jan.19th = 3rd Block A/B, Jan.
20th = 4th Block A/B)

UNIT #1 (NATURE OF GEOGRAPHY) (Chapter 1) TOP 15 TOPICS:

1. Distinguish between absolute location and relative location:
2. Distinguish between physical geography, human geography, and cultural ecology:
3. What is a spatial pattern? What two questions do geographers ask?
4. Describe the cultural landscape and give another term for it:
5. Distinguish between formal, functional, and vernacular regions:
6. Distinguish between distance decay, friction of distance, and space-time compression:
7. Elaborate on the 4 properties of a map:
8. Distinguish between the Mercator, Peters, and Robinson projections:
9. Distinguish between GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing:
10. Distinguish between a parallel and a meridian:
11. Distinguish between site and situation:
12. Distinguish between environmental determinism and possibilism:
13. Distinguish between a choropleth map, and cartogram, and a reference map:
14. Distinguish between a large scale map and a small scale map:
15. Distinguish between Hierarchical, Contagious, Stimulus, and Relocation diffusion:

UNIT #2 (POPULATION & MIGRATION (Chapters 2&3)) TOP 15 TOPICS:

1. What is the study of population geography called? What do you call these kinds of
geographers?
2. Distinguish between Arithmetic Density, Physiological Density, and Agricultural Density
3. What is the ecumene? Where are the top 4 largest regional population clustered located?
4. Use the term carrying capacity in the definition of overpopulation:
5. Draw a population pyramid for a country in stage 1, 2 3, 4, and 5 of the DTM:
6. What does analyzing the dependency ratio tell geographers?
7. What was the theory of Thomas Malthus? What do neo-Malthusians believe?
8. Give an example of a pro-natalist population policy and an anti-natalist policy:
9. Compare population growth patterns in MDCs and LDCs:
10. Describe each stage of the Demographic Transition Model in terms of CBR, CDR, and NIR:
11. Who is considered a refugee? What areas of the world have seen large numbers of refugees
over history and why?
12. List 5 of Ravensteins Laws of Migration:
13. Distinguish Intraregional vs. Interregional Migration and comment on differences in LDCs
and MDCs:

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14. What is a guest worker? Where are most of them heading? Where are most of them coming
from?
15. Describe migration patterns in the U.S. and worldwide:
UNIT # 3 (CULTURE) (Chapters 4-6) TOP 15 TOPICS
List as many ancient culture hearths as possible:
Distinguish between Acculturation and Assimilation
Distinguish between folk culture and pop culture:
Distinguish between universalizing and ethnic religions:
Describe the origins, diffusion, branches, and cultural landscape features of Buddhism:
Describe the origins, diffusion, branches, and cultural landscape features of Christianity:
Describe the origins, diffusion, branches, and cultural landscape features of Islam:
Describe the origins, diffusion, branches, and cultural landscape features of Hinduism:
Describe the origins, diffusion, branches, and cultural landscape features of Judaism:
What is secularism? What is a Theocracy? Give an example of each:
Describe major conflicts that involve different religious groups:
What is a lingua franca?
Distinguish between the conquest theory and agriculture theory of Indo-European diffusion:
What are the two major language families? What languages do they include?
What is an isogloss line?

UNIT #4 (POLITICAL) (Chapters 7 & 8) TOP 15 TOPICS:

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Distinguish between state, nation, nation-state, and stateless-nation and give an example of
each:
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What is nationalism and how can it lead to conflict?
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Distinguish between geometric, physical, and cultural boundaries:
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What is a frontier?
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Describe the UNs Law of the Seas:
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Elaborate on state shapes: Elongated, Compact, Prorupted, Perforated, Landlocked,
Fragmented)
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Distinguish between a unitary and federal government:
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Distinguish between political enclave and political exclave:
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Distinguish between centrifugal and centripetal forces:
10. What is balkanization?
11. What is supranationalism? Give an example:
12. What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
13. Where are major clusters of ethnic groups in the U.S.?
14. Give examples of ethnic cleansing:
15. How is terrorism different from warfare? Give examples: