AP Human Geo EXAM REVIEW

Advice: I would first go through your syllabus and/or pacing guide and look at all of the units. Pick and choose your battles. What units did you struggle with, have lower test scores on, etc? Once you do that, use the resources below to “customize your review”. 

RESOURCES:

  • Go to after school reviews:

Unit / Review date(all are after school) / Teacher
I: Geo: Nature and Perspectives / Monday 5/9 / Smith - Room 124
II: Population and Migration / Monday 5/9 / Smith - Room 124
III: Culture (Folk/Pop, Religion, Language) / Tuesday 5/10 / Pearl - Room 120
IV: Ethnicity and Political Org. of Space / Tuesday 5/10 / Pearl - Room120
VI: Agriculture / Wednesday 5/11 / Lancee - Room 126
VII: Development and Industry / Wednesday 5/11 / Lancee - Room126
  • Go through and read the Key Issue summaries at the end of each chapter in the book… especially the chapters you found challenging or that you are “a bit rusty on”.
  • Look through old webquests.
  • Take the practice test that we give you and think about why you answered questions wrong.
  • Look through your reading packets.
  • Look at the Vocab/Grand Review link on our blogs.
  • Use the APHG Vocabulary Listattached to this packet as a basic study guide. It is all that is “fair game” according to College Board. Go though and color code: fully know, kind of know, and “no idea”.
  • Use the following websites to study:
  1. Learnerator. Click on “See courses” and then go to AP Human Geo. Not only does it give you test questions, it gives you answers and in some cases, explanations.
  2. Use Quizlet for flash cards and other reviews.
  3. Youtube: APHG condensed course review in two 25 minute presentations. and

TEST ADVICE:

1. Go with your gut on the MC. Your brain is usually right the first time.

2. Remember on an FRQ never leave anything blank. If you have an idea of what unit the concept came from, you should be able to figure out to some degree what the concept is.

3. Remember to HELP THE READER OUT. Write neatly. Show what part of the question you are answering. Underline your key points.

4. You do NOT need an intro or a conclusion. You must write in full, coherent sentences though.

REMINDERS:

  • Be at SHS by 7:30 a.m. Do not be late. It will start without you and you will not be let in.
  • Bring several number 2 pencils and blue/black pens.
  • Bring your ID, don’t bring your cell phone.
  • Get a good night sleep.
  • Be confident, you know this (or at least if you did what was asked of you this semester, you know it.)

AP Human Big Ideas List.

This is NOT everything, but it is a big chunk of it!!!!!!

Unit 1: Geo Nature and Perspective
Longitude, latitude, timezones (15 degrees!)
Absolute location, relative location, site and situation, toponyms
Land Ord of 1785
Types of maps and problems with each/when to use one vs. the other
Sequent occupance, sense of place, cultural landscape
Scale!!!!!
Geographic tools… GPS, GIS, Lidar, etc
Types of regions
Types of diffusion
Globalization vs. local diversity. Time-space compression
Know your regions!!! Which countries are East Asia? SW Asia? etc
Unit 2: Population and Migration
Demographic Statistics (CBR, CDR, etc)
Population patterns.
Demographic Transition model
Population pyramid analysis
Malthus, Boserup, and Neo-Malthusians.
Importance of educating women to control population. Why?
Population policies (expansive/need more ppl/Japan vs. restrictive/China and India… fewer people)
Patterns of U.S. internal migration. Who goes where? When? Why?
Push and pull factors. Ravenstien’s Laws of Migration
Migration types (intraregional, interregional, chain, rural to urban, seasonal, circular, forced, etc)
Guest workers and issues with (Europe case study).
US immigration policy (quotas, etc). Remittances.
Unit 3: Culture (Folk/pop, language, religion, ethnicity)
Culture hearths. Cultural landscape. Distance decay. Cultural ecology.
Elements of folk and pop culture. Homogeneous vs. heterogeneous. How they diffuse.
Housing styles (yes, you have to know them)
Languages throughout history. How they are related, how they diffuse. Look at the language tree.
Major world language. Disappearing languages and efforts to revive them.
Convergence of languages (Spanglish, etc)
Lingua franca, creole, pidgin, standard language, official language
Ethnic religions. Universalizing religions. Hierarchical religions. Autonomous religions.
Distribution of world religions and brief understanding of origins of each.
Branches of major world religions. Sect vs. denomination. (Protestantism=denomination. Baptist=sect)
Major world religious conflicts.
Unit 4: Political Geography
Nation, state, nation-state, stateless nation
Geopolitical theories (Heartland/Mackinder, Rimland/Spykman, world systems, domino theory/containment).
Fall of communism/legacy of Cold War on geopolitics.
Gerrymandering. Internal political boundaries and types of governments (unitary, federal)
Border disputes and conflicts (case studies)
Types of borders (geometric, relic, antecedent, etc). Political ecology.
Shapes of states…pros and cons too.
Balkanization and devolution. Supranationalism
Centripetal and centrifugal forces.
Buffer states, satellite states, shatter belts.
Types of terrorism
Unit 5: Agriculture
Types of agriculture and regions where they are practiced.
Types of land use (intensive, extensive, commercial, subsistence)
Von Thunen.
Early agriculture hearths, crops, vegetative vs. seed agriculture)
1st Ag (Neolithic) Revolution, 2nd Ag Revolution, 3rd Ag Revolution (impact on MDC’s and LDC’s)
Green Revolution and India case study.
Environmental determinism and possiblism
Agribusiness and commercial farming. Value added.
Environmental issues associated with agriculture. Sustainable agriculture. Aquaculture. “New foods”
Government subsidies
Unit 6: Development and Industry
HDI and indicators/how measured.
GDI and GEM index. Important role women play in development.
How colonialism and imperialism have effected development.
Types of economic sectors
Location theory, Weber’s Least Cost theory
Agglomeration. De-agglomeration.
Industrial regions of the world. Where? Why? What?
Transportation factors and modes (most expensive, etc?)
The Four Asian Dragons/Tigers (a.k.a. “Little Dragons/Tigers” or “Gang of Four”)
Industrial Revolution and it’s diffusion.
Industrialization in the US. Regions, what products. Also, deindustrialization in the US “Rust Belt”
Free Trade Agreements.
Fair Trade.
Transnational corporations. New International Division of Labor. Outsourcing. Maquiladoras.
Wallenstein’s World Systems theory. Core/periphery/semi-periphery. Who needs who, and why?
International Trade Approach. Self Sufficiency Approach. Rostow’s stages of development.
How is development measured?
Who funds development? IMF, World Bank, microloans, Structural Adjustment Funds.
Unit 7: Services and Urban Patterns (cities!!!)
Origin and evolution of services and cities.
Types of services. Compare/contrast service sector in LDC’s and MDC’s
Central Business District (CBD) and differences in European CBD, Asian CBD, and N. American CBD
The urban hierarchy (hamlet to megacity)
Primate city? Rank-size rule?
Christaller’s Central Place theory
Bid-rent theory. Gravity Model.
Borchet’s Epochs of Transportation
Technopoles (Silicon Valley, Research Triangle)
ALL CITY MODELS!!!! There are 11 of them!!!! Pro’s, con’s and what makes them unique.
Urban issues: “culture of poverty” white flight, redlining, filtering, crime, racial tension, access (or lack of) to public services, abandonment and blight. Environmental issues: sanitation, air and water quality. Squatter settlements.
Gentrification and “green space.” New Urbanism. Urban sustainability. Urban planning. Transportation considerations
Edge cities, boom burgs, uptowns, forward capital, entrepot, gateway city, post-modern vs. postindustrial city. SEZ’s
Suburbanization, sprawl, and traffic issues.
Unit 8: Resource and Environment Issues
Types of energy resources: fossil fuel vs. renewable/sustainable.
Uneven resource distribution
Issues of nuclear disposal… where should we put nuclear waste???
Types of water, air, and ground/land pollution. Consequences. Solutions.
Biodiversity.