Sanderson High School AP Human Geography
Summer Assignment 2016
V. Lucas Introduction to AP Human Geography
Dear APHuG Student (especially rising sophomores),
There’s a lot of summer work in this packet, so don’t put it off until the last day before fall semester starts, when you find out whether you have APHuG in the fall or spring. Give it at least two, maybe three days, tops. However, you should at least consider doing the work spaced out over the summer, too. It’ll probably be a better first impression if you do (since it’s the first work you turn in), and first impressions matter in this class. (And pretty much every class. If you turn in a knockout first paper in English, every bad paper you turn in after that will get special consideration.)
But first impressions don’t have to matter too much. If you just do the work, you’ll be fine. And if it’s your first AP class, then seriously, calm down. The summer work asks a lot of hard questions, but Mr. Story doesn’t expect anything beyond your actually ability. Just think and then answer the question. AP classes are just like other classes; there’s no special part of AP classes that makes them dramatically harder than anything else you’ve already taken, they’re only a little bit more work, which I’m sure you’ve figured out already.
The other main thing that sets AP classes apart is the AP exam, but it’s honestly nothing to stress too much about. APHuG will only get you an elective credit in college (if your college accepts it at all), so it’s less pressure than AP Calculus or AP US History. However, if you want to show colleges that you really learned the material, then you can study for it and do well.
Regardless of how well you do on the exam, human geography is a very interesting course, and you’ll learn a lot about the world and other people. Just have an open mind and be thoughtful.
With this in mind, here is your summer work.
In advance of beginning this course this coming fall you are tasked with the following:
1.Enroll in the APHuG Edmodo site.
Send me an email () with your name as the subject. Send the email from the address you actually check and use. Also, please remember email is still a letter. Please include an explanation of your email in the body. Any, empty email shall meet with deletion. Should you successfully submit your email, I will send you the code to the course site.
2.Purchase(?) and read: On the Grid- Scott Huler
This book is surprisingly accessible and readable, broadly informative, and specifically focused on some important aspect of geography, specifically at the local (Raleigh, NC) level, as well as the challenges concerning sustainability. You are asked to type a review of your book for a grade. With regard to length, a total of three (3)-typed pages would be considered appropriate.
Rubric:
Please use the following rubric as a guide to how to organize your paper, which should be typed, 1.5 spaced, and no larger than 12-point font(TNR). Label each of the three parts of the paper as follows:
I. Summary—33 points
Author's name and background; i.e., what credentials does the author have to make him or her credible. If you use a source other than the book itself, include a bibliography. In summarizing the book, cite important knowledge that comes from the book, interesting highlights, etc. I need to be able to tell that you have actually read the book when you are writing the summary. Please do not speak in simple generalizations but also give specific examples where appropriate.
II. Relevance—33 points
How does the book relate to our world today or to your own life experiences? What are the broader themes that we can all learn from? Site specific examples from current events that link to content from the book (you can use book examples as well, but you must link it to something in the world today that is not mentioned in the book). To whom would you recommend the book?
III. Themes of Geography—34 points
Please integrate into your book review at least two of the five geographic themes of location, place, movement, region (e.g., U.S. regions; world regions), and human/environment interaction. You will find them on my webpage under the AP Human Geography summer assignment link. I am looking to see that you understand the themes you are discussing and able to use specific examples from the book to explain the themes that you have chosen.
Be comfortable with this assignment; reflect good writing and thinking. That’s what I will look for. Do not plagiarize.
Also AP style requires that you do not write in the first-person pronoun. With the exception of the section on relevance, do not use “I” or write “in my opinion,” etc. If you must refer to yourself, say “This reader…”
3.Map yourrain- create an annotated* map of your house, street, neighborhood,etc…indicating/illustrating where the rain that falls on your house ultimately stops flowing.. It does flow and it does end up somewhere else. Research this and create a map depicting your rain’s journey.
*look it up
4. Map Assignment
Goal: To identify and label important locations and physical features throughout the world in
order to make pertinent spatial location connections.
Materials: Outline maps- available on line or, you may draw your own. You will also need a pencil or pen, and colored pencils to assist in labeling and coloring the given features.
Directions: Using the list provided identify and label all physical features on the physical map
and all locations (countries and cities) on the political map. Additionally, create a map key that
shows a symbol of your choice for the following items: capitals, cities, oceans, rivers, mountain
ranges, and deserts. Use color to differentiate bodies of water (oceans, rivers & lakes, etc),
mountain ranges, deserts, etc. Please carefully select the colors you use to reflect the natural
landscape. Draw all features to scale.
Physical Map Features List
Lines of Latitude & Longitude & “other”
1. North Pole
2. South Pole
3. Arctic Circle
4. Antarctic Circle
5. Tropic of Cancer
6. Tropic of Capricorn
7. Equator
8. Prime Meridian (Greenwich Mean Line/0° Longitude)
9. International Date Line (180° Longitude)
10. Great Barrier Reef
Mountains
11. Andes
12. Alps
13. Atlas
14. Urals
15. Caucasus
16. Pyrenees
17. Tian Shan
18. Himalayas
19. Eastern Ghats
20. Western Ghats
21. Rocky Mountains
22. Cascades
23. Appalachian Mountains
24. Southern Alps
25. Great Rift Valley
26. Mt. Kilimanjaro
27. Mt Fuji
Deserts
28. Atacama
29. Sahara
30. Namib
31. Kalihari
32. TaklaMakan
33. Gobi
34. Great Victorian Desert
Grassland
35. Great Plains (US & Canada)
36. Pampas
37. Kirghiz Steppe
38. Serengeti Plain (Tanzania)
Bodies of Water/Water Features
A. Great Lakes
B. Hudson Bay
C. Chesapeake Bay
D. Gulf of Mexico
E. Mississippi River
F. Caribbean Sea
G. Strait of Magellan
H. Colorado River
I. Arctic Ocean
J. Atlantic Ocean
K. Pacific Ocean
L. Indian Ocean
M. Southern Ocean
N. Bering Strait
O. Panama Canal
P. Amazon River
Q. Rio Grande
R. Baltic Sea
S. North Sea
T. Mediterranean Sea
U. St. Lawrence River
V. English Channel
W. Danube River
X. Black Sea
Y. Adriatic Sea
Z. Aegean Sea
AA. Rhine River
BB.Volga River
CC.Seine River
DD. Po River
EE. Lake Baikal
FF. Aral Sea
GG. Red Sea
HH. Dardanelles Strait
II. Bosporus Strait
JJ. Arabian Sea
KK. Bay of Bengal
LL. South China Sea
MM. East China Sea
NN. Yellow Sea
OO. Caspian Sea
PP. Persian (Arabian) Gulf
QQ. Sea of Japan
RR.Tigris/Euphrates Rivers
SS. Ganges River
TT.Indus River
UU. Yangtze River
VV. Mekong River
WW. Nile River
XX. Congo (Zaire) River
YY. Lake Chad
ZZ. Niger River
AAA. Orange River
BBB. Lake Victoria
CCC. Suez Canal
DDD. Tasman Sea
EEE. Coral Sea
FFF. Timor Sea
Political Map Place Location List
Anglo-America
1. United States
2. Canada
3. New York City
4. Chicago
5. Atlanta
6. Seattle
7. Houston
8. Washington D.C.
9. Los Angeles
10. Montreal
11. Quebec City
12. Toronto
13. Vancouver
Latin America
14. Cuba
15. Haiti
16. Dominican Republic
17. Puerto Rico
18. Mexico
19. El Salvador
20. Belize
21. French Guiana
22. Jamaica
23. Honduras
24. Nicaragua
25. Costa Rica
26. Panama
27. Brazil
28. Venezuela
29. Guyana
30. Suriname
31. Guatemala
32. Colombia
33. Ecuador
34. Peru
35. Bolivia
36. Paraguay
37. Uruguay
38. Argentina
39. Chile
40. Bahamas
41. Mexico City
42. Sao Paulo
43. Santiago (Chile)
44. Montevideo
45. Rio de Janeiro
46. Caracas
47. Lima
48. Bogota
Western Europe
49. France
50. Germany
51. Italy
52. Belgium
53. Netherlands
54. Luxembourg
55. United Kingdom
56. Ireland
57. Denmark
58. Greenland
59. Greece
60. Spain
61. Portugal
62. Austria
63. Finland
64. Sweden
65. Norway
66. Switzerland
67. Iceland
68. Cyprus
69. London
70. Edinburgh
71. Belfast
72. Dublin
73. Paris
74. Madrid
75. Gibraltar
76. Naples
77. Rome
78. Geneva
79. Brussels
80. Amsterdam
81. Copenhagen
82. Stockholm
83. Oslo
84. Helsinki
85. Berlin
86. Lisbon
87. Vienna
Eastern Europe
88. Poland
89. Czech Republic
90. Slovakia
91. Hungary
92. Romania
93. Bulgaria
94. Yugoslavia
95. Bosnia-Herzegovina
96. Croatia
97. Macedonia
98. Slovenia
100. Albania
101. Russia (European side)
102. Minsk
103. Prague
104. Zagreb
105. Warsaw
106. Athens
107. Moscow
108. St. Petersburg
109. Kiev
110. Sofia
111. Bucharest
112. Belgrade
113. Budapest
North Africa
114. Egypt
115. Libya
116. Tunisia
117. Algeria
118. Morocco
119. Western Sahara
120. Cairo
121. Casablanca
122. Rabat
123. Tunis
124. Algiers
125. Tripoli
Sub-Saharan Africa
126. Ethiopia
127. Eritrea
128. Sudan
129. Congo (Democratic Republic)
130. Uganda
131. Kenya
132. Tanzania
133. Rwanda
134. Burundi
135. Congo (People’s Republic)
136. Somalia
137. Mozambique
138. Madagascar
139. Senegal
140. Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
141. Mauritania
142. Central African Republic
143. Niger
144. Benin
145. Chad
146. Angola
147. Zimbabwe
148. Djibouti
149. Namibia
150. Nigeria
151. Ghana
152. Burkina Faso
153. Sierra Leone
154. Mali
155. Liberia
156. Guinea
157. Malawi
158. Cameroon
159. Gabon
160. Botswana
161. Lesotho
162. Swaziland
163. South Africa
164. Zambia
165. Seychelles
166. Cape Verde
167. Guinea-Bissau
168. Togo
169. Gambia
170. Khartoum
171. Johannesburg
172. Kinshasa
173. Lusaka
174. Mogadishu
175. Abidjan
176. Cape Town
177. Dakar
178. Lagos
179. Abuja
180. Luanda
181. Brazzaville
182. Nairobi
183. Dar es Salaam
184. Addis Ababa
Southwest Asia / Middle East
185. Turkey
186. Syria
187. Lebanon
188. Israel
189. Jordan
190. Iraq
191. Saudi Arabia
192. Yemen
193. Oman
194. United Arab Emirates
195. Qatar
196. Bahrain
197. Kuwait
198. Iran
199. Georgia
200. Armenia
201. Azerbaijan
202. Istanbul
203. Ankarra
204. Damascus
205. Beirut
206. Jerusalem Amman
207. Baghdad
208. Riyadh
209. Mecca
210. Sanaa
211. Muscat
212. Abu Dhabi
213. Doha
214. Manama
215. Tehran
216. Yerevan
217. Tbilisi
218. Baku
Central Asia
219. Afghanistan
220. Turkmenistan
221. Uzbekistan
222. Tajikistan
223. Kyrgyzstan
224. Kazakhstan
225. Astana
226. Bishkek
227. Ashgabat
228. Kabul
229. Dushanbe
South Asia
230. Pakistan
231. India
232. Nepal
233. Bangladesh
234. Bhutan
235. Islamabad
236. Karachi
237. Mumbai (Bombay)
238. New Dehli
239. Calcutta
240. Bangalore
241. Kathmandu
242. Thimpu
243. Dhaka
East Asia
244. Mongolia
245. China
246. Japan
247. North Korea
248. South Korea
249. Taiwan
250. Taipei
251. Hong Kong
252. Ulaanbaatar
253. Beijing
254. Shanghai
255. Pyongyang
256. Seoul
257. Tokyo
258. Macau
Southeast Asia
259. Myanmar
260. Thailand
261. Laos
262. Cambodia
263. Vietnam
264. Philippines
265. Malaysia
266. Indonesia
267. Brunei
268. Singapore
269. East Timor
270. Yangon (Rangoon)
271. Bangkok
272. Vientiane
273. Phnom Penh
274. Hanoi
275. Kuala Lumpur
276. Jakarta
277. Manila
Australia/ Oceania
278. Australia
279. New Zealand
280. Papua New Guinea
281. Guam
282. Fiji
283. American Samoa
284. (Western) Samoa
285. Canberra
286. Sydney
287. Melbourne
288. Wellington
289. Christchurch
290. Perth
All work due by third class meeting.