Pre-AP Final Exam Study Guide

Unit 1: Globalization vs. Local Diversity

  1. Free trade
  2. Nuclear non-proliferation
  3. Push vs. pull factors
  4. Green Revolution
  5. 5 Themes of Geography
  6. Types of government systems: monarchy, democracy, dictatorship

economic systems: market, command, traditional

7. Folk & Pop culture

8. Demographic Transition Model, Human Development Index (HDI)

9. Population pyramids

10. Supranationalism

Unit 2: North America

1. Cold War causes, history, and current status

2. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

3. Ethnic fragmentation in Canada (language)

4. NAFTA, maquiladoras

5. Illegal immigration, migration patterns

Unit 3: Latin America

1. Issues facing the region: drug cartels, corruption, gangs, environmental issues, urban issues (favelas), lack of democracy

2. Colonization of Latin America

3. Language and religion

Unit 4: Europe and Russia

1. Issues: Immigration, ethnic conflict, political division, & economic crisis

2. Challenges facing Eastern Europe after the Cold War

3. Development in the West vs. East

4. Ethnic cleansing/ former Yugoslavia

5. European Union

6. Historical success of Europe

7. Population settlement patterns in Europe

Unit 5: Asia

1. One Child Policy

2. Development extremes: characteristics of each region, primate city

3. Religious conflict

4. Specific case studies: Kashmir, Taiwan, and North Korea

5. Various Asian religions and philosophies

6. Impact of imperialism, resources desired in the region

7. Demographics of Asia: birth rates, death rates

8. India & Pakistan split

Unit 6: Middle East/North Africa

1. Religious history, conflict, Judaism, Christianity, & Islam

2. Arab-Israeli Conflict

3. Water scarcity

4. Arab Spring

5. Oil

6. ISIS, Kurds, Sharia Law, etc.

7. Development extremes

Unit 7: Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Issues facing Africa: HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Terrorism, Famine, Child Soldiers, Government Corruption, Conflict Mining, Lack of education/opportunity, Rebel Armies, Refugees

2. Development extremes, HDI, Demographic transition stages

3. Impact of colonization: political, social, & economic (refer to DBQ chart)

4. Cultural diversity: language, Islam, Christianity, animism, syncretism, etc.

5. RwandanGenocide

6. Genocide in Sudan (Darfur)

7. Early hominids

8. Bantu migrations

9. Supranational cooperation in Africa

10. Population growth, urbanization in Africa

11. Subsistence agriculture, pastoral nomadism

12. Textbook pages:

  1. Scramble for Africa pgs 773-778
  2. Imperialism Case Study: Nigeria pgs 779-785
  3. New Nations in Africa pgs 1012-1016
  4. The Challenge of Democracy in Africa pgs 1040-1045

Unit 8: Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Antarctica

  1. Examples of human environment interaction
  2. Reasons for population distribution
  3. Indigenous groups of New Zealand and Australia
  4. Physical characteristics of Antarctica
  5. Describe the folk culture of these places. How are they threatened by pop culture?
  6. Australia’sresources

***DISCLAIMER: This is a study “guide.” You need to be able to explain more than just the definition of these topics. Think about causes, effects, and characteristics. Write down everything you know about the topic!

The map portion on the test will be identifying the major countries of a region. If we discussed a country in depth you will likely have to locate it on a map.