High School AP Human Geography

Module One: Thinking Geographically

-types of maps

-methods of geographic data collection

-geographical effects of decisions made using geographical information

-major geographic concepts that illustrate spatial relationships

-scales of analysis

-regions

-human-environmental interaction

Module Two: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes

-factors that influence the distribution of human populations at different scales

-population distribution and density’s impacts on society and the environment.

-elements of population composition used by geographers

-contemporary and historical trends in and theories of population growth and decline

-population and immigration policies

-factors encouraging migration

-forced and voluntary migration

-historical and contemporary geographic effects of migration

Module Three: Cultural Patterns and Processes

-characteristics, attitudes, and traits of culture

-characteristics of cultural landscapes.

-how landscape features and land and resource use reflect cultural beliefs and identities

-patterns and landscapes of language, religion, ethnicity, and gender

-types of diffusion

-effects of diffusion on the cultural landscape

-how historical processes impact current cultural patterns

-factors leading to diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions

Module Four: Political Patterns and Processes

-different types of political entities

-processes that have shaped contemporary political geography

-political power and territoriality

-political boundaries

-nature and function of international and internal boundaries

-federal and unitary states

-factors that lead to the devolution of states

-political, economic, cultural, and technological challenges to state sovereignty

-centrifugal and centripetal forces

Module Five: Agricultural and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes

-connection between physical geography and agricultural practices

-rural settlement patterns and methods of surveying

-major centers of domestication of plants

-global diffusion of plants and animals

-advances and impacts of the Second Agricultural Revolution

-social and economic forces influencing agricultural practices, the food supply, and environment

-von Thünen model

-interdependence among regions of agricultural production and consumption

-environmental and societal consequences of agricultural practices

-challenges and debates related to the changing nature of contemporary agriculture and food-production practices

Module Six: Cities and Urban Land Use Patterns and Processes

-processes that initiate and drive urbanization and suburbanization

-how cities embody processes of globalization

-urban concepts such as hierarchy, interdependence, relative size, and spacing

-internal structure of cities using various models and theories

-low-, medium-, and high-density housing

-a city's infrastructure as it relates to local politics, society, and the environment

-urban design initiatives, practices, and sustainability

-causes and effects of geographic changes within urban areas

Module Seven: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes

-how the Industrial Revolution facilitated the growth and diffusion of industrialization

-spatial patterns of industrial production and development

-social and economic measures of development

-extent that changes in economic development have contributed to gender parity

-theories of economic and social development

-causes and geographic consequences of trade, deindustrialization, and growing interdependence in the world economy

-sustainability principles in relation to industrialization and spatial development