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

-The 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