AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: OUTLINE OF TOPICS

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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OUTLINE OF TOPICS I.
Geography Its Nature and Perspectives
(5-10) II. Population (13-17) III.
Cultural Patterns and Processes (13-17) IV.
Political Organization of Space (13-17) V.
Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17) VI.
Industrialization and Economic Development
(13-17) VII. Cities and Urban Land Use
(13-17)
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• I. Geography Its Nature and Perspectives
  (5-10)
• Geography as a field of inquiry
• B. Evolution of key geographical concepts and
  models associated with notable geographers
• C. Key concepts underlying the geographical
  perspective space, place, and scale
• D. Key geographical skills
• 1. How to use and think about maps and
  spatial data sets
• 2. How to understand and interpret the
  implications of associations among
  phenomena in places
• 3. How to recognize and interpret at
  different scales the relationships among
  patterns and processes
• 4. How to define regions and evaluate the
  regionalization process
• 5. How to characterize and analyze changing
  interconnections among places
• E. New geographic technologies, such as GIS and
  GPS
• F. Sources of geographical ideas and data the
  field, census data, etc.

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• Political Organization of Space 13-17
• A. Territorial dimensions of politics
• 1. The concept of territoriality
• 2. The nature and meaning of boundaries
• 3. Influences of boundaries on
  identity, interaction, and exchange
• B. Evolution of the contemporary political
  pattern
• 1. The nation-state concept
• 2. Colonialism and imperialism
• 3. Federal and unitary states
• C. Challenges to inherited political-territorial
  arrangements
• 1. Changing nature of sovereignty
• 2. Fragmentation, unification, alliance
• 3. Spatial relationships between political
  patterns and patterns of
• ethnicity, economy, and environment
• 4. Electoral geography, including gerrymandering

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CNN.com map of flooding Summer 2002
Conventional map of countries
The Hungarian takeover of Austria (and the
migration of Bratislava)
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Switzerland on the move
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• Political Organization of Space 13-17
• A. Territorial dimensions of politics
• 1. The concept of territoriality
• 2. The nature and meaning of boundaries
• 3. Influences of boundaries on
  identity, interaction, and exchange
• B. Evolution of the contemporary political
  pattern
• 1. The nation-state concept
• 2. Colonialism and imperialism
• 3. Federal and unitary states
• C. Challenges to inherited political-territorial
  arrangements
• 1. Changing nature of sovereignty
• 2. Fragmentation, unification, alliance
• 3. Spatial relationships between political
  patterns and patterns of
• ethnicity, economy, and environment
• 4. Electoral geography, including gerrymandering

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The Nation-State Concept
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Colonialism and Imperialism
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Federal and unitary states
France
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1. How to use and think about maps and spatial
data sets
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The Remarkable Configuration of a Cold Air Mass
in the Winter of 1997
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http//www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/map/m
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2. How to understand and interpret the
implications of associations among phenomena in
places
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3. How to recognize and interpret at different
scales the relationships among patterns and
processes
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4. How to define regions and evaluate the
regionalization process
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5. How to characterize and analyze changing
interconnections among places
Participants in The Four Motors Agreement
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