Big Ideas in AP Human Geography
Geography is commonly divided into these two major branches: one is the study or spatial characteristics of the environment and the other includes topics such as population, culture and economics.
What are physical and human geography?
Political, physical, road and plat are all types of this broad category of map.
What are Reference Maps?
Commonly referred to as the DMT, this tool shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize.
What is the demographic transition model?
On benefit to countries that receive immigrants are the formation of these types of neighborhoods filled primarily with people of the same ethnic group. "Little Italy" and "Chinatown" are examples.
What are ethnic enclaves?
AP HG
What is Advanced Placement Human Geography?
These are representations of reality or theories about reality, that help geographers explain, describe and sometimes even predict spatial activity and phenomena.
What are models?
This type of map projection, while good for navigation, also distorts land masses near Earth's poles.
What is a Mercator Projection?
This value compares the working to the nonworking parts of a population, considering the number of people who are economically supporting the rest of the population.
What is the dependency ratio?
The common reasons people migrate to an from specific locations are described by geographers using these two alliterative concepts.
What are push and pull factors?
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
These types of informational sources are not usually represented by numbers. Instead, they are collected as interviews, photographs, descriptions or even cartoons.
What are qualitative sources?
This is the distance of features above sea level, usually measured in feet or meters.
What is Elevation?
Providing more education for girls and women most reduced this - the number of children born per woman - in less-developed countries.
What is the fertility rate?
Each migration flow produces a movement in the opposite direction, referred to as this.
What is Counter Migration?
IDP's : Six million were created as a result of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
What are Internally Displaced Persons?
Geographers reference a continuum of these, which show more or less area on a given map. Global, world regional, national, and local are all examples of these.
What are Scales of Analysis?
In this kind of thematic map, the sizes of countries might be shown according to some specific statistic, such as population.
What is a cartogram?
Throughout history, some governments have taken these measures, which encourage larger families to stimulate economic growth and increase military power.
What are pronatalist policies?
The African slave trade from the 15th to 19th centuries was the largest of these kind of involuntary movements in history.
What are forced migrations?
NGO
Non-governmental organization
Geographic data contributes to these special 2D or 3D interactive maps that can help solve real time problems, such as accurately tracking and mapping the COVID-19 pandemic.
What are geovisualizations?
What are distribution patterns?
In 1798, this economist published An Essay on the Principle of Population, which theorized that the world's population would grow faster than food production, resulting in massive starvation.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
In Lee's model of migration, migrants may encounter these, or barriers that make reaching their desired destination more difficult.
What are Intervening Obstacles?
EEZ, or the legal right of coastal states to explore, extract minerals, and manage natural resources up to 200 nautical miles.