AP Human Geography Mid-Term Study Guide
TOPIC 3: Cultural Geography (Chapters 2 & 5-7)
TOPIC 4: Political Geography (Chapter 12)
Format: 75 Multiple Choice (50%)
3 Essays (50%)
TOPIC 3: Cultural Geography
Chapters 2 & 5-7
1. characteristics of culture (36)
2. cultural trait (38)
3. culture region (38)
4. cultural ecology (39)
5. possibilism (40)
6. cultural landscape (40)
7. hunting-gathering characteristics (46)
8. location of corn domestication (47)
9. domestication hearths (47)
10. culture hearth (49)
11. “cake” layers/structure of culture? (53)
12. 3 major forces of cultural change? (55)
13. cultural diffusion process (56)
14. example of relocation diffusion (58)
15. from language families to dialects (143)
16. pidgins (157)
17. lingua franca (157)
18. toponyms (162)
19. reasons for religious conflict (166)
20. types of Christian diffusion (168-69)
21. acculturation (195)
22. chain migration examples (200)
23. enclave vs. ghetto (212)
24. French land division in U.S./Canada? (219)
25. folk culture vs. popular culture (228)
26. what type of house is this? (236)
27. Canadian prairie barn vernacular material?
TOPIC 4: Political Geography
Chapter 12
1. state (447)
2. nation-state (448)
3. concept of the modern state? (449)
4. hardest shape to defend? (452)
5. negative affects of landlocked countries (454)
6. importance of capital cities? (455)
7. European colonial powers in Africa? (451)
8. forward thrust capital (456)
9. physical political boundary (457)
10. relic boundary example (459)
11. irredentism (460)
12. centripetal force (460)
13. nationalism, types of unifying institutions? (461-62)
14. centrifugal forces (460, 464)
15. devolutionary forces (464)
16. “balkanization”
17. Mackinder’s Heartland Theory (466)
18. purpose of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? (466, 475)
19. need for supranational control? (467-68)
20. United Nations (UN) purpose (468)
21. EEZ characteristics (469)
22. European Union (EU) unification (472)
23. excess voting technique (476)