AP Human Geography
UNIT 1
Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Monday August 26th – Friday September 20 (18 class days & 80 pages reading)
Unit Project Thursday, September 12th
FRQs
Thursday, September 19th
MCQs
Friday, September 20th
Reading Assignment
Gettis:
Chapters 1, 2, 4 and Information read 3
Fouberg:
Chapter 1 and Index A
Geography, Its Nature & Perspective (5-10% of the AP Exam):
Geography, Its Nature & Perspectives accounts for the smallest percentage of the AP exam, but is the
foundation for understanding various thoughts throughout the entire course. If you do not understand the
concepts presented in Unit 1, you will have a difficult time throughout the course.
Key geographic skills you must acquire in this unit:
A. Geography as a field of inquiry
B. Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern,
nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issues
C. Key geographical skills
1. How to use and think about maps and geospatial data
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
D. Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and online
maps
E. Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and
satellite imagery
F. Identification of major world regions
G. Be able to identify and locate all countries within the North American & Latin America Realms
Day
Monday
Day 1
Aug 26
Tuesday
Day 2
Aug 27
Wednesday
Day 3
Aug 28
Thursday
Day 4
Aug 29
Friday
Day 5
Aug 30
Monday
Sep 2
Tuesday
Day 6
Sep 3
Wednesday
Day 7
Sep 4
Thursday
Day 8
Sep 5
Friday
Day 9
Sep 6
Monday
Day 10
Sep 9
Tuesday
Day 11
Sep 10
Wednesday
Day 12
Sep 11
Thursday
Day 13
Sep 12
The Schedule of Events
In Class
Reading Activities, and Home Work
Summer Reading Test
Reading: Getis p 1 -14 Stop (Place Similarity)
Hand Out Course
Fouberg p 8-15 Stop (Cultural Landscape
Requirements
Begin locating and identifying countries within
Grit Video
North American and Latin American realms. On
Unit test
Review course requirements
Overview of course expectations
Parent/Guardian Letter Signed
Unit 1 Project Assigned
Continue reading assignment
Lecture “How to Outline”
Project
Continue reading assignment
Geography as a Field of Inquiry
Activity: “Thinking Geographically”
Project
Lecture: “What is Geography”
Reading: Getis p 14 – 21
Reading Quiz
Getis p 106 – 120
Location, Space, Place & Scale
Lecture
Fouberg p 22-28
Fouberg p 371 World map of climates
Vocabulary Quiz Reading from Day 1
Continue Outlining Chapters
– Day 3
Continue Reading
Project
Location, Space, Place & Scale
“Crackers and Scale
No School Labor Day
Reading Quiz
Globalization and Place
Lecture “Place”
Regions and Climate
Lecture
Reading: Fouberg p 14-16
Fouberg p 29-35
Reading Quiz
Regions
Activity: Regional Perceptions
Vocabulary Quiz
Geography as a Big Picture
Activity: The Big Questions in
Geography
Reading Maps
Lecture “Map and Map Types
Reading: Getis 24-41
Fouberg 16-21
Reading Quiz
Learning Scale
Activity: True Maps, False Impressions
Thematic Maps
Activity “True Maps, False Impressions
2”
Reading: Getis 42 – 49
UNIT PROJECT DUE BY 9:00 am
Vocabulary Quiz
Thematic maps
Activity: Cont & DeBrief
Begin studying for Unit Test Thursday and Friday
of next week
Do not forget North American and Latin American
realms
Outline and read
Project
Outline and read
Project
Outline and Read
Project
Outline and reading
Project
Friday
Sep 13
Monday
Day 14
Sep 16
Tuesday
Day 15
Sep 17
Wednesday
Day 16
Sep 18
Thursday
Day 17
Sep 19
Friday
Day 18
Sep 20
No School Fall Holiday
GIS and GPS
Lecture
Test Thursday and Friday
FRQs
What are they?
Test Thursday and Friday
Review for test
What questions do you have for
instructor
FRQs For Unit 1 “Its Nature and
Perspective”
Test Thursday and Friday
MCQs For Unit 1 “Its Nature and
Perspective
NO WORK – HAVE A NICE
WEEKEND
Do not forget North American and Latin American
Realms
Unit 1 Vocabulary
(In Alpha-Order)
Absolute direction
Absolute distance
Absolute location
Absolute Locations
Accessibility
Activity Spaces
Area Analysis
Tradition
Area Cartogram
(value-by-area map)
Azimuthal
Projections
Cartography
Chropleth Map
Climatic Regions
Conformal
Projections
Connectivity
Contour interval
Contour line
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Landscape
CultureEnvironment
Tradition
Distance
Earth Science
Tradition
Environmental
Determinism
Epidemic
Equal area
(equivalent
projections)
Equidistant
Projections
Five Themes
Flow-Line maps
Formal Region
Functional Region
Geocaching
Geographic
Database
Geographic Grid
Geographic
Information System
(GIS)
Gernalized Map
Global Positioning
System (GPS)
Globalization
Globe Properties
Human
Environment
Human Geography
International Date
Line
Isoline
Isotherms
Koppen Climate
Classification
System
Landsat Satellites
Landscape
Latitude
Location
Location Theory
Locational
Tradition
Longitude
Map Projection
Medical Geography
Mental Maps
Movement
Natural Landscape
Pandemic
Pattern
Perceptions of
places
Perceptual
(vernacular/popular)
region
Perceptual regions
Place
Possibilism
Prime Meridian
Reference Maps
Region
Regions
Relative direction
Relative Distance
Relative location
Remote Sensing
Rescale
Scale
Sense of Place
Sequent Occupance
Site
Situation
Spatial
Spatial Diffusion
Spatial distribution
Spatial interaction
Spatial Perspective
Thematic Maps
Topographic Maps