AP Human Geography
Mrs. Gallitz, BHS
September Assignment GENERAL DEFINITIONS
Due Mon., Sept. 27
(digital submission DUE by midnight—that’s 9/27 at 11:59pm + 1 min.)
printed copy DUE is TBA (to be announced)
Objective: The objective of the assignment is to expose you to the vocabulary and ideas which will be presented to you
throughout the year. You will refer to this definition chart throughout the school year.
Assignment: Using the list of words below, create a chart in which you provide 1) the definition; 2) the significance of
the word; 3) a contemporary example of the word when applicable, and 4) an illustration (can be your own image or an
image you find on the internet with documentation). When looking for the definition, you may use any valid internet
source or a Geographic Dictionary or other sources located in your public library.
Agriculture
Apartheid
Balkanization
Biogeography
Biodiversity
Boundary
Child and infant
mortality rates
Christianity
Climate
Cities and towns
Civilizations
Colonialism
Comparative
Advantage
Compass rose
Cultural Landscape
Delimitation
Demarcation
Democracy
Devolution
Diffusion
Disease
Distance
Eratosthenes
Ethnic religion
Eurasia
Eurasian Rimland
European Free Trade
Assocaition (EFTA)
European Union (EU)
Exclusive Economic
Zones (EEZs)
Federalism
5 themes of Geography
(define each separately)
--Location,
--Place,
--Region
--Movement
--Human-Environment
Interaction
Fundametalism
Genocide
Geography
Geopolitics
Globalization
Global Positioning
Systems (GPS)
Jean Gottman
(Megalopolis)
Gravity Model
Gross Domestic Product
Hinterland
Historical Geography
Immigration/Emigration
Islam
Isolationism
Jihad
Judaism
Languages
Latitude
Legends on Maps
Life expectancy
Lingua Franca
Longitude
Thomas Malthus
Neo-Malthusian
Maps
Map projections
Conical, Cyndrical,
Mercator, Polar,
Robinson
Mental Maps
Medical Geography
Migration
Nationalism
Nation-state
Natural Resources
North American Free
Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
Northern Ireland
Oil
Outsourcing
Per Capita
Physical geography
Pivot Area (heartland
theory)
Population
Poverty
Absolute Location
Relative Location
Scale
Secularism
Shiite Muslim
Sunni Muslim
Sovereignty
Spatial
Spatial Interaction
Special Economic Zones
(SEZs)
State
Sustainability
Topography
Unitary States
Urban areas
Urbanization
Zoning
You are welcome to use the digital template provided by your teacher and located on the school’s
website, as well as on our Fusion page, to complete the assignment. You will need to scan any images
that you draw by hand. Resize all images to fit the chart. Feel free to adjust the chart template as needed,
or develop a different, but equally organized way of keeping the vocabulary to meet your needs. Some
words may require more than one image—use your good judgment.
Do remember that you should be completing your own work and that all students will be submitting their
assignments digitally, as well as printing out a copy for class use. Digital assignments stay on the system
for the entire year and can be reviewed at any time by your teacher. It is PRUDENT to complete this
assignment over the summer months, as you will have other assignments during the month of September.
Based on the assignment created by Mr. Bailey and Mr. Daniels, WSHS