AP Human Geography Reader’s Notes // Chapter One
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Introduction to Human Geography // Pages 1-35
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Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger pages 1-8
What are the major crops
grown in the agricultural
fields of Kenya?
How much of the world is
seriously malnourished?
What are the major
causes of
malnourishment?
Why is Bangladesh poor
and malnourished and
Norway wealthy and wellfed?
What does hunger depend
on in Kenya?
Who owns the most
productive farmland in
Kenya?
Who owns the most
unproductive farmland in
Kenya?
What are the complexities
of globalization that
contribute to the
malnourishment of the
Kenyan peoples?
What do field geographers
do out in the field?
I. What is Human Geography? 8-9
What is the focus of the
field of human
geography?
What two areas of
technology have made
people and places more
interconnected?
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What two areas have
made people and places
look more alike?
Define homogeneity.
(hint-look it up)
Define globalization
(Glossary pg. A-22)
What are the “blanket”
and the “local” in
globalization.
Why do geographers use
the concept of scale?
Why is the concept of
globalization integrated
into this textbook?
II. What are Geographic Questions? 9-15
What are the major fields
of study in geography?
What is meant by the
geographic inquiry?
Define spatial
perspective? (Glossary
A-28)
IIA. Maps in the Time of Cholera Pandemics 9-11
Define medical
geography. (Glossary A24)
Define pandemic.
(Glossary A-25)
What is cholera?
When and where did the
first cholera pandemic
spread?
When and where did the
second cholera pandemic
spread?
When and where did the
third cholera pandemic
spread?
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What area of London was
hard hit with cholera in
1850?
What steps did Dr. Snow
use to pinpoint the source
of cholera in the Soho
district of London?
How does cholera get into
any given area?
Where do you expect to
find cholera today?
Where did cholera strike
in the 20th century? 21st
century
IIB. The Spatial Perspective 11-15
Why is understanding
history not just about
memorizing dates?
What is considered a
critical element to
understanding history and
why?
Define spatial
perspective. (glossary A28)
IIB1. The Five Themes 11-13
What is location?
Define locational theory
(glossary A-24)
What is human
environment interaction?
How does understanding
the regional geography of
a place help us?
What do all places on the
surface of the earth have?
Define “sense of place”
(glossary A-28)
What is perception of
place?
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What does the 5th theme
of movement refer to in
geography?
What does spatial
interaction depend on?
What does accessibility
mean?
What does connectivity
mean?
IIB2. Cultural Landscape 13-15
How do geographers use
the term landscape?
What is sequent
occupance?
Why is the Tanzanian city
of Dar es Salaam does
considered an example of
sequent occupance?
III. Why do Geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us? 15-21
What is cartography?
What do reference maps
show?
What do thematic maps
show?
What is GPS?
What is geocaching?
Explain the term “relative
location.”
IIIA. Mental Maps 17
Define mental maps?
What is our “activity
space”?
How do men and women
learn new places?
IIIB. Generalization in Maps 17
What do all maps do?
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What do generalized maps
help us see and not see?
How is scale used in
generalized maps?
IIIC. Remote Sensing and GIS 17-21
How do geographers use
remote sensing to monitor
the earth?
What is Google earth?
What is GIS?
How do geographers use
GIS?
How do political
geographers use GIS?
What kind of industries do
students with geography
degrees work?
How does GIS help
geographers answer
complicated questions?
What is GISci?
IV. Why are Geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
How do geographers
study places using scale?
Explain the two meanings
of scale?
What does the study of
geographic phenomenon
at scale tell us?
Why must geographers be
wary of researchers
making generalizations
about people or a place at
a particular scale?
What does it mean to
rescale?
IVA. Regions 23-28
Why do geographers divide
the world into regions?
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What constitutes a region in
geography?
What is a formal region?
What are the two shared
traits found in formal
regions?
How is a functional region
defined?
What are perceptual
regions?
What are the perceptions
based on?
How does major news
events help create
perceptual regions?
IVA1. Perceptual Regions in the United States 27-28
Who is Wilbur Zelinsky and
what did he do?
How are perceptual regions
defined?
How is the south defined
culturally?
IVB. Culture 28-29
What is the meaning of
culture?
What is a culture trait?
Give an example of a culture
trait.
How do the Sikhs wear their
turbans?
What is a culture complex?
Explain a culture hearth.
IVC. Connectedness through diffusion (29)
What is cultural diffusion?
What determines whether
diffusion of a cultural trait
occurs?
What happens as a cultural
trait gets further away from
the cultural hearth?
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Explain time-distance decay
in the diffusion process of
cultural traits?
What types of cultural traits
are unlikely to diffuse?
What are cultural barriers?
IVC1. Expansion Diffusion 30-31
Explain expansion diffusion.
Explain contagious diffusion.
Give two examples from the
book of contagious diffusion.
What sport caused the
Phiten company to expand
from the U.S. to Japan?
Explain hierarchical
diffusion.
What example does the
book offer of hierarchical
diffusion.
Explain stimulus diffusion.
What moves in expansion
diffusion and what stays in
place?
IVC2. Relocation Diffusion 31
How does relocation
diffusion occur most
frequently?
Explain relocation diffusion.
V. What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic
questions? 32-33
What are geographic
concepts?
What is geography not?
VA. Rejection of Environmental Determinism 32-33
What is environmental
determinism?
What examples does the
text use for environmental
determinism?
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What exceptions have some
modern human geographer
found to dispute the theory
or environmental
determinism?
What do most geographers
agree on regarding the
environment and human
development?
VB. Possibilism 33
Explain the doctrine of
Possibilism.
What are some of the
limitations to Possibilism?
Explain cultural ecology.
What is political ecology?
VC. Today’s Human Geography 33-35
What is the focus of human
geography today?
Why does cultural
geography stand out in the
study of human geography?
What are some of the
careers that human
geographers pursue?
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