AP Human Geography Vocabulary
Unit 1: Geography It’s Nature and Perspectives
Absolute Distance
GIS—Geographic Info. System
Absolute Location
Globalization
Accessibility
GMT—Greenwich Mean Time
Aggregation
GPS—Global Positioning System
Anthropogenic
Hearth
Carl Sauer
Hierarchical Diffusion
Cartogram
Human Geography
Cartography
idiographic
Choropleth Maps
International Date Line
Cognitive/Mental Maps
Intervening opportunity
Concentration
Isoline Maps
Contagious Diffusion
Latitude
Cultural Ecology (Enviro. Geo.)
Longitude
Culture
Meridian
Density
Natural v. Cultural Landscape
Diffusion
nomothetic
Distance Decay
Parallel
Distribution
Pattern
Dot Maps
Physical Geography
Environmental Determinism
Place
Eratosthenes
Possibilism
Expansion Diffusion
Prime Meridian
Formal Region
Projection (Azimuthal, Fuller, Mercator,
Peter’s, Robinson)
Functional Region
Proportional Symbol Maps
George Perkins Marsh
Unit 2: Population
Age – Sex Distribution
Agricultural density
Agricultural Revolutions
(Neolithic, 2nd, Green)
Antinatalist population policy
Arithmetic density
Baby Boom
Baby Bust
Brain Drain
Carrying Capacity
Census
Chain Migration
Child Mortality Rate
Cohort
Corn Belt
Cotton Belt
Crude birth rate (CBR)
Crude death rate (CDR)
Demographic accounting
equation
Demographic Transition Model
Demography
Dependency Ratio
Doubling Time
Ecumene
Emigration
Epidemiologic transition
Eugenic population policy
Female Infanticide
Forced Migration
Generation X
Geodemography
Guest workers
Immigration
Industrial Revolution
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
Internal Migration
International Migration
Interregional Migration
Intervening Obstacle
Intraregional Migration
Life Expectancy
Maternal Mortality Rate
Medical Revolution
Migration
Natural increase rate (NIR)
Ptolemy
Qualitative Data
Quantitative Data
Reference Maps
Region
Regional Geography
Relative Distance
Relative Location
Relocation Diffusion
Remote Sensing
Scale (Geographic and Map)
Site
Situation
Space-Time Compression
(time space convergence)
Spatial perspective
Stimulus Diffusion
Sustainability
Thematic Maps
Topographic Maps
Toponym
Vernacular Region (Perceptual)
W. D. Pattison
Neo-Malthusians
Overpopulation
Pandemic
Physiological density
Population Geography
Population Pyramid
Pronatalist population policy
Pull Factor
Push Factor
Quotas
Ravenstein
Refugees
Rustbelt
Sex Ratio
Step Migration
Sunbelt
Thomas Malthus
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Urbanization (urban mig.)
Voluntary Migration
Zero population growth(ZPG)
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Acculturation
Animism
Artifacts / Relics
British Received Pronunciation
(BRP)
Buddhism
Caste system
Christianity
Cosmogony
Creolized Language
Cultural Extinction
Cultural Geography
Cultural Imperialism
Culture
Culture hearth
Culture trait
Custom
Denomination
Dialect
Diaspora
Ethnic Religion
Ethnicity
Evangelism
Extinct Language
Folk Culture
Franglais / Spanglish
Fundamentalism
Genocide / Ethnic Cleansing
Ghetto v.Ethnic Neighborhood
Global Religion
Hierarchical Religion
Hinduism
Ideogram
Indo European
Islam
Isogloss
Isolated language
Judaism
Language
Language branch
Language family
Language group
Lingua franca
Literary tradition
Local Culture
Minority
Missionary
Monotheism
Multiculturalism
Official Language
Pagan
Pidgin Language
Pilgrimage
Polytheism
Pop Culture
Race
Religious Branch
Romance
Sect
Secularism
Shaman
Sino-Tibetan
Solstice /Equinox
Standard Language
Theocracy
Tradition
Transculturation
Universalizing Religion
Vulgar Latin
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
Antecedent Boundary
Apartheid
Balkanization
Blockbusting
Buffer State
Centripetal force
Centripetal force
City-state
Colonialism
Colony
Commonwealth of Independent
States
Compact state
Confederation
Democratization
Devolution
Domino Theory
Electoral College
Elongated state
Enclave / Exclave
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnicity
European Union
Federal state / Federalism
Fragmented state
Frontier
Geometric Boundary
Geopolitics
Gerrymandering
Heartland (MacKinder)
Imperialism
International Organization
Landlocked state
Law of the Sea
Lebensraum
Microstate
Multi-ethnic state
Multinational state
NAFTA
Nation
Nationalism
Nationality
Nation-state
NATO
North/South & East/West Divide
OPEC
Perforated state
Physical Boundary
Political Geography
Prorupt(ed) state
Race
Racism
Ratzel’s Organic Theory
Reapportionment
Redistricting
Relic Boundary
Rimland (Spykman)
Self-determination
Sovereignty
State
Stateless Nation
Subsequent Boundary
Superimposed Boundary
Supranational Organization
Territoriality
Triangular Trade
Unitary state
United Nations
Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Animal Husbandry
Animate power
Biomass fuel
Biotechnology
Capital Intensive Agriculture
Cereal Grain
Combine
Commercial agriculture (farming)
Commodity Food Chains
Conservation
Crop
Crop rotation
Dairy farming
Desertification
Domestication
Double cropping
Extensive Agriculture
Famine
Feedlots
Ferrous
Fertile Crescent
Food Security
Fossil Fuel
Geothermal energy
GMOs
Grain
Green Revolution
Horticulture
Hunting & Gathering
Hydroelectric power
Inanimate power
Intensive Subsistence (Non-WR)
Intensive Subsistence (Wet Rice )
Labor Intensive Agriculture
Mechanization
Mediterranean Agriculture
Milkshed
Mixed Crop and Livestock
Nonferrous
Nonrenewable energy
Nuclear Energy
Organic
Pastoral nomadism (Pastoralism)
Pasture
Pesticides and Fertilizers
Planned Agricultural Economies
Unit 6: Industrialization and Development
Agglomeration
Gender-Related Development
Backwash Effect
Index
Basic Industries
Globalization
Break-of-Bulk Point
Gross Domestic Product
Brick and Mortar Business
Gross National Product
Bulk Gaining Industry
Horizontal Integration
Bulk reducing Industry
Human Development Index
Capital Intensive Industry
Industrial Revolution
Conglomerate Corporations
Industrialization
Core-Periphery Model
Labor-intensive Industry
Cottage Industry
LDC
Deglomeration
Maquiladora
Deindustrialization
(export processing zone)
Development
MDC
E-commerce
Non-basic Industries
Ecotourism
(ancillary activities)
Footloose Firms
Non-renewable Resources
Fordism
Offshore financial centers
Foreign Investment
Outsourcing
Gender Empowerment Index
Primary Sector
Plantation
Pollution
Preservation
Ranching
Reaper
Renewable energy
Salinization
Sanitary landfill
Sawah/Paddy
Seed agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
Specialty Crops
Spring Wheat
Subsistence agriculture (farming)
Sustainable development
Swidden
Transhumance
Truck farming
Vegetative planting
Von Thunen
Winter Wheat
Productivity
Purchasing Power Parity
Quaternary Sector
Quinary Sector
Regionalization
Renewable Resources
Rostow’s Stages of Development
Secondary Sector
Site factors
Situation factors
Slow World v. Fast World
Spatially variable v. fixed costs
Sustainable Development
Tertiary Sector
Textile
Trading bloc
Trans-National Corporation
Vertical Integration
Weber’s Least Cost Theory
World Systems Theory
Unit 7: Cities and Urban land Use
Action Spaces
Annexation
Beaux Art
Blockbusting
Business Services
Central Business District
Central Place
Central Place Theory
City Beautiful Movement
Clustered Rural Settlements
Colonial City
Concentric Zone Model
Consumer Services
Density gradient
Dispersed Rural Settlements
Edge Cities
European City
Exurbanite
Feudal City
Filtering
Forward Capital
Gateway City
Gentrification
Ghettoization
Gravity Model
Great Migration
Hinterland
Inner-City decay
Islamic Cities
Latin American Cities
Market Area
Medieval Cities
Megacities
Megalopolis
Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Modern Architecture
Multiple Nuclei Model
New Urbanism
Node
Post-Modern Architecture
Primate City
Primate City Rule
Public Housing
Public Services
Range
Rank-size rule
Sector Model
Segregation
Squatter settlements
Suburb
Threshold
Urban Growth Boundaries
Urban Morphology
Urban Renewal/Revitalization
Urban Sprawl
Urbanization
White Flight
World City
Zoning ordinances