Curriculum Map 9th grade AP Human Geography
Main Concept
(General terms)
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
Vocabulary
Resources
Term One
Unit One - Introduction to Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Week One
 Purpose of Geography
 Use of Maps: Reference v. Communication
 Map Elements: Scale, Projection, Geographic
Grid
 Technology and Mapping: Remote Sensing, GIS,
GPS
 Sources of Geographical Information: Collection
of Data
Lecture Quiz
Absolute location
Arithmetic density
Cartography
Contagious diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Cultural ecology
Density
Diffusion
Distance-decay
Distribution
Environmental determinism
Week Two
Week Three
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Place: A Unique Location
Location: Toponym, Site, Situation
Regions: A Unique Area
Types of Regions: Formal, Functional,
Vernacular
Scale: From Local to Global
Globalization v. Regionalization
Space: Density, Concentration, Pattern
Connection: Relocation Diffusion, Expansion
Lecture Quiz
Student Activity #1
Equator
Expansion diffusion
Formal region
Functional region
GIS
Globalization
Lecture Quiz
Unit One Multiple Choice
Quiz and FRQ
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GPS
Hearth
Hierarchical diffusion
International Date Line
Latitude
Rubenstein Chapter 1
Diffusion
 Spatial Interaction: Distance Decay, Space-Time
Compression
 Gender Distribution
Longitude
Mental map
Mercator projection
Perceptual region
Physiological density
Possibilism
Prime Meridian
Projection
Region
Relative location
Relocation diffusion
Remote sensing
Robinson projection
Scale
Site
Situation
Stimulus diffusion
Toponym
Vernacular region
Unit Assessment: Multiple Choice Quiz and FRQ
Unit Two – Population and Migration
Week Four
Week Five
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Lecture Quiz
Population Density, Distribution, and Scale
World Patterns of Density
Implications of densities and distributions
Population Growth
Historical Trends and Projections for the
Future
 Measurements of Growth: CBR, CDR, NIR
 Patterns of Fertility and Mortality
 Population Pyramids
Lecture Quiz
FRQ
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agricultural density
arithmetic density
Cairo Conference
carrying capacity
census
crude death rate
crude birth rate
demographic transition
demography
dependency ratio
doubling time
ecumene/non-ecumene
epidemiological transition
infant mortality rate
Rubenstein Chapter 2 & 3
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
 Influences on Population Growth
 Models on Population Growth: Demographic
Transition Model, Thomas Malthus and NeoMalthus
 Regional Variations of Population Growth
 National Population Policies
 Patterns of Health
 Epidemiological Transition Model
 Measurement of Countries Health: Infant
Mortality Rate, Life expectancy
 Environmental Impacts of Population Change
 Impact of Natural Hazards: Policy, Economy,
and Society
 Definition and Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
 Types of Migration: Transnational, internal,
chain, step, seasonal agricultural, and rural to
urban
 Historical Patterns in U.S.
 Interregional and Intraregional Patterns
 Push v. Pull Factors (Political, Economic, and
Environmental)
 Obstacles and Consequences of Immigration:
Socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and
political
 Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally
Displaced Persons
Lecture Quiz
Student Activity #2
Lecture Quiz
Population Multiple
Choice Quiz
Lecture Quiz
FRQ
Lecture Quiz
Migration Multiple Choice
Unit Two Final Test
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J-curve
life expectancy
Malthus, Thomas
natalism (pro- and anti-)
natural increase rate
Neo-malthusians
Overpopulation/underpopulation
physiological density
population agglomerations
population pyramid
replacement fertility
S-curve
sex ratio
total fertility rate
zero population growth
brain drain/gain
chain migration (migration ladder)
distance decay
emigration/immigration
forced/voluntary migration
gravity model
guest worker
internal migration
international migration
intervening obstacle/opportunity
migration transition
migration stream
migration selectivity
mobility
net migration
push/pull factors
Ravenstein’s Laws
refugee
step migration
time-contract workers
transhumance
urbanization/suburbanization/
counterurbanization
Term Two
Unit Three: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Week One
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Concepts of Culture
Folk(Indigenous) and Popular Culture
Distribution & Diffusion Patterns
Acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism
Access and Inequality to Folk and Popular
Culture
Sustainability Challenges: Globalization and the
effects of technology on cultures
Classification of Languages
Origin and Distribution of Language Families
Languages v. Dialects
Language Diversity and Global Dominance of
English
Distribution of Religions
Branches of Universalizing Religions
Ethnic Religions
Week Two
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Week Four
 Sacred Spaces and creation of cultural
landscapes in Religions
 Administration of Space
 Territorial Conflicts: Religion v. Government
and Religion v. Religion
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Culture and Language
Multiple Choice Quiz
Lecture Quiz
FRQ
Lecture Quiz
Student Activity #3
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accent
acculturation
animism
artifact
assimilation
bilingual
branch
built environment
cultural landscape
culture
custom
dialect
Esperanto
Ethnic religion
Extinct language
folk culture
fundamentalism
habit
hearth
hierarchical diffusion
hierarchical religion
ideogram
isogloss
isolated language
language branch
language family
language group
lingua franca
material culture
monolingual
monotheism
Rubenstein: Chapter 4
Rubenstein: Chapter 5
Rubenstein: Chapter 6
Week Five
Week Six
 Ethnic Distributions
 Migration and Segregation of Ethnic Groups
 Conflict among Ethnicities: Ethnicities and
Nationalities, Ethnic Competition, Dividing
Ethnicities
 Cultural differences in attitudes towards gender
 Government and Culture: Laws and Policies
 Differences in cultural attitudes and practices
toward the environment
 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Religion and Ethnicity
Multiple Choice Quiz
multilingual
official language
pidgin
pilgrimage
polytheistic religion
popular culture
relocation diffusion
sect
secularism
standard language
syncretism
taboo
terroir
toponym
universalizing religion
vernacular
Rubenstein: Chapter 7
Unit Four: Political Organization of Space
Week Seven
 Defining of State concept
 Concepts of Political Power and Territoriality
 Evolution of State concept: Changing nature of
sovereignty
 Types of States: Federal & Unitary States,
Confederations, Centralized government
 Political Ecology
Week Eight
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Nation-States and Multinational States
Colonialism and Imperialism
Democratization
Patterns of local, regional, and metropolitan
governance
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Basics of Political
Geography Quiz
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Apartheid
Balance of power
Balkanization
Berlin Conference
Blockbusting
Border
Boundary
Buffer state
Centrifugal force
Centripetal force
City-state
Colonialism
Compact state
Devolution
Elongated state
Enclave/exclave
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnicity
Federal state
Fragmented state
Gerrymander
Heartland/Rimland theory
Rubenstein Chapter 8
 Spatial relationships between political systems
and patterns of ethnicity, economy and gender
Week Nine
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Review Semester Content
Imperialism
International organization
Irredentism
Landlocked
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Microstate/ministate
Multi-ethnic state
Multinational state
Nationalism
Nationality
Nation-state
Perforated state
Prorupted state
Race
Racism
Self-determination
Sovereignty
State
Stateless nation
Supranationalism
Territorial waters
Unitary state
United Nations
Term Two Assessment
Term 3
Week One
Week Two
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Nature, Meaning, and Function of Boundaries
Influence of Boundaries
Shapes of States
Governing States
Electoral Government: Redistricting and
gerrymandering
 Patterns of local, region
 State Cooperation and Competition
 Fall of Communism and legacy of the Cold
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Student Activity #4
Boundaries, Alliances, and
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Rubenstein Chapter 8
War
 Armed Conflict, War, & Terrorism
 Fragmentation, unification, and cooperation
 Supranationalism and international alliances
Conflict Quiz
Unit Five: Development Theories
Week Three
Week Four
 Patterns of Development among countries
 Measurement and Analysis of Human
Development Index & Gender Inequity Index
 GDP
 Income Disparity and the Gini Coefficient
 Development and influences in fertility and
mortality, access to health care, education,
utilities, and sanitation
 Economic Activities: Primary, Secondary,
Tertiary, and Quaternary
 Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth
 Wallerstein’s World System Theory
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Agricultural labor force
Calorie consumption
Core-periphery model
Cultural convergence
Dependency theory
Development
Energy consumption
Foreign direct investment
Gender
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Gross national product (GNP)
Human Development Index
Levels of development
Measures of development
Neocolonialism
Physical Quality of Life Index
Purchasing power parity
Rostow, W. W.
“Stages of Growth” model
Technology gap
Technology transfer
Third World
World Systems Theory
Rubenstein Chapter 9
Unit Six: Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use
Week Five
 Development and Diffusion of Agriculture
 Agricultural Revolutions: First (Domestication),
Second (Mechanization), Green
 Subsidence v. Commercial Agriculture
 Distribution of Major Agricultural Production
regions
Lecture Quiz
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Adaptive strategies
Agrarian
Agribusiness
Agricultural industrialization
Agricultural landscape
Agricultural location model
Agricultural origins
Agriculture
Animal domestication
Rubenstein Chapter 10
Week Six
Week Seven
 Influence of bioclimatic zones & markets
 Interdependence of production and
consumption
 Von Thunen’s model of Agricultural Land Use
 Settlement Patterns associated with Major
Agricultural Types: Subsistence, cash cropping,
plantation, mixed farming, monoculture,
pastoralism, ranching, forestry, fishing, and
aquaculture
 Land use/Land cover change: Irrigation,
desertification, deforestation, wetland
destruction, conservation
 Roles of Women in agricultural production and
farming communities
 Issues in Agriculture
 Biotechnology
 Spatial Organization of Industrial agriculture
 Agriculture and the Environment
 Global food distribution and inequality of
access
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Agriculture Multiple
Choice Quiz
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Aquaculture
Biorevolution
Biotechnology
Collective farm
Commercial agriculture (intensive, extensive)
Core/periphery
Crop rotation
Cultivation regions
Dairying
Debt-for-nature swap
Diffusion
Double cropping
Economic activity (primary, secondary,
tertiary, quaternary, quinary)
Environmental modification (pesticides, soil
erosion, desertification)
Extensive subsistence agriculture (shifting
cultivation [slash-and- burn, milpa, swidden],
nomadic herding/pastoralism)
Extractive industry
Farm crisis
Farming
Feedlot
First agricultural revolution
Fishing
Food chain
Forestry
Globalized agriculture
Green revolution
Growing season
Hunting and gathering
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Intertillage
Livestock ranching
Market gardening
Mediterranean agriculture
Mineral fuels
Mining
Planned economy
Plant domestication
Plantation agriculture
Renewable/nonrenewable
Sauer, Carl O.
Second agricultural revolution
Specialization
Staple grains
Suitcase farm
Survey patterns (long lots, metes and bounds,
township-and-range)
Sustainable yield
Third agricultural revolution (mechanization,
chemical farming, food manufacturing)
“Tragedy of the commons”
Transhumance
Truck farm
Von Thünen, Johann Heinrich
Unit Seven: Industrialization and Economic Development
Week Eight
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Week Nine
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Lecture Quiz
Growth and Diffusion of Industrialization
Industrial Revolution
Identification of Industrial Regions
Influence of Situation and Site Factors
Geographic Critiques of Models of Industrial
Location
Distribution and spatial organization of the
world economy
Uneven development: Globalization, NICs,
International division of labor
Changes in Industries: Deindustrialization,
economic restructuring, rise of tertiary and
quaternary economies
Industry and Environment: Natural resource
depletion, pollution, and climate change
Industry and Government: Development
Lecture Quiz
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Acid rain
Agglomeration
Agglomeration economies
Air pollution
Aluminum industry (factors of production,
location)
Assembly line production/Fordism
Bid rent theory
Break-of-bulk point
Canadian industrial heartland
Carrier efficiency
Comparative advantage
Cumulative causation
Deglomeration
Deindustrialization
Economic sectors
Economies of scale
Ecotourism
Energy resources
Entrepôt
Export processing zone
Fixed costs
Footloose industry
Four Tigers
Greenhouse effect
Growth poles
Heartland/rimland
Rubenstein Chapter 11
initiatives
 Industry and Women: Gender Equity in
workforce
Industrial location theory
Industrial regions (place, fuel source,
characteristics)
Industrial Revolution
Industry (receding, growing)
Infrastructure
International division of labor
Labor-intensive
Least-cost location
Major manufacturing regions
Manufacturing exports
Manufacturing/warehouse location (industrial
parks, agglomeration, shared services, zoning,
transportation, taxes, environmental
considerations)
Maquiladora
Market orientation
Multiplier effect
NAFTA
Outsourcing
Ozone depletion
Plant location (supplies, “just in time”
delivery)
Postindustrial
Refrigeration
Resource crisis
Resource orientation
Special economic zones (China)
Specialized economic zones
Substitution principle
Threshold/range
Time-space compression
Topocide
Trade (complementarity)
Transnational corporation
Ubiquitous
Variable costs
Weber, Alfred
Weight-gaining
Weight-losing
World cities
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Term 4
Unit Eight: Cities and Urban Land Use
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
 Origins of Cities
 Location and Identification of World Cities and
megacities
 Forces driving urbanization and
suburbanization
 Borchet’s epochs of urban transportation
development
 Models of Urban hierarchies: Gravity model,
Chistaller’s central place theory, rank-size rule,
primate cities
 Models of internal city structure: Burgess
concentric zone model, Hoyt sector model,
Harris and Ullman Multiple nuclei model,
Galactic city model
 Models of Cities in Latin America, North Africa
and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, East
Asia, and South Asia
 Environment and Social Space
 Types of residential buildings
 Transportation and utility infrastructure
 Influence of Urban planning and design
 Characteristics of edge cities: Boomburgs,
greenfields, uptowns
 Housing and insurance discrimination
 Access to Food Stores (Urban Deserts)
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
Lecture Quiz
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Agglomeration
Barriadas
Bid-rent theory
Blockbusting
CBD (central business district)
Census tract
Centrality
Centralization
Central-place theory
Christaller, Walter
City
Cityscapes
Colonial city
Commercialization
Commuter zone
Concentric zone model
Counterurbanization
Decentralization
Deindustrialization
Early cities
Economic base (basic/nonbasic)
Edge city
Emerging cities
Employment structure
Entrepôt
Ethnic neighborhood
Favela
Female-headed household
Festival landscape
Gateway city
Gender
Gentrification
Ghetto
Globalization
Great cities
High-tech corridors
Hinterland
Hydraulic civilization
Indigenous city
In-filling
Rubenstein Chapter 12 13
 Uneven development, Zones of Abandonment,
disamenity and gentrification
 Suburban sprawl and urban sustainability
problems
 Urban and the Environment: Transportation,
sanitation, air and water quality, remediation
of brownfields, farmland protection
Informal sector
Infrastructure
Inner city
Invasion and succession
Lateral commuting
Medieval cities
Megacities
Megalopolis/conurbation
Metropolitan area
Multiple nuclei model
Multiplier effect
Neighborhood
Office park
Peak land value intersection
Planned communities
Postindustrial city
Postmodern urban landscape
Primate city
Racial steering
Rank-size rule
Redlining
Restrictive covenants
Sector model
Segregation
Settlement form (nucleated, dispersed,
elongated)
Shopping mall
Site/situation
Slum
Social structure
Specialization
Squatter settlement
Street pattern (grid, dendritic; access, control)
Suburb
Suburbanization
Symbolic landscape
Tenement
Threshold/range
Town
Underclass
Underemployment
Urban growth rate
Urban function
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Urban hearth area
Urban heat island
Urban hierarchy
Urban hydrology
Urban morphology
Urbanization
Urbanized population
World city
Zone in transition
Zoning
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
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Review for AP Exam
Review for AP Exam
Application of Geography Project
Application of Geography Project
Week Nine
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Wrap up School Year
AP Exam
End of Year Geography
Project
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