AP Human Geography
Unit 2 Syllabus
Population (13-17%)
Rubenstein Chapter 2: Population
Rubenstein Chapter 3: Migration
Date
September 8th
September 9th
September 10th
September 11th
September 14th
September 15th
September 16th
September 17th
September 18th
Class Activities
Go Over Test
Population
Demographic Data Collection &
Analysis
North America & US States Map
Quiz on Key Issues 2.1-2.3
Population Continued
Overpopulation
Quiz on North America and US
States
Jigsaw Population Articles
FRQ Practice
Continue FRQ Practice
Push/Pull Factors
Caribbean Islands
Quiz on Key Issue 3.1
Review Population
Introduction to Migration
Historical Migration Patterns
Latino Immigration to North
Carolina
Quiz Caribbean Islands
Migration Within A Country
September 21st
FRQ - Practice
September 22nd
Test Unit 2
Multiple Choice and 1 FRQ
Homework
Read Key Issue 2.1 & 2.2
Read Key Issue 2.3
Read Key Issue 2.4
Study for 50 states quiz
Population Definitions due
Thursday
Read Key Issue 3.1
Study Quiz on Caribbean
Islands
Read Key Issue 3.2
Read Key Issue 3.3
Read Key Issue 3.4
Migration Vocabulary and
Unit Questions
Read Key Issue 4.1 & 4.2
* 2.3 = Chapter 2, Key Issue 3
* LATE WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. Please plan accordingly.
Essential Questions:
1. Where is the world’s population distributed?
2. Where has the world’s population increased?
3. Why is population increasing at different rates in different countries?
4. Why might the world face an overpopulation problem?
5. Why do people migrate?
6. Where are migrants distributed?
7. Why do migrants face obstacles?
8. Why do people migrate within a country?
What should you know, understand, and be able to do at the end of this unit?
1. Analyze population from a geographic perspective using various data sets
2. Trace an evaluate population growth and decline over time and space
3. Apply Mathematical formulas, models, and qualitative data to geographical concepts
4. Identify and evaluate population movements and their impact on the landscape and in
creating public policy, economic policy, and other elements of life.
II. Population (13-17%)
Geographical analysis of population
Density, distribution, and scale
Consequences of various densities and distributions
Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, and ethnicity
Population and natural hazards: past, present, and future
Population growth and decline over time and space
Historical trends and projections for the future
Theories of population growth, including the Demographic Model
Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health
Regional variations of demographic transitions
Effects of population policies
Population movement
Push and pull factors
Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales
Migration selectivity
Short-term, local movements, and activity space
At the end of this unit you should have:
- Read Chapter 2 in your textbook
- Read Chapter 3 in your textbook
- defined the vocabulary for Unit 2 on index cards
- completed unit review questions
- learned the location of the 50 U.S. states
- learned the location of modern North American countries & some Caribbean
Islands
Unit 2 Vocabulary: For each vocabulary term write the definition and either give the
significance or an example. This should be done on index cards.
Population Terms
1. agricultural density
2. agricultural revolution
3. arable land
4. arithmetic population density
5. carrying capacity
6. census
7. crude birth rate
8. crude death rate
9. demographic transition theory
10. demography
11. density
12. dependency ratio
13. dot maps
14. doubling rate (time)
15. ecumene
16. endemic
17. epidemiologic transition (mortality
revolution)
18. ethnicity
19. exponential growth
20. female infanticide
21. geometric rate
22. infant mortality rate
23. linear growth
24. medical revolution
25. natural increase
26. neo-Malthusians
27. one child policy
28. overpopulation
29. pandemic
30. physiologic population density
31. population concentrations
32. population explosion
33. population geography
34. population pyramid
35. race
36. restrictive population policies
37. stationary population level
38. Thomas Malthus
39. total fertility rate
40. zero population growth
Migration Terms
1. activity space
2. awareness space
3. brain drain
4. chain migration
5. circulation
6. counterurbanization
7. critical distance
8. dislocation
9. distance decay
10. emigration v. immigration
11. forced migration
12. gravity model
13. guest workers
14. in-migration v. out-migration
15. internal migration
16. inter-regional migration
17. intervening obstacles
18. intervening opportunity
19. intra-regional migration
20. migration
21. migration selectivity
22. migration transition
23. mobility
24. net-migration rate
25. pull factors
26. push factors
27. quotas
28. refugees
29. space-time prism
30. spatial interaction
31. step migration
32. voluntary migration
Review Questions for Unit 2: Answer questions 1-5 in complete sentences. Due the
day of the test!!
1. What tools do demographers use to study population structures and establish patterns?
2. How does “distance decay” and “intervening opportunity” impact migration?
3. Explain the contributions of John Snow, Thomas Malthus, and Ernst Ravenstein to population
geography.
4. How does medical geography relate to the study of human geography? What impact has improved
health care had on population (age-sex) pyramids over the last century?
5. Compare and contrast each of the following patterns of human movement. Support your analysis
with historic and current examples.
a) voluntary and forced migrations
b) cyclic and periodic movement
c) immigration and emigration
d) push and pull factors
Now let’s think about Population and Migration in terms of the five themes of Human
Geography! These are study questions. You should be able to answer them but they are not due
in written form to me.
1. Regions
a. What are the main regions of population in the world?
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b. What regions are growing the fastest, slowest?
c. How does population affect MDC’s and LDC’s?
d. Why do fertility and mortality rates vary from region to region and sometimes within
regions?
e. How does the Demographic Transition regionalize population growth?
f. How is gender broken into regions?
g. How is age broken into regions?
Mobility
a. What are push pull factors that cause people to migrate?
b. How does disease affect population growth and decline?
c. How does disease move through a population?
d. How can disease be stopped?
Globalization
a. Overpopulation
b. What have been the trends in population growth since the Neolithic Revolution?
c. What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on population growth?
d. What are pro and anti-natalist policies? How have these policies impacted
population? Cite examples.
Nature-Culture
a. How does the environment influence population growth? Give examples
b. How does the environment influence migration? Give examples
c. Explain the relationship between population growth in relation to natural hazards
Cultural Landscape
a. How are demographics expressed in the landscape around us?
i. Rural settlement patterns
ii. Politics and economic influence
iii. Gender influence