Although you will be expected to know and understand locations on a map, this course takes in a myriad of geographical aspects: population, culture, politics, economics, agriculture, and religion, just to name a few.
AP HUG truly is a “current events” course, and most students find that they leave the course in June much more globally aware than they had been in August.
As the first and only AP HUG teacher (with assistance from Ms. Shangraw) at Dominion High, I have realized that students are often overwhelmed by the vocabulary associated with this course. Therefore, this year the vocabulary will be the focus of the summer assignment.
Attached is a list of most of the words that are pivotal to success in this course. I have come to realize that students who know and understand the vocabulary of the course have a definite advantage over those who don’t on the AP Exam. For example, even if a Free Response Question (FRQ) is unclear, if a student understands the key vocabulary words used in the question, they will be able to write a fairly cohesive answer.
Therefore, your SUMMER ASSIGNMENT is to create a dictionary of the attached 195 words. You should purchase an AP Human Geography study guide for this course, and if you buy it early (one of the larger books store or Amazon.com carries them) you should find most of the definitions contained there. You can also the internet , http://www.studystack.com/APHumanGeography , is one of the better sites,to seek out the explanations of the terms, theories or concepts to define. The dictionary of terms must be hand written.
You can create a notebook of terms, or use index cards as your personal dictionary. The final product should be something that can be used throughout the course as a study guide for both the chapter tests, as well as the AP Exam in May.
This will be worth 100 points, and will be the first recorded grade for you in AP HUG. The summer assignment is due the last class day of the second week of school. Assignments handed in on Zero Day will receive a 5% bonus. Although I’m sure you believe this to be tedious (and it may be), I honestly believe this will be a great way for you to commit some of the extensive vocabulary to memory and become a successful resource for you for the entire course.
My goal for you is to leave this course with a satisfactory grade on the AP exam, as well as becoming more aware of the world around us.
David Snyder
David.Snyder@lcps.org

1. Absolute distance- the distance between 2 places, that can be measured with a standard unit of length, feet, mile, kilometer.
2. Absolute location
3. Accessibility
4. Acculturation
5. Activity space
6. Age Distribution
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7. Agrarian
8. Agribusiness
9. Agricultural density
10. Agricultural Industrialization
11. Agricultural location model
12. Animism
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13. Annexation
14. Anthropocentric
15. Apartheid
16. Arithmetic density
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17. Assimilation

18. Azimuthal projection
19. Balkanization
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20. Biodiversity
21. Bio revolution
22. Biotechnology
23. Blockbusting
24. Brain Drain
25. Bulk Point
26. Buddhism
27. Buffer state
28. Bulk
29. reducing Industry
30. Carrying capacity
31. Cartogram
32. Caste
33. Census Tract
34. Central Business District
35. Central Place Theory
36. Centralization
37. Centrifugal forces

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38. Chain migration
39. Choropleth map
40. Collective farm
41. Commercial Agriculture
42. Compact state
43. Concentric Zone Model
44. Confederation
45. Connectivity
46. Contagious Diffusion
47. Core/Periphery
48. Crop Rotation
49. Cultivation regions
50. Cultural Adaptation
51. Cultural Convergence
52. Cultural Ecology
53. Cultural Identity
54. Cultural landscape
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55. Cultural Realm
56. Cyclic movement

57. Decentralization
58. Demographic equation
59. Demographic momentum
60. Demographic regions
61. Demographic Transition Model
62. Demography
63. Dependency Ratio
64. Dependency theory
65. Development
66. Devolution
67. Diffusion
68. Dispersed Settlement
69. Distance Decay
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70. Doubling Time
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71. Economic base
72. Edge city
73. Emerging cities
74. Enclave/exclave
75. Energy consumption
76. Environmental determinism

77. Epidemiological Transition Model
78. Ethnic Religion
79. Expansion Diffusion
80. Extractive Industry
81. Federalism
82. Food Chain
83. Forced Migration
84. Foreign direct investment
85. Formal Region
86. Fragmented state
87. Franglais
88. Friction of Distance
89. Functional (Nodal)
90. Functional Region
91. Gentrification
92. Geopolitics
93. Geothermal Energy
94. Gerrymander
95. GIS

96. Globalization
97. GPS
98. Gravity model
99. Green Revolution
100. Gross Domestic Product
101. Hajj
102. Hearth
103. Heartland/rimland
104. Hierarchical diffusion
105. Hinduism
106. Human Development Index
107. Immigrant state
108. Infant mortality rate
109. Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
110. Interregional Migration
111. Intervening Opportunity
112. Islam
113. J curve
114. Judaism
115. Less(Least) Developed Country

116. Lingua Franca
117. Literacy Rate
118. Maladaptation
119. Maquiladora
120. Market Gardening
121. Mechanization
122. Mercator projection
123. Metropolitan Statistical area
124. Microstate
125. Monotheism/polytheism
126. More(Most) developed Country
127. Mortality
128. Multinational state
129. Nation state
130. Natural Increase Rate
131. Neo Malthusian
132. Nomadic herding
133. Nucleated Settlement
134. Overpopulation
135. Pandemic

136. Pattern
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137. Perforated State
138. Periphery
139. Peters Projection World Map
140. Physiological density
141. Place Name
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142. Place Utility
143. Planned Economy
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144. Population densities
145. Population distributions
146. Population pyramid
147. Possibilism
148. Primary Sector
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149. Purchasing power
150. Push
151. Pull Factors
152. Quality of Life Index
153. Rate of natural increase
154. Redlining
155. Refugee

156. Relative distance
157. Relative location
158. Religious Culture Hearth
159. Relocation diffusion
160. Rural Settlement
161. Sacred space
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162. Scale
163. S curve
164. Second Agricultural Revolution
165. Secondary Sector
166. Sector Model
167. Secularism
168. Sequence Occupancy
169. Shamanism
170. Sharia law
171. Shifting Cultivation
172. Site
173. Situation
174. Sovereignty
175. Space

176. Spatial Distribution
177. Stages of Growth
178. Standard of living
179. Step Migration
180. Stimulus diffusion
181. Survey Patterns
182. Sustainability
183. Technology gap
184. Technology transfer
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185. Third World
186. Toponym.
187. Topographical map
188. Transmigration
189. Truck Farm
190. Unitary State
191. Urbanization
192. Vernacular Region
193. Voluntary migration
194. World Systems Theory
195. Zero population growth