AP HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
MIDTERM REVIEW
JEORPARDY!
Geography
100
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500
Culture
100
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300
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500
Religion Population
100
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Pot Luck
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100
• The hearth city of Islam, where
every Muslim must visit once on
pilgrimage.
• What is Mecca?*
• Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept / Decline???
• In what present day country is Mecca
located?
• What is Saudi Arabia?
200
• DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
• A region defined by the
movements and interactions
of those people and places
within it.
• What is a Functional / Nodal
Region?
300
• Name for a Perceived Region
of declining Industrial States
in the N East USA whose
population is currently
declining.
• What is the Rust Belt?
400
• The two countries that
connect North and South
America.
• What are Panama and
Colombia?
500
• Name the 5 states bordering
the USA state of Illinois.
• What are Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Kentucky,
Indiana?
100
•Saying RE-search in the USA
compared to re-SEARCH in
England, illustrates what
concept of language?
•What is DIALECT?
200
•This term describes
successive cultures leaving
their mark on the cultural
landscape.
•What is Sequent
Occupance?
300
•This type of diffusion describes
that which spreads through a
population, but only to those
who are susceptible to being
affected by it.
•What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
400
•A basic / limited language,
derived from the languages of
various groups that have
come in contact with each
other.
•What is a PIDGIN language?
500
• Argument stating that human
development is controlled by
natural / physical influences.
• What is ENVIRONMENTAL
DETERMINISM?*
• Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept / Decline?
• What makes it possible for humans
overcome these natural / physical influences
and control their own developmental fate?
• What is INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY?
100
• The dominant religion of
the Middle East and North
Africa.
• What is Islam?
200
• DAILY DOUBLE!!!
• The ideology of Jewish faith
that they should remain an
independent and united nation
throughout efforts to obtain a
homeland Jewish State.
• What is ZIONISM?
300
• Within Indian Hindu
society, this is the rigid
social structure of class
segregation.
• What is the Caste
System?
400
• In the city of Belfast, in N. Ireland,
Catholics have settled in one area
of the city, and Protestants in
another. This has produced what
type of cultural boundary.
• What is a Religious INTRA-FAITH
BOUNDARY?
500
• Name the 5 Pillars of
Islam?
• What are:
Witnessing (One True God)
Daily Prayer
Fasting during Ramadan
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Charity to the Poor
100
• A Forced Migration
designates those affected as
being classified as what?
• What are Refugees?
200
• How a government would
most likely cause its
country’s population to
decline.
• What are restrictions on
immigration levels or fertility
levels?
300
• DAILY DOUBLE!!!
• Term that means part of one state
separated / isolated from the main
body by a foreign state.
• What is an Exclave?*
• Bonus 100 pt. Q!!! Accept / Decline?
• Though separated from the main state,
what CANNOT be an Exclave?
• What is an ISLAND?
400
• The basic assumption
behind Malthusian
Population Theory.
• What is population increases more
rapidly (exponentially) than food
supplies needed to support it
(arithmetically)?
500
•This concept explains the number
of those whose work supports
young and old populations as they
cannot work to support
themselves.
•What is the Dependency Ratio?
100
• This type of “map” guides
individual spatial
behavior.
• What is a Mental
(Cognitive) Map?
200
• This term describes the
rehabilitation of a depressed &
dilapidated area through
investment, rebuilding, and
price rising, often forcing out
the existing population.
• What is GENTRIFICATION?
300
• This term describes a
movement to a destination
being interrupted by a
factor in a different
destination along the way.
• What is an INTERVENING
OPPORTUNITY?
400
• The fact that Mr. Lane
knows more about, and
interacts more with
Chicago than Los Angeles
illustrates this concept.
• What is DISTANCE
DECAY?
500
• It taking Mr. Lane 25 minutes
and a dollar in gas to
commute to and from work
each day illustrates what
concept?
• What is Relative Distance?