AP Human Geography
Final Exam Review Sheet
Units 5, 6 and 7
Exam Dates:
2nd and 3rd Period Thursday, Dec. 18
4th and 5th Period Friday, Dec. 19
Your exam will cover the following material, but will not be limited to only what is mentioned below.
Unit 5 Agriculture
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Characteristics of each Agricultural Revolution
o First Agricultural Revolution-vegetative planting, seed agriculture, subsistence farming,
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
o Second Agricultural Revolution-corresponds with Industrial Revolution, enclosure
movement, communal farming practices, innovations that improved crop output
o Third Agricultural Revolution-originated in North America; mechanization, chemical
farming with fertilizers and widespread food processing, Green Revolution
Primary Economic Activity
Shifting cultivation (slash and burn, swidden, intertillage) vs. Crop Rotation
Intensive vs. Extensive agriculture
Double-cropping
Transhumance
Commercial farming (agribusiness)
Aquaculture
Biotechnology
GMO
Food crisis
Unit 6 Development and industry
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Developed vs. Developing vs. Less-Developed
Human Development Index
Immanuel Wallerstein Core-Periphery
GEM
GDP
Secondary and Tertiary Economic Activity
Quaternary and Quinary Economic Activity
Specialization, Comparative Advantage and Terms of Trade
Unemployment
Liberal Theory of Development, W.W. Rostow’s Modernization Model
Structuralist Theory of Development
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Basic vs. Non-basic industries
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Fixed costs vs. Variable costs
Time-space compression
Dependency Theory
International division of labor
Laffer Curve and Reaganomics
Agglomeration vs. Deglomeration
Industrial Revolution (Where? Why?
Weber’s Least Cost Theory (bulk-gaining vs. bulk-reducing)
Maquiladoras
NAFTA
Transnational corporations
Footloose industry
Fordist vs. Post-Fordist
Just-in-time Delivery
Planned Obsolescence
Labor intensive
Export Processing Zones
Special Economic Zones
Deindustrialization
Foreign Direct Investment
Vertical Integration
Outsourcing/Offshoring
Hotelling’s Model
Losch’s Model (Zone of Profitability)
Ecotourism
Tragedy of the Commons
Negative vs. Positive Externalities
Coase Theorem
Pigouvian Tax
Acid Rain
Water Crisis (Israel, California, Aral Sea)
Global Warming
The Lorax
Unit 7 Urbanization
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European city model
Gateway city
Walter Christaller Central Place Theory
George Zipf Rank-size Rule
Primate city
Megacity
Overurbanization
Counterurbanization
Asian city model
Sub-Saharan Africa city model
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Latin American city model
Squatter settlements (barriadas, favelas)
Middle East city model
World City
Alpha, Beta, Gamma cities
Central Business District
Zone in transition
Segregation
Enclaves
Ghettos (“The Trap”)
Invasion and succession
Gentrification
Infrastructure problems (Brownfield sities)
Poverty and homelessness
Redlining
Blockbusting
Bazaar
Sprawl
Edge cities
Megalopolis
Boomburbs
Outlying business district
Hoyt Sector Model
Burgess Concentric Zone (Ring) Model
Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model
Peripheral Model
Settlement hierarchy (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis)
Bid-rent Theory
Grid street system
Dendritic pattern
Greenbelt
In-flling
Zoning laws
Entrepot
High tech corridor
Multiplier effect
Hinterland
White flight
Your APHG Final Exam will consist of 65-80 multiple choice questions and counts 15% of your final
average for the class.