AP Human Geography
UNIT 1 Syllabus
Unit 1 –
Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Monday August 25th – Friday September 18 (17 class days)
Unit Project Friday, September 14th
FRQs
Wednesday, September 17th
MCQs
Thursday, September 18th
Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10% of AP Exam)
A.
Geography as a field of inquiry
B.
Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective:
location, space, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization,
globalization, and gender issues
C.
Key geographical skills
1.
How to use and think about maps and geospatial data
2.
How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among
phenomena in places
3.
How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships
among patterns and processes
4.
How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
5.
How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
D.
Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global
positioning systems (GPS), and online maps
E.
Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data,
online data, aerial photography, and satellite imagery
F.
Identification of major world regions
IF YOU LEARN ONLY FIVE THINGS IN THIS CHAPTER:
1) The Greeks were the first society to introduce geography as a subject. Eratosthenes is credited with
being the first person to use the word geography, geo meaning “Earth” and graph “to write”.
2) The five themes of geography allow geographers to make each place unique (location) and to tie them
together (region).
3) Diffusion is the spread or movement of a principle or phenomenon. Relocation, expansion, contagious,
stimulus, and hierarchical diffusion are means by which an idea or phenomenon spreads.
4) There are three types of regions: Formal, functional, and perceptual or vernacular.
5) There are three main aspects of distribution: Density, concentration, and patterns. All are used to assist
in determining spatial characteristics on the landscape.
In-Class Activity
Due This Day
Assigned
Reading
Getis 81-84,
90-96
Getis 99113;
Fouberg 816
Monday,
August 24th,
2015
Tuesday,
August 25,
2015
Wednesday,
August 26,
2015
Thursday,
August 27,
2015
Day 1
Blue Cards & Handout Syllabus
Day 2
Summer Reading Quiz/Laptop Introduction
Day 3
Guest Speaker
Day 4
How To/Clicker Check
Getis 81-84, 9096
Friday,
August 28,
2015
Day 5
Notecards
Monday,
August 31,
2015
Tuesday,
September 01,
2015
Wednesday,
September 02,
2015
Thursday,
September 03,
2015
Friday,
September 04,
2015
Monday,
September 07,
2015
Tuesday,
September 08,
2015
Day 6
Vocabulary Quiz: Weather, climate, jet
streams, monsoon, North Atlantic Drift,
Precipitation, relative humidity,
Convectional precipitation, orographic
precipitation, cyclonic precipitation, and
air masses.
Climate Regions: Lecture
Day 7
Physical Geography/Clicker Check
Getis 99-113;
Fouberg 8-16
Fouberg 1625, Getis 615
Day 8
Basic Geographic Skills
Day 9
Clicker Check/Introduction to Human
Geography
Fouberg 16-25,
Getis 6-15
Getis 21-34
Fouberg 2635
Day 10
Vocab Quiz
Notecards
Clicker Check
Getis 21-34
Fouberg 26-35
Fouberg A-1
thru A-9,
Getis A-1
thru A-7
Clicker Check
Fouberg A-1
thru A-9, Getis
A-1 thru A-7
Getis 35-47
Day 11
Day 12
Wednesday,
Day 13
September 09,
2015
Thursday,
Day 14
September 10,
2015
Friday,
September 11,
2015
Monday,
September 14,
2015
Tuesday,
September 15,
2015
Wednesday,
September 16,
2015
Thursday,
September 17,
2015
Friday,
September 18,
2015
Monday,
September 21,
2015
Tuesday,
September 22,
2015
Wednesday,
September 23,
2015
Thursday,
September 24,
2015
Friday,
September 25,
2015
Monday,
September 28,
2015
Tuesday,
September 29,
2015
Day 15
Vocab Quiz
Notecards
Clicker Check
Getis 35-47
Vocab Quiz
Notecards
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Day 25
Unit 1 Project
Due by 8:30
A.M.
Day 26
FRQ Test
Day 27
MCT Test
Key Terms*
*YOU are responsible for all bolded terms in the text for each reading section. Just because a term does not
appear below does NOT mean it will not appear on the weekly quiz.
Absolute direction
Absolute distance
Absolute location
Accessibility
Activity Spaces
Area Analysis Tradition
Area Cartogram (value-by-area
map)
Azimuthal Projections
Cartography
Chropleth Map
Climatic Regions
Conformal Projections
Connectivity
Contour interval
Contour line
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Landscape
Culture-Environment Tradition
Distance
Earth Science Tradition
Environmental Determinism
Epidemic
Equal area (equivalent projections)
Equidistant Projections
Five Themes
Flow-Line maps
Formal Region
Functional (nodal) region
Geocaching
Geographic Database
Geographic Grid
Geographic Information System
(GIS)
Gernalized Map
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Globalization
Globe Properties
Human Environment
Human Geography
International Date Line
Isoline
Isotherms
Koppen Climate Classification
System
Landsat Satellites
Landscape
Latitude
Location
Location Theory
Locational Tradition
Longitude
Map Projection
Medical Geography
Mental Maps
Movement
Natural Landscape
Pandemic
Pattern
Perceptions of places
Perceptual (vernacular/popular)
region
Perceptual regions
Place
Possibilism
Prime Meridian
Reference Maps
Region
Regions
Relative direction
Relative Distance
Relative location
Remote Sensing
Rescale
Scale
Sense of Place
Sequent Occupancy
Site
Situation
Spatial
Spatial Diffusion
Spatial distribution
Spatial interaction
Spatial Perspective
Thematic Maps
Topographic Maps