Ap Human Geography Course Outline: I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10% of The AP Exam)
Ap Human Geography Course Outline: I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10% of The AP Exam)
Ap Human Geography Course Outline: I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10% of The AP Exam)
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
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or reducing fertility rates in others
5. Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity,
the atmosphere, and climate
6. Population and natural hazards: impacts on policy, economy, and society
C. Migration
1. Types of migration: transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture (e.g.,
transhumance), and rural to urban
2. Major historical migrations
3. Push and pull factors, and migration in relation to employment and quality of life
4. Refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons
5. Consequences of migration: socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and political;
immigration policies, remittances
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Reading & Study Guide response
o Fouberg, Chapter 2: Population and Chapter 3: Migration
Article Reviews:
o Gray Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis, Peter G. Peterson. In Annual Editions:
Geography 02/03, edited by Gerald Pitzl. Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2002.*
o Helping the World’s Poorest, Jeffrey Sachs. In Annual Editions: Geography 02/03, edited
by Gerald Pitzi, 89-90. Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2002.
o Malthus Redux: Is Doomsday upon Us, Again?, Donald G. McNeil, Jr. In Annual Editions:
Geography 10/11, edited by Gerald Pitzi, 141-145. New York City, NY: 2010.
Video:
o World in Balance: The People Paradox
o Power of Place
Migration and Conquest Case Studies
Population, Food Supply, and Energy Development
The Legacy of Colonization Case Studies
Population Geography
Boundaries and Borderlands
Mexico: Motive to Migrate
Other Activities:
o Patterns of Population: Manipulating Population Growth-Predicting the Future
o Choropleth Map construction of World demographic data; Regional analysis based on
data from the current Population Reference Bureau World Data Sheet (activity)
Case Study:
o Migration – Refugees
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Reading & Study Guide Response
o Fouberg, Chapter 4 (Culture), Chapter 5 (Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality),
Chapter 6 (Language), and Chapter 7 (Religion)
Handouts:
o “The Global Mosaic” (handout)
o “ Ethnicity and Race” (handout)
Article Reviews:
o Micro Melting Pots, William H. Frey. In Annual Editions: Geography 02/03, edited by
Gerald Pitzl. Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2002.*
o Modernization’s Challenge to Traditional Values: Who’s Afraid of Ronald McDonald?
By Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker. In Annual Editions: Global Issues 04/05,
edited by Robert M. Jackson. Dubuque, IA: Duskin, 2003.*
Video:
o Frontline Video – “Merchants of Cool”
o Frontline Video – “The Way the Music Died”
o Power of Place #24 – Boston: Ethnic Mosaic
o Power of Place #25 – “Vancouver: Hong Kong East” and “Montreal: An Island of
French”
o Human Geography: People, Places, and Change – “Alaska: The Last Frontier?”
o Power of Place #17 – “Jerusalem: Capital of Two States?”
Case study:
o Ethnic Cleansing; Genocide; Cultural landscapes
IV. Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use (13-17% of the AP Exam)
A. Development and diffusion of agriculture
1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
2. Second Agricultural Revolution
3. Green Revolution
4. Large-scale commercial agriculture and agribusiness
B. Major agricultural production regions
1. Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones
2. Variations within major zones and effects of markets
3. Interdependence among regions of food production and consumption
C. Rural land use and settlement patterns
1. Models of agricultural land use, including von Thünen’s model
2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types: subsistence, cash
cropping, plantation, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism, ranching, forestry,
fishing and aquaculture
3. Land use/land cover change: irrigation, desertification, deforestation, wetland
destruction, conservation efforts to protect or restore natural land cover, and global
impacts
4. Roles of women in agricultural production and farming communities
D. Issues in contemporary commercial agriculture
1. Biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms (GMO)
2. Spatial organization of industrial agriculture, including the transition in land use to
large-scale commercial farming and factors affecting the location of processing
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facilities
3. Environmental issues: soil degradation, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion,
animal wastes, and extensive fertilizer and pesticide use
4. Organic farming, crop rotation, value-added specialty foods, regional appellations, fair
trade, and eat-local-food movements
5. Global food distribution, malnutrition, and famine
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Readings & Study Guide Responses:
o Fouberg, Chapter 11: Agriculture
Article Reviews:
o The New Geopolitics of Food, Lester R. Brown. In Annual Editions: Global Issues
13/14, edited by Robert M. Jackson. New York City, NY: 2014.
Video:
o “Guns, Germs, Steel” – first segment on Agriculture
o Power of Place #24 – “Chicago: Farming on the Edge”
o Power of Place #7 – “Vologda: Russian Farming in Flux”
o Power of Place #16 – “Dikhatpura: Help Through Irrigation”
o Houses and Village Types (power point presentation)
o Commercial Agriculture (power point presentation)
o “The Meatrix”
o “Store Wars”
Exercises:
o “Von Thunen Agricultural Location: Economic Rent” see pg. 65, Student Study Guide,
Human Geography, Landscapes of Human Activities, Fellman & Getis, McGraw-Hill
publishers.
o “Least Cost Theory of Industrial Location” see pg. 74, Student Study Guide, Human
Geography, Landscapes of Human Activities, Fellman & Getis, McGraw-Hill
publishers.
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Reading & Study Guide Response
o Fouberg, Chapter 10 (Development), Chapter 12 (Industry), Chapter 13 (HEI),
Chapter 14 (Globalization)
Article Reviews:
o Helping the World’s Poorest, Jeffrey Sachs. In Annual Editions: Geography 02/03,
edited by Gerald Pitzl. Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2002.*
o The End of Cheap China, The Economist: May 10, 2012.
Handouts:
o “Weber’s Theory of Industrial Location” (handout)
o “Rostow’s Theory of Industrial Development” (handout)
Videos:
o Power of Place #20 – “Gabon: Sustainable Resources?”
o Power of Place #23 – “A Second Chance for Amazonia?”
o Frontline Video – “Wal-Mart’s influence on Bentonville, Arkansas”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
Case Study:
o Globalization
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Reading & Study Guide Response:
o Fouberg, Chapter 9: Urban Geography
Video:
o Power of Place # 4 – “Berlin: United We Stand”
o Power of Place #24 – “Chicago: Farming on the Edge”
o Human Geography: People, Places, and Change – “Berlin: Changing Center of a
Changing Europe”
o Power of Place #12 – “Tokyo: Anatomy of a Mega-City”
o Power of Place #23 – “Sao Paulo: The Outer Ring”
Case Study: Urban Land Use – The Urban Models and how they apply to real cities of today.
(TBD)
REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:
Reading & Study Guide Response
o Fouberg, Chapter 8: Political Geography
Article Reviews:
o Continental Divide, Torsten Wohlert. In Annual Editions: Geography 03/04, edited by
Gerald Pitzl,. Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2003.*
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o The Rise of the Region State, Kenichi Ohmae, In Annual Editions: Geography 03/04,
edited by Gerald Pitzl,.Guilford, CT: Duskin, 2003.*
Handouts:
o “Review of the Political Organization of Space” (handout)
Video:
o Power of Place # 3 – “Slovakia: New Sovereignty” and “Strasbourg: Symbol of a
United Europe”
o “Model Berlin Conference”
o “Hotel Rwanda” (examples)
o “The Nature of Political Boundaries”
o Power of Place # 2 – “Boundaries and Borderlands”
o Power of Place # 4 – East Looks West
o Power of Place #13 – Global Interaction
o Power of Place # 17 – Sacred Space Under Siege
Case Study:
o Terrorism
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