AP Human Geography

Midterm Review Packet Name: ______________________________________

Exam Format: Day 1 – 50 multiple choice questions Day 2 – 2 constructed response questions (CRQs)

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 2  

Unit 1 – Geography Introduction 1. Built landscape

2. Cultural landscape

3. Density

A. Arithmetic

B. Physiological

4. Diffusion

A. Hearth

B. Relocation

C. Expansion

D. Hierarchical

E. Contagious

F. Stimulus

5. Direction

A. Absolute

B. Relative

6. Dispersion/concentration

A. Dispersed/scattered

B. Clustered/agglomerated

7. Distance

A. Absolute

B. Relative

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 3   8. Distortion (map - types)

9. Environmental determinism

10. Geographic Information System (GIS)

11. Global Positioning System (GPS)

12. Grid

A. North and South Poles

B. Latitude

C. Parallel

D. Equator

E. Longitude

F. Meridian

G. Prime meridian

H. International date line

13. Location

A. Absolute

B. Relative

C. Site

D. Situation

E. Place name

14. Map scale

15. Map types

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 4  

A. Thematic

B. Statistical

C. Cartogram

D. Dot

E. Choropleth

F. Isoline

16. Mental map

17. Model

A. Demographic Transition,

B. Epidemiological Transition,

C. Gravity

18. Physical attributes

A. Natural landscape

19. Possibilism

20. Projection

21. Region

A. Formal/uniform

B. Functional/nodal

C. Perceptual/vernacular

22. Remote sensing

23. Scale

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 5   24. Sequent occupance

25. Spatial

26. Spatial interaction

A. Distance decay

B. Friction of distance,

C. Time-space compression

27. Time zones

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 6  

Unit 2 – Population Geography

1. Activity space

2. Age distribution

3. Carrying capacity

4. Chain migration

5. Cohort

6. Cyclic movement

7. Demographic equation

8. Demographic momentum

9. Demographic regions

10. Demographic Transition model

11. Dependency ratio

12. Disease diffusion

13. Distance decay

14. Doubling time

15. Ecumene

16. Epidemiological Transition model

17. Forced migration

18. Gendered space

19. Gravity model

20. Infant mortality rate

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 7   21. Internal migration

22. Intervening opportunity

23. J-curve

24. Malthus, Thomas

25. Migration patterns

A. Intercontinental

B. Interregional

C. Rural-urban

26. Mortality

27. Natality

28. Neo-Malthusian

29. Overpopulation

30. Periodic movement

31. Personal space

32. Population densities

33. Population distributions

34. Population explosion

35. Population projection

36. Population pyramid

37. Push-pull factors

38. Rate of natural increase

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 8   39. Ravenstein, Ernst

40. Refugee

41. S-curve

42. Sex ratio

43. Space-time prism

44. Standard of living

45. Step migration

46. Sustainability

47. Transhumance

48. Underpopulation

49. Voluntary migration

50. Zero population growth

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 9  

Unit 3 – Cultural Geography

1. Acculturation

2. Adaptive strategy

3. Adoption

4. Animism

5. Assimilation

6. Barrio

7. Buddhism

8. Built environment

9. Cargo cult

10. Chain migration

11. Christianity

12. Confucianism

13. Creole

14. Cultural adaptation

15. Cultural adaptation

16. Cultural core/periphery

17. Cultural ecology

18. Cultural identity

19. Cultural landscape

20. Cultural realm

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 10   21. Cultural shatterbelt

22. Culture region

23. Dialect

24. Dowry death

25. Enfranchisement

26. Ethnic cleansing

27. Ethnic conflict

28. Ethnic enclave

29. Ethnic group

30. Ethnic homeland

31. Ethnic landscape

32. Ethnic neighborhood

33. Ethnic religion

34. Ethnicity

35. Ethnocentrism

36. Exclave/enclave

37. Folk and Popular Culture

38. Fundamentalism

39. Gender gap

40. Geomancy (feng shui)

41. Ghetto

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 11   42. Hajj

43. Hinduism

44. Indo-European languages

45. Infanticide

46. Innovation

47. Interfaith boundaries

48. Islam

49. Isogloss

50. Jainism

51. Judaism

52. Landscapes of the dead

53. Language family

54. Language group

55. Language subfamily

56. Lingua franca

57. Linguistic diversity

58. Longevity gap

59. Maladaptive diffusion

60. Material culture

61. Maternal mortality rate

62. Monolingual/multilingual

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 12   63. Monotheism/polytheism

64. Mormonism

65. Muslim population

66. Nonmaterial culture

67. Official language

68. Pidgin

69. Pilgrimage

70. Plural society

71. Proselytic religion

72. Race

73. Reincarnation

74. Religion (groups, places)

75. Religious architectural styles

76. Religious conflict

77. Religious culture hearth

78. Religious toponym

79. Sacred space

80. Secularism

81. Segregation

82. Shamanism

83. Sharia law

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 13   84. Shintoism

85. Sikhism

86. Sunni/Shia

87. Taoism

88. Theocracy

89. Toponymy

90. Universalizing

91. Zoroastrianism

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 14  

Unit 4 – Political Geography

1. Annexation

2. Antarctica

3. Apartheid

4. Balkanization

5. Border landscape

6. Boundary, disputes

A. Definitional

B. Locational

C. Operational

D. Allocational

7. Boundary, origin

A. Antecedent

B. Subsequent

C. Superimposed

D. Relic

8. Boundary, process

A. Definition

B. Delimitation

C. Demarcation

9. Boundary, type

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 15  

A. Natural/physical

B. Ethnographic/cultural

C. Geometric

10. Buffer state

11. Capital

12. Centrifugal

13. Centripetal

14. City-state

15. Colonialism

16. Confederation

17. Conference of Berlin (1884)

18. Core/periphery

19. Decolonization

20. Devolution

21. Domino theory

22. EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)

23. Enclave/exclave

24. Ethnic conflict

25. European Union

26. Federal

27. Forward capital

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 16   28. Frontier

29. Geopolitics

30. Gerrymander

31. Heartland/Rimland

32. Iron Curtain

33. Irredentism

34. Israel/Palestine

35. Landlocked

36. Law of the Sea

37. Lebanon

38. Manifest destiny

39. Median-line principle

40. Microstate

41. Ministate

42. Nation

43. National iconography

44. Nation-state

45. Nunavut

46. Raison d’être

47. Reapportionment

48. Regionalism

AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet   Review Sheet 17   49. Reunification

50. Satellite state

51. Self-determination

52. Shatterbelt

53. Sovereignty

54. State

55. Stateless nation

56. Suffrage

57. Supranationalism

58. Territorial disputes

59. Territorial morphology

A. compact,

B. fragmented,

C. elongated,

D. prorupt,

E. perforated

60. Territoriality

61. Theocracy

62. UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

63. USSR collapse

64. Women’s enfranchisement