AP Human Geography
Midterm Review Packet
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Exam Format:
Day 1 – 50 multiple choice questions
Day 2 – 2 constructed response questions (CRQs)
AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 2 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 3 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 4 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 24. Sequent occupance
25. Spatial
26. Spatial interaction
A. Distance decay
B. Friction of distance,
C. Time-space compression
27. Time zones
Review Sheet 5 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 6 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 7 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 8 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 9 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 10 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 11 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 12 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 84. Shintoism
85. Sikhism
86. Sunni/Shia
87. Taoism
88. Theocracy
89. Toponymy
90. Universalizing
91. Zoroastrianism
Review Sheet 13 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 14 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 15 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
Review Sheet 16 AP Human Geography Midterm Review Packet 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
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