ap human geography course outline geography: its nature and perspectives 5-10% population: 13-17%...
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AP Human Geography
Course OutlineGeography: Its Nature and Perspectives 5-10%
Population: 13-17%
Cultural Patterns and Processes: 13-17%
Political Organization of Space: 13-17%
Agricultural and Rural Land Use: 13-17%
Industrialization and Economic Development: 13-17%
Cities and Urban Land Use: 13-17%
The Exam
two-hours and 15 minutes
75 multiple choice (60 minutes)
3 essays in free response section (75 minutes- answer all 3 FRQ’s)
Students who score high enough on the exam can receive college credit for taking the course.
What is Geography?
DefinitionsLiteral Definition: a description of the earth
Emmanuel Kant: “History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space.”
Hartshorn: “Geography is the discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man.”
Greenland: “Geography is the study of the distribution and interrelationships of the elements of the human environment and the relationships between humans and the physical environment.”
Your Definition:
Method vs PerspectiveGeographic Method: using geographic information to describe the earth
Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid through which information is interpreted
Example: The Earth at Night
Geographic Investigation Process - 4 Level Analysis
Level 1 - What? Where? When? Scale?
Level 2 - Pattern Identification
Level 3
Why there?
How did it get there?
Level 4 (prediction)So what?
What if?
Impacts? Effects?
Earth at Night - Global Scale
North America at Night - Regional Scale
Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe
Your State at Night - Local Scale
Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif
Geographic Investigation Process
Level 1 - What? Where? When?Level 2 - Pattern IdentificationLevel 3
Why there? How did it get there?
Level 4 So what? What if? Impacts? Effects?