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AP Human Geography

AP Human Geography. Course Outline. Geography: 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%

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AP Human Geography

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  1. AP Human Geography

  2. Course Outline Geography: 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%

  3. 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.

  4. What is Geography?

  5. Definitions • Literal 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:

  6. Method vs Perspective • Geographic Method: using geographic information to describe the earth • Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid through which information is interpreted • Example: The Earth at Night

  7. 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?

  8. Earth at Night - Global Scale

  9. North America at Night - Regional Scale Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe

  10. Your State at Night - Local Scale Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif

  11. Geographic Investigation Process • Level 1 - What? Where? When? • Level 2 - Pattern Identification • Level 3 • Why there? • How did it get there? • Level 4 • So what? • What if? • Impacts? Effects?

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