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Curriculum Map 9th grade AP Human Geography

1 Main Concept Assessments Vocabulary Resources (General terms) Standards/Objectives Term One

Unit One - Introduction to Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives Week  Purpose of Geography Lecture Quiz Absolute location Rubenstein One Arithmetic density Chapter 1  Use of Maps: Reference v. Cartography Communication Contagious diffusion  Map Elements: Scale, Contagious diffusion Projection, Geographic Grid Cultural ecology Density  Technology and Mapping: Diffusion Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS Distance-decay  Sources of Geographical Distribution Information: Collection of Data Environmental determinism Equator Expansion diffusion Week  Place: A Unique Location Lecture Quiz Formal region Two  Location: Toponym, Site, Student Activity Functional region Situation #1 GIS  Regions: A Unique Area Globalization GPS  Types of Regions: Formal, Hearth Functional, Vernacular Hierarchical diffusion Week  Scale: From Local to Global Lecture Quiz International Date Line Three  Unit One Latitude Globalization v. Longitude Regionalization Multiple Choice Mental map  Space: Density, Concentration, Quiz and FRQ Mercator projection Pattern Perceptual region

2  Connection: Relocation Physiological density Possibilism Diffusion, Expansion Diffusion Prime Meridian  Spatial Interaction: Distance Projection Decay, Space-Time Region Compression Relative location  Gender Distribution Relocation diffusion Remote sensing Robinson projection Scale Site Situation Stimulus diffusion Toponym Vernacular region

Unit Assessment: Multiple Choice Quiz and FRQ Unit Two – Population and Migration Week  Population Density, Lecture Quiz agricultural density Rubenstein Chapter arithmetic density 2 & 3 Four Distribution, and Scale Cairo Conference carrying capacity  World Patterns of Density census  Implications of densities and crude death rate crude birth rate distributions demographic transition demography Week  Population Growth Lecture Quiz dependency ratio Five  Historical Trends and FRQ doubling time ecumene/non-ecumene Projections for the Future epidemiological transition infant mortality rate  Measurements of Growth: J-curve CBR, CDR, NIR life expectancy Malthus, Thomas  Patterns of Fertility and natalism (pro- and anti-) Mortality natural increase rate Neo-malthusians  Population Pyramids Overpopulation/underpopulati

3 on  Influences on Population physiological density Growth population agglomerations population pyramid Week  Models on Population Growth: Lecture Quiz replacement fertility Six Demographic Transition Student Activity S-curve sex ratio Model, Thomas Malthus and #2 total fertility rate Neo-Malthus zero population growth  Regional Variations of Population Growth  National Population Policies Week  Patterns of Health Lecture Quiz Seven  Epidemiological Transition Population Model Multiple Choice  Measurement of Countries Quiz Health: Infant Mortality Rate, Life expectancy  Environmental Impacts of Population Change  Impact of Natural Hazards: Policy, Economy, and Society Week Lecture Quiz brain drain/gain  Definition and Ravenstein’s chain migration (migration Eight Laws of Migration FRQ ladder) distance decay  Types of Migration: emigration/immigration Transnational, internal, chain, forced/voluntary migration gravity model step, seasonal agricultural, guest worker and rural to urban internal migration international migration  Historical Patterns in U.S. intervening obstacle/opportunity  Interregional and Intraregional migration transition Patterns migration stream

4 Week Lecture Quiz migration selectivity  Push v. Pull Factors (Political, mobility Nine Economic, and Environmental) Migration net migration push/pull factors  Obstacles and Consequences Multiple Choice Ravenstein’s Laws of Immigration: Unit Two Final refugee step migration Socioeconomic, cultural, Test time-contract workers environmental, and political transhumance urbanization/suburbanization/  Refugees, Asylum Seekers and counterurbanization Internally Displaced Persons

Term Two Unit Three: Cultural Patterns and Processes Week  Concepts of Culture Lecture Quiz accent Rubenstein: acculturation Chapter 4 One  Folk(Indigenous) and Popular animism Culture artifact assimilation  Distribution & Diffusion bilingual Patterns branch  Acculturation, assimilation, built environment cultural landscape and multiculturalism culture  Access and Inequality to Folk custom dialect and Popular Culture Esperanto  Sustainability Challenges: Ethnic religion Globalization and the effects Extinct language folk culture of technology on cultures fundamentalism Week  Classification of Languages Lecture Quiz habit Rubenstein: hearth Chapter 5 Two  Origin and Distribution of Culture and hierarchical diffusion Language Families Language hierarchical religion

5  Languages v. Dialects Multiple Choice ideogram isogloss  Language Diversity and Global Quiz isolated language Dominance of English language branch language family Rubenstein: Week  Distribution of Religions Lecture Quiz language group Chapter 6 Three  Branches of Universalizing FRQ lingua franca material culture Religions monolingual  Ethnic Religions monotheism multilingual official language Week  Sacred Spaces and creation of Lecture Quiz pidgin Four cultural landscapes in Student Activity pilgrimage #3 polytheistic religion Religions popular culture  Administration of Space relocation diffusion  Territorial Conflicts: Religion v. sect secularism Government and Religion v. standard language Religion syncretism Week  Ethnic Distributions Lecture Quiz taboo Rubenstein: terroir Chapter 7 Five  Migration and Segregation of toponym Ethnic Groups universalizing religion vernacular  Conflict among Ethnicities: Ethnicities and Nationalities, Ethnic Competition, Dividing Ethnicities Week  Cultural differences in Lecture Quiz Six attitudes towards gender Religion and  Government and Culture: Laws Ethnicity and Policies Multiple Choice  Differences in cultural Quiz attitudes and practices toward

6 the environment  Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Unit Four: Political Organization of Space Week Lecture Quiz Apartheid Rubenstein  Defining of State concept Balance of power Seven  Concepts of Political Power Balkanization Chapter 8 Berlin Conference and Territoriality Blockbusting  Evolution of State concept: Border Boundary Changing nature of Buffer state Centrifugal force sovereignty Centripetal force  Types of States: Federal & City-state Colonialism Unitary States, Compact state Confederations, Centralized Devolution Elongated state government Enclave/exclave Ethnic cleansing  Political Ecology Ethnicity Federal state Fragmented state Gerrymander Week  Nation-States and Lecture Quiz Heartland/Rimland theory Imperialism Eight Multinational States Basics of International organization Political Irredentism  Colonialism and Imperialism Landlocked  Democratization Geography Quiz Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Microstate/ministate  Patterns of local, regional, and Multi-ethnic state metropolitan governance Multinational state Nationalism  Spatial relationships between Nationality Nation-state political systems and patterns Perforated state of ethnicity, economy and Prorupted state Race gender Racism Self-determination Sovereignty State

7 Stateless nation Supranationalism Territorial waters Unitary state United Nations

Week  Review Semester Content Term Two Nine Assessment Term 3 Week  Nature, Meaning, and Function Lecture Quiz Rubenstein One of Boundaries Chapter 8  Influence of Boundaries  Shapes of States  Governing States  Electoral Government: Redistricting and gerrymandering  Patterns of local, region Week  State Cooperation and Lecture Quiz Two Competition Student Activity  Fall of Communism and legacy #4 of the Cold War Boundaries,  Armed Conflict, War, & Alliances, and Terrorism Conflict Quiz  Fragmentation, unification, and cooperation  Supranationalism and international alliances Unit Five: Development Theories Week  Patterns of Development Lecture Quiz Agricultural labor force Rubenstein

8 Three among countries Calorie consumption Chapter 9 Core-periphery model  Measurement and Analysis of Cultural convergence Dependency theory Human Development Index & Development Gender Inequity Index Energy consumption Foreign direct investment  GDP Gender Gross domestic product (GDP)  Income Disparity and the Gini Gross national product (GNP) Coefficient Human Development Index Levels of development  Development and influences in Measures of development fertility and mortality, access Neocolonialism Physical Quality of Life Index to health care, education, Purchasing power parity utilities, and sanitation Rostow, W. W. “Stages of Growth” model Week  Economic Activities: Primary, Lecture Quiz Technology gap Technology transfer Four Secondary, Tertiary, and Third World Quaternary World Systems Theory  Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth  Wallerstein’s World System Theory Unit Six: Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use Week Lecture Quiz Adaptive strategies Rubenstein  Development and Diffusion of Agrarian Five Agriculture Agribusiness Chapter 10 Agricultural industrialization  Agricultural Revolutions: First Agricultural landscape (Domestication), Second Agricultural location model Agricultural origins (Mechanization), Green Agriculture Animal domestication  Subsidence v. Commercial Aquaculture Agriculture Biorevolution Biotechnology  Distribution of Major Collective farm Agricultural Production regions Commercial agriculture

9 (intensive, extensive)  Influence of bioclimatic zones Core/periphery & markets Crop rotation Cultivation regions  Interdependence of production Dairying and consumption Debt-for-nature swap Diffusion Week  Von Thunen’s model of Lecture Quiz Double cropping Six Economic activity (primary, Agricultural Land Use secondary, tertiary,  Settlement Patterns quaternary, quinary) Environmental modification associated with Major (pesticides, soil erosion, Agricultural Types: desertification) Extensive subsistence Subsistence, cash cropping, agriculture (shifting plantation, mixed farming, cultivation [slash-and- burn, milpa, swidden], nomadic monoculture, pastoralism, herding/pastoralism) Extractive industry ranching, forestry, fishing, and Farm crisis aquaculture Farming Feedlot  Land use/Land cover change: First agricultural revolution Irrigation, desertification, Fishing Food chain deforestation, wetland Forestry destruction, conservation Globalized agriculture Green revolution  Roles of Women in agricultural Growing season Hunting and gathering production and farming Intensive subsistence communities agriculture Intertillage Week  Issues in Agriculture Lecture Quiz Livestock ranching Seven Agriculture Market gardening  Biotechnology Mediterranean agriculture  Spatial Organization of Multiple Choice Mineral fuels Quiz Mining Industrial agriculture Planned economy  Agriculture and the Plant domestication Plantation agriculture Environment Renewable/nonrenewable Sauer, Carl O.  Global food distribution and Second agricultural revolution

10 inequality of access Specialization Staple grains Suitcase farm Survey patterns (long lots, metes and bounds, township- and-range) Sustainable yield Third agricultural revolution (mechanization, chemical farming, food manufacturing) “Tragedy of the commons” Transhumance Truck farm Von Thünen, Johann Heinrich

Unit Seven: Industrialization and Economic Development Week Lecture Quiz Acid rain Rubenstein  Growth and Diffusion of Agglomeration Eight Industrialization Agglomeration economies Chapter 11 Air pollution  Industrial Revolution Aluminum industry (factors of  Identification of Industrial production, location) Assembly line Regions production/Fordism Bid rent theory  Influence of Situation and Site Break-of-bulk point Factors Canadian industrial heartland Carrier efficiency  Geographic Critiques of Comparative advantage Models of Industrial Location Cumulative causation Deglomeration Week  Distribution and spatial Lecture Quiz Deindustrialization Economic sectors Nine organization of the world Economies of scale economy Ecotourism Energy resources  Uneven development: Entrepôt Globalization, NICs, Export processing zone Fixed costs International division of labor Footloose industry Four Tigers  Changes in Industries: Greenhouse effect Deindustrialization, economic Growth poles

11 restructuring, rise of tertiary Heartland/rimland Industrial location theory and quaternary economies Industrial regions (place, fuel source, characteristics)  Industry and Environment: Industrial Revolution Natural resource depletion, Industry (receding, growing) Infrastructure pollution, and climate change International division of labor  Industry and Government: Labor-intensive Least-cost location Development initiatives Major manufacturing regions Manufacturing exports  Industry and Women: Gender Manufacturing/warehouse Equity in workforce location (industrial parks, agglomeration, shared services, zoning, transportation, taxes, environmental considerations) Maquiladora Market orientation Multiplier effect NAFTA Outsourcing Ozone depletion Plant location (supplies, “just in time” delivery) Postindustrial Refrigeration Resource crisis Resource orientation Special economic zones (China) Specialized economic zones Substitution principle Threshold/range Time-space compression Topocide Trade (complementarity) Transnational corporation Ubiquitous Variable costs Weber, Alfred Weight-gaining Weight-losing World cities

12 Term 4 Unit Eight: Cities and Urban Land Use Week Lecture Quiz Agglomeration Rubenstein  Origins of Cities Barriadas One  Location and Identification of Bid-rent theory Chapter 12 - 13 Blockbusting World Cities and megacities CBD (central business district)  Forces driving urbanization Census tract Centrality and suburbanization Centralization Central-place theory  Borchet’s epochs of urban Christaller, Walter transportation development City Cityscapes  Models of Urban hierarchies: Colonial city Gravity model, Chistaller’s Commercialization Commuter zone central place theory, rank-size Concentric zone model Counterurbanization rule, primate cities Decentralization Week  Models of internal city Lecture Quiz Deindustrialization Early cities Two structure: Burgess concentric Economic base zone model, Hoyt sector (basic/nonbasic) Edge city model, Harris and Ullman Emerging cities Multiple nuclei model, Galactic Employment structure Entrepôt city model Ethnic neighborhood Favela  Models of Cities in Latin Female-headed household America, North Africa and the Festival landscape Gateway city Middle East, Sub-Saharan Gender Africa, East Asia, and South Gentrification Ghetto Asia Globalization Week Lecture Quiz Great cities  Environment and Social Space High-tech corridors Three  Types of residential buildings Hinterland Hydraulic civilization  Transportation and utility

13 infrastructure Indigenous city In-filling  Influence of Urban planning Informal sector Infrastructure and design Inner city  Characteristics of edge cities: Invasion and succession Lateral commuting Boomburgs, greenfields, Medieval cities uptowns Megacities Megalopolis/conurbation Week  Housing and insurance Lecture Quiz Metropolitan area Multiple nuclei model Four discrimination Multiplier effect  Access to Food Stores (Urban Neighborhood Office park Deserts) Peak land value intersection Planned communities  Uneven development, Zones Postindustrial city of Abandonment, disamenity Postmodern urban landscape Primate city and gentrification Racial steering  Suburban sprawl and urban Rank-size rule Redlining sustainability problems Restrictive covenants Sector model  Urban and the Environment: Segregation Transportation, sanitation, air Settlement form (nucleated, dispersed, elongated) and water quality, remediation Shopping mall of brownfields, farmland Site/situation Slum protection Social structure Specialization Squatter settlement Street pattern (grid, dendritic; access, control) Suburb Suburbanization Symbolic landscape Tenement Threshold/range Town Underclass Underemployment Urban growth rate

14 Urban function Urban hearth area Urban heat island Urban hierarchy Urban hydrology Urban morphology Urbanization Urbanized population World city Zone in transition Zoning

Week  Review for AP Exam Five Week Six  Review for AP Exam AP Exam Week  Application of Geography Project Seven Week  Application of Geography Project End of Year Eight Geography Project Week  Wrap up School Year Nine