AP Human Geography Exam Vocabulary Items
AP Human Geography Exam Unit 2: Population Population density - arithmetic, physiologic Vocabulary Items Distribution The following vocabulary items can be found in your Dot map review book and class handouts. These Major population concentrations - East Asia, South identifications and concepts do not necessarily Asia, Europe, North America, Nile Valley,... constitute all that will be covered on the exam. Megalopolis Population growth - world regions, linear, exponential Doubling time (70 / rate of increase) Unit 1: Nature and Perspectives Population explosion Pattison's Four Traditions - locational, culture- Population structure (composition) - age-sex environment, area-analysis, earth-science pyramids Five Themes - location, human/environmental Demography interaction, region, place, movement Natural increase Absolute/relative location Crude birth/death rate Region - formal, functional, perceptual (vernacular) Total fertility rate Mental map Infant mortality Environmental perception Demographic Transition Model - High Stationary, Components of culture - trait, complex, system, Early Expanding, Late Expanding, Low Stationary region, realm Stationary Population Level (SPL) Culture hearth Population theorists - Malthus, Boserup, Marx (as Cultural landscape well as the Cornucopian theory) Sequent occupance Absolute/relative distance Cultural diffusion Immigration/emigration Independent invention Ernst Ravenstein - "laws" of migration, gravity Expansion diffusion - contagious, hierarchical, model stimulus Push/pull factors - catalysts of
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