<p>AP Human Geography Course Study Guide</p><p>Worth 2 Daily Grades</p><p>Question 13 is worth 12.5 points. The fourteen questions that ask for explanations or compare/contrast multiple terms are each worth 2.5 points each. The 35 remaining short answer questions are each worth 1.5 points.</p><p>1. What is cartography?</p><p>2. If map scale is 1:4,166,666, what exactly does that mean? Is that probably a large scale map or a small scale map?</p><p>3. What’s the difference between site and situation?</p><p>4. What’s the difference between GIS and GPS?</p><p>5. What’s the difference between a functional/nodal region and a vernacular/perceptual region?</p><p>6. Give two examples of hierarchical diffusion.</p><p>7. Give two examples of contagious diffusion.</p><p>8. What’s the difference between environmental determinism and possibilism?</p><p>9. Define ecumene.</p><p>10. What’s the difference between arithmetic density and physiological density?</p><p>11. What’s the equation for calculating natural increase rate?</p><p>12. What’s the difference between crude birth rate and total fertility rate?</p><p>13. Draw the demographic transition model, and use a different color writing implement for Birth rate, death rate, and total population. Also, separate each stage (you should have a total of 4) with a vertical line, and label both of your axes.</p><p>14. Look at your demographic transition model. At what stage does the death rate start to fall?</p><p>15. At what stage does the rate of population growth start to fall?</p><p>16. Name two countries with population pyramids that are fat at the bottom but skinny at the top.</p><p>17. What is the dependency ratio, and why is Japan’s higher than most other countries (be specific)?</p><p>18. Is religious persecution where a family currently lives a push factor or a pull factor for them?</p><p>19. Name a country that currently has a lot of refugees. Why did those refugees flee where they were at? 20. What is chain migration? Also, name one country that has a significant amount of chain migration to the USA.</p><p>21. What type of culture is about the same at any given time in lots of different places, but changes over time?</p><p>22. What type of culture is different depending on where you go, but tends to stay the same over time?</p><p>23. Define isogloss.</p><p>24. Name three examples of languages from the Indo-European language family.</p><p>25. Name three examples of languages from the Sino-Tibetan language family.</p><p>26. Name three Romance languages.</p><p>27. Explain lingua franca and pidgin language in relation to one another. How are they different? How are they the same?</p><p>28. Name two universalizing religions.</p><p>29. Name two ethnic religions.</p><p>30. Plessy vs Ferguson & Brown vs Board of Ed  Which one said what?</p><p>31. What is apartheid? Also, name a country where it was enforced.</p><p>32. In the Balkans, name an ethnicity that engaged in ethnic cleansing, and one that was the victim of the ethnic cleansing.</p><p>33. From 32, why did the ethnic cleansing take place?</p><p>34. Name two examples (current OR historical) of stateless nations.</p><p>35. Name the best example you can find of a nation-state.</p><p>36. Name three examples of prorupted states.</p><p>37. Name three examples of fragmented states.</p><p>38. Name an example of an enclave that is not an exclave.</p><p>39. Name an enclave that is ALSO and exclave.</p><p>40. Name an exclave that is not an enclave.</p><p>41. What’s the difference between subsequent and antecedent boundaries? 42. Name an example of a superimposed boundary.</p><p>43. What’s the difference between transhumance and pastoral nomadism?</p><p>44. Which agricultural revolution gave us GMO’s and synthetic fertilizers and pesticides?</p><p>45. Define maquiladoras, and indicate a country that has them.</p><p>46. During what decade did many African nations join the United Nations, and why did they join at this time?</p><p>47. What’s the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces?</p><p>48. Describe a centrifugal force that led to the breakup of a country, region, or alliance.</p><p>49. Who are the 4 Asian Tigers?</p><p>50. What is sovereignty?</p>