AP Human Geography Essential Vocabulary Unit I Geography

AP Human Geography Essential Vocabulary

Unit I: Geography – Its Nature and Perspectives Cultural landscape Diffusion Sequent occupance Distribution Physiological density Environmental determinism Hearth Site Situation Distance Decay Space Scale Space Time Compression Formal Region Vernacular Region Possibilism Transnational Corporation Functional Region-

Unit II: Population – Migration & Dispertion Carry Capacity Demographic Transition Model: Dependency Ratio Brain Drain Brain Gain Epidemiological Infant mortality Malthus, transition rate Thomas model Crude Birth Rate Neo-Malthusian Population densities Agricultural density Population pyramid Rate of Natural Sex Ratio Increase Zero Population Chain Migration Growth Forced Migration Gravity Model Immigration Push-Pull Factors Migration Doubling Time Ecumene Population distributions Emigration

Unit III: Cultural Patterns & Processes Cultural core/ periphery pattern Cultural Ecology Culture Popular Culture Folk Culture Dialect Lingua Franca Religion Animism Buddhism Christianity Ethnic Religion Hinduism Islam Judaism Monotheism Polytheism Universalizin Religious g Religion Conflict

Unit IV: Political Organization of Space Apartheid Balkanization Boundary type More Less Developed Country (MDC) Country (LDC) Newly Industrialized Country (NIC) Centrifugal Centripetal City-state Colonialism Devolution Electoral regions Ethnic conflict European Union Forward capital Frontier Geopolitics Gerrymander Heartland Rimland

Unit V: Agricultural & Rural Land Use Agribusiness Agriculture Biotechnology Economic activity secondary quinary Extensive subsistence agriculture First agricultural revolution herding/ pastoralism Renewable Crop Rotation primary Commercial Agriculture (intensive, extensive) tertiary shifting cultivation nomadic Second Agricultural Revolution Green Revolution Intensive Subsistence Agriculture Transhumance Von Thunen Non-Renewable Carl O. Sauer quaternary

Unit VI: Industrialization & Development Coreperiphery model Gross National Product Bid Rent Theory Dependenc Developm Gender y theory ent Gross Domestic Product Human Measures Purchasing World Developm of Power Systems ent Index Developm Parity Theory ent Assembly Agglomera Stages of Walter W. Line tion Growth Rostow Production Economies Model / Fordism

Unit VII: Cities and Urban Land Use Centrality Business District (CBD) Walter Christaller City Concentric Zone Model Counterurba nization Edge City Primate City Rule Rank Size Rule Emerging Cities Ethnic Enclave Favela Gateway City Gentrification Ghetto Globalization