🚜AP Human Geography
Key Terms
2180 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Human Geography exam
Most-studied AP Human Geography key terms
The AP Human Geography terms students look up most, with a definition for each.
- Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
- Possibilism
- Formal Region
- Functional Region
- Time-Space Compression
- Distance Decay
- Epidemiological Transition Model
- Environmental Determinism
- Perceptual Region
- Spatial Pattern
- Neo-Malthusians
- Relocation Diffusion
- Situation
- Sense of Place
- Expansion Diffusion
- Contagious Diffusion
- Site
- Doubling Time
- Physiological Density
- Dependency Ratio
- Absolute Location
- Toponyms
- Sequent Occupance
- Ecumene
- Carrying Capacity
- Friction of Distance
- Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion
- Place
- Transhumance
- Census Data
- Dialects
- Remote Sensing
- Natural Increase Rate
- Zelinsky's Model of Migration Transition
- Population Pyramids
- Rate of Natural Increase
- Isoline map
- Gravity Model
- Pro-natalist Policies
- Cultural Hearth
- Patterns and processes
- National Scale
- Chain Migration
- Asylum Seekers
- Demographic Momentum
- Map Scale
- Zelinsky's Migration Transition
- Hearth
- Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
- Placemaking
- Intraregional Migration
- Global Scale
- Cultural Trait
- Local Scale
- Projection
- Transnational Migration
- Boserup's theory
- relative distance
- Guest Workers
- Population Density
- Brain Drain
- Spatial Distribution
- Qualitative Data
- field observations
- Gendered Space
- Ester Boserup
- Ethnic Enclaves
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Arithmetic Density
- Dot Distribution Map
- Crude Death Rate
- Total Fertility Rate
- Choropleth Map
- Neo-Malthusian theory
- Carl Sauer
- Prorupted State
- Sequent Occupancy
- Site vs. Situation
- Scale of Analysis
- Spatial Data
- Goode’s Homolosine map projection
- Internally Displaced Persons
- Region Types
- Natural Resources
- Gentrification
- Cultural Ecology
- "God, Glory, Gold"
- Life Expectancy
- Bid-Rent Theory
- Internal Migration
- Cultural Divergence
- Age Structure
- Perforated States
- Spatial Relationships
- Devolution
- Mercator Projection
- Fertility
- Physical Factors
- Refugees
- Pastoralism
- Physical Geography
- map projections
- Cultural Relativism
- Cultural Convergence
- Semi-periphery Countries
- Contraception
- Interdependence
- Physical Features
- Sex Ratio
- Periphery
- World-Systems Theory
- Nation-State
- More Developed Country (MDC)
- Compact state
- Social Implications
- Core-Periphery Model
- Mortality
- Acculturation
- Geographical Factor
- Wallerstein’s world-system theory
- Popular Culture
- Satellite Imagery
- Core
- Cyclical Movements
- Autonomous Regions
- Built Environments
- Space-Time Compression
- Material Culture
- Creolization
- Geographically Dispersed Cities
- Ethnicity
- built landscape
- Cultural Assimilation
- Ethnocentrism
- Malthusian theory
- Core Countries
- Latitude
- Shatterbelt theory
- Culture Complex
- Cultural region
- Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
- Longitude
- Human Factors
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
- Lingua Franca
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Site Factor
- Social Factors
- Agglomeration
- Mixed crop and livestock farming
- More Developed Countries (MDCs)
- Columbian Exchange
- Latin American City Model
- Syncretism
- Globalization
- antinatalist policy
- Fertility Rates
- Cultural Homogenization
- Indo-European
- Universalizing Religion
- Enclosure Movement
- Semi-Periphery
- Spatial Patterns
- Pastoral Nomadism
- Dependency Theory
- Birth Rate
Key Terms by Unit
1.1 Introduction to Maps
1.2 Geographic Data
1.3 The Power of Geographic Data
1.4 Spatial Concepts
1.5 Human-Environmental Interaction
1.6 Scales of Analysis
1.7 Regional Analysis
2.1 Population Distribution
2.2 Consequences of Population Distribution
2.3 Population Composition
2.4 Population Dynamics
2.5 The Demographic Transition Model
2.6 Malthusian Theory
2.7 Population Policies
2.8 Women and Demographic Change
2.9 Aging Populations
2.10 Causes of Migration
2.11 Forced and Voluntary Migration
2.12 Effects of Migration
3.1 Introduction to Culture
3.2 Cultural Landscapes
3.3 Cultural Patterns
3.4 Types of Diffusion
3.5 Historical Causes of Diffusion
3.6 Contemporary Causes of Diffusion
3.7 Diffusion of Religion and Language
3.8 Effects of Diffusion
4.1 Introduction to Political Geography
4.2 Political Processes
4.3 Political Power and Territoriality
4.4 Defining Political Boundaries
4.5 The Function of Political Boundaries
4.6 Internal Boundaries
4.7 Forms of Governance
4.8 Defining Devolutionary Factors
4.9 Challenges to Sovereignty
4.10 Consequences of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces
5.1 Introduction to Agriculture
5.2 Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
5.3 Agricultural Origins and Diffusions
5.4 The Second Agricultural Revolution
5.6 Agricultural Production Regions
5.7 Spatial Organization of Agriculture
5.8 Von Thünen Model
5.9 The Global System of Agriculture
5.10 Consequences of Agricultural Practices
5.11 Challenges of Contemporary Agriculture
5.12 Women in Agriculture
6.1 The Origin and Influences of Urbanization
6.2 Cities Across the World
6.3 Cities and Globalization
6.4 The Size and Distribution of Cities
6.5 The Internal Structure of Cities
6.6 Density and Land Use
6.7 Infrastructure
6.8 Urban Sustainability
6.9 Urban Data
6.10 Challenges of Urban Changes
6.11 Challenges of Urban Sustainability
7.1 The Industrial Revolution
7.2 Economic Sectors and Patterns
7.3 Measures of Development
7.4 Women and Economic Development
7.5 Theories of Development
7.6 Trade and the World Economy
7.7 Changes as a Result of the World Economy
7.8 Sustainable Development
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