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Concepts

• AP Human Geography

  • Agriculture, Food Production, & Rural Land Use

    • Contemporary Commercial Agriculture

      • Biotechnology

      • Environmental Issues

      • Global Food Distribution & Famine

      • Organic Farming & Fair Trade

    • Development of Agriculture

      • Agribusiness

      • Green Revolution

      • Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

      • Second Agricultural Revolution

    • Major Agricultural Production Regions

      • Interdependence of Production & Consumption Regions

      • Major Bioclimatic Zones

      • Variations Within Major Zones

    • Rural Land Use & Settlement Patterns

      • Land Use & Cover+6 topics

        • Conservation Efforts

        • Deforestation

        • Desertification

        • Irrigation

        • Models of Agricultural Land Use

        • Wetland Destruction

      • Settlement Patterns of Major Agriculture+8 topics

        • Cash Cropping

        • Fishing & Aquaculture

        • Mixed Farming

        • Monoculture

        • Pastoralism

        • Plantation

        • Ranching

        • Subsistence

  • Cities & Urban Land Use

    • Contemporary Urban Issues

      • Access to Food Stores

      • Changing Demographic & Social Structures

      • Gentrification, Disamenity, & Zones of Abandonment

      • Housing & Insurance Discrimination

      • Suburban Sprawl & Urban Sustainability Problems

    • Development of Cities

      • Borchert's Epochs of Urban Transportation Development

      • Forces Driving Urbanization

      • Megacities

      • Origin of Cities

      • Suburbanization Processes

    • Models of City Structure & Urban Development

      • Burgess Concentric Zone Model

      • Harris & Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model

      • Hoyt Sector Model

      • Models of International Cities

    • Models of Urban Hierarchies

      • Christaller's Central Place Theory

      • Gravity Model

      • Primate Cities

      • Rank-Size Rule

    • Social Spaces

      • Census Data on Urban Areas

      • Edge Cities

      • Transportation & Utility Infrastructure

      • Types of Residential Buildings

      • Urban Planning & Design

  • Cultural Patterns & Processes

    • Concepts of Culture

      • Acculturation, Assimilation, & Multiculturalism

      • Cultural & Vernacular Regions

      • Culture Traits

      • Diffusion Patterns

    • Cultural Differences & Regional Patterns

      • Cultural Beliefs on Gender

      • Cultural Conflicts & Law

      • Ethnicity & Nationalism

      • Language & Communications

      • Popular & Folk Culture

      • Religion

    • Cultural Landscapes & Identity

      • Culture Practices and the Environment

      • Formation of Identity

      • Symbolic Landscapes & Sense of Place

  • Geography

    • Geospatial Technologies

    • Indentifying Major World Regions

    • Major Geographical Terminology

    • Sources of Geographical Information

    • Using Maps

  • Industrialization & Economic Development

    • Contemporary Patterns of Industrialization & Development

      • Deindustrialization

      • Economic Restructuring

      • Gender Equity

      • Globalization

      • Government Development Initiatives

      • Organization of the World Economy

      • Pollution & Climate Change

      • Sustainable Development

      • Uneven Levels of Development

    • Growth & Diffusion of Industrialization

      • Critiques of Industrial Location Models

      • Industrial Revolution

      • Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth

      • Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

    • Social & Economic Measures of Development

      • Access to Healthcare, Education, & Sanitation

      • Changes to Fertility & Mortality

      • Gender Inequality Index

      • Gross Domestic Product

      • Human Development Index

  • Political Organization of Space

    • Challenges to Political-Territorial Arrangements

      • Changing Nature of Sovereignty

      • Devolution of Countries: Centripetal & Centrifugal Forces

      • Electoral Geography: Redistricting & Gerrymandering

      • Fragmentation, Unification, & Cooperation

      • Supranationalism & International Alliances

      • War & Terrorism

    • Evolution of Political Patterns

      • Colonialism & Imperialism

      • Communism & the Cold War

      • Democratization

      • Nation-State

      • Patterns of Local & Regional Governance

    • Territorial Dimensions of Politics

      • Ethnicity, Economy, & Gender in Political Systems

      • Federal & Unitary States

      • Function of Boundaries

      • Influences of Boundaries

      • Political Ecology

      • Territoriality

  • Population & Migration

    • Geographical Analysis of Population

      • Composition

      • Density, Distribution, & Scale

      • Implications of Density & Distribution

      • Patterns of Fertility, Mortality, & Health

    • Migration

      • Consequences of Migration

      • Major Historical Migrations

      • Push & Pull Factors

      • Refugees & Asylum Seekers

      • Types of Migration

    • Population Growth & Decline

      • Effects of National Population Policies

      • Environmental Impacts of Population Change

      • Historical Trends & Future Projections

      • Population & Natural Hazards

      • Regional Variations

      • Theories of Population Growth & Decline