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AP Human Geography lessons

7 sections · 68 skills · work through the full outline skill by skill — read the long-form lesson or flip through the slide-style version.
Long-form lessonsSlide-style lessons

AP Human Geography

Practice 68 skills across this outline.

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Population Policies
Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
Long-form lesson
Weighting distribution
7 categories
Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
14%
Cities and Urban Land-Use
14%
Agriculture and Rural Land-Use
14%
Political Patterns and Processes
14%
Industrial and Economic Development
14%
Cultural Patterns and Processes
14%

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of ap human geography — drill into a card to work its skills.

Population and Migration Patterns and Processes

12 core skills14% total weight
0/12 completed
12 skills to mastery
1
Population PoliciesRecommended
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2
Forced and Voluntary MigrationAvailable
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3
Aging PopulationsAvailable
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4
Causes of MigrationAvailable
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5
Consequences of Population DistributionAvailable
Long-form
6
Effects of MigrationAvailable
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7
Malthusian TheoryAvailable
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8
Population DistributionAvailable
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9
Population CompositionAvailable
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10
Population DynamicsAvailable
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11
The Demographic Transition ModelAvailable
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12
Women and Demographic ChangeAvailable
Long-form

Cities and Urban Land-Use

11 core skills14% total weight
0/11 completed
11 skills to mastery
1
The Origin and Influences of UrbanizationAvailable
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2
The Internal Structure of CitiesAvailable
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3
Challenges of Urban ChangesAvailable
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4
Challenges of Urban SustainabilityAvailable
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5
Cities Across the WorldAvailable
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6
Cities and GlobalizationAvailable
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7
Density and Land UseAvailable
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8
InfrastructureAvailable
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9
The Size and Distribution of CitiesAvailable
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10
Urban DataAvailable
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11
Urban SustainabilityAvailable
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Agriculture and Rural Land-Use

12 core skills14% total weight
0/12 completed
12 skills to mastery
1
Agricultural Production RegionsAvailable
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2
Agricultural Origins and DiffusionsAvailable
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3
Challenges of Contemporary AgricultureAvailable
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4
Consequences of Agricultural PracticesAvailable
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5
Introduction to AgricultureAvailable
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6
Settlement Patterns and Survey MethodsAvailable
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7
Spatial Organization of AgricultureAvailable
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8
The Global System of AgricultureAvailable
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9
The Green RevolutionAvailable
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10
The Second Agricultural RevolutionAvailable
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11
Von ThĂĽnen ModelAvailable
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12
Women in AgricultureAvailable
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Political Patterns and Processes

10 core skills14% total weight
0/10 completed
10 skills to mastery
1
Challenges to SovereigntyAvailable
Long-form
2
Consequences of Centrifugal and Centripetal ForcesAvailable
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3
Defining Devolutionary FactorsAvailable
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4
Defining Political BoundariesAvailable
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5
Forms of GovernanceAvailable
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6
Internal BoundariesAvailable
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7
Introduction to Political GeographyAvailable
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8
Political Power and TerritorialityAvailable
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9
Political ProcessesAvailable
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10
The Function of Political BoundariesAvailable
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Industrial and Economic Development

8 core skills14% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Changes from the World EconomyAvailable
Long-form
2
Economic Sectors and PatternsAvailable
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3
Measures of DevelopmentAvailable
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4
Sustainable DevelopmentAvailable
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5
The Industrial RevolutionAvailable
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6
Theories of DevelopmentAvailable
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7
Trade and the World EconomyAvailable
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8
Women and Economic DevelopmentAvailable
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Cultural Patterns and Processes

8 core skills14% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Contemporary Causes of DiffusionAvailable
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2
Cultural PatternsAvailable
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3
Cultural LandscapesAvailable
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4
Diffusion of Religion and LanguageAvailable
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5
Effects of DiffusionAvailable
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6
Historical Causes of DiffusionAvailable
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7
Introduction to CultureAvailable
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8
Types of DiffusionAvailable
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Thinking Geographically

7 core skills14% total weight
0/7 completed
7 skills to mastery
1
Geographic DataAvailable
Long-form
2
Human–Environmental InteractionAvailable
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3
Introduction to MapsAvailable
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4
Regional AnalysisAvailable
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5
Scales of AnalysisAvailable
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6
Spatial ConceptsAvailable
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7
The Power of Geographic DataAvailable
Long-form