AP Human Geography Spring Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Overview
- Exam Coverage: Units 5, 6, and 7
- Questions: 20 from each unit; total of 60 questions
- Points: 60 points; counts as a regular unit test
Unit 5: Agriculture (Chapters 12, 13, & 14)
- Agriculture Description: Statements to describe agriculture
- Topography & Agriculture: Effect of topography on agriculture
- Land Costs: Terms used to describe land cost determination
- Intensive Subsistence Agriculture: Examples and concepts
- Rural Settlement Patterns: Identification through photos
- Commercial Agriculture: Intensive examples and definitions
- Domestication: Initial regions for plants and animals
- Fertile Crescent Location: Geographic location
- Columbian Exchange: Impact on global agriculture
- First Agricultural Revolution: Contributing factors
- Norfolk Four-Field System: Key innovation and related revolution
- Subsistence vs. Commercial Farming: Concepts and differences
- Agribusiness Growth: 20th-century expansion explanation
- Production Control: Term for multi-stage company control
- Agricultural Models: Identification and explanation
- Field-Crop Belt Location: Explanation within models
- Agricultural Landscapes: Definition
- Agricultural Challenges: Solutions like bus with fresh produce
- Women Empowerment in Agriculture: Benefits
Unit 6: Urban Geography (Chapters 15, 16, & 17)
- Urban Development: Process and terms
- Urban Area Definition: Best definition
- City Characteristics: Site vs. situation characteristics
- Urban Sprawl: Poorly planned development
- Inventions Leading to Sprawl: Key inventions
- Map Analysis: Scale, concept, and conclusions
- Megacity Growth: Locations and factors
- Population Density: Influencing factors
- Residential Patterns: Common urban patterns
- Research Methods: Qualitative vs. quantitative
- Residential Densities: Increasing strategies
- Sustainable Design: Initiative descriptions
- Housing Practices: Comparison of redlining and blockbusting
- Discriminatory Practices: Reflective maps
- Urban Energy Use: Challenges
- Gentrification Effects: Outcomes
- Zoning Comparison: Traditional vs. mixed-use
Unit 7: Industrialization and Economic Development (Chapters 18, 19, & 20)
- Industrialization Diffusion: From hearth to other regions
- Spatial Patterns: Factors in early industrialization
- Industrial Features: Pre-railway essential features
- Economic Activities: Primary sector truths
- Female Workforce Participation: Changes over a century
- Economic Shifts: Secondary sector growth
- Service Sector Jobs: Examples
- Break-of-Bulk Points: Common features
- Least-Cost Theory: Production cost focus
- Bulk-Reducing Industries: Examples
- Living Standards: Scales of analysis
- GNI per Capita: Description
- Informal Economy: Sector description
- Energy Sources: True statements
- Geographical Measures: Diagram depictions
- Geographic Models: Identification
- Neoliberalism: Fundamental goals
- High-Tech Manufacturing Locations: Examples like Silicon Valley
- SEZs in China: Purpose and concept
This guide lists key concepts and potential exam questions to direct study focus for the final exam.