Top 10 Terms Per APHG Unit

UNIT 1: GEOGRAPHY: NATURE & ITS PERSPECTIVES 1.Location 2.Regions 3.Diffusion 4.Distribution 5.Projections 6.Map Types 7.Map Terms 8.Scale 9. Cultural Ecology 10. Spatial Interaction

UNIT 2: POPULATION & MIGRATION 1.Population Distribution 2.Demographic Terms 3.Population Policy & Environment 4.Push/Pull 5.Migration History 6.Demographic Transition Model 7.Thomas Malthus 8. Epidemiologic Transition Model 9.Zelinisky’s Model 10.Ravenstein’s Laws

UNIT 3: CULTURAL PATTERNS & PROCESSES 1.Folk Culture 2.Popular culture 3.Language 4.Language families 5.Language distribution 6.Nomadic Warrior Sedentary Thesis 7.Cultural Landscapes 8.Universalizing Religions 9.Ethnic religions 10.Religious distribution

UNIT 4: POLITICAL ORGANIZATION & SPACE 1.Boundaries 2.State Shape 3.History of states 4.Federal vs. Unitary 5.Centripetal vs. Centrifugal 6.Ethnicities 7.Ethnic distribution 8.International Organizations 9.Rostow’s Model 10.LDC vs. MDC

UNIT 5: AGRICULTURE, FOOD PRODUCTION & RURAL LAND USE 1.Agricultural Evolution 2.Agricultural regions 3.Commercial Agriculture 4.Subsistence Agriculture 5.Boserup Hypothesis 6.Von Thunen Model 7.Environmental problems 8.Rural Land use 9.Commercial Ag problems 10.Settlement Types

UNIT 6: INDUSTRIALIZATION & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1.Industrial Revolution 2.Distribution of Industry 3.Wallenstein’s Model 4.Weber Least Cost 5.Measures of Development 6.North/South Divide 7.Women and Development 8.Uneven Development 9.Infrastructure 10. NIC’s, NAFTA, etc

UNIT 7: CITIES & URBAN LAND USE 1.Urban Hierarchy 2.Urban Models 3.Gravity Model 4.Services 5.Urbanization 6.Rank Size vs. Primate City 7.Bochert’s Epochs 8.Central Place Theory 9.Development of cities 10.Urban problems