Aphg Review Points

APHG UNIT 1 Review List 1. 2. 4 traditions of Geography a. Physical Geography tradition b. Human/Environment tradition c. Spatial tradition d. Regional tradition 3. 5 themes of Geography e. Location i. Absolute f. Relative g. Place i. Human characteristics ii. Physical characteristics h. Human/Environmental interaction i. Movement (interaction between places) j. Regions ii. Formal/uniform iii. Functional/nodal iv. Perceptual/vernacular 1. Cultural landscape 2. Sequent occupance 3. Culture trait 4. Culture hearth 5. Syncretism 6. Density a. arithmetic, b. physiological c. agricultural 7. Diffusion d. relocation, e. expansion, 1. hierarchical, 2. contagious, 3. stimulus. 8. Distribution/Concentration iii. dispersed/scattered, iv. clustered/agglomerated 9. Environmental determinism 10. Possibilism 11. distance decay 12. time-space compression 13. Geographic Information System (GIS) 14. Global Positioning System (GPS) 15. Remote sensing 16. Grid (North and South Poles, latitude, parallel, equator, longitude, meridian, prime meridian, international date line, Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn) 17. Solstices/equinoxes 18. time zones/GMT 19. Maps f. scale (large scale, small scale, ratio scale, visual scale, verbal scale) g. types (thematic, cartogram, dot, choropleth, isoline) h. Mental Map i. Projection (Mercator, interrupted, robinson, polar) j. Use/organization of data in different maps 20. Globalization/Localization 21. Local scale/Global Scale

APHG Population Review 1.
Overpopulation definition
2. Population Concentrations
3. Most populous countries
4. ecumene
5. arithmetic density
6. physiological density
7. agricultural density
8. crude birth rate
9. crude death rate
10. natural increase rate
11. doubling time
12. total fertility rate
13. infant mortality rate
14. life expectancy
15. demographic transition a. stage 1 b. stage 2 c. stage 3 d. stage 4
16. dependency rate
17. Thomas Malthus
18. Epdemiologic transition
19. AIDS
20. Population policy
21. Expansive
22. eugenic
23. restrictive
24. One child policy
25. immigration law
26. Australian Immigration Restriction act, 1901
27. U.S. A. National Origins Law, 1929
28. U.S.A. European immigration restrictions, 1921
29. Population pyramid interpretation
30. Demographic transition model graph

UNIT3
APHG Migration Review 1. 2. Mobility 3. Brain Drain 4. chain migration 5. circulation 6. counterurbanization 7. suburbanization 8. emigration 9. forced migration 10. guest workers 11. immigration 12. U.S. Center of population 13. Migration trends in LDCs compared to MDCs 14. Ravensteins laws (age, gender of migrants, etc) 15. internal migration 16. international migration 17. intervening obstacle 18. intervening opportunity 19. human trafficing 20. smuggling 21. “peaks” and “valleys” in U.S. migration 22. migration transition 23. mobility 24. net migration 25. gravity model 26. pull factor 27. push factor 28. quotas 29. refugees 30. economic migrants 31. undocumented immigrants 32. voluntary migration 33. absolute distance 34. activity space 35. commuting 36. counter migration 37. cyclic movement 38. distance decay 39. external migration 40. internally displaced persons (intranational refugees) 41. nomadism 42. seasonal migration 43. periodic movement 44. immigration laws from ch. 7 yellow book 45. step migration 46. types of migrants 47. catalysts of migration 48. regions of dislocation 49. Review population terms-doubling time, natural increase, etc.

Ch. 4 Review list Folk and Popular culture Rubenstein

1. Local culture 2. Popular culture 3. Folk Culture 4. Local Culture Characteristics 5. Folk culture characteristics 6. Popular culture characteristics 7. homogeneity 8. heterogeneous 9. diffusion of folk culture 10. diffusion of popular culture 11. distribution of folk and popular culture 12. custom 13. habit 14. taboo 15. Material culture 16. Nonmaterial culture 17. Assimilate

18. local culture 19. cultural appropriation 20. neolocalism 21. ethnic neighborhood 22. commodification 23. time-space compression 24. reterritorialization 25. cultural landscape 26. placelessness 27. glocalization 28. hearth 29. authenticity 30. distance decay 31. diffusion (hierarchical, contagious, relocation) 32. cultural landscape

Ch. 5 LANGUAGE REVIEW 1. 2. What is language? 3. spoken language 4. Written language/ Literary tradition/alphabet/ideograms 5. INFLUENCES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH 6. Language Tree 7. Family 8. branch 9. Group 10. Language 11. Dialect 12. standard language 13. distribution of languages/ language families a. # of speakers 14. official language 15. Language diffusion (Indo-European/proto Indo European) 16. Renfrew Hypothesis/Agriculture theory (Anatolian) :hearth in Turkey 17. Conquest theory (Kyrgan): hearth in Ukraine 18. Romance languages 19. Esperanto 20. lingua franca/colonial languages 21. pidgin 22. creolization/creloes 23. Toponymy 24. Isogloss 25. Isolated language (Basque) 26. Language extinction 27. Language revival, Language preservation 28. Multilingual states (Belgium, Canada, Switzerland) 29. Language diversity :causes, effects (Nigeria, Caucasus region)

Ch. 6. Religion Review list 1. 2. Religion 3. Branch 4. Denomination 5. sect 6. ethnic religion 7. universalizing religion 8. fundamentalism 9. secularization 10. pilgrimage 11. Buddhism: origin, distribution, diffusion, beliefs 12. Christianity :origin, distribution, diffusion, beliefs 13. Islam: origin, distribution, diffusion, beliefs 14. Judaism : origin, distribution, diffusion, beliefs 15. Hinduism : origin, distribution, diffusion, beliefs 16. Syncretism 17. Religious conflicts 18. Interfaith boundary 19. Intrafaith Boundary 20. Northern Ireland 21. Sri Lanka 22. Sudan 23. Horn of Africa 24. Ghetto 25. Abraham 26. Hindu Castes 27. Religious Hierarchy