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These are the AP Human Geography notes I created throughout Segment 1 of the course. I put together 76 pages of definitions, examples, explanations, and important concepts covering population, migration, culture, diffusion, demographic transition models, population policies, and more. I made these notes to help simplify the information from the course and keep everything in one place. They're especially useful if you're reviewing for a unit test, trying to understand a topic more clearly, or preparing for the AP exam and don't want to search through multiple lessons. The notes are written in a way that helped me remember the material and connect concepts together. Please note that these are personal study notes and may contain minor spelling errors, abbreviations, or formatting variations.

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, Things to know Pre-prep

Questions to think about

Map element.
• what is the purpose of the map?
• are all the basic elements include
• What physical or human features are present


Cartographers Choice
• Well projection is used? what is the distorted?
• What colors and symbols are used? What might they imply
• What scale shows the data
• What is not shown on the map?
• What toponyms are shown on the map?
• Who might be the audience?

Data or historical context
• When was the map produced?
• OG source of data? Is it reliable. (Satellite view, field survey, census, imagination)
• What's the historical context for the map? How does this change the cartographers data


Definition Dates

Little info People

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,1.01 Lesson 1.01
Geography introduction
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Geography = the study of earths land, people and places

Geographers study Organize by place Historians study Organize by time
• where things/events happened • what happened
• why things/events happened in that place • why it happened
• How it affects the future
• Natural features (land,climate) and human
choices (culture, economy, politics)
• How can changes in one place affect there and other places


Special perspective = explaining human and physical patterns, and how they connect between
different elements
Geography's evolution

600 BCE 247 BCE
Babylonians made oldest map on clay tablet Eratosthenes = Greek writer, astronomer, poet
Babylon is center with "bitter river" around it Calculated earth circumference using…
• The suns angle at 2 cities
AXCE • Distance between cities
Pliny published a geoemetry encyclopedia included…
• descriptions
• and distances 14
• cities and landmarks Ptomley made a map including…
Coordinate system

1519 Died in Philippines 1714
Ferdinand Magellan = Portuguese navigator/explorer Clock kept time to accurate a ships
• led 1st travel around the world home port
• fleet: 5 ships (250 men) -
1 ship 18 men returned


1804 1864
Lewis and Clark made the 1st accurate maps George Perkins marsh = US scholar
• discovered Western areas • Book: man and nature (linked humans to
environmental damage)

, 1909 1911
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1969 I




Earth poled reached 600 mil saw Armstrong walk on the moon
• North Pole: Peary + henson • 1st human on the moon
• South Pole: Road Amundsen
2000
President Clinton Unscrambled GPS signal
Earth, people, and environmental geography

Alexander Humboldt used science to study geography linking physical environments to
human activities
Founder of modern geography

Call Ritter promoted environmental determinism. His thoughts influenced early geography

Environmental determinism: thought that the earth (physical environment) shaped human
activities

Carl sauer highlighted that humans shape the environment by choices. Geography/patterns
differentiate by place, divided into physical, human, and environmental

Geography branches

Physical geography

physical Geography: studies natural features and processes(weather, land, food/plant, and disasters)
examines where and why they occur and there patterns

Earth system science: The study of how earth natural systems interact globally, and how natural
events appear in multiple regions '

Human geography
• where are human activities located?
Human geography: study of human activities on earth • why are they there?
and how there distributed
Subfields: areas that study specifics of human
activity (cultural, economic, political geography)

Human activity examples
• Cities, businesses, religions
• Research centers, population patterns





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geography

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