AP Human Geography

MIKVA….1 WEEK LEFT!!!! Reading Guides….should be easy points! READ CAREFULLY AND THOUROGHLY! Should be no blanks…ASK FOR HELP! Too many people missing homework assignments. Crucial part of grade Balances out assessment scores Workload is heavy, but if you want to be successful you have to earn it! This should be the hardest class you’ve ever taken It is in preparation for college/ at college level Collaboration is okay, but copying/ cheating is never acceptable. If you have the same wrong answers as someone else or the same missing answers, it is clear that you copied. Sacrifices? It is up to you, but academic success (and success in general) doesn’t come for free. If what you are doing isn’t working, change it up.

Demographic Transition…what is it? Stage 1: Low growth…CBR and CDR fluctuate Stage 2: High growth…CBR remains high, CDR drops Stage 3: Moderate growth…CBR begins to drop, gets closer to CDR. Stage 4: Low growth…CBR and CDR are close to = Population Pyramids Show age/ sex distribution of a country in a given year. Can show us “age” of a country, help predict future population.

Thomas Malthus/Overpopulation Believed population would outgrow food supply. Right about population, wrong about food. Declining Birth Rates Economic development Contraceptives Epidemiologic Transition Causes of death in each stage of DTM. Stage 1 and 2: Pestilence, disease, famine Stage 3 and 4: Chronic diseases (cancer, heart disease)

Movement of a group of objects, organisms, people, or animals (general definition) Birds flying south for the winter College students returning to campus in the fall A permanent move to a new location (AP HG definition) Leaving a rural area for an urban area (Great Migration) Leaving an LDC for a MDC (Mexico to U.S.) Emigration- migration from a location Immigration- migration to a location

Economic motives Jobs, jobs, jobs! (LDC’s to MDC’s, rural to urban) Cultural motives Political instability/ persecution (genocide in Sudan, Pilgrims) Slavery (Africa to Americas) Environmental motives Lack/ abundance of resources (drought in Chad, Florida) Natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina) Push and Pull factors Push factors…reasons that people leave a country (lack of jobs, war, persecution, natural disasters) Pull factors…reasons that become come to a country (jobs, peace, stability, education, natural beauty)

Forced Compelled to move by cultural factors. War Exile Persecution Choosing to move for economic improvement. Jobs Voluntary

International Migration From one country to another. Mexico to U.S.A. Within a country. Dwight to Chicago Detroit to NYC Internal Migration