2. AP Human Geography

3. Course Outline Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives 5-10% Population: 13-17% Cultural Patterns and Processes: 13-17% Political Organization of Space: 13-17% Agricultural and Rural Land Use: 13-17% Industrialization and Economic Development: 13-17% Cities and Urban Land Use: 13-17%

4. The Exam two-hours and 15 minutes 75 multiple choice (60 minutes) 3 essays in free response section (75 minutes- answer all 3 FRQ’s) Students who score high enough on the exam can receive college credit for taking the course.

5. What is Geography?

6. Definitions Literal Definition: a description of the earth Emmanuel Kant: “ History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space. ” Hartshorn: “ Geography is the discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man. ” Greenland: “ Geography is the study of the distribution and interrelationships of the elements of the human environment and the relationships between humans and the physical environment. ” Your Definition:

7. Method vs Perspective Geographic Method: using geographic information to describe the earth Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid through which information is interpreted Example: The Earth at Night

8. Geographic Investigation Process - 4 Level Analysis Level 1 - What? Where? When? Scale? Level 2 - Pattern Identification Level 3 Why there? How did it get there? Level 4 (prediction) So what? What if? Impacts? Effects?

9. Earth at Night - Global Scale

10. North America at Night - Regional Scale Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe

11. Your State at Night - Local Scale Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif

12. Geographic Investigation Process Level 1 - What? Where? When? Level 2 - Pattern Identification Level 3 Why there? How did it get there? Level 4 So what? What if? Impacts? Effects?