AP Human Geography

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AP Human Geography

• Northern Secondary School
• Toronto, Ontario
• Merilyn McKelvey
• Geography and Civics

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Writing and Reading

• Why write the AP Human Geography exam?
• Unit Review
• Exam Format
• Exam Reading
• Sample Questions
• Practice Exam

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Quotes from Students

• Im aceing my first-year Geography course.
  Were using the same text that we used in your
  class last year. Thanks a lot!
• My university gave me a first-year credit
  because of my good standing on the AP exam. I
  now have more time to concentrate on my other
  courses.
• Even though my school doesnt accept AP
  standings, I was much less nervous during my
  first university exam.

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AP Human Geography Outline

1. Nature and Perspectives
2. Population
3. Cultural Patterns and Processes
4. Political Organization of Space
5. Agricultural and Rural Land Use
6. Industrialization and Economic Development
7. Cities and Urban Land Use

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AP Human Geography Exam

• 2.25 hrs multiple choice and free response
• 39,878 exams written in 2008
• 112,500 exams in 2013
• Credit accepted at SFU, UBC, Victoria, Calgary,
  Alberta, Saskatchewan, Brandon, York, Carleton,
  Guelph, Toronto, Brock, Ottawa, Queens,
  McMaster, Waterloo, Western Ontario, Wilfred
  Laurier, Laurentian, McGill, Concordia, Bishops,
  St. Marys, Memorial

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Canadian Exam Statistics

• AP in Canada
• 17,000 exams written in 2012
• 438 Human Geography exams in 2013
• AP in Ontario
• 137 Human Geography exams
• 2014 exam Tuesday noon, May 13

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Pass Another Pile

• Follow the rubric!
• Consistency checks
• Readers, Table Leaders and Question Leaders
• Sample Responses
• Suggestions for Students

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Suggestions for Students

• Read the question
• Read the question again, looking for
• Stimulus material (graphs, maps, charts,
  diagrams)
• Key words
• Follow question structure when answering
• Blank line between sections
• Each question on a new page
• Write legibly
• Use key terms
• Explain ideas and/or process

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AP Exam

• Multiple Choice

• 3 Free-Response questions

• 75 questions
• 1 hour
• Only one student out of 112,500 got 100

• Marks for content
• 1 hour and 15 minutes
• No penalty for guessing

https//apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-hum
an-geography/exam-practice http//www.mrsgoldste
insclass.com/uploads/1/8/5/9/18597726/frqs_2000-20
10.pdf
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Multiple-Choice Question

• As an academic discipline, geography is
  principally concerned with the
• nature and meaning of place names.
• impact of the environment on human understandings
  and activities.
• evolving character and spatial organization of
  Earths surface.
• absolute location of places, peoples, and
  processes on Earths surface.
• construction of maps that depict places, peoples,
  and processes as accurately as possible.
• Answer C

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Multiple-Choice Question

• OPEC is an example of a(n)
• Supranational organization
• Commonwealth
• Confederacy
• International organization
• National organization
• Answer d

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Free-Response Question 2007
http//apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repos
itory/ap07_human_geo_q1.pdf
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Von Thünens Agricultural Model

• The drawings reflect agricultural activities in
  the hinterland of a large urban area.
• Apply the underlying principles of von Thünens
  agricultural land-use model to predict the
  locations of the activities shown in X and Y
  relative to a large urban area.

X is located closer to the city and Y is located
further from the city. 1 Point
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Von Thünens Agricultural Model
http//jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/2/9.html
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Von Thünens Agricultural Model

• The drawings reflect agricultural activities in
  the hinterland of a large urban area.
• Choose either activity X or activity Y and apply
  the underlying principles of von Thünens
  agricultural land-use model to explain the
  location of that activity.

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Von Thünens Model

• X represents intensive agriculture, higher-value
  land, perishable goods, accessibility to market,
  where the farmer can maximize profit
• Y represents extensive agriculture, lower-value
  land, fewer perishable goods, less accessibility
  to market, where the farmer can maximize profit
• 1 point for identifying the concept
• 1 point for explanation

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Von Thünens Agricultural Model

• The drawings reflect agricultural activities in
  the hinterland of a large urban area.
• Discuss two factors that explain why agricultural
  land-use patterns today differ from those
  developed by von Thünens model in 1826.

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Von Thünens Agricultural Model

• Changes to model since 1826
• Refrigeration and food preservation
• Improved transportation
• Regional, global markets
• Corporate decision making
• Government policies
• Agricultural products used for purposes other
  than food
• Forests no longer occupy a zone close to the
  market
• 4 points
• 1 point for the identification of each of two
  factors
• 1 point for each of the two discussions

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Free-Response Question

• In many cities in the Midwest United States,
  abandoned and dilapidated warehouses and
  factories can be found throughout the Central
  Business District (CBD).
• Describe the processes leading to the abandonment
  of these facilities. What are the likely current
  locations for the businesses previously occupying
  these spaces?
• Discuss at least two negative ramifications of
  the deindustrialization process that led to these
  kinds of urban landscapes.

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Free-Response Question

• Describe the processes leading to the abandonment
  of these facilities.
• 1. Deindustrialization moving to where labour
  and other costs are cheaper
• 2. Suburbanization
• 3. Globalization improved transportation and
  communications technologies
• 2 points

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Free-Response Question

• What are the likely current locations for the
  businesses previously occupying these spaces?
• EPZs Export Processing Zones in Middle America
  and Southeast and East Asia where there is duty-
  and tariff-free production of manufactured goods
• SEZs Special Economic Zones in China
• 1 point

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Free-Response Question

• Discuss at least two negative ramifications of
  the deindustrialization process that led to these
  kinds of urban landscapes.
• Unemployment
• Loss of tax base
• Brownfields
• Racial segregation
• 2 points for identification of negative
  ramifications
• 2 points for correct discussion of ramifications

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Practice Exam

• Available online and in workbooks

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AP Scores

• Your score is a weighted combination of your
  scores on the multiple-choice section and on the
  free-response section. The final score is
  reported on a 5-point scale as follows
• 5 extremely well qualified4 well
  qualified3 qualified2 possibly qualified1
  no recommendation

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Reading AP Human Geography

• June 2001
• 17 readers
• June 2009
• 200 readers in Lincoln, Nebraska

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1. Nature and Perspectives

• Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympics
  http//www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/spor
  ts/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

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• Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympics
  http//www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/spor
  ts/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

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1896 Games Athens
1912 Games Stockholm
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Dorling Cartograms of 2010 Winter Olympics
http//2010games.nytimes.com/medals/map.html
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Dorling Cartograms of Obesity in the United
States 1995 - 2008
http//hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/maps/ca
rtogram.html Colour shows of population who are
obese by state Size of circle shows absolute
number of obese people by state Animated.
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