AP Human Geography Test Prep: Interactive Study Guide

This is an online review activity and study guide for the AP Human Geography exam. It will cover many of the key models in the College Board AP Human Geography Course Description. It provides a quick overview of each topic and interactive knowledge check questions such as multiple-choice and matching.

This resource will help your students identify and review many of the key concepts, maps, and models they need to know for the exam.

Topics covered include:

• Köppen Climate System

• Indo-European Language Tree

• Marija Gimbutas' Kurgan Hypothesis

• Neocolonialism

• Carl Sauer's Cultural Landscape & Domestication

• Joel Garreau's Nine Nations of North America

• Gravity Model

• Bid-Rent Theory

• von Thunen's Agricultural Model

• Renfrew Hypothesis, Dispersal Theory, Conquest & Agricultural Theory

• Thomas Malthus (Population) and Esther Boserup

• Agricultural Hearths

• Ravenstein's Laws of Migration

• World Systems Analysis (Core-Periphery Model by Wallerstein)

• Demographic Transition Model

• Central Place Theory (Christaller)

• Economic Sectors

• Heartland (MacKinder) and Rimland (Spykman) Theories

• Modernization Model (Stages of Development by Rostow)

• Global Urban Models (Latin American, Southeast Asian by McGee)

• Organic Theory (Ratzel)

• Jared Diamond's "Geographic Luck"

• Rank-Size Rule

• Models of Industrial Location (Least Cost Theory by Weber)

• Zelinsky's Perceptual Regions

• World Religions

• North American Urban Models (Concentric Circle, Sector, Multiple Nuclei)