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Advanced Placement Human Geography
Summer Assignment and Readings
Required Study Guides- AP Barron’s Study Guide- (Available used on Amazon.com
for $2.17 plus shipping)- will need to be purchased prior to the first week of school
Required Readings- will need to be read by the first week of school
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The Tao of Poo- (Available used on Amazon.com for one cent plus shipping)
Three Cups of Tea- (Available used on Amazon.com for $4.43 plus shipping)
The World is Flat- (Available used on Amazon.com for $7.97 plus shipping)
The Hot Zone- (Available used on Amazon.com for $3.43 plus shipping)
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing
Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)- (Available
used on Amazon.com for $1.99 plus shipping)
6. China, Inc.
Personal Field Trips- To visit with parents, guardians, or friends- with parent’s
permission
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The Carlos Museum at Emory University
The High Museum of Atlanta
The Fernbank Museum
Restaurants- Chinese, Japanese, Thai, India, African, Caribbean, Korean,
Malaysian, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese, Mexican, Spanish, Latin American,
Italian, Greek, French
Movie Suggestions- with parent’s permission
1. Kundun- religion
2. The Last Emperor- Chinese culture
3. Amistad- Slavery
4. Day after Tomorrow- Climate
5. Volcano- Planet
6. Dante’s Peak- Planet
7. Slumdog Millionaire- Indian culture
8. Gandhi- Indian history and culture
9. Amazing Grace- slavery
10. Cry Freedom- apartheid
11. A Dry White Season- apartheid
12. Hotel Rwanda- ethnic genocide
13. Six Degrees- climate
14. An Inconvenient Truth- climate
15. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World- colonialism/empire
building
16. The Third Miracle- religion
17. Shindler’s List- ethnic cleansing and Holocaust
18. Seven Years in Tibet- religion
19. Sword of Gideon- ethnic clashes, political dispute
20. The Da Vinci Code- religion, history (fiction)
Instructor: Ms. Lawler
You will need to purchase the Barron's 2008 AP Human Geography Study Guide. It is
around $3-17 and can be found on Amazon.com
 For this summer you will need note cards for vocabulary.
 You will also need a set of maps. You can print them on-line. If you have any questions after reading
this assignment please contact me via e-mail at [email protected], or phone at 770-289-9004.
1. Vocabulary- In your notebook, define and identify the terms and people listed below and give a real-world
example for each word. Please begin with the following basic terms and have these ready to check within the
first few days of class:
Acculturation
Location (absolute, relative and place name)
Agricultural density
Longitude (Meridian)
Anthropogenic
Map
Arithmetic density
Mental map
Area
Movement
Assimilation
Natural Landscape
Base line
Nomothetic
Carl Sauer
Pattern
Cartography
Physical geography
Concentration
Physiological distance
Connections
Place
Contagious diffusion
Possibilism
Cultural diffusion
Projection
Cultural ecology
Ptolemy
Cultural landscape
Qualitative data
Culture
Quantitative data
Density
Quantitative revolution
Diffusion
Region
Distance Decay
Regional geography
Distribution
Relocation diffusion
Earth system science
Remote Sensing
Environmental determinism
Resource
Environmental geography
Scale
Eratosthenes
Section
Expansion diffusion
Sense of place
Fertile Crescent
Site
Formal region
Situation
Functional region
Space
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Space-time compression
George Perkins Marsh
Spatial perspective
Globalization
Stimulus diffusion
Global Positional System (GPS)
Sustainability
Greenwich Mean Time
Systemic geography
Hearth
Thematic layers
Hierarchical diffusion
Toponym
Human Geography
Township
Idiographic
Transnational corporation
International Date Line
Uneven development
Land Ordinance of 1785
Transculturation
Latitude (Parallel)
Vernacular region
Legend
W.D. Patterson
Mental Maps: The World Regions:
Create your own atlas!
1. Print off physical and political maps ofNorth America,
Latin America,
Europe,
Middle East or Southwest Asia/North Africa,
Russia and the Republics,
Africa (Sub-Saharan),
South Asia,
Southeast Asia,
East Asia,
Oceania and Australia/New Zealand
2. Label the major physical features-mountains, rivers, deserts, etc. Once you are confident about regions, and major
physical features, then work on countries within these regions.
3. Label the countries and major urban areas. HINT- Have a mental map of the United States and Canada (States,
provinces, and major cities). The United States and Canada may be your first map quiz. Get started right away!
4. Finally, set your cap at being an explorer! Be curious about the whole world. Start watching the news and reading the
international and local sections of major newspapers. Make it a point to learn about what is going on in the world and
discuss it with your family or friends.
Websites: Vocabulary help:
http://www.infoplease.com/;
http://www.quia.com/jg/853598.html;
http://www.studystack.com/menu-1575
http://www.dictionary.com
Mental map help:
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm;
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/mapquiz/menu/menu.htm;
http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/;
http://www.50states.com/maps/usamap.htm;
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html