AP Human Geography :

1. AP Human Geography: David Joiner St. Andrew’s College david.joiner@sac.on.ca Writing and Reading St. Andrew’s College, 2009-10

2. Travelogue

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

4. Quotes from Students • “I’m ‘aceing’ my first-year Geography course, sir. We’re 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 doesn’t accept AP standings, I was much less nervous during my first university exam.”

5. AP Human Geography Course • Nature and Perspectives • Population • Cultural Patterns and Processes • Political Organization of Space • Agricultural and Rural Land Use • Industrialization and Economic Development • Cities and Urban Land Use

6. AP Human Geography Exam • 2.25 hrs; multiple choice and free response • 39 878 Human Geography exams in 2008(+37% from 2007; +38% 2006 to 2007) • Credit accepted at SFU, Victoria, Calgary, Saskatchewan, Brandon, York, Carleton, Guelph, Toronto (Scar.), Brock, Ottawa, Queen’s, McMaster, Waterloo, Nipissing, Wilfred Laurier, Laurentian, McGill, Concordia, Bishop’s, St. Mary’s, Memorial

7. Recent Canadian Exam Statistics • AP in Canada • 20 273 exams in 2008 (19 258 in 2007) • 282 Human Geography exams in 2008 • AP in Ontario • 137 Human Geography exams in 2008 • 2010 exam Friday am, May 14

8. Reading AP Human Geography • June 2001 • 17 readers • June 2009 • Approx. 200 readers in Lincoln, Nebraska

9. Reading AP Human Geography • Concurrent with AP Chemistry and AP German • Extra Activities • Great Food

10. Pass Another Pile • Follow the rubric! • Consistency checks • Readers, Table Leaders and Question Leaders • Sample Responses • Suggestions for Students

11. 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

12. Multiple-Choice Questions • 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 Earth’s surface. • absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on Earth’s surface. • construction of maps that depict places, peoples, and processes as accurately as possible.(see course description booklet for more)

13. Free-Response Questions 2007 1.

14. 1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model The drawings above reflect agricultural activities in the hinterland of a large urban area. Apply the underlying principles of von Thünen’s agricultural land-use model to predict the locations of the activities shown in X and Y relative to a large urban area.

15. 1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model The drawings above 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 Thünen’s agricultural land-use model to explain the location of that activity.

16. 1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model The drawings above 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 Thünen’s model in 1826.

17. Practice Exam • Available to audited instructors

18. 1. Nature and Perspectives • Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

19. Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

21. Enjoy the World!