AP Human Geography

Unit 7 Syllabus (13-17%)

Industrialization &
Economic Development
Rubenstein Chapter 10: Development
Rubenstein Chapter 11: Industry

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

4/30 5/1 5/2 5/3 5/4
Unit 6 FRQ Workshop Rostow, Wallerstein, Practice Test The Lorax! ☺
Nolan Theories in class
Test Intro notes, ppt on theories
& poster activity
Due: Stages of
Due: 3 FRQs Due: 10.2 Due: 10.3 & 10.4 Development Wkst
5/7 5/8 5/9 5/10 5/11
Industrialization Spatial Distribution 3 FRQs in class Site & Situation
Stages & Types Notes, manufacturing Notes, Transportation
Unit 7 Test
Rank best → worst
map, & Weber’s Theory Activity, Outsourcing
worksheet
Due: Power of Place
Ep 26 part 2, Ep 5 part
Due: 11.1 & 11.2 Due: 11.3 Due: 11.4 1, & Ep 11 part 2 Due: vocab
*12.1 = Chapter 12, Key Issue 1
* LATE WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. Please plan accordingly.

At the end of this unit you should have:

- Read Chapter 12 in your textbook and completed reading check questions
- Read Chapter 13 in your textbook and completed reading check questions
- defined the vocabulary on the back of this sheet

VII. Cities and Urban Land Use (13-17%)

Definitions of urbanism
Origin and evolution of cities
Historical patterns of urbanization
Rural-urban migration and urban growth
Global cities and megacities
Models of urban systems
Functional character of contemporary cities
Changing employment mix
Changing demographic and social structures
Built environment and social space
Comparative models of internal city structure
Transportation and infrastructure
Political organization of urban areas
Urban planning and design
Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and class
Uneven development, ghettoization, and gentrification
Impacts of suburbanization and edge cities
Industrialization Terms
word, definition, geographic example → make sure to number your vocabulary

1. agglomeration
2. bulk-reducing industries,
bulk-gaining industries
3. capitalist world economy
4. compressed modernity
5. conglomerate corporations
6. deglomeration
7. deindustrialization
8. dependency theory
9. distance decay
10. economic geography
11. export-oriented industrialization
12. fossil fuels
13. friction of distance
14. infrastructure
15. Kanto Plain
16. location theory
17. locational interdependence
18. maquiladora district
19. modernization model
20. new international division of
labor
21. newly industrializing country
22. post-industrial societies
23. Rostow’s stages
24. secondary industrial region
25. single market manufacturers
26. site factors
27. social development
28. space-time compression
29. Special Economic Zones
30. substitution principle
31. sustainable development
32. trading blocs
33. transnational
corporations
34. value added productivity
35. variable revenue analysis
36. Wallerstein, Emanuel
37. Watt, James