AP Human Geography Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Migration: Pattern where migrants follow relatives or others from same origin.
  2. 7. A region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces.
  3. 8. Density: People per unit of arable land; shows strain on agricultural resources.
  4. 9. Thünen Model: Explains agricultural land use in concentric rings around a market.
  5. 11. The clustering of businesses for mutual benefit, often seen in cities.
  6. 13. Discriminatory real estate practice restricting minority homeownership.
  7. 15. Selling homes at a low price to white owners due to fear of minorities.
  8. 17. Urbanism: Planning movement promoting walkable neighborhoods and mixed-use spaces.
  9. 20. Organization: Entities involving three or more nations (e.g., EU, UN).
  10. 22. Sector: Economic activities involving high-level decision making and intellectual leadership.
  11. 24. Force: Factors that unify and bind a country together (e.g., nationalism).
Down
  1. 1. Boundary: Border separating two major world religions (e.g., India–Pakistan).
  2. 2. Laws: Set of 19th-century principles explaining patterns of migration.
  3. 4. The transfer of power from a central government to subnational units.
  4. 5. Density: Number of people per unit of land, not accounting for usability.
  5. 6. Agriculture: Farming that uses high inputs of labor or capital per unit of land.
  6. 10. Franca: A common language used among speakers of different native languages.
  7. 12. Pole: An urban center around which economic development spreads outward.
  8. 14. A geographic boundary of a particular linguistic feature.
  9. 15. Theory: Explains how land value and demand decrease with distance from CBD.
  10. 16. Force: Forces that divide a country (e.g., ethnic tension, separatism).
  11. 18. Compression: The shrinking sense of distance due to improvements in transportation and communication technologies.
  12. 19. Model: Predicts interaction between two places based on size and distance.
  13. 21. Farming: Commercial gardening and fruit farming, often near urban centers.
  14. 23. Revolution: 20th-century tech advancements that increased food production globally.