Correlations

The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 9th Edition ©2008

James M. Rubenstein

Correlated to: Advanced Placement* (AP*) Human Geography Topics

I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

A. Geography as a field of inquiry	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
B. Geographical concepts and models	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
C. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective	Chapter 1 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
D. Key geographical skills:
1. maps and spatial data	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
2. implications of associations among phenomena in places	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
3. different scales and relationships among patterns	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
4. regions and the regionalization processes	Chapter 1 Key Issue 2
5. Changing interconnections among places	Chapter 1 Key Issue 3
E. Geographic Technologies	Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
F. Sources of geographical ideas and data

II. Population

A. Geographical analysis of population
1. density, distribution, and scale	Chapter 2 Key Issue 1
2. consequences of various densities and distributions	Chapter 2 Key Issue 4; Chapter 3 Key Issue 1
3. patterns of composition: age, sex, race, ethnicity	Chapter 2 Key Issue 3
4. population and natural hazards	Chapter 3 Key Issue 1
B. Population growth and decline over time and space
1. historical trends and projections	Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4
2. theories of population growth	Chapter 2 Key Issues 3 and 4
3. patterns of fertility, mortality, and health	Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4
4. regional variations of demographic transitions	Chapter 2 Key Issue 3
5. effects of population policies	Chapter 2 Key Issue 4; Chapter 3 Key Issue 3
C. Population movement
1. push and pull factors	Chapter 3 Key Issues 1 and 4
2. major voluntary and involuntary migrations	Chapter 3 Key Issues 1, 2, and 4
3. migration selectivity	Chapter 3 Key Issue 4
4. short-term, local movements, and activity space	Chapter 3 Key Issue 1

III. Cultural Patterns and Processes

A. Concepts of culture
1. traits	Chapter 4 Key Issue 1; Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3; Chapter 6 Key Issue 1; Chapter 7 Key Issues 1 and 2
2. diffusion	Chapter 4 Key Issues 1 and 3; Chapter 5 Key Issue 1; Chapter 6 Key Issue 2; Chapter 7 Key Issue 1
3. acculturation	Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issue 2
4. cultural regions	Chapter 5 Key Issues 1 and 3; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3; Chapter 7 Key Issue 2
B. Cultural differences
1. language	Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
2. religion	Chapter 6 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
3. ethnicity	Chapter 6 Key Issue 4; Chapter 7 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
4. gender	Chapter 4 Key Issue 4
5. popular and folk culture	Chapter 4 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
C. Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices	Chapter 4 Key Issues 2 and 4; Chapter 6 Key Issue 3
D. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity
1. values and preferences	Chapter 4 Key Issues 2 and 4; Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3
2. symbolic landscapes and sense of place	Chapter 4 Key Issue 2; Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3

IV. Political Organization of Space

A. Territorial dimensions of politics
1. concept of territoriality	Chapter 8 Key Issue 1
2. nature and meaning of boundaries	Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
3. influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange	Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern
1. nation-state concept	Chapter 8 Key Issue 1
2. colonialism and imperialism	Chapter 8 Key Issue 1
3. federal and unitary states	Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
C. Challenges to political-territorial arrangements	Chapter 8 Key Issue 4
1. changing nature of sovereignty	Chapter 7 Key Issue 2
2. fragmentation, unification, alliance	Chapter 7 Key Issue 2; Chapter 8 Key Issues 2 and 3
3. spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment	Chapter 7 Key Issues 2 ,3, and 4; Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
4. electoral geography, including gerrymandering	Chapter 8 Key Issue 2

V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use

A. Development and diffusion of agriculture
1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution	Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
2. Second Agricultural revolution	Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
B. Major agricultural production regions
1. agricultural systems associated with bioclimatic zones	Chapter 10 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
2. variations within major zones and effects of markets	Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4
3. linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption	Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4
C. Rural land use and settlement patterns
1. models of agricultural land us, including von Thünen's model	Chapter 10 Key Issue 3
2. settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types	Chapter 12 Key Issue 1
D. Modern commercial agriculture
1. Third Agricultural Revolution	Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
2. Green Revolution	Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
3. Biotechnology	Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
4. spatial organization and diffusion of industrial agriculture	Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 3
5. future food supplies and environmental impacts	Chapter 10 Key Issue 4

VI. Industrialization and Development

A. Key concepts in industrialization and development	Chapter 9 Key Issues 1, 2 and 3; Chapter 11 Key Issue 2
B. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
1. changing role of energy and technology	Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4; Chapter 14 Key Issues 1 and 3
2. Industrial Revolution	Chapter 11 Key Issue 1
3. evolution of economic cores and peripheries	Chapter 11 Key Issue 1
4. geographic critiques of models of economic localization, industrial location, economic development and world systems	Chapter 9 Key Issue 4
C. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
1. spatial Chapter 9 Key Issue 2; Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4organization of the world economy
2. variations in levels of development	Chapter 9 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
3. deindustrialization and economic restructuring	Chapter 11 Key Issue 3
4. pollution, health, and quality of life	Chapter 14 Key Issue 2
5. industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability	Chapter 14 Key Issues 3 and 4
6. local development initiatives: government policies	Chapter 11 Key Issue 3

VII. Cities and Urban Land Use

A. Definitions of urbanism	Chapter 13 Key Issue 1
B. Origin and evolution of cities
1. historical patterns of urbanization	Chapter 13 Key Issue 1
2. rural-urban migration and urban growth	Chapter 13 Key Issue 1
3. global cities and megacities	Chapter 12 Key Issue 3
4. models of urban cities	Chapter 12 Key Issue 2
C. Functional character of contemporary cities
1. changing employment mix	Chapter 12 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4
2. changing demographic and social structures	Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
D. Built environment and social space
1. comparative models of internal city structure	Chapter 13 Key Issues 2 and 4
2. transportation and infrastructure	Chapter 13 Key Issues 3 and 4
3. political organization of urban areas	Chapter 13 Key Issues 1 and 4
4. urban planning and design	Chapter 12 Key Issue 4; Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
5. patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and class	Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
6. uneven development, gentrification, and ghettoization	Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
7. impacts of suburbanization and edge cities	Chapter 13 Key Issue 4