When discussing urban geography, more particularly cities and urban land use, it is important to understand the gravity model, as we will discuss in this study guide. The gravity model helps to give a clearer understanding of the distribution and size of cities while also providing useful explanations of interactions among networks among cities.
Are you an urbanite? Whether you like it or not, you are probably one of the growing numbers of people in the United States who live either in a city or close enough to quickly travel to one. Cities are growing much faster than rural areas, and the dynamics of urban geography are an important subject to know about for the AP® Human Geography exam.
In this AP® Human Geography Review we will look at a physiological density definition to know what it really is and just how it relates to population density as a whole.
Regions are a highly contested yet critical concept in the study of human geography and can be studied as they relate to space, place, and location. Regions allow us to generalize about a common characteristic so we can better group them.
The organic theory, along with the Heartland and Rimland theories, falls under political geography, otherwise known as geopolitics. Geopolitics refers to how politics plays a role in geography and influences different geographic attributes such as political borders.
Are you a city person? Whether you like it or not, you are probably like more than half of the population of the United States and live either in a city or close enough to quickly travel to one. Cities are growing much faster than rural areas, and it is important for you to learn about the dynamics of urban geography.
Do you live in a galactic city? Cities are growing much faster than rural areas, and the dynamics of urban geography is an important subject to know about for the AP® Human Geography exam.
Understanding religious differences is important to the field of human geography. So how do you as a geographer study religion? Geographers research and document the location of religions and use the results to explain why certain religions are widely distributed and why other religions are extremely concentrated.
In the early eighteenth century, Johann Heinrich von Thünen designed one of the very first geographical models. The von Thünen model was key to solving a big problem in his day—how to balance the cost of land with the best crop to produce.