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v. t. e. Advanced Placement ( AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, AP HuG, AP Human, HuGS, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [ 1]
I = (PAT) is the mathematical notation of a formula put forward to describe the impact of human activity on the environment . I = P × A × T. The expression equates human impact on the environment to a function of three factors: population (P), affluence (A) and technology (T). [ 1] It is similar in form to the Kaya identity, which applies ...
The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." [ 1] This first law is the foundation of the fundamental concepts of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation and is utilized specifically for the inverse distance weighting method for ...
Secularization. In sociology, secularization ( British English: secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." [ 1] There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion. [ 2]
Advanced Placement ( AP) [ 4] is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board. AP offers undergraduate university-level curricula and examinations to high school students. Colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere may grant placement and course credit to students who obtain qualifying scores on the examinations.
v. t. e. Central place theory is an urban geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and range of market services in a commercial system or human settlements in a residential system. [ 1] It was introduced in 1933 to explain the spatial distribution of cities across the landscape. [ 2] The theory was first analyzed by German ...
At the level of international relations, geopolitics is a method of studying foreign policy to understand, explain, and predict international political behavior through geographical variables. These include area studies, climate, topography, demography, natural resources, and applied science of the region being evaluated.
Exam. The AP U.S. History exam lasts 3 hours and 15 minutes and consists of two sections, with the first (Section I) being divided into two parts. Section I part A includes 55 multiple-choice questions with each question containing four choices. The multiple choice questions cover American history from just before European contact with Native ...