人文地理学涉及空间概念及景观分析两方面，Ap学生用它们来研究社会经济组织及其对环境的影响。这门课程的整体学习内容较为丰富，包括七个模块的内容。下面我们就这门课程中的一些关键知识点和技能要求做详细讲解。

一、主要模块

Unit 1: Thinking Geographically

Unit 2: population and Migration patterns and processes

Unit 3: Cultural patterns and processes

Unit 4: political patterns and processes

Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use patterns and processes

Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use patterns and processes

Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development patterns and processes

除了几个单元模块的重点内容，同学们还需要以这些Big idea来作为人文地理课的基础，建立起对概念和概念之间的联系，同时对这些概念有更深的了解。

Big Idea 1: patterns and Spatial Organization

Big Idea 2: Impacts and Interactions

Big Idea 3: Spatial process and Societal Change

二、考前复习重点(技能要求)

1. Concepts and processes

主要是关于地理理论、方法、概念、过程还有模型等等的分析和理解，而这些都是在理论+应用背景下完成。

2.Spatial Relationships

这一部分重点在于你要在一个特定的应用环境下来分析地理模式、关系以及结果等。

3.Data Analysis

主要是分析、解释包括地图、图表、卫星图像、信息图形相关数据等。

4.Source Analysis

分析对象包括地图、各类图像、风景力的定性地理信息。

5.Scale Analysis

重点放在理论、方法、概念、过程方面，还有用跨地理尺度模型解释空间关系。

三、考试须知

1.时间

人文地理这门课的整体考试时间为诶两小时十五分钟。

2.问题

题型有选择题(60)+自由回答题(3)

3.测试形式

多样化的参考材料会出现在题目中，例如可能给你一张地图，让你分析某些地理相关的问题，选择最恰当的选项。第二部分主要把显示问题放在题目中，综合考验学生的能力。

四、考试题示例

1.选择

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 and the partition of India in 1947 changed borders in Africa and South Asia and are reflected in the current world map. Which of the following best describes the type of political border resulting from these events?

(A) Relic boundaries

(B) Antecedent boundaries

(C) Consequent boundaries

(D) Superimposed boundaries

(E) Subsequent boundaries

2.自由回答

In most countries,the concept of the state as a political unit is subject to the tensions between centrifugal and centripetal forces. Governments are often challenged by the devolutionary factors that challenge state sovereignty.

(A) Define the concept of the multinational state.

(B) Explain how ethnicity can be a factor that leads to the devolution of a state.

(C) Explain how communication technology plays an important role in the goals of devolutionary groups and democracy movements.

(D) Explain the limitations of communication technology in furthering the goals of devolutionary groups and democracy movements.

(E) Describe ONE centripetal force that governments use to promote the state as a nation.

(F) Explain how uneven development within a state can act as a centrifugal force.

(G) For a multinational state facing the realities of devolution,explain why a government would choose to create an autonomous region or choose to maintain a unitary state.

以上是Ap人文地理课的全部复习内容，大家在复习时可以参考重点要求进行复习。如果有不能理解的问题，可以找留求艺的一对一Ap课程指导老师辅导!