The AP world essay questions will ask you to compare and contrast regions and to analyze regional changes and continuities over time. If AP asks you to analyze East Asia, discussing India (South Asia) would be a "0".
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| 2362172208 | AP Regional Geography |  | 0 | |
| 2362172209 | Afroeurasia | the landmass made up of Africa and Eurasia together. This geographical expression serves as a helpful tool in discussing large-scale historical developments that cut across the traditionally-defined continental divisions of Africa, Asia, and Europe. |  | 1 |
| 2362172210 | Eurasia | ____ is the landmass made up of Asia & Europe. The idea that Europe and Asia are separate continents goes back many centuries, but scholars who accept the definition of a continent as "a large landmass surrounded, or nearly surrounded, by water" know that the definition applies to neither Europe nor Asia because these two landmasses are conjoined. Most world historians define Europe as a subcontinent of Eurasia. |  | 2 |
| 2362172211 | Americas | The ______ are made up of the continents of North America and South America, including neighboring islands, notably the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Until the twentieth century, most geography books classified North and South America together as a single continent, labeling them the "New World" ("new" to Europeans beginning in the late fifteenth century CE) in contradistinction to the "Old World," that is Afroeurasia. |  | 3 |
| 2362172212 | East Asia | The Yellow region is called ? |  | 4 |
| 2362172213 | South East Asia | The Dark Green region is called? |  | 5 |
| 2362172214 | South Asia | The Purple region is called? |  | 6 |
| 2362172215 | Middle East | The Bright Green region is called? |  | 7 |
| 2362172216 | Sub-Saharan Africa | The Dark Brown region is called? |  | 8 |
| 2362172217 | North Africa | The Light Brown region is called? |  | 9 |
| 2362172218 | North America | The Dark Orange region is called? |  | 10 |
| 2362172219 | Oceania | The Grey region is called? |  | 11 |
| 2362172220 | Mercator Map v. Peters Projection |  | 12 | |
| 2362172221 | Mercator Map | shows directions accurately; sizes and distances are distorted |  | 13 |
| 2362172222 | Peters Projection | a cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses |  | 14 |
