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AP World History Geography Flashcards

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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2769817670AP Regional Geography0
2769817671Afroeurasiathe 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
2769817672Eurasia____ 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
2769817673AmericasThe ______ 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
2769817674East AsiaThe Yellow region is called ?4
2769817675South East AsiaThe Dark Green region is called?5
2769817676South AsiaThe Purple region is called?6
2769817677Middle EastThe Bright Green region is called?7
2769817678Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Dark Brown region is called?8
2769817679North AfricaThe Light Brown region is called?9
2769817680North AmericaThe Dark Orange region is called?10
2769817681OceaniaThe Grey region is called?11
2769817682Mercator Map v. Peters Projection12
2769817683Mercator Mapshows directions accurately; sizes and distances are distorted13
2769817684Peters Projectiona cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses14

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