APWH: 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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869696118	AP Regional Geography		0
869696119	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
869696120	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
869696121	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
76187382	East Asia	The Yellow region is called ?	4
76187384	South East Asia	The Dark Green region is called?	5
76187385	South Asia	The Purple region is called?	6
76187386	Middle East	The Bright Green region is called?	7
76187387	Sub-Saharan Africa	The Dark Brown region is called?	8
76187388	North Africa	The Light Brown region is called?	9
76187392	North America	The Dark Orange region is called?	10
76187393	Oceania	The Grey region is called?	11
1528027741	Mercator Map v. Peters Projection		12
1528027742	Mercator Map	shows directions accurately; sizes and distances are distorted	13
1528027743	Peters Projection	a cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses	14