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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5545712494	AP Regional Geography		0
5545712495	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
5545712496	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
5545712497	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
5545712498	East Asia	The Yellow region is called ?	4
5545712499	South East Asia	The Dark Green region is called?	5
5545712500	South Asia	The Purple region is called?	6
5545712501	Middle East	The Bright Green region is called?	7
5545712502	Sub-Saharan Africa	The Dark Brown region is called?	8
5545712503	North Africa	The Light Brown region is called?	9
5545712504	North America	The Dark Orange region is called?	10
5545712505	Oceania	The Grey region is called?	11
5545712506	Mercator Map v. Peters Projection		12
5545712507	Mercator Map	shows directions accurately; sizes and distances are distorted	13
5545712508	Peters Projection	a cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses	14