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AP Exams Online Prep & Review

AP Human Geography Exam

May 18 is the big day. Are you ready?

If you learned everything you know about human geography from the Ice Age movies, you might still have a ways to go. Hint: Prehistoric animals couldn’t actually talk. Warm your testing chops (get it?) with Shmoop’s guide to the AP Human Geography exam.

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What's inside our Online AP Human Geography Prep Course?

  • Test Taking Tips Specifically designed tips for mastering AP Human Geography. Get a grip on the difference between immigration and emigration, the reason some languages go the way of the dodo, and the definition of a "megalopolis" (also, why it's so fun to say). Megalopolis, megalopolis, megalopolis.

  • Three Full-Length Practice Exams Curious about what it is really like to answer 75 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes and answer 3 free response problems in another 60? Take a full-length practice exam with Shmoop...and then take another one. Because we have three.

  • Practice Drills If you forget everything you read approximately three seconds after you read it, never fear: refine your mad human geography skills with drills, more drills, and—you guessed it-even more drills.

  • Extreme Topic Review (for the extreme student). Check out our in-depth study guide and practice problems galore on each of the topics below:

  • Basic Elements
  • Geography in Action
  • Big Issues
  • Geographical Skills
  • Regions
  • Types of Data
  • Real-World Applications
  • New Technology
  • Population
  • Migration
  • Composition
  • Sustainability
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Ethnicity
  • Pop and Folk Culture
  • Political Geography
  • Territorial Dimensions
  • Colonization and Imperialism
  • Global Politics
  • Spatial Conflicts
  • History of Agriculture
  • Modern Agriculture
  • Environmental Impact of Agriculture
  • Industrialization
  • Development Models
  • Economic Patterns
  • Location Principles
  • Development
  • Globalization
  • Urbanization
  • Cities
  • Modern Problems
  • Models of Land Use
  • Design

  • Key Mistakes
  • How to Interpret Questions
  • Test Strategies
  • Vocabulary