Update August 9, 2026

New AP Human Geography words added!

by Stephen Fleenor • last updated August 9, 2026 by Stephen Fleenor

A new batch of AP Human Geography words have been added. There are now 101 structured visuals and lesson plans, in English and Spanish, across the entire AP Human Geography curriculum. Here are the new words that have been added:

carrying capacity
infant mortality rate (IMR)
Triangle trade
arithmetic density
forced migration
antinatalist
supranational organization
gerrymandering
extensive agriculture
commercial agriculture
intensive agriculture
push/pull factors
ethnocentrism
agricultural density
Wallerstein\'s world systems theory
voluntary migration
gentrification
megacity
chain/step migration
blockbusting
Ravenstein\'s laws of migration
rural land survey
pronatalist
multi-state nation (part-nation state)
internal/transnational migration
site
Rostow\'s five stages
Burgess concentric zone model
devolution
new urbanism
irredentism
choke point
redlining
outsourcing/off-shoring
Von Thunen\'s model
protectionism
informal economy
formal economy
gross domestic product (GDP)
crude birth rate (CBR)
global city
brain drain
nation
arable land
state
nation-state
stateless nation
centrifugal force
physiological density
crude death rate (CDR)
bid-rent theory