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AP Human Geography 2012

The Humongous Review

Review by Region.

In this section you must provide detailed examples of each of the following themes in how it

relates to the specific region. You can paste illustrations/photos if you think that it will better

help your review section.

Answer in full grammatically correct sentences that make sense to others in the class who are

using this as a review

Identify explain the following terms in full

1. Geography: A Quick History a. Anaximander

b. Socrates/Aristotle/Plato

c. Ptolemy

d. Zheng He

e. Gerdus Mercator

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2. Cartography

a. Define cartography

b. Distortion

c. Scale

d. Equal area projection

2.1 Identify and provide examples of the four classes of maps.

Explain how the map gains accuracy in one area are at the cost of

inaccuracy in another

a. Cylindrical Map

b. Planer Projection

c. Conic Projection

d. Oval Projection

2.2 Other Types of Maps

a. Robinson Projection

b. Cartogram

c. Thematic Map

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d. Flow-line Map

e. Chropleth Map

f. Cartogram,

2.3: Nothing proper about your Propaganda! The Political Use

and Abuse of Maps -

Provide and explain five examples where maps have been altered or differ in perspective in

order to generate a political message.

a. Argentina/United Kingdom and the Falklands

b. Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf

c. English Channel and La Mer

d. Israel and Palestine

e. Somalia and Somaliland

3. Five Themes of Geography

Explain and provide examples of each of the following themes

a. Place

b. Region

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Formal

Functional

Perceptual/vernacular

Distance Decay

c. Location

Site

Situation

Relative location

Absolute location

Longitudes/Latitudes & Prime Meridian

d. Human-environment interaction

Environmental possiblism

Environmental determinism

3.1 Spatial interaction or movement : Diffusion

a. Hearth

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b. Relocation Diffusion

c. Expansion Diffusion

d. Hierarchal Diffusion

e. Contagious Diffusion

f. Stimulus Diffusion

g. Distribution

h. Density

i. Concentration

j. Pattern

k. Explain the difference between concentration and density

l. Explain the difference between physiological density and arithmetic density

4. Spatial Layout

a. Longlot

b. Mettes and Bounds

c. Township and Range

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Provide five Multiple Choice Questions that Cover this Theme: and one written

response. You must provide the answers and the rubric for scoring the written

response. You can use any of the study guides on hand.

Geography: Region & Theme

N. America

1. Place

a. Define the region that makes up N. America. Describe the difference between

Anglo-America and N. America.

1.1 Define and locate vernacular areas of the USA:

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a) Age

b) Religion

c) Political Opinion

d) Industry

e) Education

f) Pick-up truck vs. Van

g) Accent/Language

h) Land Use

i) Climate

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2. Population of N. America

a) Identify and explain the general demographic stages of N. America today.

Where is the population growth and where is there decline

b) What are the reasons for population growth?

c) What are the reasons for population decline?

d) Compare USA and Canada Infant Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy levels.

What are the reasons for the differences - see page 78 in Taylor’s book

e) How is population growth a benefit to the USA?

2.1 Migration Identify and explain the following types of migration in the USA original and

contemporary

a) Native:

b) African:

c) European

d) Asian

e) S. American/Central American

2.2 Explain how and why the USA uses the following

1.a Quotas

a. Green Card Lottery

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b. Contemporary barriers to migration in the USA include:

2.3 Diffusion and distribution of population in the USA:

Identify the original settlement patterns of early

colonists to present day

3. (Political)Relationships with other sovereign states

Describe economic and political relationships with the

following

a. Mexico

b. Canada – what is meant by the quote… “Living next to you is in some ways

like sleeping next to an elephant: No matter how friendly and even tempered

the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grant”

c. Compare and Contrast the relationship the US has with Mexico and Canada

d. Compare and Contrast political systems of Canada and the USA

e. Define Asymmetries as it relates to the relationship with the NAFTA

partners

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4. Industry and agriculture a. Describe the changing agricultural practices in the USA. How do these

changes impact the physical environment and what affect do they have on

relationships with other sovereign states?

b. What has been the trend in North American manufacturing and industry?

c. How and where did industry diffuse to in the USA: Past to Present?

d. Explain the reason for recent industrial relocation within the USA

e. What has been causing the outsourcing of jobs and how has this changed

employment trends in the USA?

5. Social and Cultural Geography

The city and urban areas

a. Urban Areas – compare and contrast Mexico and USA

b. Urban Sprawl and the USA: What is the cause and consequence

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c. Describe the process that has led to the reemergence of some American

cities as desirable places to live

d. Megalopolis: What and Where

e. Distribution of American cities: Does the USA follow the rank size rule?

f. Describe how Central Place Theory works and doesn’t work for the USA

g. Provide an example of Concentric Zone cities, Sector Cities and Edge Cities

in the USA.

5.1 Immigration

a. Compare and Contrast the immigration policies of the USA and Canada

b. Discuss the pros and cons of immigration with the respect to Canada and the

USA

5.2 Environment:

Identify the causes and consequences of each of the following environmental

issues in America

a. Water Pollution

b. Air Pollution

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c. Loss of natural habitat

d. Water resource depletion

Provide five Multiple Choice Questions that Cover this Theme: and one written

response. You must provide the answers and the rubric for scoring the written

response. You can use any of the study guides on hand.

South America

1, Physical Features

a. Describe the major landforms of

South America – site and situation

2. Population

a. Age Structure and demographic

transition: Account for major changes

in the demography and why..

b. Compare South American

demographic change with the that

of Anglo America

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c. Locate the more populated and the more densely populated countries in S.

America. Are they the same countries, explain why or why not.

d. Identify and explain how the dependency ration impacts many S. American

countries

e. Identify where in S. America Infant Mortality Rate is highest and lowest:

Discuss the reasons for this.

3. Migration

a. List the S. American countries that have Net In migration

b. List the S. American Countries that have Net Out migration

c. Discuss reasons for the differences in the migration flows of the respective

countries

d. Speculate which particular destinations are most popular for S. American

migrants

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e. Summarize the general migratory trends in S. America and describe their

impact on the physical landscape

f. Identify and describe specific Push and Pull factors for migration in S.

America:

Political----real example

Economic ----- real example

Environmental ----real example

4. Folk and Popular Culture

a. Explain how folk culture has remained more distinctive in S. America

b. Explain how and why folk culture is under threat in S. America today

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c. S. American food culture is changing: how does this impact the physical

environment?

5. Language

a. List the languages, language families and branches in S. America

b. Provide the reasons for the predominance of those languages in their

respective regions.

c. Identify and explain the reason for indigenous languages becoming extinct.

6. Religion

a. Identify and explain the diffusion of the major religions in S. America

b. What impact has religion had on the physical S. American landscape?

c. Locate where and describe what impact evangelical Protestantism is having on

S. America

7. Ethnicity

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a. List several ethnicities in S. America:

b. Identify and explain the main ethnic tensions in the region

8. Political

a. Compare and Contrast the political histories of the USA and S. America

Comparisons

Contrasts

b. Identify three S. American regions that are geographically contested

c. Identify any supranational or transnational organizations that are important to

S. American countries

d. Which south Americas states are:

Landlocked

Perforated

Elongated

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Compact

Prorupted

e. Explain and provide examples S. American centripetal forces and Centrifugal

forces

Centripetal

Centrifugal

f. Terrorism: Identify and describe the aims of any regional terrorist groups

9. Development

a. Create a top to bottom continuum of development of S. American and

Central American Countries. Use the Human Development Index to create

this

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b. Explain and provide examples of how the following may have contributed to

S. American poverty

Climate and shape of state

Neocolonialism

Mercantilism

Land Distribution

International Trade

Mercasur

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Maquiildoras

Export Processing Zones

Import Substitution Industrialization

International Development Loans

Agricultural subsidies in the USA and EU

High numbers of self subsistence farmers

Political instability

c. Explain how gender relations have impacted economic development in S.

America

10. Agriculture

a. Define the following

Swidden

Slash and Burn

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Soil Erosion

Subsistence farming

Shifting cultivation

Colombian exchange

Plantation

Hacienda

Free Trade

b. Locate the different agricultural regions of S. America: Identify the primary

crops that area and state whether they are for domestic, export, or both

Cash crops and plantations

Self subsistence farming

Cattle and beef

Mediterranean

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c. Discuss how is the global change in dietary habits affecting the agricultural

practices of the region?

d. How does the use of gasohol impact the price of food in S. America?

e. Describe free trade and explain the potential gains and losses for S.

Americans as a result of free trade programs

11. Industry

a. Describe how industry diffused to South America: Which parts of the

region are more impacted by Europe and which parts are more impacted

by the USA?

European

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USA

b. Identify and describe the three major phases of s. American development

and industrialization

The extraction phase

Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) phase

The Debt Crisis phase

Structural Adjustment Programs

c. Explain how the following have impacted S. America

NAFTA

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Mercasaur

d. Identify which countries in S. America are parts of the new emerging

global economies and discuss reasons for their success.

12. Services

a. How does the service economy shape s. American cities?

b. Define and describe the growing use of ecotourism in S. America

13. Urban Geography

a. Compare and Contrast the classic N. American concentric zone model of a city

with that of the S. American version. Cut and paste the appropriate models

b. Explain why most S. American countries have primate cities and not the rank

size rule

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c. Define forward capital and explain the situation with Brazil’s capital city.

d. Locate the majority of S. American cities and explain the reason for their

location?

e. Describe and locate the various sectors of a S. American city. Paste the model

Colonial center

Commercial Business District

Zone of maturity

Zone of peripheral squatter settlements

f. Suggest reasons for the location of the squatter settlements in a S. American

city

g. What are some of the ways that S. American governments deal with squatter

settlements? Which methods are more successful

h. Provide two other names for squatter settlements

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14 Environments and Resources

a. Locate and the areas of natural resources in S. Americas. Identify what

natural resources are in those areas.

b. Describe how these resources have used by S. American countries

c. What impact has natural resource extraction had on the physical and

cultural landscape of S. America

Physical

Cultural

Regional: Europe

1. Geography

a. Define the following European

regions and list the countries

in them

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

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Former Soviet States

Former Soviet satellite states

b. Describe what it is that delineates eastern Europe from Western Europe

c. Provide a vernacular and formal description of Europe

Vernacular

Formal

2. Population a. Where are the sparsely populated regions and areas of Europe?

A.1. Locate the European countries that are in stage four of the demographic

transition

a. Explain what impact this has upon the dependency ratio in those specific

countries

b. Describe what, if any, pronatalist programs these countries are using to

address their dependency ratio problem

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c. Identify and explain the reasons for many European countries being in

stage four of the demographic transition mode.

3. Migration

a. List the countries that have net outmigration

b. List the countries that have net in migration

c. Identify the source and destination of many European migrants

Source

Destination

d. Explain the push and pull factors of those migrants to and from those

specific locations

Push

Pull

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e. Which European countries most experience the “brain drain” and why?

f. What impact did stage two of the demographic transition model have on

European migration and what impact did stage four have?

Stage two

Stage four

g. Describe the diffusion of international migrants in European countries

h. What form of migration leads to this specific type of migration?

i. What obstacles do migrants face in coming to European countries, and what

obstacles do they face when they are in there?

Getting there

Living there

4. Culture

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a. Clothes: What distinct forms of European clothes are worn today and

why

b. Provide and explain two specific examples of environmental

determinism on traditional European clothing styles.

c. What type of clothing has diffused from Europe

d. Describe the origins of Soccer and explain how it went from traditional

folk culture to popular culture

e. How did soccer diffuse to other regions?

f. What kind of food culture has diffused from Europe and why?

g. Explain and provide examples of European food culture in regards to

environmental possibilism and environmental determinism.

Determinism

Possibililism

5. Language

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a. Locate the following European language families

Romance

Germanic

West Germanic

Gaelic

Slavic

b. Identify 5 minority European languages

C. Explain why and how minority European languages are being revived

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c. Explain how English has gained a foothold as a European lingua franca and

what steps are some states taking against the growing use of English?

6. Religion

a. Describe how Christianity diffused across Europe

b. Identify the hearth of Roman Catholicism

c. Identify the original hearth of Protestantism

d. Identify the predominant Catholic sections and Protestant sections of

Europe. Which region is an exception?

e. Describe how the process of sequential occupation in time and location

refers to European Christianity

f. What is the growing trend in European church attendance?

g. What religion is growing in Europe and why?

h. Discuss, using regional examples, of how the recent introduction of

different religions in Europe has stirred up controversy and even conflict

i. How are minority religions dispersed across the physical landscape of

Europe?

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j. How do traditional religions impact the physical landscape of Europe?

7. Ethnicity a. Define the following

Multi-Ethnic State

Nation State

Ethnic Cleansing

Xenophobia

Racist

b. Describe and explain the difference between ethnicity and nationality

c. List European states where ethnicity and nationality conform the most

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d. List the European states that are the most ethnically diverse

e. Explain why some European countries are more ethnically heterogeneous

than others?

f. Describe the following ethnic/national problems.

State Ethnic Clash

Solution/potential solution

Great Britain

France

Germany

FYR (former Yugoslavia)

Denmark

Netherlands

Spain

Belgium

8. Political Geography

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a. Define the following, provide specific examples and explain how they relate to

the European region

Supranationalism

Devolution

Federal State

Unitary State

Constitutional Monarchy

Republic

b. Explain the significance of the following events on European political

geography

Event Significance/what it did Long-lasting Outcome 1603 King James accession to the English throne

1707 British Act Of Union

World War I

World War II

Building the Berlin Wall

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Treaty of Rome 1957 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991 Breakup of USSR

1992 Maastricht Treaty

1989 – present breakup of Yugoslavia

c. Identify and Describe the aims of the following groups (some terrorist, some

political)

Plaid Cyrmru

Scottish Nationalist Party

UKIP

ETA

Sinn Fein

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Ulster Unionists

UDA

IRA

Lombardy League/Italian Northern League

d. What is the point of contention in allowing Turkey to gain membership of the

EU

Economic

Cultural

9. Development

a. Using the Human Development Index List from highest to lowest the top ten

European countries

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b. Define cultural relativism

c. Speculate why the reasons for the Scandinavian countries have the highest HDI

d. Compare the HDI of Poland and Great Britain: Explain one possibilist reason

and one environmental determinist reason for the difference

e. Explain why Eastern Europe is less developed than Western Europe

f. Identify and discuss why some Eastern European countries are regenerating

quicker than others

g. Identify regions within European countries that have very different levels of

development than the rest of the country

10. Agriculture Stephen Gold

a. Define the following and relate it to European agriculture

Enclosure movement

Land inheritance and farm size

Feudalism

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Second Agrarian Revolution

Common Agricultural Policy

Subsidy

Agribusiness

Land Rich/Cash Poor

Bed and Breakfast Farms

b. Which European countries have a agricultural surpluses that are exported?

c. How does the Von Thunen model work with modern British agriculture?

d. Compare and Contrast European and American agriculture

e. Identify and describe some of the problems faced by European farmers

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f. Compare the physiological, arithmetic and agricultural densities of the

Netherlands

PH D

A D

Ag D

Reason for differences?

11. Industry

a. Define the industrial revolution

b. Locate the hearth of the industrial revolution

c. Provide two environmental deterministic reasons for the industrial revolution

in Great Britain and two possibilist.

Determinist

Possibilist

d. Describe the diffusion of industry across Europe

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e. Explain why some areas of Europe where more conducive to industry than

others

Site

Situation

f. Identify the present day centers of industry in Europe

g. Explain the outcome of industry in the United Kingdom today

h. Describe what the International Distribution of Labor has done to

manufacturing in Europe

i. Locate and define the “Celtic Tigers”

12. Services

a. What European countries are at the forefront of global services and why?

b. Describe the diffusion of service economy jobs in Great Britain, how does this

correlate with the population distribution?

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c. Describe the early growth of services in Europe

d. Explain how services are diffused on the physical landscape model by using

Walter Christallr’s model

e. What has been the impact of the growth of the service economy and the decline

of the industrial economy in Europe?

13. Urban Geography

a. Define the following and provide regional examples

Market Town

Medieval Walled City

Greenbelt

Concentric Zone Model

Mass Transit

Rapid Transit System

Primate City

Rank Size Rule

Terraced Housing

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Blocks of Flats

Cottage Burning

Gentrification

b. Compare and contrast the a typical European CBD with an American CBD

c. Compare and Contrast American suburbia with European suburbia

d. Account for the major differences between European and American cities

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14. Resources/Environment

a. Identify the European countries that have a considerable oil and natural gas

reserves

b. Identify the European Countries that have considerable coal reserves

c. How does European natural resource diffusion affect European geopolitics?

Historically

Present

d. Compare and contrast the use of nuclear energy with France and the USA.

What are the reasons for the difference?

e. Speculate on reasons why mass transit is more common in Europe

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f. Compare and Contrast European transportation policies with American

g. Speculate on reasons for the

differences

Region: N. Africa and South West

Asia

1. Geographical Features Nolan

a. List the countries that make up N. Africa and South West Asia

b. Provide another name used for South West Asia

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c. Identify and list factors that make N. Africa and South West Asia a vernacular

region

2. Population Colleen

a. Identify the demographic transition stage that is most prevalent in the region

b. Identify and describe some of the problems that the demographic stage creates

for this region

c. Suggest reasons why the region is in this demographic stage

3. Migration

a. Identify states in the region that are experiencing net-in migration and identify

the source of the migrants

b. Explain the reasons for those states experiencing net-in migration

c. Identify and explain the non-regional destinations for emigrants in the region

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d. Describe how, if it all, how outmigration has impacted specific states in the

region.

4. Culture Sanders

a. Define common food culture in the region and explain how this culture may,

at least partially, environmentally determined

Culture

Environmental determinant

b. Define secularism

c. Explain how and why secularism is resisted by some groups in the region

d. How is the encroachment of western culture perceived by some in the region

e. Describe ways that some groups in the region attempt to retain their

respective cultural traditions

f. Explain how space-time compression is impacting culture in the region

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5. Language

a. Identify the three predominant colonial languages of the region

b. Identify the state that had to revive an ancient language and explain the

reasons why

c. Identify the state that “westernized” it’s language, describe the process of the

westernization and explain the reason for carrying it out.

6. Religion

a. Identify the two universal religions of the region

b. Identify the major ethnic religion of the region

c. Locate the hearth for all three religions

d. Identify the religion that is no longer a major religion in its hearth

e. Define the following terms

Zionism

Balfour Declaration

Seven Day War

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Occupied Territories

Golan Heights

f. Identify the major problems associated with the creation of the Jewish state

g. Describe proposed and active solutions to the Israel/Palestine Problem

h. Describe reasons for continuing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis

i. Locate and describe the significance of the following

Dome on the Rock

Mecca

Western Wall

Masada

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Holy Church of the Sepulchre

7. Ethnicity

a. Identify the significant minorities of the region

b. Identify the minority ethnicity in the region that has a nation state

c. List the minorities that have no corresponding state – i.e. stateless nations

d. Identify two groups that have been victim of ethnic cleansing in the region in

the last 100 years

8. Political Geography

a. Define the predominant shape of the state boundaries in the region

b. Explain the reason for those specific shapes

c. Explain and provide examples of how the concept of self determination has, in

some parts of the region, caused political instability and war.

d. Define the political geographic issues with the following states.

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o Morocco/Western Sahara/Mauritania

o Israel

o Kurdistan

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9. Development someone else!

a. List, from top to bottom, the HDI for the states in the region

b. Compare the GDI of Turkey with Saudi Arabia and explain the reasons for the

difference

c. Are the literacy rates in the region on average high or low?

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d. Explain how the global price of oil significantly impacts the development of the

regional states.

e. Provide examples how price fluctuations in oil have caused political instability

in the region

10. Agriculture

a. List the main agricultural products of the region

SW Asia

N. Africa

Identify the predominant type of agriculture practices in the region

11.12. Industry and Services

a. Identify the most industrial parts of the region

b. Speculate on the reasons for the general lack of industry in the region.

Environmental determinist

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Possibilist

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a. Describe the predominant urban layout plan most common in the region

b. Speculate on reasons for the continued use of that plan

c. Explain reasons why it is common to find the new colonial city adjacent to

the old city?

d. Suggest reasons for the building the newer colonial cities

e. Compare and contrast the cities of Dubai and Rabat

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f. Discuss reasons for the differences

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a. Identify the states that have considerable natural resources in the region

b. Locate the following in the region

Uranium

Natural Gas

Oil

c. Explain how, and provide an example, of how water is a major, understated

catalyst for conflict in the region.

d. Identify the Role of the cartel OPEC

e. Define the difference between Proven reserves and Possible reserves

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f. Explain, and provide examples, of how oil is a catalyst for conflict in the

region.

Regional: Africa

1. Geography a. How has the traditional Mercator projection limited the

European/American understanding of Africa

b. Describe the climate differences between central, coastal central and

southern Africa

c. Mental Maps: Citizens of which African nation frequently,

subconsciously exaggerate the size of this nation

2. Population

a. Predominant demographic stage

b. Reasons for that stage

c. Describe the most popular misconception about African Birth Rates and

Death Rates.

d. Suggest reasons why the Total Fertility Rate in Africa is very high

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e. Provide the solution that most demographers agree would reduce the total

fertility rate

3. Migration a. Identify the most common destination for African migrants

b. Identify the most common international destination for African migrants

and explain that choice.

c. Locate and describe one African state that is experiencing a violent backlash

against other African immigrants

d. Provide regional examples of the following push/pull factors

Environmental

Economic

Cultural

4. Cultural a. Identify the places in Africa where cultural traditions are disappearing the

fastest and provide two reason for it

5. Language a. Identify the two African Lingua Franca -

b. Who are the predominant speakers of European languages in Africa

c. Why is the official language of many African countries not the 1st language of

the majority of its citizens?

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6. Religion

a. Identify the impact that Christianity is having on some parts of Africa

b. Locate areas of Africa that are, supposedly, experiencing religious conflict

7. Ethnicity a. Why does African Ethnicity seldom match the state?

b. What has been the long-term consequence of stateless ethnicities in Africa

8. Political a. describe and provide an explanation for the shape of states in Africa

b. Identify two prorupted states and provide an explanation for the proruption

c. What is meant by the “carve up of Africa”

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d. What were the main motives for European intervention in Africa

e. Compare and contrast European colonialism in Africa with that of Canada,

Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Chile

f. Who may be the emerging neocolonial countries in Africa and why?

9. Development

a. Discuss: Africa lacks few natural barriers to development, but has many

political

10. Agriculture a. Predominant types of agriculture

Central

South

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11 and 12. Industry and Services

a. Identify and explain the historical barriers to economic development

b. Identify and explain contemporary barriers to economic development

13 Urban

Identify the major urban centers in Africa

Explain how growing urbanization is causing problems with disease and

creating more virulent strains of Malaria

14 Resources

a. Identify significant resources of the areas

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b. Explain why despite such resource wealth, much of Africa is still mired in

poverty

Region: South Asia

1. Geography

a. Other names for South Asia

b. States that compromise the regions

c. factors that make it a vernacular region

2. Demography

a. Stage of the DMTM?

b. Describe the gender imbalance in the regions and provide reasons for it.

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c. Predicted growth of the population in the region?

d. Reasons for sudden growth in numbers?

3. Migration

a. Major historical migration in the post independent period

1940s

1970s

b. Common destination for inter-regional Indian migrants

c. Common international destinations for Indian migrants

d. Common source of migrants to India

4. Culture

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a. Describe environmental determinism on traditional dress

b. Describe how western trends are impacting the region

c. Discuss some of the changes wrought to the physical landscape as result

of the infusion of western cultural trends

Food

Housing

Recreation Areas

d. Explain how the adoption of western values upsets traditional regional

family dynamics

5. Language

a. Identify and locate the main language families in the region

b. Discuss the use of lingua franca in the region

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c. How has the lingua franca enabled the region to gain a rapid foothold in the

global economy?

d. What is the national language of India and why?

6. Religion

a. Identify the major religions of the region

b. Locate t he hearths of t he major religions of the region

c. Explain how the diffusion of religion in the region has altered the political

boundaries.

7. Ethnicity

a. Identify and locate the major ethnic groups of the region

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b. Describe how ethnic division prevents stability in Afghanistan

c. Locate the ethnic minorities in the region

d. Describe how the caste system in India worked

e. Identify different groups that have worked to diminish the caste system

8. Political Geography

a. Identify the major border disputes in the region

b. Explain the reasons for the dispute and discuss why conflict in this region is

particularly risky for global politics

c. What long lasting political legacy did colonialism leave on the region

d. What process led to the decolonization of the region?

9. Development

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a. List the countries in the region according to HDI – top to bottom

b. Discuss how the following factors have enabled India’s rapid economic

growth

Young Population

Colonial Lingua Franca

Parliamentary Democracy

Robust Infrastructure

Changes in International Trade Regulations

Agrarian change

10. Agriculture

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a. List and locate the most common agricultural exports in the region

b. Describe the impact of the green revolution on the region

c. What is the predominant form of agriculture in the reasons

d. What parts suffer the greatest agricultural problems and why?

11/12. Industry and Services

Explain the role of the region in the global distribution of labor

Compare and contrast the industrial roles of China and India

Locate the industrial and sections of the region and discuss the similarities of

them

13 Urban

a. Describe how urban growth is changing India

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b. Explain regional disparities in urban growth

14 Resources

a. What are the major resources of the region

b. How has rapid industrialization impacted the physical landscape in India?

c. What is the predicted to happen to the regions energy demands in the near

future and why?

Region East Asia

1. Geography a. List and locate states in the region

b. Identify three factors that make the area a vernacular region

2. Population a. Compare and contrast the population trends of China and Japan

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b. Explain how the following states are dealing with respective stages of the

DTM

Japan

China

3. Migration

a. What is the most common form of migration China

b. Identify common destinations for international Chinese migrants

c. Identify source areas of migrants into China

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4. Culture

a. Explain the environmental determinism in regional cuisine

b. Explain how the introduction of European food tastes in changing regional

culture and physical landscapes

c. Speculate on the reasons for the lack of intrusion of Eastern popular culture

on western countries

5. Language

a. Identify the major language families in the region

b. Which state has greater linguistic diversity Japan or China?

c. What is the reason for this?

6. Religion

a. Identify the predominant religions of the region

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b. Identify and locate some of the minority religions of the region

c. Compare and Contrast the diffusion of Islam and Christianity in the region

7. Ethnicity

a. Identify the more ethnically diverse states in the region

b. Identify the most homogeneous

c. Provide reasons for the difference

d. Identify, locate and explain recent ethnic conflicts in the region

8. Political Geography

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a. Identify and locate the areas of the region that have had greater colonial

influence

b. Explain how the one China policy impacts the following states:

Taiwan

Hong Kong

c. Is North Korea and South Korea two separate countries, or just one divided

state?

d. Compare and Contrast the political systems of Japan and China

e. Discuss the reasons why China is emerging into a capitalist economy while

still being a non-democratic one party state

9. Development

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a. Discuss the historical pattern of Chinese development?

b. What environmental factors enabled early Chinese development?

c. What twentieth century political events retarded Chinese economic

progress and how?

d. Describe industrial development and partial decline of Japan 1945 to

present

e. How has the region fitted into the global distribution of labor?

f. What changes in transportation have enabled greater manufacturing to be

done in this region?

g. Discuss the role of Special Economic Zones

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10. Agriculture

a. Identify the main agricultural products of the region

b. Discuss the differences in farming in the following regions

SE China

Mongolia

Japan

c. Describe the environmental impact that farming has had on rural China

11/12 Industry and Services

a. Identify and locate the industrial areas of the region

b. Explain why Tokyo is a global city

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c. What services are provided by Hong Kong and Singapore and why do they

cluster in these regions

d. What is the pattern of industrial diffusion in the region

e. Discuss reasons for the specific diffusion of industry across the physical

landscape in the region

f. Identify the Asian Tigers

13 Urban

a. Provide and example of an East Asian city model. Compare this with a North

American Concentric Zone model

b. Explain how Chinese urban growth in fuelling the Chinese and global

economy

14 Resources

a. Identify and locate the distribution of natural resources in the region

b. Compare and contrast the energy policies of Japan and China

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c. What are the global impacts of Chinese energy choices

d. Identify and discuss the major reasons why China will not agree to the Kyoto

protocol

EXTRA CREDIT

SE ASIA – 14 Points from geography – resources

The same for OZ/NZ

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