GEG 100 ONLINE! Cultural Geography FINAL EXAM REVIEW

THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY

• GIS
• GPS
• situation
• environmental determinism
• possiblilism
• globalization
• more developed regions and less developed regions
• French long-lots
• functional regions
• formal regions
• A, B, C, D, E, and H climates
• distance decay
• density and concentration

MAPS

• large scale and small scale maps
• define: projection
• maps vs. cartograms for election results
• map orientation: which way is up?
• map projections:
  • Mercator
  • Peter's
  • Goode's
  • Robinson

POPULATION

• world's 4 population clusters
• characteristics of areas where most people live and exceptions
• population density and physiological density
• agricultural revolution
• demographic transition and its 4 phases
• industrial revolution
• population pyramids
• population growth rates in the world's regions

MIGRATION

• push and pull factors
• international refugees / refugee migration / largest groups
• periods of migration to the U.S.: when? from where?
• brain drain
• counter urbanization
• boat people
• The Sahara vs. The Sahel

ETHNICITY

• ethnic conflicts:
  • Sri Lanka
  • Kashmir
  • Kosovo
  • Georgia
  • Sudan/Darfur
  • Rwanda
  • Afghanistan
  • Iraq
  • Western Sahara
  • Cyprus
  • Israel/Palestine
  • Northern Ireland
  • Tibet
  • Lebanon
• distribution of ethnic groups in the U.S.: who? where?

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

• apartheid
• nation-state
• irredentism
• exclave
• state morphology - the shapes of countires:
  • compact
  • prorupt
  • elongated
  • fragmented
  • perforated
• ethnicities of Iraq: who? where?
• frontier vs. boundary
• colonization of Africa and the drawing of country boundaries

RELIGION

• map of major world religions
• where did different religions originate?
• Makkah (Mecca)
• ethnic religions vs. univeralizing religions
• Shiite and Sunni Islam: where?
• Hinduism

LANGUAGES

• language families: largest? locate on map? origin and spread?
• theories on the origin of the Indo-European language family
• location of speakers of: Arabic, Hindi, English, Mandarin, Portuguese, Fleming, Walloon, Basque
• why so many different languages in Africa
• lingua franca
• isogloss

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• measures of economic development - where/maps/exceptions
  • life expectancy
  • HDI
  • % labor in agriculture
• nationmaster.com
• primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities
• Communism
• Rostow's Development Model
• maps of natural resources
  • petroleum production
• aproaches to development
  • Development Through Self-Sufficiency
  • Development Through International Trade

AGRICULTURE

• seed hearths
• world distribution of agricultural types and climate types
• hunting and gathering
• subsistence agriculture: where? types?
• shifting cultivation
• transhumance

INDUSTRY

• locational factors and the location of breweries
• transportation cost graphs and the location of factories / Weber's Models and graphs
• bulk gaining and bulk reducing industries and their locations
• locations of most of the world's industrial production
• situation costs
• forms of transportation and their costs
• labor intensive industries

SERVICES AND URBAN PATTERNS

• density gradient
• Models of Urban structure:
  • concentric zone
  • sector model
  • multiple nuclei
  • multicentered / peripheral model
  • model of a Latin American city
• Hotelling Model
• ice cream vendor
• Central Place Theory and the Hierarchy of Services and Settlements
• central business district (CBD)
• rank-size rule
• urban sprawl

MAPS FROM THE TEXTBOOK

• 9-11
• 3-2
• 7-27
• 7-26
• 7-1, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4
• 7-14
• 8-25 (Iraq only)
• 6-3
• 6-8 ??
• 5-16
• 5-14 and 5-15
• Measures of Economic Development: 9-1, 9-2, 9-5, 10-5, 2-9, 2-19, 2-12
• 14-5
• 10-2
• 10-4
• 12-21
• 13-23
• 13-4, 13-5, 13-6

OTHER MAPS AND FIGURES THAT MAY BE ONTHE EXAM

Climate Regions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location of Conflicts (1)

 

 

Location of Conflicts (2)

 

Definition of Terms

• exclave
• frontier
• geometric boundary
• Tin Bigha
• physical boundary

  

 

Shapes of States

• compact
• prorupt
• elongated
• fragmented
• perforated

  

 

Religions

 

 

Origins of Major Religions

• Bahai'
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam

  

   

Language Families

 

Languages Spoken

• Arabic
• English
• French
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

  

 

Hotelling Model - Icream Vendor