The best way to review for exam 1 is to:

• Look up everything on this study guide in the book or instructor notes.
• Write down the definitions of all words listed.
• You may need to use the index at the back of the textbook and the vocabulary links at the end of the instructor notes.
• Find all figures either in the textbook or instructor notes and read all you can about them.

Also:

• read the assigned readings (you may want to take notes)
• read the Instructor notes for each week
• learn the vocabulary !!!
• study the maps and figures in the textbook and instructor notes; there will be maps and figures on the exam
• review the Required Activities

This "review" page is intended to narrow your studying as you prepare for taking the exam or retake.

WEEK 1 - INTRODUCTION

Define

• region
• formal regions
• functional region
• distance decay
• location
• site
• situation
• toponym
• Zuider Zee
• density (frequency)
• distribution (spread)
• pattern
• U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785
• arithmetic density
• physiologic density
• diffusion
• relocation diffusion
• expansion diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• contagious diffusion
• hearth
• globalization of culture
• environmental determinism
• possibilism
• polder

Textbook Figures

• 9-1
• 9-11
• 9-32
• 1-19
• 12-10

Other

• three questions asked by geographers
• climatic regions A, B, C, D, E, and H
  • locations
  • characteristics
• more developed regions and less developed regions
• why is Africa divided into two separate regions?
• fundamental elements of culture
• economic globalization
• South Florida's environmental modification
• north polar projection (figure 9-32) and core/periphery

Some of the Maps and Other Figures Seen in the Exam

WEEK 2 - MAPS

Define

• scale
• large scale
• small scale
• orientation - which way is up?
• cartograms
• great circle
• hemishere
• cartography
• GIS
• GPS
• remote sensing
• meridians or longitude
• prime meridian
• parallels or latitude
• equator
• mathmatical location
• Greenwich Mean Time
• International Date Line

Other

• election result maps - and cartograms
• map projections:
  • Mercator
  • Peters
  • Goode's
  • Robinson
• which properties are preserved andwhich are distorted in the four map projctions above?
• map symbols
  • line
  • area
  • point
• mathmatical location (pp. 15-16)
• time zones

Some of the Maps Seen in the Exam

WEEK 3 - POPULATION

Define

• crude birth rate
• crude death rate
• natural increase rate
• cartogram
• population density
• arithmetic density
• physiological density
• arable land
• doubling time
• total fertility rate
• infant mortality rate
• life expectancy
• agricultural revolution
• industrial revolution
• medical revolution

Textbook Figures

• 2-9
• 2-10
• 2-13
• 2-14
• 2-15
• 2-33

Other

• world's four major population clusters
• characteristics of the areas where population clusters are found and the major exceptions
• population pyramid
• 4 stages of the demographic transition and birth rates, death rates, and natural increase rates in each stage
• election results: maps vs. cartograms
• in which climatic regions do yo find the most, and least, population?
• HIV/AIDS
• rule of 70
• why do many less developed countries have lower crude death rates than many more developed countries?
• "upside down" poulation pyramids

Some of the Maps and Figures Seen in the Exam

WEEK 4 - MIGRATION

Define

• migration
• push factors
• pull factors
• refugees
• forced migration
• intervening obstacle
• enclosure movement
• immigration vs. emigration
• chain migration
• net migration
• boat people
• The Sahel and the Sahara
• the great plains
• "sticky" states and "magnet" states

Textbook Figures

• 3-2
• 3-5
• 3-8
• 3-16
• 3-18

Other

• know the reasons for migrating
• why has the internal migration rate in the U.S. declined?
• forced migration of African slaves
• who are the largest international refugee groups in the world today?
• who are the largest internal refugee groups in the world today?
• why were millions of Europeans forced to emigrate from their farms?
• know figure 3-8 well / U.S. Immigration Patterns
• 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
• Mexico is the source of the largest number of legal AND undocumented immigrants to the US

Some of the Maps Seen in the Exam

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