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Cultural Geography

Unit 3 REVIEW

Week 11 Development ~/~ Week 12 Agriculture ~/~ Week 13 Industry ~/~ Week 14 Services and Urban Patterns ~/~ Review of Geographic Models

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

MODELS

Seventeen geographic models were introduced in this unit.

The EXAM REVIEW link on Blackboard will give you access to a "Practice Quiz on Geographic Models" and there is a summary of the geographic models discussed in this unit at the end of this exam 3 study guide [Review of Geographic Models].

Week 11 Development

Week 12 Agriculture

Week 13 Industry

Week 14 Services and Urban Patterns

 

Assigned Readings for Unit 3:

 

WEEK 11 - DEVELOPMENT - Chapter 9 and 14

Define
  • primary sector
  • secondary sector
  • tertiary sector
  • fair trade
  • structural adjustment programs

 

Textbook Figures

  • 9-1
  • 9-11
  • 9-20
  • 14-4
  • 14-6
  • 14-7
  • 14-1

 

Other

  • development through international trade approach
  • online video "Sri Lanka vs. South Korea"
  • Nationmaster
  • Grameen Bank
  • problems with using GDP per capita as a measure of average income
  • what's included in the HDI
  • the growing GDP per capita gap between MDCs and LDCs
  • characteristics of LDCs and MDCs
  • oil and development in the Middle East
  • What is the less developed region with the highest percentage of people living in urban areas?
  • International trade approach to development

 

Some other maps that may be seen in the exam

 

 

WEEK 12- AGRICULTURE - Chapter 10

Define
  • winter wheat
  • spring wheat
  • truck farming
  • swidden
  • subsistence agriculture
  • commercial agriculture
  • transhumance
  • double croppiing
  • threshing
  • winnowing
  • agribusiness
  • crop rotation

 

Textbook Figures

  • 10-2
  • 10-5
  • 10-4 !!!
  • 10-24
  • 10-32
  • 10-33

 

Other

  • Von Thunen Model !!! (see below for Review of Geographic Models)
  • Agricultural Regions
    • shifting cultivation
    • pastoral nomadism
    • intensive subsistence
    • platation
    • mixed crop and livestock
    • dairy
    • grain
    • livestock
    • Mediterranean
    • commercial gardening and fruit
  • grapes and wine production occur in which agricultural region?
  • subsistence vs. commercial agriculture
  • hunters and gatherers
  • The first region to integrate seed agriculture with domestication of herd animals (Invention of Agriculture)
  • Which type of agriculture occupies the largest percentage of the world's land area?
  • The largest proportion of farmers in Asia practice which type of agriculture?
  • Agricultural regions and Climate regions (compare the maps in figure 10-4) and know the climate types (A, B, C, D, E, and H)
  • Intensive subsistence agriculture: wet rice dominant vs. wet rice not dominant

 

Some other maps and figures that may be seen in the exam

 

 

 

  

WEEK 13 - INDUSTRY - Chapter 11

Define
  • industrial revolution
  • cottage industry
  • break-of-bulk point
  • bulk gaining
  • bulk reducing
  • single market manufacturer
  • perishable products
  • site factors
  • situation factors
  • Fordist
  • post-Fordist

 

Textbook Figures

  • 9-3 (p. 276)

 

Other

  • Do economists support free trade or trade restictions?
  • What was one of the most important locational factors explaining the location of breweries in nineteenth century Illinois?
  • The United States had the most breweries in which decade?
  • The locational factors of the beer brewing industry tend to favor locating the brewery at the market. Which characteristics of the brewing process does NOT (i.e. which would favor brewing at the source of a resource)?
  • world regions containing the most industry
  • Europe's industrial areas
  • North America's industrial areas
  • East Asia's industrial areas
  • Canada's industrial areas
  • Russia's industrial areas
  • the best location for a copper mill
  • the best location for an auto factory (fabricated metal)
  • ship, rail, truck, or air?
  • the best location for aluminum manufacturing
  • the best location for the textile industry
  • Ural Mountain industrial area

 

Some other maps and figures that may be seen in the exam

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 14 - SERVICES AND URBAN PATTERNS - Chapters 12 and 13

 

Define

  • density gradient
  • urban sprawl
  • urbanization
  • central place theory
  • edge city
  • CBD
  • threshold
  • range
  • gravity model
  • median
  • primate city
  • primate city rule
  • greenbelt
  • squatter settlement
  • factories moving to the suburbs

 

Textbook Figures

  • 12-20
  • 12-21
  • 13-4
  • 13-5
  • 13-6
  • 13-14
  • 13-22
  • 13-23

 

Other

  • Adam's model (stages of intraurban growth)
  • Models of Urban Structure
    • concentric zone model
    • sector model
    • multiple nuclei model
    • Multicentered/Peripheral model (pepperoni pizza)
    • model of a Latin American city
  • Hotelling Model
  • online video " Chicago: Farming on the Edge"
  • Central Place Theory
  • market area of a service
  • hinterland
  • which retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD?
  • changes in the density gradient over time
  • where do the urban poor live in US cities and in European cities?
  • European cities
  • Colonial cities

 

Some other maps and figures that may be seen in the exams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geographic Models to know:

In this unit many "geographic models" were introduced. Models are simplifications of reality to help us better understand a concept. Models can be expressed in words, with drawings, or mathematically.

"A model is simply a representation of a real thing. You have seen and used models in the past, like a globe which is a model of the earth. Geographers construct models to analyze geographic processes because the real object of study may be too large to examine, the processes which created it operate over too long of a time frame, or experimentation might actually harm or destroy it. For instance, physical geographers use stream tables to investigate the impact of hydrological processes on the earth. A stream table is more or less like a shallow sink filled with earth material similar to the land surface of interest. Water is applied to the material to see what affect varying amounts of water have on the erosion of the surface. Climate scientists use computer models, which are elaborate mathematical models. Models can be as simple as a box and arrow diagram showing the flows of energy between compartments of an ecosystem to complex numerical statements of the impact of increasing carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere on global temperature."
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/essentials/models.html

 

Here is a list of the models introduced in this unit on economic geography:

Week 11 Development

Week 12 Agriculture

Week 13 Industry

Week 14 Services and Urban Patterns

Here is a BRIEF explanation of each model:

The EXAM REVIEW link on Blackboard will give you access to a "Practice Quiz on Geographic Models".

 

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