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PING Regional Conferences : On Monday, Jan. 28th (the day your Unit 4 PING Project is due), you will
share the following information with your peers whose PINGs are in the same region as yours:
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Was your PING a former colony? Of what country?
What type of government does your PING have? How is the political leader(s) determined?
How were your PING’s current boundaries determined? What type(s) of boundaries does your
PING have?
What supranational organization(s) does your PING belong to? What is the main purpose of the
organization(s)?
Semester 1 Final Exam:
In light of the changes to the Final Exam schedule and the resulting reduced time frame between the
Unit 4 Exam and the 5th period final, I’ve decided to change the plan a bit. On Tuesday Jan. 29th and
Wednesday, Jan 30th you will complete an in-class assignment. On Thursday, Jan. 31st, you will take a
vocabulary final that will consist of 40 multiple choice questions focused on 40 semester 1 terms (Units
1-4) and their definitions. The 40 terms will be chosen from the following list:
Unit 1
human geography
globalization
cartography
reference maps
thematic maps
absolute location
relative location
mental maps
formal region
functional region
perceptual region
culture complex
cultural hearth
cultural diffusion
expansion diffusion
contagious diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
stimulus diffusion
relocation diffusion
Unit 2
arithmetic population density
physiologic population density
population distributions
total fertility rates
zero population growth
natural increase
crude birth rate
crude death rate
demographic transition
population pyramids
infant mortality rate (IMR)
child mortality rate
AIDS
migration
migrant labor
immigration
internal migration
forced migration
voluntary migration
push factors
pull factors
colonization
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refugee
genocide
Unit 3
culture
folk culture
popular culture
local culture
material culture
nonmaterial culture
hierarchical culture
cultural landscape
placelessness
identity
race
ethnicity
language
dialects
language families
Proto-Indo-European
extinct language
Romance languages
Germanic languages
Slavic languages
lingua franca
toponyms
religion
secularism
monotheistic religion
polytheistic religion
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Judaism
Christianity
Eastern Orthodox
Church
Roman Catholic Church
Protestant
Islam
Sunni
Shi’ite
sacred sites
jihad
Unit 4
political geography
state
sovereignty
nation
nation-state
democracy
multinational state
multistate nation
stateless nation
capitalism
centripetal
centrifugal
federal
gerrymandering
boundary
geometric boundary
physical-political boundary
supranational organization