GEOG100 - Chapters for Final Exam:
All reading should be completed with respective Power Points and labs
Chapter 3: Geographies of population
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Population distribution and structure: population distribution, population
density and composition, age-sex pyramid (dependency ratio; youth, middle, and
old-age cohorts), population dynamics and processes (birth, fertility, death
rates), natural increase and decrease, infant mortality and reasons, demographic
transition theory
Population movement and migration, push and pull factors, and factors shaping
population distribution and composition
Interpreting maps and diagrams: e.g. age-sex pyramid, the influencing factors
and consequences
Chapter 4: Nature, Society, and Technology
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Nature as a concept
Religious perspective on nature
Impacts of scientific and industrial revolutions on nature
Energy and climate change
Climate Change and vulnerability (you should be able to explain the CC
indicators and their impacts on the population)
Climate refugees
Climate change adaptation versus mitigation
Impacts of land-use, changes on the environment: deforestation and agriculture,
and the relationship with Climate Change
Chapter 8: Agriculture and Food Production
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Traditional forms of agriculture and major changes
Different agricultural revolutions – you should be able to explain time, reasons
and emerging factors
The impacts of industrialization and technological innovations on our food
system
Green revolution (what, where, how, why)
The three crisis
Alternative movements (including permaculture) and solutions
Chapter 10: Urbanization
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The role of the cities
Urban origin: you should be able to trace the evolution in time with all the
different periods seen in class, and the major factors of change
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World urbanization today: trends and projections
Industrialization (contributing factors and impacts) and shock cities
World cities and megacities
The Von Thunen model
Urban growth processes and economic interdependence: agglomeration effects,
external economies, regional cores, cumulative causation, deindustrialization
(Chapter 7: pp. 321-330) and, centralization and decentralization (p.471-474)
Chapter 11: Urban structure
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Urban structure and land use: edge cities, gentrification, internal organization
and districts
Congregation and segregation: examples
All the locational theories seen in class
Planned urban design (start p.503 with modern movement)
The concept of New Urbanism (like seen during the walking tour)
Problems found in post-industrial cities: you should be able to provide me with
examples seen in class and during the tour
Problems found in developing cities (unintended metropolises)
Colonial cities
What is urban planning and urban design
+ Power Point on First Nations and Natural Resources in Canada and walking tours
(lab 5)