World Geography End-of-Course Review
 Describe the impact of significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced
migration patterns and shaped the distribution of culture groups – Beringia
 Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment – Bridges, Tunnels
 Analyze ways significant major technological innovations have allowed humans to adapt to places – Air
Conditioning in the Sunbelt
 Analyze the impact of desertification
 Interpret political, economic, social and demographic indicators (GDP, life expectancy, literacy, and
infant mortality) to determine the Human Development Index level
 Evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions – Spanish colonization in Latin
America
 Evaluate the experiences of various racial groups during and after apartheid
 Identify examples of cultures that maintain the ways of traditional societies
 Evaluate the spread of cultural traits to find examples of cultural convergence and divergence – The
English Language
 Describe reasons why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
 Describe major world religions – animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism
 Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent and mountain
barriers influence climate
 Describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development – Himalaya
Mountains, tectonic plate movement, identify peninsulas
 Classify where socialism falls along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism
No government
influence
Some government
influence
Government owns many
businesses
Complete government
ownership
 Describe why fewer people tend to live in the center of a typical modern American city than in its
residential and suburban areas
 Compare economic, political or social opportunities in different cultures for women, ethnic/ religious
minorities and other underrepresented populations – Afghanistan

Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to create conflict/ war and impact
international relations of sovereign nations – US troops in Afghanistan
 Locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of
settlements – Fresh Water
 Compare maps of political boundaries to make inferences about the distribution of political power –
Independence Movements in Africa
 Explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns – urbanization
 Examine benefits and challenges of globalization including connectivity and pandemics
 Explain how political, economic, social and environmental push and pull factors affect flows of human
migration
 Analyze population pyramids to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to
predict future trends
 Compare ways cultures depend on the physical environment including the influences of culture and
the development of technology/ innovations
 Compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization including
outsourcing and specialization
 Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences
of extreme weather and other natural disasters – an earthquake in Haiti compared to an earthquake
in San Francisco
 Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects
specialization and the movement of products
 Evaluate the economic and political relationships between settlements and the environment including
sustainable development and renewable/ nonrenewable resources – Lumber, World Oil Reserves
 Identify physical and/ or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political
units, river systems and religion that constitute a region – Amazon Rainforest
 Describe different types of regions including formal, functional and perceptual regions
 Evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions – Israel
 Compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization including
outsourcing and free trade zones – NAFTA, EU
 Describe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in free enterprise, socialist
and communist economic systems
 Assess how changes in climate, resources and infrastructure (technology, transportation and
communication) affect the patterns of economic activities – growth of high tech industries in Brazil
 Evaluate the significance of major technological innovations in the areas of transportation and energy
and their effects on the environment – Combustion Engine
 Evaluate the geographic and economic impact of policies related to the development, use and scarcity
of natural resources such as regulations of water
 Understand the connections between levels of development and economic activities – Primary,
Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
 Asses causes, effects and perceptions of conflicts between groups of people, including modern
genocides and terrorism
 Explain how citizenship practices, public policies and decision making may be influenced by cultural
beliefs including nationalism and patriotism
 Describe trends in world population growth and distribution – J Curve
 Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to impact international political
relations of sovereign nations – China’s Population
 Compare maps of voting patterns to make inferences about the distribution of political power - South
Africa
 Describe how democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, republic, theocracy and totalitarian systems operate
in specific countries
 Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions – Steppes
 Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to Earth-Sun Relationships
 Describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education and customs
that make specific regions of the world distinctive – Japan
 Describe the impact of new information technologies such and the internet, Global Positioning System
and Geographic Information System
 Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to control territory – Russian/
Chechen Conflict
 Compare global trade patterns over time – Silk Road
 Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations and diffusion
– Portuguese in Brazil, Democracy in India, the spread of Islam
 Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the world – homogeneous, heterogeneous
 Trace the spatial diffusion of phenomena such as the Columbian Exchange and describe its effects on
regions of contact
 Identify and give examples of different points of view that influence the development of public policies
and decision-making processes on local, state, national and international levels
 Describe elements of culture including language, religion, beliefs and customs, institutions and
technologies – Indian Caste System
 Examine the environmental, economic and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and
natural resources – Motorized Farm Equipment
 Compare ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as
subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture
Unit 11 Review – East Asia,
Southeast Asia, Oceania, Antarctica
Review the PowerPoints, and especially review the Physical and Human
Geography Questions. If you know these, you will do fine. There will be 32
questions, matching and multiple choice, similar (but not the same) as the
ones from the mini-quizzes.