End of Course Study Guide:
So Close and Yet so Far
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location, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, sustainability, globalization, gender
issues, phenomena, toponym, hearth, site, situation
different types of diffusion and three examples of each type
climate zones around the world
GIS, GPS, remote sensing, aerial photography, satellite imagery
The names of the regions of the world
Choose two MDC’s and two LDC’s and find the following information:
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Region, climate zones,
Agriculture
Describe the formal, functional, and vernacular region of the countries
How are the countries involved in globalization?
How are cities or where are cities concentrated in these countries?
Population density, where are people clustered/dispersed? Businesses?
Cultural identity?
Census data: genders, ethnicities, socioeconomic
Hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, relocation diffusion, hearth, stimulus diffusion, space-time
compression
10. Unequal access
11. Sustainability, renewable, nonrenewable resources?
12. Social Pillar, Possibilism
13. Name/explain Demographic Transition Model know the name and description of each stage and explain
where each country falls, epidemiologic transition stage, population change factors
14. Arithmetic density, physiological density, agricultural density
15. Crude Birth rate (CBR), CDR, NIR, TFR, IMR
16. Environmental issues impacting each country
17. Push/Pull factors for migration, political, environmental push/pull factors
18. Types of migration that has taken place; transnational, interregional migration, intraregional migration,
voluntary, involuntary, chain, step, seasonal (transhumance), rural to urban, major historical migrations
such as the potato famine, WWII, etc.
19. Consequences of migration; social, economic, cultural, political, refugees, seeking asylum
20. Major migration in the 17th/18th centuries, 19th/20th centuries
21. Migrant workers
22. Immigration concerns in the US
23. Distribution/diffusion of folk culture, diffusion of music, diffusion of sports, clothing, types of housing,
taboos,
24. When did television diffuse to these countries, Internet, other electronics
25. Indigenous people
26. Globalization, folk culture sustainability
27. Uniform landscape, environmental capacity
28. Recycling, other environmental solutions
29. Languages families, branch, group
30. Diffusion of languages, nomadic warrior hypothesis, sedentary farmer hypothesis, dialects,
31. Distinguish between and language and a dialect, preserving languages, diversity, lingua franca, diffusion
to other languages
32. Religion distribution, branches, universalizing religions, monotheism, polytheism, animism
33. Know the world’s major religions, Christianity, Muslim, Judaism, Hinduism,
34. How religions diffused, sacred sites
35. Landscape of ethic religions, burying the dead, hierarchical religions, autonomous religions, religious
conflicts past and today
36. Know about the West bank
37. Ethnicities, where clustered, dispersed, urban, regional, forced migration (slavery), White Flight,,
Aparthied, ethnic conflicts, think Sudan, Rwanda,
38. Centripetal force, nationalism, dividing ethnicities
39. Ethnic cleansing, balkenization
40. Symbolic landscapes, differences in cultural attitudes and practices towards the environment
41. The United nations
42. Defining states, how set up, dispersed, distributed, claims to the polar regions, nation-states, largest
multi-national state, colonialism
43. Types of boundaries, physical, cultural, political, ethnic
44. Elongated states, enclaves, exclaves, fragmented, landlocked, perforated, prorupted states
45. Forms of government; democratization, imperialism, colonialism, federal states, unitary states,
gerrymandering
46. Fall of Communism and the legacy of the Cold War
47. European Union
48. Terrorism, Isis, Taliban, AlQuida
49. Primary, secondary, tertiary sectors
50. Human Development Index, GNP, GDP, GNI, value added, inequality-adjusted HDI
51. Access to healthcare, sanitation, education especially women and girls
52. Life expectancy, education
53. Gender inequality
54. Women’s rights, roles, access to education, working, labor force,
55. Energy supply and demand, reserves, fracking, OPEC, Nuclear energy, renewable energy, solar energy
56. Developmental paths; self-sufficient, international trade, WTO
57. Rostow Model, Self-sufficiency Model
58. Housing bubble
59. Fair trade, microfinance
60. Milinuem developmental goals
61. Core and Periphery Model
62. Green Revolution
63. Neolithic agricultural revolution, second agricultural revolution
64. Major agricultural regions
65. Crop Hearths, animal hearths
66. Rural land use, types of crops grown, interdependence among regions of food production and
consumption
67. Land use/coverage, irrigation, conservation to restore natural land cover
68. Pastoralism, Von Thunen’s Theory
69. Undernourishment, undernutrition, hunger vulnerability, food security/insecurity, among
women/children
70. Roles of women in agriculture
71. Six agricultural regions in developed countries (page 357)
72. Pastoral nomadism
73. Shifting cultivation, intensive subsistence farming, double cropping, truck farming, dairy farming, drug
farming
74. Mediterranean farming
75. Commercial farming
76. Africa’s food struggles
77. Subsistence farming in developed countries
78. GMO’s
79. Environmental issues, strategies to increase food supply
80. Sustainable agriculture
81. Government developed initiatives local, regional, globally
82. Rise of technology industries
83. Know industrial regions of the world (pg. 396-7)
84. Situation and site factors (industries) single market manufacturers
85. Pollution from industries
86. Right to work laws
87. Gender equity in the workplace
88. BRIC
89. Outsourcing, just-in-time delivery
90. GDP, HDI, GII
91. Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory
92. Types of services (pg. 431-2)
93. Market area hinterland
94. Central Place Theory
95. Use of hexagons for market areas
96. Threshold
97. Rank-size rule, primate city rule
98. Gravity model
99. Climate change
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Global cities, three levels (pg. 442
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Hierarchy of business services
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Off shore financial services
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Clustered rural settlements
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Urbanization and forces driving urbanization
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Borcher’s epochs of urban transportation development
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Burgess concentric zone
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Hoyt sector model
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Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model
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Galactic city model
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Gentrification
Social heterogeneity
Central Business District (CBD)
Businesses clustered downtown?
Push pull factors why not many people live in cities
Food desert
Underground CBD, skyscrapers
Market segmentation
Concentric zones in cities of developing countries
Sectors in cities of developing countries
Peripheral Model
Density gradient
Suburban sprawl
Segregation
Suburbanization of business, consumer,
Public Transit
Cars of the future
Gentrification, deterioration (490)
Underclass, suburban stress
Recession, urban tax break.
Zones of abandonment,
Urban environmental issues
Changing demographic employment and social structure,
Housing and insurance discrimination, debt crises
Disamenity
Edge cities - Uptowns(High income), boombergs (rapidly created suburbs), greenfields