APHG – 3rd Quarter Project
World Systems Model:
a look at political organization, agriculture, and industry/development
This project is a partner project that will deal with units of 3rd quarter: Political
Geography, Agriculture, and Industry and Development
You and your partner will select one MDC/core country and one LDC/periphery country
(i.e. MDC V. LDC). You will research these nations and create a booklet in which you
compare and contrast the two countries. Your booklet will include a table of contents,
a political map of each country, and three chapters/units that should address
(define/explain) the following questions and issues.
Table of Contents w/ page numbers
Political map of each nation
Chapter One: Political Organization
- Size and shape of each country (compact, prorupt, etc., landlocked, exclaves,
microstate, etc.)
- Boundaries (geometric, physical, cultural)
- Boundary creation (subsequent, antecedent, superimposed, etc.) (Include a
physical map of each country)
- Nation-state, multistate nation, or multination state? Are there conflicts
because of this?
- Government Type (unitary or federal)
- What regional and international organizations is the nation a member of? (list
and describe major organizations)
- Brief colonial history
- Include description of any territorial disputes
Chapter Two: Agriculture
- Specialty crops (list)
- Subsistence or commercial agriculture (identify the type of agriculture in
MDCs – mixed crop and livestock farming, dairy farming, grain farming,
livestock ranching, Mediterranean farming, commercial gardening and fruit
farming) (Identify the type of farming in LDCs – shifting, pastoral nomadism
w/ type of animal, intensive subsistence agriculture w/ wet rice, intensive
agric w/out wet rice, plantations)
- % of labor force engaged in farming (list)
- Attempts/examples at sustainable agriculture
- Drug crops?
- Importer or exporter (in general and specific agric products)
Chapter Three: Industry and Development
- List the following
o GDP and GNP per capita
o Human Development Index
o Gender Equity – GDI (gender related development index) and GEM
(gender empowerment measure)
o Life expectancy
o Literacy rate
o Infant mortality
o CBR
o NIR
o CDR
- Where in the Demographic Transition Model? (include analysis each country)
- Identify primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and quinary activities (in
general what they do and specifics)
- Major industries and manufacturing
- Valuable raw materials and natural resources (list-chart)
- Globalization - evaluate and provide evidence of how well connected
Project due date: March 26th (A day), March 27h (B day)
Rubric:
Categories
Points
Possible
5
Max points
Political map
(both
countries)
Political
Organization
10
20
At least 6-7
bullets
addressed
At least 5-6
bullets
addressed
At least 4
bullets
addressed
At least 3-4
bullets
addressed
At least 2-3
bullets
addressed
At least 2
bullets
addressed
0-1 bullets
addressed
Agriculture
Political Maps
for both
countries
All eight bullets
addressed
thoroughly
All six bullets
addressed
thoroughly
Industry and
Development
30
5
At least 1214 bullets
addressed
5 sources,
incorrect
formation
At least 8-12
bullets
addressed
Three or more
sources,
correct format
Works Cited
10
Includes at least
5 sources,
correct format
5 sources,
incorrect
formation
Three or more
sources,
correct format
At least 4-7
bullets
addressed
Three or more
sources,
incorrect
format
Three or more
sources,
incorrect
format
0-3 bullets
addressed
Clean/
Organized
Thematically
All 14 bullets
addressed
thoroughly
Includes at least
5 sources,
correct format
Table of
Contents
20
19-15 points
14-10 points
9-5 points
Table of contents
included
Total Possible Points = 100
4-0 points
Table of
contents not
included
Only one
political map
No political
maps
Total Points=
0-1 bullets
addressed
Less than
three sources
Less than
three sources