Grade 12 World Geography
Exam Review
Course Code:
CGU4U AP
Course Name:
World Geography
Grade:
12
Teacher:
Ms. Bader-Shaw
Date of Examination:
Monday June 3, 2013
Time of Examination:
8:30 – 10:30 am
Length of Examination:
2 hours
Value on June Report Card:
20 percent
Suggested Study Materials:
This examination will cover material contained in the material provided on the SSD and
course textbooks: Kuby and Barron’s
Materials students are permitted to bring in to the examination location:
1.
2.
Pencils or pens
Ruler
Examination Format (Total 70 marks):
 Section A - Multiple Choice (40 marks) Knowledge & Understanding (K/U)
 Section B – Short Answers (20 marks) K/U, Thinking and Inquiry (T/I),
Application (APP) & Communication (Com)
 Section C – World Maps (10 marks) (Regions, Religions, Development etc.)
Application (APP) & Communication (Com)
Exam Content to Review:
Unit Title
1. Geography: Its
Nature and
Perspectives
2. Population and
Migration
Content
Space, place, and scale; maps; regions; geographic data and
geotechnologies (GPS, GIS and Remote Sensing)
Distribution, growth and decline (Pyramids), and
movement/migration pull an push factors, global examples
3. Cultural Patterns
and Processes
4. Political
Organization of
Space
5. Agriculture and
Rural Land Use
6. Industrialization
and Economic
Development
7. Cities and Urban
Land Use
Concepts of culture (Language, Religion etc.), cultural
differences, cultural identity and landscapes
Territoriality, political evolution and arrangements, and
sovereignty (Middle East)
Development, production, rural settlement and commercial
agriculture
Growth and diffusion (Industrial Revolution to Post
Industrial), contemporary patterns and development
initiatives
Urbanism, evolution of cities, environment and social
space, and models (concentric, sector etc.)
Famous Geographers and Models:
Be sure to review all textbook materials as not all geographers/models are included below!

Carl Sauer - concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of
geographical analysis

Friedrich Ratzel - Geopolitics: a state's power to control space/territory & shape
the foreign policy of individual states, - A state resembles a living organism; it
receives nourishment by taking advantage of less powerful competitors; space is a
life giving force – Organic theory

Ernst Burgess – Concentric zone model, urban centers

J.H. Von Thunen – Concentric zone model: shows all agricultural products and
the importance of their proximity to their marketplace.

Walter Christaller – Central Place Theory

Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman – Multiple Nuclei Model

Homer Hoyt – Sector Model

Nicholas Spykman - Rimland theory: he domination of the coastal fringes of
Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.

Sir Halford Mackinder – Heartland theory: control of Eastern Europe was vital
to control of the world

Alfred Weber -Least cost theory: labor, transportation, and agglomeration

August Losch – Maximum profitability

Walt Rostow – 5 stages of development (tradition to mass consumption)

Thomas Malthus - world's rate or population increase was far outrunning the
development of food supplies

George Ravenstein - laws of migration can be summarized into 5 general rules

Esther Boserup - population density creates more agricultural output and humans
will figure out ways of producing more food on the same amount of land rather
than starve to death

William D. Pattison – Four traditions of Geography (1) spatial tradition, 2)
area studies tradition, 3) man-land tradition, and 4) earth science tradition).

Wilbur Zelinsky - patterns of migration in accordance to social and economical
changes and the motives and distance for migration, 15 Major Perceptual Regions

Norman Ernest Borlaug – Father of Green Revolution: Increased wheat and
maize yield worldwide, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.

Immanuel Wallerstein -explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semiperiphery in terms of economic and political connections.
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