GEOGRAPHY 111 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Final exam cannot be rescheduled by the Professor, only by the Dean!
The Final will not be cumulative, but will draw on concepts from the first half of the course
It will have 67 questions (multiple choice, true/false, matching); you will have 1 hour & 50
minutes. Like in the Midterms, I’m not looking simply for the definitions of terms, but for you to
understand their common-sense meanings, and real-life examples of them. Use both the textbook
and PowerPoints / lecture and video notes to study.
AGRICULTURE / Chapter 8/ Java Jive & Strong Roots videos / Water Wars powerpoint
Agrarian
Agribusiness
Subsistence agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Coffee production (two types)
Coffee consumption (two types)
Farm crisis
Family farms
Factory farms
Chemical inputs
DDT
Hunting and gathering
Intensive vs. extensive agriculture
Intertillage
Mechanization
Pastoralism
Shifting cultivation
Swidden (slash-and-burn)
Transhumance
Columbian Exchange
Monocropping / monoculture
Cash crop
Crop vulnerability
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Plantation
Feedlots
Milk strikes
Cheese regions
Erosion
Soil conservation
Desertification
Green Revolution (benefits and drawbacks)
High-yield “miracle” seeds
Biotechnology (benefits and drawbacks)
Green Revolution-Biotechnology comparison
Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH)
Starlink corn
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
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Transgenic
Cloning
Water utility privatization
Commodification of groundwater
Bottled water debates
Water wars in the Middle East
URBAN HISTORY / Chapters 10 and 11
Urban system
Urbanism
Urban geography
Basic and nonbasic functions
Central Place Theory
Colonial city
Counterurbanization
Gateway city
Trade city
Rank-size rule
Shock city
Hinterland
Primate city / Primacy
Greco-Roman styles
Renaissance/Baroque styles
Medieval European city characteristics
Walking City
Electric Streetcar Era
Early Automobile Era
Freeway Era
Modernism
URBAN CHANGE / Chapters 10 and 11 / Understanding Urban Sprawl video
Central Business District (CBD)
Zone in transition
Central (inner) city
Concentric zone model
Sector model
Suburbanization / counterurbanization
Multiple nuclei model
Peripheral model (contemporary)
Dying downtown
Edge cities
Fiscal squeeze
Gentrification
Redlining
Homelessness
Informal economy (Core and Periphery)
Periphery city characteristics / Overurbanization
Squatters (Core and Periphery)
Urban sprawl
Segregation
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Suburbs (US, Europe, Periphery)
White flight
Rural migrants
Shantytowns/favelas
Western European city characteristics
Eastern European city characteristics
Latin American city characteristics (Semi-periphery)
If we get to video on WalMart:
WalMart pros and cons in rural areas (Store Wars video)
How WalMart can charge low prices—relationship to globalization
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