World Geography EOC Review - 2011-2012
Mr. Rodriguez & Mr. Lippart
This is an example of a review for World Geography based on the World Geography TEKS and other sources; this is
not an exhaustive list nor meant to be a complete review.
World Geography EOC/STAAR Review 2011-2012
The End of Course Exam is on: _________________________
● 14 Questions related to History, Government, and Citizenship
● 26 Questions related Geography
● 14 Questions related to Culture
● 14 Questions related to Economics, Science, Technology, & Society
○ 30% of all the questions above will be incorporated with Social Studies Skills
Geography Graphic Organizer
I. Introduction to Geography
What is the difference between physical and human geography and how are they related?
- What are regions and what are the types of regions?
- How does physical geography impact human development?
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Foundations and Basics of Geography:
■Regions: a geographic area with something in common.
● political/formal: an area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive
characteristic(s).
○ examples are: cultural border, country borders, government territory,
economic activity
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perceptual/vernacular: a place that people believe exists as part of their
cultural identity or what they perceive based on their informal sense of place
○ examples are: “poor/rich” parts of a city, the “deep south”
functional/nodal: a region organized around a node or focal central point.
○ examples are: cell phone range, tv and radio waves
Physical Geography versus Human Geography
Physical Geography
Human Geography
The study of how humans adapt to and are
impacted by their physical surroundings. This
includes:
The study of how humans change and are impacted by
human characteristics creating a cultural landscape. This
includes:
Landforms and Bodies of Water
Population, Migration, & Settlement Geography
(Demographics
Ocean and Wind currents
Transportation, Urban Patterns, & Social Geography
Spheres: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere,
Lithosphere, Biosphere
Developmental Geography
Weather, Climate Regions and Patterns, &
Meteorology
Geo-politics and Political Features; Types of
Governments
Environmental Geography
Ethnicity and Race
Earth Science, Biomes, Science in Geography
Cultural Geography: Folk & Popular Cultures, Culture
Regions, Language, Religion, Cultural Changes
Natural Disasters
Globalization and Industrial Geography
Plate Tectonics
Agriculture and Land Use
Physical Locations
Resource Locations, Distribution, & Resource Issues
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How do Weather patterns, Climates, and Physical Features impact Human Geographic
development?
■Factors that affect Climate: Latitude, Ocean and Wind Currents, Elevation, Physical
Features such as mountains, valleys, basins, etc.
■Earth-Sun Relationship:
● Northern Hemisphere: above the equator
● Southern Hemisphere: below the equator
● Equator and Low Latitudes:
● Polar Regions and High Latitudes:
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Physical Geography: How does physical geography impact the way society organizes and
adapts to their physical surroundings?
■Earth-Sun Relationship (Define and give examples of each)
● - Rotation:
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- Revolution:
- Explain how the Earth & Sun relationships produces the seasons:
- Equator what is it? Where is it?:
- Tropics, what are they? Where are they?:
■Types of Landforms and examples from each region:
● Mountain (Range)
● Deserts
● Peninsulas
● Archipelagos
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■Types of Bodies of water (especially major seas, rivers, lakes, and coastlines that impact
human development, culture, and growth) from each region:
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What is Location and how does location relate to the way we understand regions? (Define
and give examples of each)
■- Absolute Location:
■- Relative Location:
■- Latitude:
■- Longitude:
■- Prime Meridian, what is it? Where is it?
■- What is a topographical (elevation) map?
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How is the Earth categorized into 4 different “spheres”? Explain each:
■- Hydrosphere
● Explain the Water Cycle:
■- Biosphere:
● Biome – Large naturally occurring community of flora (plants) and fauna
(animals) occupying a habitat
■- Atmosphere:
● Ozone Layer
■- Lithosphere:
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What is Climate and how does it impact human development?
● Difference between Climate & Weather:
● General Climate at (Description and Example)
○ Low Latitudes
○ Mid Latitudes
○ High Latitudes:
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What is Climate like in ______________and describe why it is important (includ examples)?
○ Low Elevation
○ High Elevation
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What is Climate like in ______________and describe why it is important (includ examples)?
○ Coastal Regions:
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Landlocked Regions:
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Rain Shadow effect (Definition):
○ Example 1:
○ Example 2:
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Explain how climate and physical geographic location generally impacts where human
beings settle on Earth:
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Climate and Earth Geographic Phenomenon (Define and give regional examples)
○ Monsoon:
○ Hurricane:
○ Tsunami:
○ El Nino:
○ Seasonal River Flooding
○ Plate Tectonics: Describe what Plate Tectonics and Tectonic forces are:
● How do volcanoes and earthquakes relate to Tectonics?
● Fault Lines (Descriptions):
● “Ring of Fire” (Description and location):
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What are some Regional examples of how physical features, weather, and climate impact
human development?
■Australia, Oceania
● Desertification
■North America (USA and Canada)
● City Growth and population clusters along major coasts, waterways, and
points of trade
● Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Flooding, Droughts, El nino,
● Agricultural zones of USA: Wheat Belt, Sun Belt, Cotton Belt,
● Air Conditioning and Housing
■Latin America
● Earthquakes
● Deforestation and Reforestation
■Europe and Russia
● Erosion
■North Africa and Southwest Asia
● Water issues
● Erosion
■Sub-Saharan Africa
● Desertification
● Coastlines lack natural harbors
● Drought and Famine
■Central Asia
● Landlocked
● Aral Sea
● Water issues
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■South Asia
● Wet and Dry Monsoon Seasons
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■East Asia
● Earthquakes
● Flooding
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■Southeast Asia
World Map of Cultural Regions: (Draw & label Regional names & fill in key cultural characteristics for each):
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II. Population, Migration, and Settlement: Where do people tend to live and why? How do population
patterns cause problems and obstacles for regions and countries? How do population patterns create
relationships with migration and cultural changes?
○ Not too hot, too dry, too cold, too wet, and too high (in elevation)
○ Understand the relationship between population clusters and high levels of population
density when it comes to settlement patterns, urbanization, and migration trends.
● Demographic transition:
● Population Clusters:
● Population Density:
● Population Pyramids:
○ Understand and Analyze the future patterns that population pyramids can show
○ Understand and predict what may happen to a country’s political, economic and social
structure based on their population patterns and predictions.
■Slow Growth
■High Growth
■Moderate Growth
● Census: collecting data every ten years based on population patterns.
● Regional Issues related to population and migration:
○ Migration patterns caused by changing political and economic issues;
■Intraregional changes: China - From rural west to urban east.
■Mexico & USA
■India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern, & USA (Jobs, brain drain,
○ Dilemmas (Problems) due to population changes:
■Increased Urbanization, Urban Sprawl, Pollution, Overuse of resources
■Overpopulation
■Negative population
■Age of Workers, Future age of Educated Workforce, Elderly
How do we measure and predict future patterns of a region/country based on population?
○ Crude Birth Rate
○ Crude Death Rate
○ Natural Increase Rate
○ Life Expectancy
What are push and pull factors and examples of each? Where are people leaving and entering? and Why?
● In-migration (immigrant), immigrant
● Out-migration (emigrate), emigrant
● Diffusion of cultures, languages and religions based on migration patterns: (Understand and give
examples)
○ Recent & Historical changes in migration (global and national examples)
What are the major “revolutions” that impacted human population growth and when did they happen?
● Agricultural
● Industrial
● Medical/Tech
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III. Culture: Cultures, Language, Religion, and Ethnicity: Where are different regional examples of
cultural aspects and how do they impact the landscape?
○ Culture (Define and give regional examples of)
■Customs:
■Habits:
■Taboos
■Materials:
■Institutions:
■Cultural Convergence and
■Cultural Divergence:
■Cultural Continuity:
■Multiculturalism:
■Relate the connection between diffusion, culture(s), & the physical/cultural landscape
■Diffusion of Democracy:
■Folk Culture:
● Traditional ways of living
■Popular Culture
● Diffusion of American Popular culture to other parts of the world
● Diffusion of other cultural practices into the USA
■Economic, political, and social opportunities in different cultures for:
● women
● ethnic minorities
● religious minorities
● underrepresented populations
■Education
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Language: Explain how languages help define regions and how languages diffuse (in history
and today)
■Oral versus Written languages
■Language and modern technology:
■Colonization and Age of Imperialism bringing European languages to various regions:
(Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia)
■Globalization and Diffusion of the English language
■Link between diffusion of languages and imperialism/colonialism:
● Africa
● Americas
● Asia
● Australia
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Religions: What are the world’s major religions, where did they originate, how did they diffuse
& where to?
■(Be able to define, locate, explain key cultural impacts, major beliefs and current geopolitical and economic issues.)
● Hinduism (Hindu) ● Judaism (Jewish) ● Buddhism (Buddhist) ● Christianity (Christian) ● Islam (Muslim) ● Sikhism (Sikh) 7
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Ethnicity:
■Majority Culture(s)
■Minority Culture(s)
IV. Geo-Politics: How do different groups of people organize their territories, respond to political structures,
and claim territory? How does this cause geo-political problems and solutions?
○ Geo-political Terms (know definitions and regional examples of each)
■Territoriality
■Borders and Border Disputes
■Shapes of State Territories
■From ethnicities to nations: (define and give example of each)
● Nation,
● State,
● Nation-State,
● Stateless Nation
■Supranational Organizations and Other Trading Partners
● European Union
● United Nations
● NATO
● OPEC
● NAFTA
○ Types of Governments: Each society chooses and changes their forms of government based
on changes of growth, culture, and to arrange their society. (define and give country
examples of each type of government). Explain the difficulties and reasons behind each.
■Democracy
● Pure (Direct) Democracy
● Representative (Republic) Democracy
■Autocracy
● Monarchy
● Dictatorship
● Totalitarianism
■Oligarchy
● Theocracy
○ Public Policy and Citizenship: How do citizens organize and vote for their elected officials?
How does the cultural landscape become impacted by political differences?
● Local, State, and National
● Elections, Electoral Maps, Voting Patterns
● Cultures
○ Nationalism and Patriotism
○ What are some Regional examples of Geo-political conflicts?
■Australia, Oceania
● Aborigines
● World War II
■North America (USA and Canada)
● Economic and political relationship between Mexico, Canada, and USA
■Latin America
● NAFTA
● Increased Development and Industrialization - How governments respond
● Illegal Immigration
● War on Drugs
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■Europe and Russia
● Ethnic Cleansing
● European Union/Eurozone
● Balkanization and the Balkans
● Terrorism in 21st century
■North Africa and Southwest Asia
● Iraq
● Kurds
● Arab Spring (such as in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, & Libya)
■Sub-Saharan Africa
● Genocide
● Apartheid in South Africa
● South Sudan as a new nation-state
● Poverty and Development
■Central Asia
● Afghanistan
● Aral Sea
■South Asia
● Pakistan and India
● Sri Lanka
● Terrorism
● Religious Diversity
● Brain Drain
■East Asia
● North Korea and South Korea
● “Two Chinas”: People’s Republic of China and Taiwan
■Southeast Asia
● Vietnam
● Cambodia
● Myanmar (Burma)
Geo-political Issues Map: Label important geo-political conflicts, issues, and disputes on the map below:
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V. Development and Economic Geography: How do different regions and countries respond to changes
in economic relationships, how do they use their resources, and how do they structure their area in a
globalized and interconnected world?
○ Types of Economic Systems, (know the benefits of a Free Market System)
■Free Enterprise Versus Communism:
● Characteristics of each
● Regional Examples of each
○ Industry and Services
■“AIM”: Agricultural, Industrial, and Medical/Tech Revolutions
● Cottage Industry
■Locations of major industrial zones in USA and World
■Relationship between economic industry and development.
○ Economic Industries
■Primary
■Secondary
■Tertiary
■Quaternary
○ Ways to Categorize Economic and Industrial Development:
■More Developed Country (MDC)
■Less Developed Country (LDC)
■Newly Industrialized countries/ periphery (like India, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil)
○ Stages of Development
○ Sustainable Development
○ Human Development Index (HDI)
○ AIDS and Pandemics
○ Uneven Development, Poverty, Wealth: (Give regional examples of poverty and wealth and
what determines
How are issues of development measured?
● Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita
● Life Expectancy
● Literacy Rate
● Infant Mortality
VI. Agriculture, Land Use, & Urban Patterns: Where are agricultural zones and how do societies organize
based on agricultural land use? Why are cities growing and how are they changing due to such growth?
● Urbanization:
○ urban growth
○ urban sprawl
● City Structure
○ Urban Core (CBD)
○ Suburbs
○ Rural area
● Climate, Soil types, and location: how is this important when determining city location
● History and Agriculture:
○ Columbian Exchange
● Subsistence Agriculture vs. Commercial Agriculture
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Agriculture and Development: How is a country’s level of development related to agricultural (and
industrial output)?
From Nomadic Lifestyle to Agrarian society to industrialized society
Examples of Agricultural issues today:
○ Population growth
○ Famine (related to geo-political)
○ Organic
○ GMOs
○ Green Revolution
VII. Resource and Environmental Issues: Where are the world’s resources located and how do humans
adapt to resource needs?
○ Technology, Inventions, and Energy:
■Transportation
■Air Conditioning
■Desalinization
■Oil
■Computers
○ Natural Resources: (Define and give an example of)
○ Resource Scarcity and Resource Management
○ Renewable resource
■Example 1:
■Example 2:
○ Non-renewable resource:
■Example 1:
■Example 2:
● Environmental Issues
● Where is most of the world’s Oil located?:
● How has this distribution affected international relationships/conflict?
● Water: Why is water a major resource the development of humans?
○ Examples of Water Issues/Conflicts
○ Examples of Regional Water-related problems
○ Types of Water Issues
VIII. Globalization: How and why is the world more connected today and how does that impact politics,
economics, and cultures?
○ History and Eras of Globalization
■Age of Colonialism
■Post World War II - 20th Century
■21st century
○ Technological impacts of Globalization: How have technological inventions changed our
interconnectivity in a positive and negative way?
○ Cultural Impacts of Globalization: How do cultures change based on increased globalized
patterns?
○ Information and Technology
■India
■USA
■China
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IX. Social Studies (Geographic) Skills: What are the important skills related to social studies and how are
they used?
● Reading Comprehension, inference, understanding, and analyzing
● Citizenship: How are issues of geography, politics, history, and economics related to our
responsibilities as citizens?
● Social Studies:
○ Primary and Secondary Sources
○ Political Cartoons
○ Bias and Point of View
○ GPS and GIS
● Map, Graphs, Charts, and Diagram Skills:
○ Locate places of contemporary geo-political significances on a map
■Cultural Regions
■Religious and Language Groups
■Geo-political relationships
○ Interpret different types of maps
■answer geographic questions
■infer relationships
■analyze change
■understand relationships between natural and human-made boundaries
● Vocabulary Application: Apply physical geographic terms to various regions of the world
● Vocabulary Application: Apply conceptual and human geographic terms to various regions of the
world.
● Problem-solving & decision-making:
○ identify a problem,
○ list and consider options,
○ consider advantages and disadvantages,
○ choose and implement a solution,
○ evaluate the effectiveness of the solution
X. Additional Information: What other resources are available for review?
This is an example of a review for World Geography based on the World Geography TEKS and other sources; this is
not an exhaustive list nor meant to be a complete review.
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