World Geography Final Review K
Economic
1) Be able to draw and label the economic spectrum.
2) Know the characteristics of the different economic
systems.
3) What is the difference between primary, secondary,
tertiary and quaternary?
4) Where would you find each of the activities?
5) What is the difference between subsistence and
commercial farming?
6) What is the difference between cottage and
commercial industries?
7) What is the difference between developing and
developed countries?
8) List statistics (GDP per capita, life expectancy, IMR,
literacy rate, etc.) for a developed country.
9) List statistics (GDP per capita, life expectancy, IMR,
literacy rate, etc.) for a developing country.
10) What is globalization?
11) Why would a company outsource jobs?
12) What are free trade agreements?
13) What is the EU?
14) What are some examples of renewable and nonrenewable resources?
15) What does OPEC do?
16) What are some examples of chokepoints?
17) What are some examples of human-environment
interaction?
18) What is the significance of the Aral Sea?
19) What is the significance of the Three Gorges Dam?
20) What is the significance of Chernobyl?
21) What is the significance of the Dust Bowl?
Population
22) What is the difference between push and pull
factors?
23) What are some examples of push factors?
24) What are some examples of pull factors?
25) What are the two trends in the movement of people
worldwide?
26) Why are people moving like this?
27) How has the influx of migrants to the U.S. changed
over time?
28) What is the difference between a refugee and an
immigrant?
29) How are cities growing around the world?
30) What is urban sprawl?
31) What is a sustainable development?
32) What is a pandemic?
33) How did certain pandemics diffuse around the
world?
34) What is carrying capacity?
35) How can you increase carrying capacity?
36) What is the Green Revolution?
37) Know the 4 stages of development.
38) Be able to identify the stages of development by
looking at a population pyramid.
39) Be able to identify concerns for the future based on
population pyramids.
40) Know the specifics of population issues in different
regions of the world (Europe, Japan, China, India,
the U.S., etc.)
Culture
41) What is culture?
42) How does culture diffuse?
43) How does physical geography impact the diffusion
of culture?
44) What is assimilation?
45) What is acculturation?
46) What is xenophobia?
47) What is ethnocentrism?
48) What are the elements of culture?
49) What is the Columbian Exchange?
50) What are the long term impacts of the Columbian
Exchange?
51) Know the basics of all major religions in the world.
(holy book, place of worship, distribution, major
figures, branches, etc.)
52) Christianity
53) Islam
54) Judaism
55) Hinduism
56) Buddhism
57) Sikhism
58) Animism
59) What is a cultural hearth?
60) Where is the cultural hearth for democracy?
Political
61) Know who has the power and examples of each of
the following political systems.
62) democracy
63) republic
64) monarchy
65) dictatorship
66) theocracy
67) Who fought in the Balkan conflict?
68) Why were they fighting in the Balkan conflict?
69) Who is fighting in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
70) Why are they fighting in the Israel/Palestine
conflict?
71) Why do both sides feel the land is theirs?
72) Who colonized Africa?
73) Why did they colonize Africa?
74) How did this lead to conflict there today?
75) What is the difference between an artificial and
natural boundary?
76) What is a landlocked country and why is that bad?
77) What is a one commodity country and why is that
bad?
78) What was the Cold War?
79) What wars were part of the Cold War?
80) What is genocide?
81) Name at least one example of genocide.
82) What is terrorism?
83) What region of the world is seeing turmoil and
protesting/overthrowing of their governments?
84) What is an underrepresented group?
85) What is the United Nations?
86) What makes some countries more powerful than
others?
Map
Vietnam
India
Sudan
Somalia
Nigeria
Dem Rep of Congo
Argentina
Egypt
Indonesia
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
New York City
Caribbean Sea
Panama Canal
Ganges River
Alps
Persian Gulf
Andes Mtns
Ural Mtns
Himalaya Mtns
Strait of Gibraltar
Euphrates River