K/H World Geography Final Exam Review
Directions: Make sure you know the importance of each subject for each unit.
UNIT 1: THINKING LIKE A GEOGRAPHER:
Spatial Relationships
Relative and Absolute Location
Branches of Geography
Equator
Prime Meridian
UNIT 2 & 3: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY & CULTURE:
Economic Sectors (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary,
Quaternary)
Free Enterprise
Command Economy
Mixed Economy
Communism
Democracy
Theocratic
Culture
Urbanization
UNIT 4: ANGLO AMERICA:
Quebec
St. Lawrence Seaway (importance)
Primate Cities of the United States and Canada
Trade Routes in the United States
Climate and Vegetation of Canada
UNIT 5: EUROPE:
Alps
Pyrenees Mountains
Polders
Canals in Venice, Italy
European Union
Northern Ireland Conflict
Balkanization
UNIT 6: RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLICS
Landmass of Russia
Chernobyl Disaster
Fall of Communism
Republics
UNIT 7: LATIN AMERICA
Deforestation of Amazon Rainforest
Panama Canal (importance)
Effects of the Slave Trade
Effects of European Colonization
Columbian Exchange
UNIT 8: SOUTHWEST ASIA
Source of Income for Middle East
Sects of Islam
Monotheism
Settlement Patterns in the Middle East
Desalination
Kurds
Diffusion of Islam
Arab-Israeli Conflict
UNIT 9: SOUTH ASIA
Subcontinent & Tectonic Forces
Monsoons in India
Ganges River (uses and effects of uses)
Hinduism
Caste System
Kashmir Territory
Gandhi (importance)
UNIT 10 EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Ring of Fire
Taiwan (Chinese Nationalists)
Confucianism
Communism and China
Newly Industrialized Countries (Economic Tigers)
Acculturation
Ethnocentrism
North Korea
One Child Policy
UNIT 11 AFRICA:
Climate and Vegetation in Africa (regions)
Desertification
Berlin Conference
European Views of Africans
Sahel
Great Rift Valley
Apartheid
AIDS
Malaria
Nelson Mandela