World Geography
Semester Review: Free Response Questions
I will add rubrics for each question over the next several weeks. Please start looking over your
information in your notebook and in the textbook to address the following questions for the exam.
1. Compare the experiences of the Higham family from 360 Degrees Longitude to ONE of the ideas
below from our units. Use specific examples from your notes and from the book to give examples.
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physical forces affecting where people live and their movement (migration and/or
transportation)
different demographic trends (developed world vs. developing world)
how people interact with their environment (currently and historically)
2. Choose two of the following locations. Explain how physical forces impacts the way people live in that
area. Describe that place in terms of LACEMOPS, landforms, types of vegetation, and climate zones.
a. Quito, Ecuador
b. Hammerfest, Norway
c. Lincoln, Nebraska
d. Seattle, USA
e. Manaus, Brazil
f. London, England
3. Choose two of the following places and explain how people have interacted with the environment
there throughout history. How have humans benefitted and what has been the cost to the
environment? How has use of the land changed over time (or has it changed much?) You may also
include how urbanization has affected that place.
a. Amazon Rainforest
b. The Netherlands
c. Panama/ Panama Canal
d. Aral Sea
e. Mexico
f. Central America
4. Examine the connections between urban sprawl, rising consumption of gasoline, and rising air
pollution in North American urban areas, and then propose a solution that you could abide by yourself.
5. Discuss the reasons for Europe’s low or, in some cases, negative population growth rates. What are
some of the consequences of the pattern? Why might an understanding of a region’s population age
structure affect immigration policy?