World Geography Fall Semester Exam Review Sheet 2024 PDF

World Geography Fall Semester Exam Review Sheet 2024 (Moody) The semester exam will consist of the following: Map Labeling Section - 30 countries, 1 point each = 30 points Multiple Choice Questions - 70 questions, 1 point each = 70 points Total Earnable Points - 100 Map Labeling Section (30 points...

World Geography Fall Semester Exam Review Sheet 2024 (Moody) The semester exam will consist of the following: Map Labeling Section - 30 countries, 1 point each = 30 points Multiple Choice Questions - 70 questions, 1 point each = 70 points Total Earnable Points - 100 Map Labeling Section (30 points): You will be required to label 30 countries from the regions we’ve covered with map quizzes so far. Not cities, not capitals, not rivers, not mountain ranges, etc.... countries only! You will not receive the list of 30 countries in advance so be able to label all countries from North America, Central America, South America, and Africa that were covered on this semester’s map quizzes. Use the hard copy blank map you received in class to practice with. This is the same blank map you will be labeling countries on, on the day of the exam. Here is a link to pdf of the blank map if you want to print out extras. Multiple Choice Section (70 points): Be familiar will all items listed below on this review sheet. From the Introduction to Geography slideshow: know the “why of where,” geographic strengths of the U.S. that lead to gaps in geographic knowledge, and the two major branches of geography Physical Geography and Climate Change: Eight factors that affect world climates, also called LACEMOPS - link to slideshow, link to text know the definition of each of the eight factors know how to read latitude and longitude low, mid, and high latitude zones and their corresponding dominant climates: low - tropical, mid - temperate, high - polar/arctic climate change (link to climate change reading) ○ what is causing climate change ○ which countries are most responsible for climate change ○ carbon emissions ○ adaptation - be able to identify examples of ○ mitigation - be able to identify examples of ○ climate justice ○ Paris Agreement ○ NDCs Population and Migration current population trend of falling fertility rates at the global scale the difference between fertility rates in more developed countries and less developed countries: higher in less developed countries, lower in more developed countries top ten countries by population in 2022 - link to Intro. to Population slideshow (just know the top ten, don’t need to memorize their rank) three determinants of population growth or decline - birth rate, death rate, net migration  main ideas of Garrett Hardin and Peter Singer Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Views on Population Growth flaws of Neo-Malthusian views Demographic Transition Model know how to interpret the graph of it and know WHAT happens in each stage and WHY. Link to graph Link to text Definitions: birth rate death rate net migration emigrant immigrant rate of natural increase total fertility rate replacement fertility rate life expectancy dependency ratio Population pyramids (link to slideshow): expansive, stationary, constrictive types; asymmetries; know how to read and interpret pyramids Migration (link to migration slideshow) countries discussed in slides experiencing significant in-migration and out-migration refugee internally displaced person asylum seeker push and pull factors - economic, social, political, environmental intervening obstacles - economic, social, political, environmental fears and benefits of migration remittances Colonialism, Economic Development, Global Trade Settler Colonialism the three ways Native American lands were conquered - warfare and violence, treaties and treaty violations, Indian Removal Definitions: empire, imperialism, polity, colony, hegemony, settler colony and example of one, administrative colony and example of one Colonization and Independence in Africa Link to Intro to Colonization slideshow (Elmina Castle in Ghana) changed functions and meanings of Elmina Castle in Elmina, Ghana over time whiteboard notes on place, fear, competition, and European rationalization of colonialism, and other notes from whiteboard - triangular trade, Europe’s population explosion, capitalism; annotated ‘snippets’ text From the Reading (link to reading) Berlin Conference and “Scramble for Africa” - 1880s life under European colonial rule superimposed borders and their impacts impacts of WWI and WWII on colonized Africans Anti-colonial resistance movements and independence Pan-Africanism Economic Development whiteboard notes on levels of economic activity - primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary GDP, GNP, GNI per capita Human Development Index – what are its components How does a country’s HDI value connect to other factors like gender equality and total fertility rates? Intro. to Development and Theories of economic development slideshow industrial revolution racial capitalism economies of extraction Modernization Theory: its five stages, application, criticism World Systems Theory: core, semiperiphery, periphery, neocolonialism, application, criticism debt Global Trade (Global Trade slideshow) locations of early human trade routes - Silk Road, Trans-Sahara, Indian Ocean rimland, Mediterranean basin Definitions/Concepts/Issues: comparative advantage imports exports free trade - pros and cons protectionism - pros and cons tariff subsidy World Trade Organization globalization - strengths and weaknesses supply chain impact of automation and technological advances on workers outsourcing microcredit fair trade