Study Aides, Lists, Models, and Vocabs
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This course covers the following topics:
1. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5%–10%)
2. Population (13%–17%)
3. Cultural Patterns and Processes (13%–17%)
4. Political Organization of Space (13%–17%)
5. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13%–17%)
6. Industrialization and Economic Development (13%–17%)
7. Cities and Urban Land Use (13%–17%)
1. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5%–10%)
2. Population (13%–17%)
3. Cultural Patterns and Processes (13%–17%)
4. Political Organization of Space (13%–17%)
5. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13%–17%)
6. Industrialization and Economic Development (13%–17%)
7. Cities and Urban Land Use (13%–17%)
Course Objectives:
- List and explain the building blocks of human geography
- Identify patterns of population distribution, growth and decline and connect these patterns to different stages of economic development
- Identify different types of migration and explain the reasons for each
- Describe the origins, development and distribution of different languages and explain how language can be either a unifying or a divisive factor
- Describe the origins, development and distribution of different religions and explain how religion can be either a unifying or a divisive factor
- Define a nation-state and identify the factors that determine the power/influence a nation-state has in the world community
- Describe how economic development is measured and identify possible paths to economic development
- Explain the differences between intensive and extensive subsistence agriculture and the differences between intensive and extensive commercial agriculture
- Describe the distribution pattern of industry and explain the factors underlying industrial location decisions
- Explain the origin, distribution and growth of settlement areas and explain why these people and activities display particular spatial patterns
- Apply geographic methods to the contemporary issues of energy, pollution and food production
- Use and think about maps and spatial data sets
- Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
- Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes
- Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places