Mid Term Review Unit 1 1. Explain how the illustration above represents the concept of time-space compression. 2. How are friction of distance and distance decay related to this concept of time-space compression? 1. Describe the concepts illustrated by the graphs above. 2. How are both distance decay and friction of distance illustrated by both graphs?
1. For each of the map projections above, identify the projection and describe how each projection is different from the other (consider the various land masses and the properties of maps). Thematic Maps 1. Complete a google search each of the types of thematic maps (choropleth, isoline, cartogram, proportional symbol, and dot density). For each type of map, identify if the subject of the map, the scale, and how the map helps you to better understand the area being displayed on the map. 1. What terms could you use to describe the above settlement patterns?
1. How can describe global population distribution based on the map above? 2. Where are the highest concentrations of populations located?
Unit 2
Using the Demographic Transition Model above, complete the following: 1. Draw a basic population pyramid shape that corresponds with each stage of the DTM. 2. Place the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the Medical Revolution in its appropriate stage of the DTM. 3. Give a the type of migration that is most prevalent in each stage of the DTM and describe how it corresponds to population growth.
What type of movement is described by the maps above? What types of movement are described by the map above? Other types of movement: 1. What type of movement includes going to school and work on a daily basis? 2. In what type of movement do the nomadic herders of Mongolia participate? 3. In what type of movement do migrant workers and college students participate?
Raventein s Laws of Migration
Unit 3 1. How are cultural ecology, cultural landscape, and sequent occupance all related? How will cultural ecology and sequent occupance impact the cultural landscape? 2. Consider your own town (or city). List 5 examples of parts of the cultural landscape and discuss how they describe the cultural landscape of your town or city. 3. How are cultural convergence, cultural diffusion, the conquest theory, and the agricultural theory all related? Complete the following chart for Folk and Popular Cultures using the bulleted list below. Have anonymous sources Practiced by small homogeneous(same type of people) groups Live in relative isolation Customs are invented and associated with modern communication systems Practiced by large, heterogeneous groups of people landscapes change relatively little over time rapid simultaneous global communication vary from place to place at a given time vary from time to time at a given place Have multiple hearths the product of economically more developed countries Particularly responsive to the environment because of low-level of technology Have mostly agricultural economies food habits derive from the environment Housing is a product of cultural tradition and natural conditions Differences in food, clothing, and housing exist from region to region, but are less prevalent than in the past Clothing habits generally reflect occupations rather than environments Consumption of large quantities of alcoholic beverages and snack foods are a characteristic There is not a clear explanation for regional food preferences Watching T.V is the most popular leisure activity and method for diffusion Creates uniform(ones that look the same) landscapes Folk Cultures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pop Cultures 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 7. 18. 8. 9. 19. 20. 21. 10.
Religions Quiz Elrod APHG Christianity Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Sikhism Shintoism Taoism / Daoism Confucianism Zoroastrianism List ALL religions that fit the appropriate descriptions. 1. Ethnic Religions. 2. Universalizing Religions. 3. Monotheistic. 4. Polytheistic. 5. Hearth is located in Southwest Asia. 6. Hearth is located in India. 7. Hearth is located in East Asia. 8. Has roots in another, older religion. 9. Initially spread because of missionaries and / or traders. 10. Has forms called Theravada, Mahayana, Lamaism, and Zen. 11. Has forms called Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism. 12. Has forms called Sunni and Shia. 13. Primarily based on the teachings of one person. 14. Based on the teachings of multiple teachers. 15. The world s largest religion. 16. The world s fastest growing religion. Tribal Religions 1. List the general characteristics of a tribal religion. Where are most tribal religions found? What is the general relationship between tribal religions and level of development?
1. For the cultural realms above, write down as many unifying features as you can think of that pertain to that realm. Think parts of culture (religion, language, history, values, ethnicity, race, etc).
1. Place each language family as a part of the cultural realms in the map on the previous page. What relationships do you see between where language families are located and the location of cultural realms? Enclaves: An enclave is a territory that is completely surrounded by another. This can create tension between the two territories. An ethnic enclave is when one ethnicity lives in an area completely surrounded by an area inhabited by a different ethnicity. Do a google search for enclaves and find two examples on different different scales (a country wide or city wide), and describe situation of the enclave.
Balkanization: How could ethnic enclaves within a country lead to the development of balkanization? Consider the map of the ethnicities in the former Yugoslavia below.