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chap_1_earth_7th_edition_de_blij.pdf

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Name: ___________________________________________ Period: ________ Date: _________ Unit 1 The Earth as Humanity?s Home AP Human Geography Development of Agriculture __________ ________ = the current interglacial period, extending 12,000 years ago. Perhaps 4 -8 million people were alive at the beginning of this period ________ __________ = the process of planned cultivation of root and/or seed crops that began as early as 14,000 years ago in several culture hearths across the globe; may have begun in southeastern Asia (Sauer) ? ______ ______ = plants that grow as tubers in the tropics (yams, sweet potatoes, manioc,?) ? ______ ______ = field crops, such as barley or wheat; more complex cultivation process involving

big_geographic_questions_1.pdf

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The Professional Geographer, 54(3) 2002, pages 305?317 ? Copyright 2002 by Association of American Geographers. Initial submission, June 2001; revised submission, January 2002; ?nal acceptance, February 2002. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK. ARTICLES The Big Questions in Geography Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina Reginald Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara William L. Graf University of South Carolina In noting his fondness for geography, John Noble Wilford, science correspondent for The New York Times , neverthe- less challenged the discipline to articulate those big questions in our ?eld, ones that would generate public interest,

aphg-review_session_1-nature_and_its_perspectives-2014.pdf

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Review ?Session ?#1 ? Nature ?and ?Its ?Perspec?ves ? Tuesday, ?April ?7, ?2014 ? Geography ?History ? ?? Geography-?? ??The ?scien??c ?study ?of ?the ?loca?on ?of ?people ? and ?ac?vi?es ?across ?Earth?and ?the ?reason ?for ?their ? distribu?on? ? ?? Eratosthenes ?(ca. ?100 ?BCE) ? ?? Geo ?? ??earth? ?and ?Graphy ?? ??to ?write? ? ?? Greeks ?and ?Romans ?developed ?la?tude ?and ?longitude ? ?? Ptolemy ?(2nd ?c. ?CE) ? ?? Created ?one ?of ?the ??rst ??world ?maps? ? ?? Included ?the ?closed ?Indian ?Ocean ?and ?Earth?s ?en?re ?landmass ? made ?up ?of ?most ?of ?Europe, ?Central ?Asia ?and ?Northern ?Africa ?

Rubenstein Ch 11 Reading Guide

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Industry: Key Issue 1 Where Did Industry Originate? Rubenstein, 342-349 1. Murray left Ohio for _____________ and then left there for _________________ Roadmaster left Ohio for __________________ and left there, and went to ______________ Huffy left Celina, Ohio in 1998 and moved to ___________, then to _____________ Where does Pacific Cycle contract to have bicycles made? ________________ Ohio Art Company moved to Bryan, Ohio, to _______________________ in 2000. Maytag moved production of its refrigerators from Galesburg, Ill, to __________________ in 2002. Carrier Corporation moved production of its refrigeration units from Syracuse, New York to ___________ in 2003. Hoover vacuum cleaners, once made in North Canton, Ohio, are now made by a _________ company.

Rubenstein Ch 10 Reading Guide

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Development: Key Issue 1 Why Does Development Vary Among Countries? Rubenstein, pp. 274-281 1. Read the case study, a. Could you live on $16 a month? b. What obstacles does Rahman face? 2. What four specific factors does the UN consider when determining a country?s level of development, its HDI (Human Development Index)? 3. Look at figure 9-1 write down three observations ? ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF DEVELOPMENT 4a. What is gross domestic product (GDP)? 4b. What is the annual per capita GDP in an MDC? In an LDC? 4c. What has been happening to the gap between MDCs and LDCs in terms of GDP? 5. Explain this statement: ?Per capita GDP measure average (mean) wealth, not its distribution.?

Rubenstein Ch 8 Reading Guide

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Political Geography: Key Issue 1 WHERE ARE STATES LOCATED? Rubenstein, pp. 240-247 1. Define state: 2. Define sovereignty: ? PROBLEMS OF DEFINING STATES 3. There is some disagreement about how many states there actually are in the world because of regions which may, or may not, actually be states. Complete the table to demonstrate three cases? KOREA (North and South) People?s Democratic Republic of China (CHINA) and/or Republic of China (TAIWAN) WESTERN SAHARA or SAHRAWI REBPUBLIC One state if you agree that: One state if you agree that: One state if you agree that: Two states if you agree that: Two states if you agree that: No state if you agree that: 4. List the 7 largest states which encompass more than 2 million square miles:

Rubenstein Ch 7 Reading Guide

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Ethnicity: Key Issue 1 WHERE ARE ETHNICITIES DISTRIBUTED? Rubenstein, pp. 206-217 Read page 206 1. What nationality do you identify with? 2. What ethnicity do you identify with? Read page 208 Case Study: 1. Why do many geographers reject the biological classification of humans? 2. What features of race do matter to geographers? Why? ? DISTRIBUTION OF ETHNICITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES 1a. Define ethnicity: 1b. Define race: ? Ethnic group % of US pop. ?2. In the table at left, identify America?s four major ethnic groups (other than ?white?). Give their percentage of the total US population and shade areas in which they are clustered on the map. ? ? ? 2a. What are the major Hispanic groups in the US?

Rubenstein Ch 6 Reading Guide

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Chapter 6 - Religion: Key Issue 1 Where Are Religions Distributed? Rubenstein, pp. 178-178 Geographers are concerned with the ______________ _______________ of different ______________ and the resulting potential for _________________. Geographers also observe that different religions are derived in part from the elements of the __________________ _____________________, and that religions in turn, modify the _________________. Read the case study on page 170 1. Who is the Dalai Lama? 2. What country invaded Tibet? 3. Why were the religious institutions of Tibet dismantled? ? UNIVERSALIZING RELIGIONS 1. Draw a picture demonstrating the relationship between the following terms: religion, branch, denomination, sect.

Rubenstein Ch 5 Reading Guide

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CHAPTER 5 - - - Language: Key Issue 1 Where Are English-Language Speakers Distributed? Rubenstein, pp. 134-143 Page 134-135 Approximately ________ languages are spoken by at least _____ million people, including the ______ largest ones. The remaining __________ languages are spoken by ______ million people. Case Study on page 136. 1. What are Canada?s two official langauges? 2. What language is mainly spoken in Quebec? Why? ? ORIGIN AND DIFFUSION OF ENGLISH 3. How did English become so widely diffused? 4. What three European peoples originally came together to form the English people and English language? 5. Where did these people come from? 6. What two subsequent invasions added additional words to the evolving English language? ? DIALECTS OF ENGLISH

Rubenstein Ch 4 Reading Guide

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List the group of people What do they eat? Why do they eat it? Folk and Popular Culture: Key Issue 1 Where Do Folk and Popular Cultures Originate and Diffuse? Rubenstein, pp. 104-111 1. Read the case study on page 106. 2. Who was Vidal de la Blache? 3. What does his quote mean? ? ORIGIN OF FOK AND POPULAR CULTURE 1 1. List elements of the origin and characteristics of FOLK MUSIC. 2. List elements of the origin and diffusion of POPULAR MUSIC. ? DIFFUSION OF FOLK AND POPULAR CULTURE 8. How was soccer transformed from a folk custom into popular culture?

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