Exam 1 Study Guide

Be able to define, explain, and come up with examples related to the following concepts:

Introduction to human geography

  • Definitions of geography
    • The “four traditions”
    • Branches/sub-disciplines
  • Distance decay
  • Scale
  • Definitions of human geography
  • Why studying human geography is important
  • Spatial diffusion
    • Relocation
    • Hierarchical
    • Contagious
    • Stimulus
  • Region
    • Formal
    • Functional
    • Perceptual
  • Cultural traits
  • Local knowledge
  • Landscapes
    • Cultural landscape
    • Vernacular
    • Symbolic
    • Urban festival marketplace
  • Tools of a geographer

Development

  • Developmental indicators
    • Economic
    • Sociodemographic
    • Environmental
  • Reasons for the discrepancy between Luxembourg’s GNI and GDP
  • Aggregate indicators
    • HDI
    • Gross National Happiness
  • Types of economic activities
    • Primary
    • Secondary
    • Tertiary
  • Rostow’s modernization model and its criticisms
  • Paths to development and emphases of
    • Western Europe
    • Japan
    • China
    • Russia
    • Singapore
  • Keys to present day development
  • The role of manufacturing and democracy and development

Globalization

  • World-systems theory
  • The core/periphery model
  • Characteristics of core, periphery, and semi-periphery countries
  • How globalization manifests itself
  • Positives and negatives of globalization
  • Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention
  • Dell Theory
  • Placelessness
  • Culprits responsible for the negatives associated with globalization
  • Future of globalization
    • Rare earth minerals
    • Petroleum and Hubbert Peak Theory
    • Neolocalism
    • Isolationist foreign policy

Population

  • Total fertility rate
  • Total replacement fertility
  • Regions of the world with high/low fertility
  • Factors influencing fertility and mortality
  • Measure of population density
    • Arithmetic
    • Urban
    • Physiological
  • Malthusian and cornucopian perspectives on human population growth
  • Population doubling time
  • Population momentum