Hawk Hook

1. Hawk Hook • Competition! Individual: You have 10 minutes to answer these question, no help, or calendars allowed. I have mentioned the answer to all of these questions before…Lets see how much you were paying attention. (No penalty for wrong answers) • Winner gets a 5 pt extra credit coupon • When is the AP exam (Date and time)? • How many days of class do we have until that day (not including today or the day of the exam)? • What writing utensils do you need? • What kind of clothing are you not allowed to wear? • How is the multiple choice portion of the AP exam scored? • According to this, what should be the rule about guessing when you have no clue about the answer as apposed to when you can narrow down your choices and make an educated guess? • How much time will you have for the multiple choice portion? • How many multiple choice questions are there? • How much time will you have for the Free Response section? • How many Free Response questions are there?

2. AP Review!!! Unit Concepts~ Unit 1 Geography its Nature and Perspectives

3. How did the following people contribute to Geography? • Babylonians • Ibn-Battutah: • Eratosthenes:

4. What are the 3 Types of Regions? • Functional • Formal • Vernacular

5. Functional Region • “Nodal Region”: organized around a “node” or focal point and includes the area that “uses” the node • Ex: newspaper circulation, Wal-Mart and its customers EDA

6. Formal Region • Uniform region/homogenous region • Everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics (physically connected!) • Ex: Using the Koppen System (What is the Koppen System) • Defines 5 types of climate worldwide • What unit of geography did this influence? • Variations in religion or level of economic development

7. Name a Formal Region from this Map

8. Another Ex. of a Formal Region • Vegetation • What unit of geography did this influence? • 4 Biomes (Plant Communities) • Forest • Savanna • Grassland • Desert • Unless you are insane you will never think you are apart of a tropical region when you live in the desert!

9. Vernacular Region • Perceptual Region • A place people believe exists because of their cultural identity • Not necessarily physically connected….Just emotionally

10. What is Cultural Ecology? • Explain Environmental Determinism with 1 example • Explain Possibilism with 1 example

11. What is Globalization? • How does it affect the economy? • How does it affect culture? • How does it affect international relations?

12. What is a transnational corporation?? • How is Apple and its iPhone a perfect example of how these corporations work? • Why do they do any of their work in the US or Europe, etc. if it would be cheaper to function in an LDC? • What are the positives and negatives of transnational corporations investing in the industrialization of underdeveloped countries?

13. What is Distribution • The arrangement features in the world • What are the 3 main properties?: • density, • concentration, • and pattern

14. What is Density • The frequency with which something occurs in space • What are the 3 types of density and define them. • Arithmetic Density: total number of objects in an area • Physiological Density: number of people compared to arable land • Agricultural Density: number of farmers per unit of farmland

15. What do we learn if we look at Physiological and Agricultural Densities together? • The capacity of the land to produce food (with which measure of density?) and how efficient they are at using this land (with which measure of density?)

16. What is Concentration • To what extent a feature is spread over space • What are the two options? • Clustered: Objects in an area are close together • Dispersed: Far apart

17. Original Professional Football Teams

18. Has the Density Increased? Has the concentration become more or less dispersed?

19. What is Pattern? • Geometric arrangement of objects in space • Ex: Linear patterns: houses along a street • Squared or Rectangular patterns: Gridded streets (Charleston, SC); Land Ordinance of 1785 • What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?

20. What are Spatial Interactions? • Why and how are distance decay and space time compression changing?

21. What are the 2 main types of Diffusion? • Relocation Diffusion: spreading an idea by physical movement • Expansion Diffusion: spreads in a snowball getting bigger and bigger • What are the 3 types of Expansion diffusion? • Hierarchical • Contagious • Stimulus

22. What is Hierarchical Diffusion? • Spread of an idea from a person or node of authority to other people or places • What are some examples of this?

23. What is Contagious Diffusion? • Widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population • What are some examples of this method?

24. What is Stimulus Diffusion? • Spread of an underlying principal when a whole concept fails to diffuse • How could the development of Islam be an example of this?

25. Connecting the ConceptsYou have 5 min to look at your notes and 25 min to write your response without notes • On a separate sheet of paper, answer the prompts. #2 should be in complete sentences, no length requirement, but you should answer all parts of the question for full credit. Remember write everything you know that applies! • What are the 3 dominant world cities? • Use the following concepts to explain how transnational corporations have caused culture and economic activities to diffuse from these 3 hearths. • Transnational Corporations • Hierarchical Diffusion • Popular Culture • Folk Culture • Space Time Compression • Core • Periphery • Globalization

26. AP Review!!! Unit Concepts~ Unit 2 Population

27. World Pop Stats • NIR currently at 1.2% • About 80 million people are added to the Earth annually • The growth rate has dropped sharply in the last decade • Current doubling time: 54 years (2100 24 billion people in the world!!!) • Where is most of the population growth occurring? Why is this a problem?

28. What can the Infant Mortality Rate tell you about a country? • Health Care System • Trained doctors and nurses • Modern hospitals and medicines

29. Demographic Transition • What two factors affect the rate at which a country goes through this transition? • Culture and economic conditions • When is it possible to regress to an earlier stage?

30. Stage 1: __________________ • How were people living when were at this stage? • Hunter-gatherers • When civilizations began to grow after the __________ what kept the world in this stage? • War, Disease, Famine • Have all countries made it out of stage 1?

31. Stage 2 _________________ • What were the 2 causes of Stage 2? • 1. Industrial Revolution • In what year? • What did this do to health, wealth, i.e. the standard of living? • This moves what areas into Stage 2? • 2. Medical Revolution • In what year? • What happened?

32. Stage 3 _______________ • What happens to the NIR at this stage? • What are the 2 causes of this stage? • Better medical practices • This lowered IMR, so people chose to do what? • Urbanization • For what 2 reasons does this lead to a slow down in population growth • Less kids needed to work in comparison to agricultural life • Less space makes children more of a liability

33. Stage 4 _______________ • What specific type of population growth is exhibited at this stage? • What is the total fertility rate like in these countries? • To stay at this stage what must happen to this number if the country exhibits high number of net-in migration? • What are the 3 causes of this stage? • Women enter the labor force • Birth Control • More adult recreational activities

34. Possible Stage 5 ____________ • Where is this occurring? • What was the cause of this phenomenon? • Results of Communism (pollution and extreme family planning)

35. What is a population Pyramid? • Bar graph displaying age and gender • What demographic indicator determines its shape?

36. Age Distribution • What is the dependency ratio? • What numbers on the pyramid do you use to determine this? • What would this tell you? • Larger the percentage of dependents the greater the financial burden on those who are working • Which stage has the highest number of dependents?

37. “Graying” of the MDC • What does the concept “Graying” of the MDCs mean in terms of government services?

38. Overpopulation: Bad • Who said that population is growing larger than our food supply? • What did he believe was the method for solving the problem? • What do we call the people who have expanded his theory ? • How did they expand the theory? • More than just food but also resources, especially in relation to the unequal distribution of wealth between LDCs and MDCs

39. Overpopulation: Good • Boserup, Kuznets, and Simon say that a larger population can be a good thing. Why? • Generates more customers and inventors • more resources to use and more people to consume them = better economy

40. Marxists • Marxists ( or Communists) do not believe population growth is to blame for poverty and hungry. They believe what is to blame? • Corrupt rulers not distributing wealth or social justices equally • Who should rule in their opinion?

41. Reality of Overpopulation • Although the worldwide food supply is high enough to support all people, Regions face food shortages because the wealth is not available to get the resources to them

42. What are 2 ways to lower population growth? • Improving their economic situation • How does this help? • Increases healthcare and education for women causing more babies to survive and educating women about working, waiting to have children, and safe sex practices • Distributing Contraceptives • Why is this usually the most widely used method?

43. What is the Epidemiological Transition? • Study of the distribution and control of epidemics • What does it relate to?

44. Stages 1 • What is this stage called? • Stage of Pestilence and Famine • What are some characteristics of this stage? • Parasites, animal or human attacks, • Example: ________________

45. Stage 2 • What do we call stage 2? • Stage of Receding Pandemics • What revolutions may have helped slow the spread of pandemics? • Industrial Revolution • Medical Revolution

46. Stage 3 • What is this stage called? • Stage of Degenerated and Human-created Diseases • What does this mean? • Age related diseases rise: cardio-vascular and cancer • What helps lower diseases for children at this stage?

47. Stage 4 • What is this stage called? • Stage of delayed degenerative diseases • Although disease remains what increase life expectancy at this stage? • What earlier concept is as a result of this stage?

48. Possible Stage 5 • What is this stage called? • Stage of Reemergence of Infectious and Parasitic Disease • What 3 Reasons have caused this to possibly occur? • Evolution (super germs) • Poverty • Improved Travel

49. Migration Vocabulary • What is mobility? • What is the difference between circulation and migration?

50. Migration Vocabulary • What do you call moving from a location? • What do you call moving to a location? • What does your country have when it has more immigrants than emigrants? • Net in-migration • Is this Absorption or Dispersion? • What does your country have if emigrants out # immigrants? • Net out-migration • Absorption or Dispersion?