Day 1 Review

1. Day 1 Review

2. WELCOME BACK! Midterm Exam Date: Tuesday, 1/16/2013

3. 2012 – Year in Review • The World: Google Searches • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-sY_z8MNs

4. New Year’s Resolutions

5. New Year’s Resolutions • resolution – a firm commitment to do or not do something; a promise to yourself • 40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. • Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions to lose weight, exercise more, stop smoking, have better money management, reduce debt, and be less stressed.

6. New Year’s Resolutions • The average person maintains their resolution…
- past the first week: 75%
- past 2 weeks: 71%
- after one month: 64%
- after 6 months: 46% • While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.

7. New Year’s Resolutions • Journal for 8 minutes about three resolutions: • ONE resolution related to family/friends/classmates • ONE resolution related to school work/academics/goals • ONE resolution related to just you personally • Spend 2-4 minutes on each resolution. Consider: • Why is this resolution important for you to make? • What obstacles will you face in keeping this resolution? • How can you hold yourself accountable for keeping this resolution?

8. Its time to study! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH95h36NChI

9. Café Human Geography • Appetizers • Create a graphic organizer illustrating Scale, Site and Space. • Create a cartoon of an argument between three major map projections. Include Mercator projection. • Free write one paragraph on the four types of regions. • Main Course • Create a review game including 10 concepts from Unit 1. • Create a news article arguing for either plossibilism theory or determinism. • Create a fairytale illustrating the roles of each type of diffusion. • Dessert • Create a graphic organizer illustrating each type of diffusion. • Create a play between culture hearth, religious heath and language hearth • Create any study strategy from Unit 1- Must be approved by Mrs. Botelho

10. Stump the Student – Part 1 Write Questions! Create HIGH level/ critical thinking questions from Unit One. You can use your text book, Key Issues homework or Winter Pack to create questions. You will have 15 minutes to write questions. Remember that you must also write answers. Set up your notebook as follows. If you get done early create more questions. The more questions you have the more likely you can win!

11. Stump the Student – Part 2 Write your score card! Using the ¼ sheet provided, set up your scorecard as follows:

12. Stump the Student Rules They are simple! Each person will have 2:00 to ask questions of the other person. • The person ASKING the questions tally marks his/her “Stumps” (2 points each) • The person ANSWERING the question tally marks his/her “Corrects” (1 point each) After 2:00, the next person will ask the questions

13. Unit 1Term Blitz • Scale • Relationship of a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on Earth • Region Types • Formal • A region a homogeneous region in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics • Functional • An area organized around a node or focal point • Vernacular • A place that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity

14. Unit 1Term Blitz • Carl Sauer • Argued that cultural landscapes should form basic unit of geographic inquiry • Possibilism • Social conditions (not geography) sets culture. i.e. humans can make things happen over time using our intelligence • Determinism • Physical environment sets limits on human environment

15. MCQ 1. The term situation is used when identifying a place by its a. location relative to other locationsb. mathematical location on the Earth’s surfacec. nominal location d. unique and specific characteristics of physical geography e. conditions of economic development

16. MCQ • When geographers focus on the interrelationships between people and their environments, they are following the theme of: • Cultural geography. • Cultural iconography. • Environmental determinism. • Cultural ecology. • Environmental ecology.

17. MCQ • The name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface is known as a. locationb. sitec. situation d. survey point e. toponym

18. MCQ • A hearth (as in culture hearth, religious heath, language hearth) is a. a region from which a phenomenon originates
 b. the process by which a feature spreads
 c. an area defined by one or more distinctive features or trends d. the modification of culture as a result of environmental influence e. a favorable characteristic of a place

19. MCQ • The frequency of something within a given unit of area is a. concentrationb. densityc. distribution d. Pattern e. diffusion

20. MCQ The term situation is used when identifying a place by its • Location relative to other locations • Mathematical location on the Earth’s surface
 • Nominal location • Unique and specific characteristics of physical geography • Conditions of economic development

21. MCQ • Assume that “New England” is defined and mapped according to the presence of chowder houses (1 per 50 square miles) and covered bridges (1 per 100 square miles). Thus defined, “New England” would be a a. functional regionb. uniform region c. vernacular region d. autonomous region e. perceptual region

22. MCQ The Mercator projection preserves: • Direction. • Area. • Shape. • Scale. • Distance.

23. Day 2 Review Today we are going to review Culture, Language and participate in a writing workshop. How will this help you achieve our big goals?

24. APHG A-Z • On a separate sheet of paper, brainstorm a list of APHG terms, phrases, people, or ideas that begin with each letter of the alphabet.

25. Scattegories*! *Kind of…

26. Rules & Regulations • Your card has categories. • For each round, the class will receive a randomly generated letter. • You need to come up with a term that fits in each category of the card that begins with the random letter within the time limit • You will receive a point for each non-repeated word (double points for terms that have the same letter twice http://www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSeq.html

27. Categories Card • I. Geography: History and Perspectives • II. Population • II. Migration • III. Language • III. Religion • III. Ethnicity • III. Culture • K. Nation of the world • K. Miscellaneous geography knowledge TIME’S UP! 28 20 19 8 14 13 29 30 22 27 1 23 2 6 5 3 4 21 7 9 15 11 12 17 18 24 25 26 10 16

28. SCORE YOUR CARD • I. Geography: History and Perspectives • II. Population • II. Migration • III. Language • III. Religion • III. Ethnicity • III. Culture • K. Nation of the world • K. Miscellaneous geography knowledge

29. MCQ • Different dialects of the same language are distinguished by all of the following EXCEPT: a. syntaxb. pronunciationc. spelling d. vocabularye. all of the above distinguish dialects

30. MCQ The Indo-European language familya. is made up of separate languages collectively spoken by about one-half of the world’s population b. is spatially confined to the area extending from southeastern Europe eastward to northern India c. despite dialect differences has retained an essentially common vocabulary shared by alld. was strongly affected during its formative period by English colonization and defeat of the Spanish Armadae. is, after Mandarin, the second-largest language family spoken on earth

31. MCQ • Creole languages are formed when two or more languages are combined. Which of the following represents a creolized language? a. Russianb. Mandarin c. Austronesian d. Swahilie. Swiss

32. MCQ • Which of the following countries does NOT represent an officially multilingual state? a. Canadab. Mexicoc. Belgium d. Switzerland e. India

33. MCQ • The Amish in the United States are attempting to preserve their folk cultures by clustering in villages in • New England • Ohio and Pennsylvania • the Midwest prairies • Georgia and Tennessee • the Northwest

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36. MCQ The main effect of modern communications, in terms of culture, has been to a. preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniquenessb. stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the worldc. increase the similarity of social customs in different locationsd. have little effect on the diffusion of social customse. allow MDCs to more effectively protect their folk customs than LDCs

37. MCQ • Speaking with an accent and wearing blue jeans are: • Culture traits. • Genetic traits. • Examples of inherited behavior. • Examples of topological behavior. • Culture regions.

38. MCQ In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of • Small homogenous groups
 • Large heterogeneous groups
 • Groups living in isolated rural areas • Groups that have little interaction with other groups • More difficult to identify and classify

43. Create your own rubric… • Create a rubric for the following question Exclaves are an example of an unusual situation that arises because of the shape of some countries. a) Define this term b) Give TWO real-world examples from different regions c) Briefly discuss a problem in political geography, which exists because of the exclave

44. Peer edit • Grade your peers paper based on the rubric you created. • You must …. • Identify AT- LEAST five things they need to improve upon • Identify AT- LEAST five things they did well.

45. Mrs. Botelho’s Rubric • RUBRIC: Exclaves 1 point A) definition: a portion of territory of a state which is physically separated from the state by an intervening state 2 points B) TWO Real-world examples • Kaliningrad (Russia) • Nakitchevan (Azerbaijan) • Cabinda (Angola)  2 points for each exclave= Total 4 pts • C) Problem Kaliningrad– problems shipping goods to Russia because trucks leaving the exclave bound for Russia must meet the more stringent requirements of the EU. Nakitchevan– has contributed to the tensions in the region resulting in war between Azerbaijan and the intervening state of Armenia. Cabinda– separation from Angola has contributed to the sense of separateness and independence they feel in the oil-rich region. They have declared their independence and rebel groups plague the region.

46. Peer edit • Grade your peers paper based on the rubric you created. • You must …. • Identify AT- LEAST five things they need to improve upon • Identify AT- LEAST five things they did well.

47. Day 3 Review • What study strategy works best for you? Why do you think this strategy helps you be successful? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgRx3G4DxY

48. Create a Study Strategy Create a way to study the following information…. 1. Discuss the major branches, their origins, major beliefs and their current distributions for the following religions: • Christianity • Islam • Buddhism • Hinduism 2. Describe the distribution of major ethnicities within the US: • Identify states/regions in which they are clustered • Regions in which they are mostly absent • Provide reasons for the present distribution 3. List advantages and disadvantages of different types of boundaries and provide examples. • Examples: Graphic organizers, short stories, review games, quiz questions and answers, cartoon strips etc.

49. MCQ An ethnic group is made up of people: • of a common ancestry. • with a common cultural tradition. • of the same race. • living as a minority in a larger society. • of the host culture. • I and II. • I, II, and III. • I, II, and IV. • I, II, III, and IV. • I, II, III, IV, and V.

50. MCQ • Lutheranism is an example of a Christian a. religionb. branchc. denomination d. secte. pilgimage