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GEOGRAPHY 100: GUIDELINES for the SEMESTER FINAL, SPRING 2004
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TIME & PLACE
Time for final exam: Tu, May 18th, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
See professor if you need to arrange other test times.
Final exams will be given in EUR 106 except as arranged.
VALUE
150 points out of the semester total of 1000 points;
Multiple choice, 40 items @ 2 points each
Multiple choice may involve interpretation of
maps and of data from graphs and charts; the
format will emphasize clues to patterns;
True/False, 20 items @ 1 point each;
Map Identification (CA, US, World), 25 items
@ 2 points each. See lists below of places
that may be described or characterized on maps.
HELP
Your crib sheet, both sides of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper
MAJOR EMPHASES
HUMAN POPULATION: absolute numbers on Earth over time,
in the late 20th-early 21st century; numbers on
continents, in major countries, states, counties,
urban centers; population growth over time; rates
and doubling times; birth and death rates; natural
increase; crude and other population densities--
calculation, geographic patterns; population and
geographic centers in California, in USA; Census
2000 numbers, patterns of USA population change--
increase, decrease; migration numbers, percentages
especially to US and Canada, to Western Europe, and
to and within California; interstate patterns; push,
pull factors; emigrants, immigrants and net migration;
major groups; US patterns of ancestry, ethnicity,
and race; see especially Chap. 6, handouts, Quiz #2;
POLITICAL PATTERNS: US political units--the country as
a whole, individual states, counties, and cities--
and their foreign counterparts; countries around
the world, their general sizes and shapes, their
populations, locations; boundaries--antecedent and
subsequent, geometric and natural, advantages and
disadvantages; the conformity of boundaries to ethnic
religious, linguistic realities; multi-ethnic states,
countries, and dissident regions; capital cities in
the USA--federal, state--and around the world--
sizes, locations; electoral geography of the USA,
of California; redistricting and gerrymandering;
types of special purpose districts, e.g., school
districts; see Chapter 9, handouts, atlas assignment;
URBAN PATTERNS: problems with defining urban life and
forms; US census definition of urban centers, of
metropolitan areas; incorporation; incorporated
cities in California and elsewhere in the USA;
patterns of US, world urbanization over time, in
the late 20th-early 21st c.; influence of location
on the genesis and subsequent development of urban
centers in USA, world; site and situation factors;
economic specializations; different forms of inter-
city transportation and accessibility in the first
appearance and growth of cities; primate cities;
central places; characteristic patterns of urban
centers around the world; Sacramento--the city,
urbanized area, MSA patterns, California, USA, and
world patterns over time; major world metropolises;
Megalopolis and megalopolitan (multi-metro) forms
around the world; first-order and lower-order places;
see Chapter 12, handouts, atlas assignment;
LESSER EMPHASES
LOCATION: latitude and longitude; hemispheres and
dividing lines (Equator, Prime and 180th Meridians);
continents, oceans, major countries, US states,
counties in California as locations; parts of
Chapter 2; handouts;
CULTURAL PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE, RELIGION: genesis,
diffusion and present-day occurrence of major world
languages, language families, and of religions;
regions and countries of linguistic and religious
dominance; spatial patterns of Indo-European sub-
families and important individual languages;
spatial patterns of Christian (Roman Catholic,
Protestant, Orthodox), Islamic (Sunni, Shiite),
Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist
adherents and their practices; spatial patterns
of major religions--Roman Catholic, Baptist,
Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Latter-Day
Saints (Mormons), others--in the contemporary USA;
linguistic and religious groups and their regions
of dominance as related to political patterns; see
Chapter 7, Atlas Assignment #2, and handouts.
ECONOMICS & RESOURCES: Economic sectors--primary,
secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary:
characterizations and examples; US, California,
and Sacramento area economies; resource locations
and resource-rich areas of the world; resource use
and production; extractive activities--hunting and
gathering, mining, forestry, fishing; types of
agriculture in California, in USA, on Earth;
major industrial regions in North America and
around the world; globalization and specialization;
world cities; impact of Internet; consult parts of
Chapters 10 and 11, handouts, Atlas Assignment #3.
MAP PLACES
Any of the following may be described or characterized on
test maps:
CALIFORNIA
Any of the 58 counties (Alameda, Alpine, Amador,...);
any of the ten most populous cities (Los Angeles,
San Diego, San Jose,...); any of the eight most
populous metropolitan areas (Los Angeles-Riverside-
Orange County, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose,...);
UNITED STATES
Any of the 50 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona,...);
any of the fifty most populous cities (New York City,
Los Angeles, Chicago,...); any of the 51 capital
cities, state or federal;
WORLD
Any of the seven traditionally-identified continents
(Africa, Antarctica, Asia,...); any of the three
major oceans (Atlantic, Indian, Pacific); any of the
twenty-three most populous cities from Map Quiz #6
(Tokyo, Mexico City, ...); any of these individual
countries or parts of countries--Afghanistan,
Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil,
Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Egypt,
England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal,
Quebec, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa,
South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand,
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America,
Venezuela, Vietnam.
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