TIME Tuesday, April 26th, 2007; last 60 mins. of regular period
POINTS a total of 100 points distributed as follows:
50 points.........25 multiple-choice @ 2 points each
30 points..............15 map* items @ 2 points each
20 points...............20 true-false @ 1 point each
*SEE list of relevant map locations below
FORMAT Quiz #2 is "closed-book" but you'll be allowed a crib sheet--
one side of a standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
TOPICS The most important topic to review is the following:
HUMAN POPULATION--growth worldwide, both historical and
contemporary; predicted continued growth; growth patterns
and their components for continents, major regions and
countries; USA's Census 2000 and its predecessors; other
countries' censuses; late 20th and early 21st century
population patterns in USA, in California, Sacramento area;
rural-urban contrasts; absolute (rounded/estimated) numbers
of people in the world as a whole, by latitude, hemisphere,
in important world regions, countries, and US states; major
populated and "empty" regions of the world; relationship of
more and less populated regions to environmental factors &
controls; basic population data & their calculation--e.g.,
birth and death rates; population change, rates of natural
increase; fertility rates; infant mortality rates; major
causes of death; population pyramids esp. as generalized
for different regions of the contemporary world; age, sex
patterns and population cohorts; median ages; dependency
ratios; migrations of different groups to the USA and to
other countries; immigrants and emigrants; push and pull
factors; patterns of ethnicity, race, and ancestry; crude
(arithmetic) & physiological densities; geographic and
population centers in USA, in California. Review Chapter
6 in your text, class handouts, and Atlas #2.
Also important as topics are the following:
LANGUAGE--language families, especially Altaic, Indo-
European, Niger-Kordofanian, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan; sub-
families of Indo-European, especially Celtic, Germanic,
Indo-Iranian, Latin (Romance), and Slavic; major world
individual languages and their patterns of distribution;
growth of language communities--including major colonial
languages such as Spanish and English--over time; accents
and dialects in major languages, especially English.
RELIGION--growth and distribution of major religious
faiths in the USA, around the world; origin areas of
major religions and patterns of spread; relationships
among ethnic, linguistic, and religious patterns; ethnic
& proseltyzing (universalizing) religions; sacred places.
Review Chapter 7 for information on both language and
religion.
POLITICAL PATTERNS--Review Chapter 9 (pp. 301-315 and
331-335), handouts, and opening sections of Atlas #3;
study terms, e.g., state, nation, stateless nation or
people, multinational state, dissident region, county,
incorporated city; sizes, shapes and populations of
major countries, states, CA counties; characteristics
of boundaries (natural, geometric, antecedent, subse-
quent); electoral geography, gerrymandering.
And there will likely be a question or two about:
DOMESTICATION and contemporary production of plants,
animals for food, fuel, fiber; domestication hearths;
contrasts in domestication and production regions.
Review the text and atlas maps and responses on the
recent atlas assignment.
* The WORLD MAP will label 10 items--seven continents/continental areas
and three major oceans--with letters. Characterizations accompanying
the map may highlight...
Cities such as Beijing, Benares (Varanasi), Berlin, Cairo, Jakarta,
Jerusalem, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mecca (Makkah),
Mexico City, Mumbai (Bombay), New York City, Paris,
Rome, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, and Tokyo; and
Countries such as Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France,
Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the
United Kingdom, and the United States of America,
Hemispheres--Eastern, "Land", Northern, Southern, "Water", Western--and
World Regions such as Anglo-America, Central America, the Caribbean,
Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania/Pacific,
North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, the former
Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe.
* The USA MAP will identify 8-to-10 states with capital letters. Among
the chosen may be any of the following...
States such as Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina,
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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