Chapter Guides Packet

Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography

Chapter 2: Population

Chapter 3: Migration

Chapter 4: Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes

Chapter 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 6: Language

Chapter 7: Religion

Chapter 8: Political Geography

Chapter 9: Urban Geography

Chapter 10: Development

Chapter 11: Agriculture

Chapter 12: Industry and Services

Chapter 13: The Humanized Environment

Chapter 14: Globalization and the Geography of Networks

HGAP Chapter 1 Guide pages 1 – 35

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.

Page 34: Define all “Geographic Concepts” as you read the chapter.

Pages 1 -8: Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger

  1. In Kenya, what are the major issues that play a role in the country’s malnutrition?
  2. What are the issues places like Kenya and Bangladesh face that places like Norway don’t that tie it the country’s ability to feed its population?

Pages 8-9: How does globalization depend upon scale?

Page 16: Figure 1.10

  1. What does the map depict?
  2. Why does the time zone boundary run through Indiana in that way? Cite 2 specific reasons that back up your idea.

Pages 16-17: Explain the difference between relative location and absolute location in your own words. Provide an example not from the textbook to explain them.

Pages 23-31: In a brief paragraph, explain how interconnectedness changes how scales behave with (and toward) one another. Provide examples not from the textbook to help you explain.

HGAP Chapter 2 Guide pages 36-77

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.

Page 77: Define all “Geographic Concepts” as you read the chapter.

Pages 36-37: Field Note: Basic Infrastructure

  1. Define “infrastructure” in your own words.
  2. Where is the author? What infrastructure does the location have that South Dakota lacks?
  3. What does South Dakota have that Shanghai and Beijing do not?
  4. List three major concerns about the water supply.
  5. How do population pressures play a role in Shanghai and Beijing’s infrastructure issues?

Pages 39-40:

  1. Explain the difference between population density and arithmetic population density. Do not restate the definitions, explain how and why they are different.
  2. Explain 2 reasons why or why not physical population density does/does not solve the problems of population analysis.

Pages 41-43 (including Figure 2.5): For each region listed (East Asia, South Asia, Europe, North America), answer the following:

  1. Areas of high population density for each
  2. Areas of low population density for each
  3. List 3 reasons why people are attracted to the areas of high population density.

Pages 45-47:

  1. Who is Paul Ehrlich? What does his work involve? List two of his basic ideas.
  2. Who is Thomas Malthus? What does his work involved? List two of his basic ideas.
  3. List 3 major problems with Malthusian population theory.
  4. Who are Neo-Malthusians? List two of their basic ideas.

Pages 48-55 (including Figure 2.7 (on pgs 46-47, but referred to on pg 48), Figure 2.8):

  1. Using Figure 2.8, list three countries for each category of the map. For each category, list 2 major issues faced by these countries, in regards to population.
  2. As you read this section, indicate the population issues faced by these countries: USSR/Russia, Japan, India.

Pages 55-60: Demographic Transition Model

  1. Draw your own DTM (including Stage 5).
  2. List 2 ways the CDR and CBR could politically affect a country. Provide an example not from the textbook.
  3. List 2 ways the CDR and CBR could economically affect a country. Provide an example not from the textbook.
  4. List 2 ways technology can affect the CDR and CBR.
  5. List 2 reasons you know Stage 5 is real.

Pages 60-61: Population Pyramids

  1. Draw your own poor country population pyramid. List 2 reasons why this population is unstable. List 2 negative effects of this population on the economy of a poor country.
  2. Draw your own wealthy country population pyramid. List 2 reason why this population is stable. List 2 negative effects of this population on the economy of a wealthy country.

Pages 62-65

  1. Using Figure 2.18, list two locations of the highest infant mortality rate. List 2 major causes of infant mortality in these states.
  2. Using Figure 2.18, list two locations with the lowest infant mortality rates. List 2 major reasons why these locations have a significantly lower rate than the states listed in question1.
  3. Using Figure 2.19, list the three states with the highest infant mortality rates. List 2 major causes of infant mortality in these states.
  4. Using Figure 2.19, list two states with the lowest infant mortality rates. List 2 major reasons why these states have a lowered infant mortality rate.

Pages 65-67

  1. List 2 reasons why Japan and Russia have different life expectancies.
  2. List the major reason why life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is low.
  3. List 3 ways geography plays a role on health/well-being. One of them must be original—not from the textbook.

Pages 67-72

  1. Define vector. List 2 vectored diseases.
  2. List 2 nonvectored infectious diseases.
  3. Define chronic disease. List 2 ways chronic diseases have changed over time. (refer to Table 2.1)
  4. Define genetic disease. List 2 genetic diseases.
  5. List 3 places AIDS has had a major impact on the population.
  6. List 2 reasons why the population of Sub Saharan Africa has been damaged the most by AIDS.
  7. Using Figure 2.22 (pg 71), list 2 ways AIDS changed the population pyramid of South Africa.

Pages 72-77

  1. List 2 places that have pursued expansive population policies. List 2 reasons why they pursued expansive population policies.
  2. List 2 places that have pursued eugenic population policies. List 2 reasons why they pursued eugenic population policies.
  3. How did the Swedish encounter limitations to their population policies?
  4. How did the Roman Catholic Church contradict population policies?

HGAP Chapter 3 Guide pages 78-111

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.

Page 111: Define all “Geographic Concepts” as you read the chapter.

Pages 78-82: Field Note: Risking Lives for Remittances

  1. Why were Haitian immigrants welcomed to the US in the 1970s, but not by 1994? List at least 2 specific reasons.
  2. Define “interdicted”. That’s a good SAT word.
  3. Why would the US use Guantanamo Bay as a location for hearings? Briefly explain your ideas.
  4. Why would a Mexican (or any) immigrant leave job in their home country for another place, like the US? Briefly explain.
  5. List 3 types of jobs immigrants tend to take once in the US.
  6. List 3 ways September 11, 2001 changed immigration policy for the US.

Pages 82-85

  1. List 3 examples of cyclic movement; one must be original (not from the textbook).
  2. List 3 examples of periodic movement; one must be original (not from the textbook).
  3. Using Figure 3.4 and 3.5 (pg 84), list 3 effects of population movement in the US; one must be original (not from the textbook).

Pages 85-86: List the major characteristics of a typical immigrant (gender, age…)

Pages 86-89

  1. What does Figure 3.6 depict? Using you knowledge of social studies, why was Brazil a top destination for slaves?
  2. List 3 examples of historical forced migrations.
  3. List 3 examples of modern forced migrations.
  4. List Ravenstein’s laws of migration in your own words.
  5. Restate the gravity model in your own words.
  6. List 2 examples of step migration, one must be original (not from the textbook).
  7. List 2 examples of an intervening opportunity, one must be original (not from the textbook).

Pages 89-90: For each section (Legal Status, Economic Conditions, Power Relationships), list 3 examples of push factors for each and list 3 examples of pull factors for each.

Pages 90-93

  1. For “Political Circumstances”, pick Vietnam, Uganda, or Cuba. Google the political circumstance the textbook is referring to. Briefly explain the political circumstance that led to the migration.
  2. List 3 environmental conditions that caused a migration; one must be original (not from the textbook). For each, briefly explain the condition.
  3. List 3 ways culture/tradition could cause a migration.
  4. List 3 ways technological advances could cause a migration.

Pages 93-101

  1. Using Figure 3.11 (pgs 94-95). Pick 2 European migration streams. Pick 2 non-European migration streams. For each, list 3 push factors and 3 pull factors.
  2. List 2 ways islands of development have affected migration in Sub Saharan Africa.
  3. List 3 examples of reconnecting cultural groups. For each, list a major effect of the reconnection on the area receiving the migrants.
  4. List 3 major national migration flows. Two examples must be from the US. For each, list the major push and pull factors.
  5. List 2 specific ways guest workers affect the receiving region. Explain each fully.

Pages 101-107

  1. List 2 ways a refugee is different from a typical migrant.
  2. How did the UN intervene with refugees?
  3. List 2 examples of internally displaced people (IDPs).
  4. List 2 ways the Middle East has been impacted by refugees.
  5. For each region of dislocation (starting on pg 102/103: North Africa and Southwest Asia, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Other Regions):
  6. List 2 specific examples of dislocation.
  7. For each specific example listed, briefly explain the circumstance that created the dislocation.

Pages 108-111

  1. List 3 ways government affect migration.
  2. List 3 legal restrictions for migrants throughout history.
  3. For each of the time periods in US history listed, list 2 push factors and list 2 pull factors (also use Figure 3.20 on page 109)
  4. Early 1800s
  5. Late 1800s
  6. Early 1900s
  7. Late 1900s
  8. Early 21st century

HGAP Chapter 4 Guide pages 112-143

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.

Page 143: Define all “Geographic Concepts” as you read the chapter.

Pages 112-113: Field Note: Preserving Culture

  1. List 3 ways this passage exemplifies local culture.
  2. List 3 ways this passage exemplifies popular culture.

Pages114-116

  1. List 3 examples of material culture reflecting nonmaterial culture.
  2. Explain how fashion is hierarchical diffusion.
  3. List 2 reasons why places like London, Paris, Milan, and NYC act as cultural hearths.

Pages 116-120

  1. List 5 examples of rural local cultures (2 not from the textbook). For ONE of your examples not from the textbook, explain why this is an examples of local culture (and why it is not popular culture).

Pages 120-121

  1. List 3 urban areas with specific local cultures. For one, explain how the ocal culture impacts the urban area its in.

Pages 121-126

  1. List 3 examples of commodification (one not from the textbook).
  2. Discuss 2 ways commodification can be positive for a place.
  3. Discuss 2 ways commodification can be negative for a place.
  4. Explain how “authenticity of place” is difficult to achieve.

Pages 126-136

  1. List and describe 2 ways a place can become a hearth of pop culture.
  2. Describe the process of reterritorialization. Use hip hop as the example.
  3. Discuss how old hearths are replaced. Explain why the new sports are successful.
  4. Discuss 2 way pop culture is contained (“stemming the ride”).
  5. List 3 reasons why a government/culture would want to control the amount of popular culture its people are exposed to.

Pages 136-143

  1. List 3 ways local culture makes an imprint on the cultural landscape.
  2. List 3 ways popular culture makes an imprint on the cultural landscape.
  3. Discuss placelessness and its effects on cultural landscape.
  4. Explain how skyscrapers play a role in cultural landscape convergence
  5. Describe 2 ways the Mormon Church has shaped local cultural landscape.

HGAP Chapter 5 Guide pages 144-171

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.

Page 170: Define all “Geographic Concepts” as you read the chapter.

Pages 144-146: Field Note: Building Walls

  1. Where is this field note taking place? What business is discussed?
  2. How does gender play a role in labor roles? Why are young women considered the best employees?
  3. Why do families allow/prefer their daughters to work?

Pages 146-152

  1. List 3ways race is a social construct (ie-society “creates” race). Use foreign and domestic ideas.
  2. List 3 positive effects of residential segregation.
  3. List 3 negative effects of residential segregation.
  4. Pick one explanation from 3 or 4 and explain fully.

Pages 153-154

  1. List and explain 3 ways scale affects identity.

Page 154: Field Note: Washington Heights, NYC

  1. Explain 2 ways Washington Heights exemplifies sequent occupancy.

Pages 155-157

  1. List 2 places where the ethnicity of the people plays a role in the place (one not from the textbook).
  2. List 2 negative effects of gendered spaces. Explain one fully.

Pages 159-161

  1. List 3 flaws in counting “Just Who Counts”.
  2. List 3 vulnerable populations; for each, explain their vulnerability.

Pages 163-165

  1. List 3 issues faced by women in sub Saharan Africa; for each, describe potential solutions to these issues.
  2. Explain the effects of dowry. List 3 ways the government is attempting to reduce dowry deaths.

Pages 165-170

  1. List 3 places that have seen a shift in power relations.
  2. For each, list the ethnicity gaining power and one major reason they gained power.

HGAP Chapter 6 Guide pages 172-202

Directions: Read the chapter and on separate paper, complete these activities. This is an individual assignment and is expected to reflect your own personal work. Any major similarities to another’s work will result in a loss of points.