Grade 12 World Geography

Exam Review

Course Code: CGU4U AP

Course Name:World Geography

Grade:12

Teacher: Ms. Bader-Shaw

Date of Examination:Monday June 3, 2013

Time of Examination:8:30 – 10:30 am

Length of Examination:2 hours

Value on June Report Card:20 percent

Suggested Study Materials:

This examination will cover material contained in the material provided on the SSD and course textbooks: Kuby and Barron’s

Materials students are permitted to bring in to the examination location:

  1. Pencils or pens
  2. Ruler

Examination Format (Total 70 marks):

Section A - Multiple Choice(40 marks) Knowledge & Understanding (K/U)

Section B – Short Answers (20 marks) K/U, Thinking and Inquiry (T/I), Application (APP) & Communication (Com)

Section C – World Maps(10 marks) (Regions, Religions, Development etc.) Application (APP) & Communication (Com)

Exam Content to Review:

Unit Title / Content
1. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives / Space, place, and scale; maps; regions; geographic data and geotechnologies (GPS, GIS and Remote Sensing)
2.Population and Migration / Distribution, growth and decline (Pyramids), and movement/migration pull an push factors, global examples
3.Cultural Patterns and Processes / Concepts of culture (Language, Religion etc.), cultural differences, cultural identity and landscapes
4.Political Organization of Space / Territoriality, political evolution and arrangements, and sovereignty (Middle East)
5.Agriculture and Rural Land Use / Development, production, rural settlement and commercial agriculture
6.Industrialization and Economic Development / Growth and diffusion (Industrial Revolution to Post Industrial), contemporary patterns and development initiatives
7.Cities and Urban Land Use / Urbanism, evolution of cities, environment and social space, and models (concentric, sector etc.)

Famous Geographers and Models:

Be sure to review all textbook materials as not all geographers/models are included below!

  • Carl Sauer - concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis
  • Friedrich Ratzel - Geopolitics: a state's power to control space/territory & shape the foreign policy of individual states, - A state resembles a living organism; it receives nourishment by taking advantage of less powerful competitors; space is a life giving force – Organic theory
  • Ernst Burgess – Concentric zone model, urban centers
  • J.H. Von Thunen – Concentric zone model: shows all agricultural products and the importance of their proximity to their marketplace.
  • Walter Christaller – Central Place Theory
  • Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman – Multiple Nuclei Model
  • Homer Hoyt – Sector Model
  • Nicholas Spykman - Rimland theory: he domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.
  • Sir Halford Mackinder – Heartland theory:control of Eastern Europe was vital to control of the world
  • Alfred Weber-Least cost theory: labor, transportation, and agglomeration
  • August Losch – Maximum profitability
  • Walt Rostow – 5 stages of development (tradition to mass consumption)
  • Thomas Malthus - world's rate or population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies
  • George Ravenstein - laws of migration can be summarized into 5 general rules
  • Esther Boserup - population density creates more agricultural output and humans will figure out ways of producing more food on the same amount of land rather than starve to death
  • William D. Pattison – Four traditions of Geography (1) spatial tradition, 2) area studies tradition, 3) man-land tradition, and 4) earth science tradition).
  • Wilbur Zelinsky - patterns of migration in accordance to social and economical changes and the motives and distance for migration, 15 Major Perceptual Regions
  • Norman Ernest Borlaug – Father of Green Revolution: Increased wheat and maize yield worldwide, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Immanuel Wallerstein -explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi-periphery in terms of economic and political connections.