STUDY GUIDE
SECOND EXAM
GE 102 WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

Be sure to complete all your required reading as soon as possible. See your syllabus for the page numbers. The following items relate to information contained in the chapters.  Know each one and how they relate to all other information contained in the chapter.  Study the atlas.

Chapter 1 – pages 40-105

Relative location, geomorphology, areal functional specialization, know the 39 countries and their location, physical landscapes, review the major geographic qualities of Europe, know the brief history from early Greece through the Roman Empire (and the infrastructure it developed) through Europe's decline and rebirth, be able to identify the various parts of the von Thunen model (The Isolated State), and how its rings spread over the entire European continent, focus on the industrial revolution and urban intensification: agglomeration, deglomeration, understand the nature of centripetal and centrifugal forces in today’s world, spatial interaction: complementarity, transferability and intervening opportunity, name the two major families of language in Europe and two examples of each, CBD, primate city, devolution, supranationalism, unification, EEC, EU, NATO, know the major regions and the countries in each region.

Chapter 2 – pages 106-147

Major geographic qualities of Russia, continentality, climatology, weather, tundra, taiga, Soviet Union, devolution, physiographic regions, permafrost, Mongols, Grand Duchy of Muscovy, forward capita, Russians in North America, colonialism, imperialism, Russification,  Soviet Federation, collective agriculture, sovkhoz, glasnost,  kolkhoz,  state planning, population decline, heartlands and rimlands, heartland theory, Mackinder,  internal problems and external challenges

Chapter 3 - pages 149-195

Postindustrial society, know the major geographic qualities of North America, fragmented state, population of each country, cultural pluralism, time-space convergence, know the physiographic provinces of North America and some of their characteristics, climate, rain shadow effect, leeward, windward, fall line, migration in the U.S., look at the dot map on page 160, the migration process, p. 161, culture hearths, evolution of the U.S. urban system, know the epochs of metropolitan evolution and the eras of intraurban structural evolution, models of intraurban development (concentric, sectoral, multi-nuclei),  American cultural bases (7), language, religion, ethnicity, mosaic culture, what are the four major components of the spatial economy, fossil fuel, review the map of agricultural regions of the U.S., the North American core, 9 regions of the North American realm: know each one and several characteristics, NAFTA, Pacific realm connection.

Be sure to have your Atlas handy during the test.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR READINGS

Created by Bill Strong. 
Updated 08/14/03   lkm