| Overview:
After learning about
physical patterns on the planet, you are now embarking on a journey to
visualize and understand the complex human patterns that result from our
activities all over the world. You will discover that we live in varied
environments stretching from the cold polar regions to the wet tropics
and the arid deserts that make up the physical patterns on Earth.
This part of the introductory chapter introduces you to:
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Culture
and cultural landscapes
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Sequent
occupance
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4
major population clusters
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States
& economies
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Patterns
of development/underdevelopment
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Core
- Periphery Relationships
-
Regional
Relationship (p 26 -27)
-
Globalization
Assignments:
- Read the assignment and study the maps
in the chapter and in your atlas in order to gain a visual image of population distribution,
population clusters, and patterns of development
vs underdevelopment. Understand location, population facts, and economic
development as they relate to core vs periphery and to the process of
globalization.
- Write a 1,000 word essay
that explains your understanding of development versus underdevelopment
using the geographic or spatial perspective. What are the
characteristics of development and underdevelopment? Where is the
developed world? The underdeveloped (or developing) world?
- Look at the
population tables at the end of the chapter and pick three countries
that you would consider developed and three as underdeveloped.
Compare their population and economic characteristics to express their
differences.
- You should also take a
click on the URLs at the bottom of this page. The Population
Reference Bureau and the U.S. Census Bureau provide many interesting
demographic facts about the U.S. and the world.
- Click on the World at
Night URL and use it to discover patterns of population across the
globe. Can you see the four major population clusters?
What other patterns are evident from this space image?
Describe what you see compared to the world political and physical
maps in your textbook.
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Email your essay on population and World at Night thoughts by the end of the week.
(Hint: you can write
your essay in Microsoft word which has a word counter in the tool bar.
Then copy and paste the essay (or attach the word file) into your email to
me.)
- Don't forget to put the
course number - GE 102 - in the Subject line of
your email.
Enjoy learning
about the human landscapes of the world.
Concepts:
(Ideas and Terms)
culture, regional
character, cultural landscape, sequent occupance, Carl Sauer, Derwent
Whittlesey, CBD, ethnicity,
population distribution, population density, population cluster,
megalopolis, cartogram, urbanization, state, development, economic
geography, core, periphery, regional disparity, advantage,
neocolonialism, GNP, globalization, WTO
Resources:
The
world at night
Population
Reference Bureau
Census
Bureau
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