Exam Review

Exam Format:

PART A:MULTIPLE CHOICE             K/U  45 MARKS                        

PART B: TRUE OR FALSE                  K/U  35 MARKS                         

PART C: MAPPING                               T/I    10 MARKS                          

PART D: SHORT ANSWER                 T/I    10 MARKS

TOTAL MARKS: 100   (20% OF FINAL GRADE)

Questions will be based on material from the beginning of the course to the end.  All topics below are addressed through the various formats of questions.  Have a good understanding of terminology, stages, theories, key concepts, and events. 

The mapping question will require you to know the location of various countries around that world that have been a focus in the course. You will be required to know the location and name of particular countries.

-political perspectives/spectrums  (one of the first activities we did in class)

-worldviews/bias (expansionist/ecological)

-types of globalization

-Copenhagen consensus

-stage of human development (hunter-gatherer-agriculture-industrial revolution)

-Colonialism/neo-colonialism

-Geo-politics

                -borders

                -types of political governments

                -international governing bodies (UN)

-Population/demographics- terminology

                -theorists (Malthus, Cornucopian, Catton, Bogue)

                -carrying capacity

                -population pyramids

                -demographic transition

                -growth rates (underpopulation, overpopulation)

-Country classification (World Bank vs. UN- HDI) Indicators

-Green Revolution (what it is, what failures occured, why)

-Food Regimes (go over test questions)

-Transnational Corporations

-types of farming (subsistence, cash crops, intensive, extensive)

-WTO

-Fair Trade

-Aid/Tied Aid

-Rostow’s stages of economic development

-famine

Good Luck!