Geography Exam Review
Exam One Study Guide
GEA 2000
Chapter 1: Geography
What is geography? What do geographers study? How is geography interdisciplinary? What is cartography and GIS? What is the grid system and its parts? What are map projections, and how do they distort the Earth? What is a region and how are they determined? What is a transition zone? What are interregional linkages?
What are the internal forces and external forces that shape the physical environment? What is plate tectonics, and how does it shape the Earth’s surface? What was Pangaea? What hazards result from tectonic processes? What is the Ring of Fire? What are weathering, erosion and deposition, and how do they shape the Earth’s surface? What is glaciation, and what effect does it have on the landscape? How are climate and weather different? What are the two controls of climate? How do latitude, proximity to water, elevation and prevailing winds effect the controls of climate? What is orographic precipitation? What is the rain shadow? What are low pressures and high pressures, and their characteristics? What major pressure belts exist on Earth, and what climates are associated with them? Look over the map of Climate Regions to get a general idea where different climates are found.
What are global warming and climate change? What are the possible effects of climate change? What is the water footprint? What is virtual water?
What is demography? What is the J-Curve, and what caused it? What is the Demographic Transition Model? Can you draw, label and explain it? What are age and gender structures (population pyramids), and what can they tell us about a society? What is the missing female problem?
How are gender and sex different? How are gender roles defined in relation to space? How do the traditional gender roles for women in many societies disadvantage them? What is race? Why is it historically important?
What is economic development? What is GDP per capita, and why is it problematic as a
GEA 2000
Chapter 1: Geography
What is geography? What do geographers study? How is geography interdisciplinary? What is cartography and GIS? What is the grid system and its parts? What are map projections, and how do they distort the Earth? What is a region and how are they determined? What is a transition zone? What are interregional linkages?
What are the internal forces and external forces that shape the physical environment? What is plate tectonics, and how does it shape the Earth’s surface? What was Pangaea? What hazards result from tectonic processes? What is the Ring of Fire? What are weathering, erosion and deposition, and how do they shape the Earth’s surface? What is glaciation, and what effect does it have on the landscape? How are climate and weather different? What are the two controls of climate? How do latitude, proximity to water, elevation and prevailing winds effect the controls of climate? What is orographic precipitation? What is the rain shadow? What are low pressures and high pressures, and their characteristics? What major pressure belts exist on Earth, and what climates are associated with them? Look over the map of Climate Regions to get a general idea where different climates are found.
What are global warming and climate change? What are the possible effects of climate change? What is the water footprint? What is virtual water?
What is demography? What is the J-Curve, and what caused it? What is the Demographic Transition Model? Can you draw, label and explain it? What are age and gender structures (population pyramids), and what can they tell us about a society? What is the missing female problem?
How are gender and sex different? How are gender roles defined in relation to space? How do the traditional gender roles for women in many societies disadvantage them? What is race? Why is it historically important?
What is economic development? What is GDP per capita, and why is it problematic as a