GEOGRAPHY 201-501
Texas A&M University
Fall 2006


Final Examination
• FINAL EXAM is closed book / no note, objective questions using a scantron grading.
Date/time/place: Tuesday, December 12th, 10:30-12:30
Final Exam is worth 350 points (or 35% of the grade)


Testable material:
Textbook Chapters 7-12
Lectures 10/16-12/4


STUDY GUIDE:

I. GLOBAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE
    Principals of Location, Food Production, and Rural Ways of Life.

Readings: Chapters 7 (Econ) and 8 (Agro)

Key ideas and concepts:
Economic Geography
Productive activities (primary, etc.)
Three revolutionary stages (___ Revolution)
Von Thunen's model of land-rent
Weber's industrial location theory
Economic Development
Uneven development
Technology as a factor in the world economy
Infrastructure
Global economies of scale
Business pursuit and Place promotion
Agglomeration
Transnationals
GDP/GNP measures of value
Settlement Geography
Individual farms and farm villages
Agricultural Geography
Three innovative stages (revolutions) in Agriculture
Agricultural world: agrarian roots and rurality
Agricultural practices (9/10 regional generalizations inc. shifting & pastoralism)
Agro-terms: agribusiness, biotechnology, chemical/organic farming, transhumance, intertillage.
Hearths and Domestication
Green Revolution


II. POLITICAL WORLD (& TERRORISM)

Readings: Chapter 9

Key ideas and concepts:
Political Geography
Power projection and controlling space
Politico-cultural facts
Territorial-State (verses Nation-State)
4 requirements of a State (territory & population, etc.)
4 functions of the State (protect its members, etc.)
Boundaries, Shapes, and Organization of States
Centrifugal verses Centrepital forces of a State
Electoral geography
Democratic elections and geography
Reapportionment and redistricting
International relations and recent world orders
Geopolitics and theories of world power
Terrorism (and the U.S. / 9/11)
Defining Dilemma (terrorism)
Historical and Modern (terrorism, parameters and nature of)
Counter-Terrorism
War in Iraq
Orientalism


III. CITIES: URBAN PROCESSES AND STRUCTURES.

Readings: Chapters 10 and Chapter 11

Key ideas and concepts:
Urban Geography
Cities
Civitas and Cosmology
Urbanity / Urbanism
Site selection
City types / historical examples
    Greek, Roman,
Urbanization
Social stratification and spatial segregation
Functionally similar zones
Modern (American) City
    CBD & Edge cities
3 models of urban areas
Central Places / C.P.Theory
World / Global Cities
Primate cities
Gateway cities
Urban ecology
Non-Western Cities


IV. FUTURE GEOGRAPHIES

Final Reading: (Ch. 12 read like an essay)



V. OTHER key ideas / terms:
Relative location ("situation" what sorts of stuff or things are going on around you)
Absolute location ("site" exact or specific qualities of place or decision to locate)
Regions ("functional" units such as cities segments or voting behavior
    and "formal" areas where people grow maize or impose their language)