TIME PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE FOR QUIZ #2!
Monday, April 11, 2005; last 60 mins. of regular period
POINTS a total of 100 points distributed as follows:
50 points.........25 multiple-choice @ 2 points each
30 points..............15 map* items @ 2 points each
20 points...............20 true-false @ 1 point each
*SEE list of relevant map locations below
FORMAT Quiz #2 is "closed-book" but you'll be allowed a crib sheet--
one side of a standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
TOPICS The most important topic to review is the following:
HUMAN POPULATION--growth worldwide, both historical and
contemporary; predicted continued growth; growth patterns
and their components for continents, major regions and
countries; USA's Census 2000 and its predecessors; other
countries' censuses; late 20th and early 21st century
population patterns in USA, in California, Sacramento
area; rural-urban contrasts; absolute (rounded/estimated)
numbers of people in the world as a whole, in important
regions and countries, and in US states; major populated
and "empty" regions of the world; relationship of more and
less populated, regions to environmental factors, esp. to
hazards--real and perceived; basic vocabulary of population
studies and their simple calculation--e.g., birth and death
rates; rates of natural increase and population change;
fertility rates; infant mortality rates; major causes of
death; population pyramids particularly as generalized for
different regions of the contemporary world; age, sex
patterns and population cohorts; median ages; dependency
ratios; migrations of different groups to the United States
and other countries; immigrants and emigrants, legal and
illegal; refugees; push and pull factors; patterns of
ethnicity, race, and ancestry; crude (arithmetic) and
physiological population densities--calculations and
patterns; geographic and population centers in USA, in
contiguous 48 states and in California. Review Chapter
6 in your text and class handouts.
Also important as topics are the following:
LANGUAGE--language families, especially Altaic, Indo-
European, Niger-Kordofanian, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan; sub-
families of Indo-European, especially Celtic, Germanic,
Indo-Iranian, Latin (Romance), and Slavic; major world
individual languages and their patterns of distribution;
growth of language communities--including major colonial
languages such as Spanish and English--over time; accents
and dialects in major languages, especially English.
RELIGION--patterns of distribution of major religious
faiths in the USA, around the world; origin areas of
major religions and patterns of spread; relationships
among ethnic, linguistic, and religious patterns;
proselytizing and ethnic religions; sacred places.
Review Chapter 7 for information on both language and
religion.
DOMESTICATION and contemporary production of plants,
animals for food, fuel, fiber; domestication hearths;
contrasts in domestication and production regions.
Review the text and atlas maps and responses on the
recent atlas assignment.
And there'll be an occasional question about:
LOCATION & LOCATIONAL STATEMENTS--latitude and longitude;
countries and continents; hemispheres; Old and New World.
NATURAL VEGETATION patterns in USA, over Earth.
CLIMATIC PATTERNS related to Sacramento and to other
Mediterranean climate areas; temperature, precipitation
regimes for nearby stations.
Please look over the returned atlas assignment. Review appropriate
material in your textbook. Concentrate on Chapters 6 and 7. Look at
the websites suggested for Atlas Assignment #2 and Quiz #2: Links.
For the MULTIPLE CHOICE and MAP IDENTIFICATION portions of the quiz:
Review maps of the world and of the USA for map items on the quiz.
Likely topics? latitude & longitude; hemispheres & "worlds";
domestication hearths and present-day production areas; vegetation
patterns; population clusters, growth areas of human beings on Earth,
in the USA; language patterns; religious patterns.
* WORLD locations that may be characterized for map identification:
Cities--Beijing, Benares (Varanasi), Cairo (Al Qahira), Jakarta,
Jerusalem, Lisbon (Lisboa), London, Madrid, Mecca
(Makkah), Mexico, New York City, Paris, Rome (Roma),
Salt Lake City, Sao Paulo, Tokyo
Continents--Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia (Oceania), Europe,
North America, South America
Countries--Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, France,
Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Hemispheres--Eastern, "Land", Northern, Southern, "Water", Western
Regions--Anglo-America, Central America, the Caribbean, Latin America,
the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa,
Western Europe
Oceans, Seas--Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Indian
Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Persian Gulf,
Red Sea
* USA locations that may be characterized for map identification:
States--Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey,
New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West
Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Cities--Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, Sacramento,
St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Washington DC
Regions--Acadia, "Bible Belt", Corn Belt, Deseret, Great Basin, Great
Lakes, Great Plains, Middle West & Upper Midwest, New
England, the South incl. Upland South, Lowland South,
the Southwest
