The final is COMPREHENSIVE and it consists of 100 multiple choice questions for 100 points.

The questions are somewhat evenly spread over all the chapters.

For ALL CHAPTERS study the VOCABULARY

For ALL REALMS study

• physical geography
  • landscapes
  • climate
  • major features
  • physical barriers at the borders
• cultural geography
  • religion
  • language
  • politics
• economic geography
  • level of development
  • % labor in primary activities
  • % urbanization
• historical Geography
  • culture hearths
  • colonization
• where people live (core areas) and why (5 reasons)

Here are some suggestions:

• apartheid
• Cabinda
• Southern Africa
• Maori / Aborigines
• core areas of realms / where do people live: world and realms
• Khmer Rouge
• domino theory
• State morphology
• religious majorities of realms
• East Timor
• human migration: into Southeast Asia, inside of North America
• SEZs
• review map quiz locations a bit - like major mountains, rivers, bodies of water, islands
• Xinjiang region of China
• Tibet / Xizang
• Han Chinese
• Manchukuo / Northeastern China
• review conflicts and conflict vocabulary, especially:
  • Chechnya
  • Kashmir
  • Sri Lanka
  • East Timor
• West and East Pakistan
• Pathans
• "The Partition" in 1947 of British India
• East Africa region
• periodic market
• plural societies
• lagacies/effects of colonization in Africa
• physical geography of realms
• Turkestan
• nomadism
• West Bank history
• Libya's ruler
• where is oil produced?
• Maghreb
• Aswan High Dam
• impacts of the oil industry
• Islamic republics: sudan, Iran, Pakistan
• Shi'ites and Sunnis
• "land between the rivers"
• major climatic regions of each realm
• growth pole
• % urbanization
• Brazil
• isthmus
• culture hearths / Old World / New World
• transculturation
• mulatto
• mestizo
• ejido
• Fidel Castro
• mainland / rimland
• characteristics of plantations and haciendas
• primary, secondary, and tertiary activites
• % rural population
• region in North America where few people live
• the Randstad = Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague in the Netherlands
• Western Europe
• Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
• infrastructure
• culture
• map scale, small scale, large scale

If you have questions use the Discussion Board or e-mail me at: mhealy@harpercollege.edu

Good luck,

Mark