Happy Holidays! For those of you who want to get an early start (and finish) here is your first homework assignment for the semester.

We will be learning about political geography.

Please read chapter 8 (pages 260-295) in Rubenstein and Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17 (pages 199-268) in de Blij

Complete the following terms: (the terms with an * - Please give a country example for each of these - 4 total)

1. Boundary (R)
2. Centrifugal Force (D)
3. Centripetal Force (D)
4. City-state * (R)
5. Colonialism (R)
6. Colony (R)
7. Devolution (D)
8. Enclave (D)
9. Ethnonationalism  (D)
10. European Union (D)
11. Exclave (D)
12. Exclusive Economic Zone  (D)
13. Federal State (R)
14. Forward Capital (D)
15. Frontier (R)
16. Geopolitic (D)
17. Gerrymandering (R)
18. Globalization (D)
19. Heartland Theory (D)
20. Imperialism (R)
21. Landlocked State * (R)
22. Law of the Sea (D)
23. Median-Line Principle (D)
24. Microstate * (R)
25. Multicore State * (D)
26. Nation (D)
27. Relict Boundary (D)
28. Rimland (D)
29. Sovereignty (R)
30. State (R)
31. Supranationalism (D)
32. Theocracy (D)
33. Unitary State (R)

Word Cloud

You will create 1 Word Cloud using either Wordle or Tagul web based word cloud generators.

Here are the requirements for your Word Cloud:

You have been assigned 1 word from the list below to create your Word Cloud

You must include 20 words that are directly related to your original word (synonyms, places, etc.)

You must include a separate list of the 20 words you have selected

Each of the 20 words must have something to do with the original word

All of the words must be spelled correctly

You must capitalize all of the letters in the original word

You must use a design that symbolizes the original word and give a written justification for using this specific design.

You must include a copy of the original design in your written justification

You will get to present you Word Cloud in front of the class

Each person will create a unique Word Cloud.  No two people will be allowed to do a Word Cloud on the same original word.  You are only going to complete 1 Word Cloud this semester and 1 Word Cloud next semester.

Geography:  Its Nature and Perspective - 

Site - Santana

Globalization - Oscar

Flows - Fatima

Regions - Lauren

Spatial - Destiny

Patterns - Ruth

Diffusion - Maria

Hearth - Jasmine

Population and Migration - 

Density - Kyle

Population Pyramid - Maverick

Demography - Keith

Demographic Transition - Arnold

Epidemiological Transition - Jacarra

Fertility - Robert

Push and Pull Factors - Chelsea

Forced Migration - Jace

Voluntary Migration - Edgar

Migration Consequences - Evelyn

Refugees - Mario

Chain Migration - Giselle

Language - 

Lingua Franca - Nicole

Religion - 

Universalizing - Diego

Sacred Sites - Mark

Ethnic Religions - Hillary

Proselytize - Brianne

Ethnicity - 

Ethnic Neighborhoods - Angel

Acculturation - Marizela

Assimilation - Arlette

Multiculturalism - Alex

Pop/Folk Culture - 

Taboo - Emily

Habit - Daniel

Rubric - 75 points total

Original Word is capitalized (5 points)

20 words all spelled correctly (5 points)

20 words all have a connection to the original word. (10 points) Don’t just pick 20 words off of this list and use them in your Word Cloud.

20 words included on a separate list (5 points)

Design symbolizes the original word with a written justification for choosing your design (a paragraph long) (10 points)

Copy of the original design you selected (5 points)

Printed Copy of the Word Cloud in color (15 points, 10 if it is in black and white)

Presentation of your Word Cloud to the class (20 points)

Read Chapter 5 in Rubenstein pages 147-182
Read Chapters 8, 9, 10 in Blij on pages 112-149
That is only a total of 72 pages (including all of the graphs and charts) in 1 week (11 pages per day).

Complete Vocabulary: (For each starred (***) Vocab word, please list a country or language that this can be applied to.)

1. Agriculture Theory (D)
2. Amerind (D)
3. British Received Pronunciation (R)
4. Conquest Theory (D) ***
5. Creole (R)
6. Ebonics (R)
7. Esperanto (D)
8. Extinct Language*** (D)
9. Franglais (R)
10. Ideograms (R)
11. Isolated Language*** (R)
12. Language (R)
13. Language Convergence
14. Language Divergence
15. Language Family (R)
16. Language Tree
17. Monolingual State*** (D)
18. Multilingual State*** (D)
19. Nostratic (D)
20. Official Language (R)
21. Spanglish (R)
22. Standard Language (R)
23. Toponymy (D)
24. Vulgar Latin (R)

1. Custom
2. Folk Culture
3. Habit
4. Popular Culture
5. Taboo

• Select your 2 countries
• Select 2 important factors from the drop down menus on the left and bottom of the chart
• Make the opacity of nonselected countries at clear
• set the year at 1940
• press the play button
• Share the graph with me at my email with your name in the subject line.  [email protected]

Population chapter HW plan

Read chapter 2 Rubenstein

Read chapter 4/5 Blijj

This chapter should be much easier to understand due to the fact that there is a central focus, unlike Chapter 1.

1. Arithmetic density
2. Census
3. Crude birth rate
4. Crude death rate
5. Density
6. Dependency ratio
7. Distribution
8. Doubling time
9. Ecumene
10. Epidemiologic transition model
11. Exponential growth
12. Infant mortality rate
13. Life expectancy
14. Linear growth
15. Natural increase rate
16. Neo-Malthusian
17. Overpopulation
18. Pandemic
19. Physiological density
20. Population composition
21. Population explosion
22. Population pyramid
23. Population structure
24. Sex ratio
25. Stationary population level
26. Total fertility rate
27. Zero population growth