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go to google.com
click on maps
click on my maps
sign-in (or create a new sign in if this is your first time)
click on new map
add a marker
edit text in rich text format
add a picture

you must include the following in your theme maps:
10 markers of the hearth or where it diffused to
a minimum 5 sentence discription of the object covered in your marker
a picture

Oral presentation of your map (nothing to print out) on Monday, 6/4/07

Who signed up for what?
Curtis - Richest People
Jessica L. - notorious criminals
Rahul - modern terrorism
Tammy - alcohol
Chris - martial arts
Shi Min - Languages
Frankie - sports
Dosan - Birth Control
Charmaine - Agriculture
Ed - Life
Asad - Religion
Jessica S. - Rock Music
Stacy - Candy
Daniel - Technology
Lisa - BBYO
Cristina - Tea
Maria - Tobacco
Michael - Rap Music
Paul - AIDS
Jenny - Musical Instruments
Martin - Fruits
Stephanie - Hair Products
Candy - Chocolate
Josh - electronics
Steve - death penalty
Jannie - Fast Food
Hanna - wine
Devon - fashion
Clifford - shoes
Jason - dance
Sasha - Mascara
Annette - dogs
Harsha - Airplanes
Iris - make-up

Rubric:

Worth 100 points (10 points per marker)
picture - 5 points
description - 5 points
]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 16:43:01 PDT //www.chatsworthhs.org/homeworkItem311059 //www.chatsworthhs.org/apps/classes/73790/assignments/ READ Chapters 21-23 in de Blij Pages 315-363

Complete the following Key Terms:
1. Acropolis
2. Agglomeration
3. Agora
4. Annexation
5. Blockbusting
6. Census tract
7. Council of government
8. Density gradient
9. Disamenity Sector
10. Edge City
11. Feudal City
12. Filtering
13. Gentrification
14. Greenbelt
15. Hinterland
16. Manufacturing City
17. Megacity
18. Megalopolis
19. Mercantile City
20. Metropolitan statistical area
21. Micropolitan statistical area
22. Modern City
23. Multiplier Effect
24. Nucleation
25. Preindustrial City
26. Primate City
27. Public housing
28. Rank-size Rule
29. Redlining
30. Smart Growth
31. Sprawl
32. Squatter Settlement
33. Stratified Society
34. Sunbelt
35. Theocratic Center
36. Underclass
37. Urban Renewal
38. Urbanized Area
39. Zoning Ordinance

Answer the Thinking Geographicall question on page 469 #5.

Complete the following questions:

1.Describe and define the 3 social differences between urban and rural settlements.
2. Define and describe the 3 models of urban structure. Also, identify 2 major urban areas that fit each of these models. Which model best fits Los Angeles?
3. What is a CBD?
4. How have cities changed in LDCs?
5. Why have inner cities deteriorated?
6. Why are urban areas experiencing a renewal of late?
7. List and identify 5 inner city problems.
8. Explain and identify the Peripheral model.
9. List and identify 4 suburban problems.
10. What is smart growth and how can it be enacted in Los Angeles?
11. List 3 characteristics of each of the following cities: Subsaharan African City, Southeast Asian City, and Latin American City.
12. Include a map of a megalopolis here.
13. Include a map that demonstrates knowledge of Rank-Size Rule here.
14. How did social and economic change incite the Los Angeles Riots in 1992?
15. List 5 examples of primate cities.
16. What influence did Greece have on cities of the future?
17. What were 4 characteristics of ancient cities?
]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:52:35 PDT //www.chatsworthhs.org/homeworkItem276113 //www.chatsworthhs.org/apps/classes/73790/assignments/ Read Chapters 24, 25, 26 in De Blij


Write out the following Key Terms:

1. Agglomeration
2. Comparative Advantage
3. Core-Periphery Model
4. Dependency Theory
5. Developed Country
6. Developing Country
7. Distance Decay
8. Friction of Distance
9. GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
10. Gender Empowerment Index (GEM)
11. GNP (Gross National Product)
12. Human Development Index (HDI)
13. Infrastructure
14. LCD (Less Developed Country)
15. Least Cost Theory
16. Liberal Model
17. Literacy Rate
18. Maquiladora
19. MDC (More Developed Country)
20. Modernization Model
21. NAFTA
22. Neo-colonialism
23. Peripheral Region
24. Raw Materials
25. Secondary Industries
26. Semi-Peripheral Region
27. Special Economic Zone
28. Structuralist Model
29. Substitution Principles
30. Variable Cost
31. World Systems Theory

Complete Thinking Geographically # 2, 4 in Rubenstein on page 329.

Answer the following questions:
1.) How does international trade both help and hurt development?
2.) What role does gender play in development?
3.) Where are the 6 less developed regions in the world?
4.) Where are the 5 more developed regions in the world?
5.) Chose 4 economic and/or social indicators of development and discuss how each contributes to development.
6.) How has eastern Asia developed recently?
7.) How did industrialization occur up to WWI?
8.) How did industrialization occur after WWI?
9.) How has transportation contributed to industrialization?


Complete the following:
Select 4 countries with different levels and rates of development, eg USA, Indonesia, Singapore and Nepal. Why are these countries so different economically, politically, socially and culturally?

Each student must chose one country (please email me your choice ASAP because no two students will do the same country) to research a Development Profile that includes all of the following:
Population figures
Absolute Location
capital city
biophysical features
productive activities
literacy rate
GDP
Primary Sector
Secondary
Tertiary sector
quadrinary sector
quinterary sector
and include at least one website reference.

Countries Claimed List:
Jessica S. - UK
Harsha - India
Charmaine - China
Clifford - USA
Maria - Ethiopia
Shi Min - Japan
Jenny - Russia
Asad - Canada
Stacy - Australia
Steve - South Korea
Rahul - Germany
Martin - Argentina
Tammy - Vietnam
Daniel - New Zealand
Michael - Bulgaria
Jason - Jordan
Ed - Mexico
Jessica L. - Norway
Stephanie - Haiti
Cristina - Brazil
Jannie - France
Josh - Spain
Curtis - Tonga
Chris - Greenland
Iris - Maldives
Frankie - Armenia
Annette - Netherlands
Paul - Uganda
Candy - Switzerland
Hanna - Greece
Devon - Italy
Dosan - Czech Republic
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Read chapter 10!!!!!!! in Rubenstein
Read chapters 18, 19, 20!!!!!! in de Blij

Complete the following vocab terms (write them out by hand. No typing)


1. Agribusiness
2. Agriculture
3. Animal domestication
4. Biotechnology
5. Cadastral system
6. Chaff
7. Combine
8. Commercial agriculture
9. Commercial agriculture
10. Crop rotation
11. Dairying
12. Desertification
13. Double cropping
14. First Agricultural Revolution
15. Green Revolution
16. Horticulture
17. Hull
18. Hunting and gathering
19. Livestock ranching
20. Long-lot survey
21. Luxury crops Mediterranean agriculture
22. Maladaptive diffusion
23. Metallurgy
24. Milkshed
25. Nucleated settlement
26. Organic agriculture
27. Paddy
28. Pastoral nomadism
29. Pasture
30. Plant domestication
31. Plantation agriculture
32. Primogeniture
33. Reaper
34. Rectangular land survey
35. Ridge tillage
36. Sawah
37. Second Agricultural Revolution
38. Shifting cultivation
39. Spring wheat
40. Subsistence farmers
41. Swidden
42. Third Agricultural Revolution
43. Thresh
44. Township-and-range system
45. Transhumance
46. Truck farming
47. Wattle
48. Wet rice
49. Winnow
50. Winter wheat

Answer the following questions based on the reading (and don't copy each other because you know I will catch most of you :-):
1.) Where (multiple places) was agriculture first developed independently?
2.) How did the Green Revolution differ from the 1st and 2nd Ag. Revolutions?
3.) What are some distinc features of rural settlements?
4.) What are some crops that are exclusive to certain areas? You can check the chart in the de Blij book.

Chose any three of the categories below and print a map of the top ten countries that produce the listed item.
1.) Cattle
2.) rice
3.) fruits production
4.) highest deforestation
5.) almond production
6.) dates
7.) grapes
8.) walnuts
9.) highest proportion of farmers
10.) supermarket countries
11.) sugar consumer countries
12.) wine producers
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/
http://www.storewars.org
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