When is the Exam?  Monday March 31

Where is the Exam?  In our regular classroom

What do I need to Bring? Pencil and/or a pen if you wish.    

What the Exam Will Be Like? The midterm will have 40 multiple choice and true false questions. 30 will cover concepts, terms, positions, etc. discussed in lecture, discussion, and in your text. 10 will be map identification questions. The first 30 will be divided into 3 sections: Definitions; Applications and Importance of Material; and Thinking and Logic Questions. Sample questions may be found in the online discussion manual. A practice map is provided with this sheet.  Finally, there will be 5 short answer questions very similar to those you have answered for discussion (though not necessarily on our discussion topics). Places for which you will need to know the location are listed on the other side of this sheet. 

How and What to Study:  See the last review sheet for studying tips.

The following is a list of most of the topics we have covered.  It is by no means all inclusive so be sure that you look at your lecture notes, outlines, the lists of concepts in the introduction to some of the discussions and the list of Key Terms at the end of each chapter in your textbook) 

In addition to major and basic concepts from the first third of the class that we continue to use (scale, site and situation, production of nature for example), be sure you are familiar with:

Culture, Identity, Place, and Landscape theories of culture and landscape (including our walking tour and the four types of culture (dominant, emergent, residual, excluded), culture wars, identity and geography, the social construction and ideology of “race” and its geography (including the geography of Chinatown), how ideas about race shape landscapes and how landscapes shape ideas about race, the social construction of gender (including the implications for suburban middle class women at the turn of the century), activity segregation, ethnicity,  sexuality (as covered in Knox and Marston), Irish immigrant women gender and ethnicity issues,  the social and biological construction of disability and how it differs from gender and race, disabled people in public space, importance of mobility and jumping scale in wheelchair protest and advertising examples, behavioral geography and environmental perception, cognitive maps, topophilia, insider vs. outsider perceptions, sense of place, the geography of the shopping mall, global culture (as discussed in Knox and Marston). 

Economic and Agricultural Geographies ideas about economic development; measurements of development (as covered in Knox and Marston); uneven development; underdevelopment; types and locations of industries (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary and site and situation factors of each); interdependence and agglomeration; backwash effects; industrialization and deindustrialization; creative destruction and the see-saw motion of capital; development in Afghanistan; types of agriculture (subsistence vs. commercial and intensive vs. extensive); globalization and agriculture; cyborg chickens, GMOs, recent changes in farming practices and systems, Discussion on The Geography of Commercial Agriculture (translocality, reasons for decline in rural agriculture in Mexico, reasons residents stay, production of nature/culture argument, emmigration, implications for immigration policy) Agriculture (as covered by Knox and Marston).  

In general the test will cover: 

·         Lecture material up to and including Agriculture.

·         Discussions up to and including Discussion 8: The Geography of Commercial Agriculture

·         Knox and Marston up to and including Chapter 8: Agriculture and Food Production 

Places for which you need to know the locations 

The test will include a map of Iraq like the one included here, but with numbers instead of place names.  In addition I think you probably ought to know something about the place where you live (note that for the map section you only need to know locations, you do not need to know anything about the places): 

Places mentioned in lecture, discussion, or the readings: Afghanistan, Qandahar, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul, Jalalabad, Hawaii; Ciudad Juarez; Mexico; El Paso; Edmonton, Denver, Alberta; Bloomington, MN; ; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Flint, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Sioux City, IA, North Sioux City, SD; Sioux Falls, SD; Tucson, AZ; Las Vegas, NV; Vancouver, BC. 

Places in the news:  Iraq; Iran; Jordan; Syria, Kuwait, Kuwait City, Turkey, Baghdad, Al Basrah, Umm Qasr, An Nasiriyah, Mosul, Kirkuk, Samarra, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Persian Gulf, Al Samawah, Falllujah (site of regular clashes between “insurgents” and U.S. soldiers 35 miles west of Baghdad, not on the map below but in the news), Tikrit (not on the map below but located along the river between Smarra and Kirkuk—Saddam Hussein’s hometown and near where he was captured) 

You may print out a blank practice Iraq maps from the Xpeditions web site.  Here is a practice map showing the USA, Mexico and Canada and one of Afghanistan

Final Comments

Above all, take some time to study for the test.  But also make sure that you use your studying time wisely. Don’t just stare at your notes for hours on end; come up with a studying strategy.  If you have no idea where to start, come visit me!  (Or call or e-mail and make an appointment.)  I will do all I can to help you prepare for the test but I can not help you if you do not approach me for help.