Category: Geography

The instructions of the task are to watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGG7lRJJkJk
After watching the video answer these 3 questions:
1. Provide a brief overview of your selected video:
You should make it clear you watched the entire video or completed the full experience. Please discuss in your own words, and do not copy from any outside descriiption of the material. Maintain a level of formality whether responding in text, audio, or video format.
2. What were the most important things you learned from this video?
Discuss a few things you learned or learned more about from this video or experience. You may respond in the first person. Be sure to check for grammar and spelling if writing or maintain a level of formality in your language if responding in audio or video format.
3. What impacted you most from this video, or how did it change your views or perspective?
Describe what impacted you most from this video or experience and/or how this video or experience changed your views or offered new insight or a new perspective. This may include your feelings or general reactions. Consider what surprised (or shocked) you. You may respond in first-person. Be sure to check for grammar and spelling if writing or maintain a level of formality in your language if responding in audio or video format.

Your instructions for the task are to watch the video PBS: Left Behind America. The link to the video is attached: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/left-behind-america/?
After watching the video you are to answer these 3 questions:
1. Provide a brief overview of your selected video:
You should make it clear you watched the entire video or completed the full experience. Please discuss in your own words, and do not copy from any outside descriiption of the material. Maintain a level of formality whether responding in text, audio, or video format.
2. What were the most important things you learned from this video?
Discuss a few things you learned or learned more about from this video or experience. You may respond in the first person. Be sure to check for grammar and spelling if writing or maintain a level of formality in your language if responding in audio or video format.
3. What impacted you most from this video, or how did it change your views or perspective?
Describe what impacted you most from this video or experience and/or how this video or experience changed your views or offered new insight or a new perspective. This may include your feelings or general reactions. Consider what surprised (or shocked) you. You may respond in first-person. Be sure to check for grammar and spelling if writing or maintain a level of formality in your language if responding in audio or video format.

Describe the issues associated with suburban “leapfrog” development. How could these issues be resolved in North America?

Question 1
Based on the definition of a primate city, does Argentina appear to have a primate city?yes
no
Question 2
Based on the definition of a primate city, does Germany appear to have a primate city?yes
no
Question 3
What is the primate city of Mexico?Mexico City
Guadalajara
Monterrey
Bogota
Question 4
What is the primate city of Nigeria?Lagos
Kano
Ibadan
Kaduna
Question 5
What is the primate city of the Democratic Republic of Congo?Kinshasa
Lumumbashi
Luanda
Bandundu
Question 6
What is the primate city of Peru?Lima
Arequipa
Rio de Janerio
Sao Paulo
Question 7
Which of the following is a Primate City?London, United Kingdom
Chicago, United States
Hong Kong, China
Sydney, Australia
Question 8
Which of the following is a Primate City?Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Oslo, Norway
Geneva, Switzerland
Barcelona, Spain
Question 9
Pick one primate city and do a bit of research. How does that city dominate the politics, culture, and economy of the country in which it is found?

Why do different industries locate in different places?
Give one example, not from the text, of an industry that is likely to locate closer to inputs and explain why, and provide one example (also not from the text) of an industry that is more likely to locate closer to markets and explain why.
Requirements
Wordcount & Depth 100 + Words
Research & Citations 1 + Sources
Points docked if outside of source range
Grammar & Mechanics Flow & Structure Content & Ideas

Using maps, you’ll be examining the toponyms of your state oklaloma . You’ll need to locate a map that includes both physical and political features and describe the meaning behind the names of places.
Toponyms reveal a lot about the culture, history, and physical geography of your state. Find a detailed map of your state. It needs to have both political features (cities and counties) and physical features (rivers, mountains, and lakes) labeled.
First, identify what non-English languages are prominently used in your state’s place names. Are Native American words commonly used in your state’s place names? Identify any place names that are transplanted from elsewhere (e.g., New London, Connecticut, or Rome, New York). What do these place names reveal about the cultural history of your state?
Next, identify any historical people used in your state’s place names (Columbus, Ohio, or Lincoln, Nebraska). Some of the names of the people used in the place names of your state may be very important to the history of the local area, but unknown nationally. Places may also be named for the kings and dukes associated with the home country.
Lastly, identify any descriptions of physical features used in your state’s political place names (e.g., Grand Rapids, Michigan, or Long Beach, California). Do these names accurately represent the physical landscape of the area? Are there any place names in your state that represent the native flora and fauna (e.g., Southern Pines, North Carolina, or Wolf Point, Montana)?
Summarize your findings in a few paragraphs. What other questions does your analysis raise? Requirements
Wordcount & Depth
300 + Words
Research & Citations 1 + Sources
Points docked if outside of source range
Grammar & Mechanics Flow & Structure Content & Ideas

Part III: Long essay (40 points). Answer 1 of 1. Your answer should be as long as necessary to answer the question, but thoughtfulness, organization and originality are more important than length. [Seriously – longer responses are not better ones. No need for direct quotes just mostly paraphrasing and using the authors selected to support your response.
1. Describe and analyze the major spatial strategies applied to minority political representation in Canada and the United States from the mid-1960s to today. Please think carefully about the full range of spatial strategies that we have discussed throughout the semester.
Please note that this question is NOT asking you to simply summarize the history of the franchise in each country.
ideas maybe about gerrymandering or maybe something in relation to gender (not sure about this one).
I have added the option of sources to use as well as course notes.

Questions:
Analyze what were Europe’s historic contributions to the development of the world’s present political order. Evaluate how did they affect Europe itself.
Analyze what impacts have industrialization had on Europe’s natural environment.
Deduce which Europe Rivers are longest and most navigable.
Write an essay answering the previous three questions. You are strongly encouraged to illustrate your answer with maps, stats, or photography’s.
You should write an introduction paragraph or half a page presenting the three questions you have to answer to.
You should write about one paragraph or one page on each of your answer, so about three total paragraphs or three pages.
You should write a conclusion paragraph or half a page reflecting on the three questions you previously answered.
Your paper should be at least four pages long or more than a thousand words long, not counting your illustrations and sources.
Your answers must be supplemented with additional information from at least two other sources beside your text book. Your text book does not count as a source.
You cannot use encyclopedias or online encyclopedias as sources. Online journals are acceptable, as well as online articles as long as you provide your references preferably under MLA format or any other consistent format. In any case you absolutely need to provide the author’s name, the article or book title, the publication name and the year of publication.
Please remember that you need to answer in one essay format.
you can use the following websites if you can provide the name of the author of the article, the name of the book or article, and the year of publication: Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org Google Books: www.books.google.com Blekko: www.blekko.com You Tube: www.youtube.com Library of Congress: www.loc.gov Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org
cited sources put at end of essay
web links not accepted

GEOGRAPHY PROJECT PLAN ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
The Geography Project Plan is a research paper and a capstone assignment whereby you will apply geographic and research skills toward solving a real problem.
INSTRUCTIONS
Choose a service project at an accessible location where you have an interest and passion for making a difference. The project must be feasible in scale and scope for a student’s time and budget. Choose a specific location rather than a grand scale project like ending world hunger. Your plan must be 1,000–1,250 words, use Times New Roman 12-point font with 1-inch margins, include a cover page, the required sections (shown below), a reference page, a map, and a realistic budget. Cite at least five scholarly sources (other than Scripture, the textbook, and Wikipedia) in current APA format.
The project can have an environmental focus, e.g., access to clean drinking water; preserving natural habitats; reducing air and water pollution; or dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Many students choose humanitarian projects focused on health, education, and financial needs, e.g., educating illiterate populations; helping start businesses; feeding the malnourished; or resourcing underserved schools, health clinics, hospitals, or orphanages. Your project may be as simple as building a wheelchair ramp for your neighbor or building a new playground at your church. The project may expand upon an existing service, but you must identify what services currently exist and how the services may be expanded based on your contribution. You must include realisitic materials, transportation, labor, and other associated costs. For example, is there a need for additional homeless shelters? If shelters exist, where are they located and what populations do they serve? Is there a need for shelters to safely house families, or just women and children? How much would it cost to erect and operate a homeless shelter for the number of clients that you are proposing?
• Step 1: State the objective (what will be accomplished) and location of the project, e.g., “I will provide clean drinking water to the rural population in Nimba, Liberia by digging three wells.” Then give a brief explanation based on your initial research for why this project is needed.
• Step 2: Research, analyze, and describe the problem through a geographic lens. Consider the terms and concepts in the textbook and the five main themes of geography.
• Step 3: Describe a feasible course of action to solve the problem. The paper must explain the who, what, why, and where of this project. In the end, this paper is about the proposed solution, or Project Plan.
• Step 4: List and describe the detailed costs of the project (i.e. materials, transportation, labor, etc.)
• Step 5: Utilize and bold highlight at least five geographic terms from the text.
• Step 6: Incorporate the five main themes of geography into their required section headings.
Use the following 10 required main sections when writing your paper. You may include subheadings as needed.
I. Introduction
II. General Overview and Rationale
III. Region Relevance
IV. Location Relevance
V. Place Relevance
VI. Movement Relevance
VII. Human-Environmental Interaction Relevance
VIII Budget
IX. Summary
X. References
HINT: The CIA World Factbook is a helpful place to begin when studying another country.
Start by describing and analyzing the significance of location. Is the problem unique to a specific location or region? Why or why not? Describing the location of a low income rural town relative to regions of industry or agriculture can be revealing. Is the location a conurbation, technopole, forward capital, or primate city?
Follow with a regional analysis that might include physiography (climate, terrain, bodies of water, flora and fauna), culture, population data (demographics), the economy, political geography, urban development, industrialization, and agriculture. How would you characterize the people, i.e., their culture, lifestyle and beliefs? How do language, gender, religion, and cultural traditions and values affect the project? Are the people part of a shatterbelt? Think about the sectors of the economy and development. Is the area you are addressing a periphery, semi-periphery, or core state, and how does that help or hinder the solution to the problem? Are the people subsistence farmers? Describe the population. Analyze the population distribution and density. Is it a floating population? Look at demographics like the birth rate, infant mortality rate, overall longevity, ratio of physicians to population, per capita income, average years of education or illiteracy, and the dependency ratio. What do those statistics indicate regarding the problem to be solved?
Movement, or connectivity, is often a key component in any geographic analysis. Will you move people, goods, or information? How will you do that? What are the challenges of movement? Can you hand out brochures or a Bible if the people receiving them are illiterate? Do they have access to the internet? Is there adequate transportation infrastructure to move people and goods? Are roads improved or unimproved? Is there access to public transportation? Analyze physiography as it relates to movement. Think about transferability of goods, distance decay, or the movement of people through immigration or emigration.
Study the cultural landscape and develop a sense of place. This can add insight to the culture and the economy. Can the type of places of worship indicate cultural or ethnic diversity in a location? Where is the nearest hospital or college? Do most people live in single-family homes, or do most residents rent? Can the number of traffic lights in a town indicate size?
Consider the cause and effect of human interaction with the natural environment as it relates to your project. It may be as simple as studying the general climate and the seasonal effect on activities and services. Do the people contend with devastating drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, or hurricanes? Have people permanently altered the natural landscape through deforestation or the construction of dams, levees, or canals?
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer all of the following three questions. One or two well-developed paragraphs per question will suffice.
1. Pick two countries with high growth rates. Determine the state of the demographic transition for each country. Sketch what you imagine their population pyramids look like. Hypothesize what may lead them to the next stage of the demographic transition.
2. Study Figure 2.22 (in the 12th edition of the textbook), the infant mortality rate (IMR) by state in the United States. Hypothesize reasons that would explain why the IMR is low in some regions of the country and high in others. Shift scales in your mind, and choose one state to consider: How do you think IMR varies within this state? At the scale of the state, what other factors might explain the pattern of IMR?
3. The images below portray differences in life expectancy at various geographical scales and in different locations. Explain what factors affect life expectancy and why there might be major differences at the country scale, for example, between countries like Nigeria in Central Africa and the United States. Then look at maps that depict differences between Chicago, IL and San Jose, CA as well as within neighborhoods in Chicago. What factors might explain differences here? Are they similar to the differences when we compare Nigeria to the United States?