Category: Geography

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?

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?

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?

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?

I attached the pages, please answer the questions in the other file attached in a frq manner dont make to long or wordy thank you

Project Overview:
This is part of a 3-PART SERIES OF ASSIGNMENTS on the SAME topic. Assignment #1 – the Bibliography (submitted Week 3). Assignment #2 – the Outline – is due Week 5. Assignment #3 – the Final Presentation – is due Week 7. You’re building this project throughout all three Assignments, using the same or similar topic.
For this project, you’ll choose a topic and then research how four geographic concepts are related to and affect your topic. Instead of presenting your research as a traditional paper, you’ll use PowerPoint to create a narrated presentation. Your presentation will be structured like a paper, including a title, introduction to the topic, main body, summary and conclusions, and references. Creative use of properly cited graphics and photos from the Internet relevant to your topic is required.
First, choose a topic! Topics must be a food item, cuisine, invention, or idea with a SUPER CLEAR REGION OF ORIGIN and PATH OF DIFFUSION. Do some investigation of the 4 required elements (see below) before you settle on one topic. If you’re not sure if your desired topic is appropriate, please feel free to ask!
Your topic must be analyzed through these 4 required elements to determine how each of these geographic concepts affects or is related to your topic: 1. Regions 2. Cultural Landscape 3. Diffusion 4. Distance decay. The first two concepts are covered in the first chapter of your textbook. Diffusion is covered in Chapter 8, Section 2 (page 484). Distance decay refers to the fact that influence and interaction between locations decreases as the distance between them increases. As such, it has a significant influence on how things change as they diffuse away from their point of origin. Be sure to address these specific geographic terms and concepts in your work. You don’t need to address them in this order, but you do need to address all of them. Be sure to refer to your text and other reliable resources to ensure you completely understand these concepts. You should be detailed in your treatment of these concepts – for instance, you should explain both how and why your choice varies by region, and how and why it has been affected by distance decay. Remember that geography, as an academic discipline, seeks to explain why things vary from place to place, not just describe how they do.
Assignment #2 Objective: Organize your thoughts and the main points of your research for your final presentation in outline format.
Assignment Instructions: To help you complete Assignment 3: The Presentation, you will first submit an outline to organize your thoughts and main points. Your outline should be formatted a specific way and must contain the following elements as described below.
To prepare for this assignment, I recommend that you do the following:
Read these directions carefully.
Read the grading criteria below. The grading criteria is a detailed evaluation that I will use to assess your performance. It also will help you understand what is expected of you as you prepare your assignment.
Message me with any questions!
Be sure to add your name to your outline.
The outline format: Your outline must be formatted as described. Please note that this format will be assessed in your grade:
Use an alphanumeric sequence
Sections should be indented and aligned
Follow the suggested order of the required elements
Use brief and bulleted but detailed and descriiptive phrases.
The required elements: Your outline should contain the following elements in this order:
I. The Introduction: This section previews your topic and the details you will cover in the body of your presentation. It should be very brief, but include:
A. The food, cuisine, invention or idea that you are going to discuss.
B. Why you chose this topic.
C. A preview of the regions where your topic has developed and then diffused to.
II. The Body (Content Sections): In the body, you must address how the four geographic concepts mentioned in the presentation instructions (regions, cultural landscapes, diffusion, and distance decay) relate to your topic.
A. Regions: Discuss the origin region or regions of your topic, with specific attention to the geographic qualities of the region that influenced the development of your topic.
1. Be sure to break up the information you include in each concept category into several points, using alphanumeric sequencing like this, to best fit the outline format. (You don’t necessarily need to list three points under region or any category, this is just an example of outline formatting.)
2. Second region point.
3. Third region point, etc.
B. Cultural Landscape: Discuss how the landscape in the region(s) described above have been shaped by the culture that gave rise to your topic, and how your topic might be reflected in that landscape.
C. Diffusion: Discuss how your topic has diffused from its origin. Where has it diffused to? What factors led to its diffusion there? What kind of diffusion has it experienced?
D. Distance Decay: Discuss how your topic has changed as it has diffused away from the region(s) of its origin. Explain these changes with reference to the geographic qualities of the regions it has diffused to.
III. The Conclusion Section: this section should contain four to six points that sum up the main points from the body of the outline.
Start your conclusion with one sentence summarizing some basic information about your topic.
Continue with a brief summary (1-2 sentences) about the important characteristics of its origin region(s).
Include a brief note about relevant cultural landscapes.
Include a brief summary (1-2 sentences) about the diffusion of your topic and the distance decay it experienced.
Wrap up the conclusion section with a closing note that provides brief information about why this topic was of interest to you, and a fact about your topic you found interesting.
IV. Reference section: This is not just the reference page; rather, referencing should occur throughout the outline as it will in your presentation. Therefore, your outline should include both a separate reference page containing a minimum of five sources listed in proper APA reference list format AND internal citations throughout the outline where appropriate. Please be sure to see the resources below for assistance regarding in-text citations and reference list formatting, and/or ask me if you have any additional questions.
Please make note of the following tips and tricks:
I understand that this is a rough draft and, as your research and writing continue over the next few weeks, details may be added or changed. Although you do not have to resubmit it to me, I recommend that you update this outline to help you best complete the Final Presentation.
Write your outline so that it has detailed bullets that you can easily then flesh out into sentences for the narration of your Final Presentation.
After your outline is complete, I recommend that you next draft your introductory and conclusion sections for your presentation. This will ensure that all the main points of the outline are incorporated in these two framing sections of your final presentation.
Please note that less than 10% of your outline or presentation should be direct quotes.
All internal citation references should be listed on the reference page, and vice versa.
Additional Resources:
You can use MS Word’s Outline Function to help create your outline.