Final Exam for APHG Study Guide



Final Exam for APHG Study Guide

• Define the following

o State

o Nation

o Nation-State

o Multinational State

o Commonwealth

• What are exclaves and enclaves and what is the difference between them?

• Define the following

o NAFTA

o OPEC

o OAS

o CIS

o WTO

o EU

• What is the world’s largest export crop?

• Shapes of Countries are….

• Chile has Santiago as a central core area, but the periphery of their country is difficult to manage. Due to the shape

• What are the functions of Political Boundaries between States?

• The boundary dispute between the US and Mexico is an operational one ….why?

• What separates the US and Mexico?

• What type of climate do bananas need to grow?

• Types of Boundaries are…

• Define National Iconography

• Why are settlement patterns in the American Midwest rectilinear (rectangular)?

• Types of Agriculture and where they are

• Balkanization

• Differences between MDCs and LDCs

• What happened in the Agricultural Revolutions?

• Federal vs Unitary Governments (explain)

• Characteristics of Subsistence Farming are…

• Von Thunen’s Model (explain)

• Primary, Secondary, Tertiary economic Activities…define each

• What is the “Human Development Index” (HDI)?

• Types of Resources (Human, Capital, Natural) define each

• Quaternary Sector of the economy does what?

• What is Sustainable Development?

• The Economic Base Model

• Comparative Advantage

• Wallerstein’s World System Theory

• Agglomeration: how does it affect or influence businesses?

• Christaller’s Central Place theory

• Rostow’s Theory of Economic Development

• Weber’s Least Cost theory

• What factors go into deciding where to locate an industry?

• What are maquiladoras?

• What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?

• Primate Cities: Define

• Types of Shipping

• Core-periphery model

• What caused rapid suburbanization post WWII

• What policies/practices have helped to create North American “ghettos”?

• Rank Size Rule

• Differences between cities in N.America, Europe, and Latin America

• Models of Urban Development

• World Cities[pic]

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