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GEOG 1400: World Regional Geography, Fall 2015

Initial upload Saturday, 31 October

Getting ready for Exam 3

(12:00 – 12:50 Monday 9 November: All of chapter 4, Modules 4.1 and 4.2, chapter 5,

and Modules 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, and 5.1.5, as well as assigned additional readings

(Cottrell and Farago), associated lectures, and video)

This exam will cover all of chapter 4, Modules 4.1 and 4.2, chapter 5, and Modules

5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, and 5.1.5, as well as assigned additional readings (Cottrell and

Farago), associated lectures, and the video presented between the 14th of October

and the 6th of November. The textbook contains more material than could be

covered in lecture and your understanding of some of this additional material will

certainly be examined. However, in general it is probably best to use the lectures as

a guide to reading the text for a closer investigation of concepts, issues, and basic

factual information that is likely to appear on this exam. While it may be covered in

later parts of the course, material covered on the following pages of the textbook

will NOT be reviewed in this exam:

Pages 76-79 (“The Relationship of Human Settlement…” and “Diversity of

Climate and Vegetation”), 84-87 (“European Colonialism…” & “4.4 Economic

Geography”), 89 (“Insights” box), and 92-93 (“Differences between

Europeans and Americans”) of Chapter 4 (“A Geographic Profile of Europe”).

Pages 102 (“Insights” box), 103 (“London Town”), and 104 & 105 (the two

boxes about the “Geography of energy”) of Module 4.1 (“The European

Core”).

Pages 155 – 158 (“The Roles of the Climates and the Vegetation”) and 161 – 170

(Sections 5.3 & 5.4) of Chapter 5 (“A Geographic Profile of Russia and the

Near Abroad”).

Pages 187 (“The Sex Trade”) and 199 – 207 (Sections 5.1.5 and 5.1.6) of Module

5.1 (“Fragmentation and Redevelopment in Russia and the Near Abroad”).

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The Blue Banana

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devolution, three forms of

European Union (EU)

Eurozone

Fertile Triangle

Rhine-Main-Danube Canal

Schengen Area

White Sea Canal

B. Places with which you should be familiar for the map portion of this exam: While

all of the places listed here appeared in lectures, readings, or the video, only some

will appear on the exam.

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For this course, all exams will be closed-book and will consist of {a} multiple-

choice, {b} completion questions, and {c} map-identification questions.

Multiple-choice questions will primarily cover lecture material, with a few

rehearsing textbook material not covered in lectures but relevant to the unit

involved in any given exam. Completion questions will primarily cover the

additional readings assigned for a given unit available at the class website.

Finally, some of the map-identification questions will be of the multiple-

choice variety, while some will be of the completion variety. Each exam is

worth up to 200 points and covers only material presented since the

previous exam date.

As of Saturday, 31 October, writing of the exam has just begun, so only the

following is known at this point:

As with Exams #1 & 2, it will probably consist of 60 regular-credit questions

and about 10 – 25 extra-credit questions (of the same value).

While all of the sample questions listed below are drawn from the assigned

readings, lectures, and video, careful study even before this point in the semester

should have shown how material covered in the chapters is amplified by lectures.

Of course, if any of these questions are used on the exam, they may be re-worded!

MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

Question 1. The regional economy of Italy…

a. …makes it the 2nd-poorest economy of the EU15. b. …depends on Catalonia, productive of productive of 75% of the

country’s GNP.

c. …depends on Macedonia, productive of 40% of the country’s GNP.

d. …depends on Lombardy, productive of 54$ of the country’s GNP. e. …depends on the Rhône-Alpes, productive of 30% of the

country’s GNP. f. None of the above.

Question 2. This European Union country is NOT part of the so-called “Blue Banana”.

a. Belgium. b. Denmark. c. France. d. Germany. e. Italy. f. Luxembourg. g. The Netherlands. h. Switzerland. i. Ukraine. j. The United Kingdom.

COMPLETION QUESTIONS come into two varieties. The first type provides

you a statement with two or more blanks and a set of responses from which

you have to select the correct answers put in the correct order. For example,

Today there are Question #3 member-states in the European Union, with Question #4 having joined in 2013. Five more countries have formally applied for membership, including Question #5.

Question 3. a. 3 b. 15 c. 21 d. 28 e. 54

Question 4.

a. Bosnia b. Croatia c. Darfur

d. Norway e. Russia f. Ukraine

Question 5.

a. Abkhazia, Belarus, Kosovo, Moldova, and Ukraine b. Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Transnistria c. Belgium, Chechnya, Cyprus, Daghestan, and Georgia d. Bulgaria, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Russia e. Georgia, Greenland, Iceland, Mauritius, and Shetland f. Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey

The second type provides no responses, so you have to know the answer

directly; for example:

Question 6. _____________ is both an EU and Schengen Area member but not part of the Eurozone, while ____________ is a Schengen Area member only, and ________________ is an EU member only.

ANSWERS