FRQ: Urban Sprawl (20 pts)

Urban sprawl has contributed to inner-city decay in many North American urban places.

(A)Define Urban Sprawl

(B)Explain how urban sprawl has contributed to inner-city decay in some North American urban places.

(C)Choose two of the following categories of solutions to uneven development, and for each, explain one related approach to reducing uneven development:

>Political
>Urban morphology
>Cultural
>Legal

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DUE: END OF DAY, MONDAY MARCH 16, 2009 (electronic & hard copy)

Q3 EYK Readings (15 pts) DUE MARCH 18

Read and take notes from your excerpt from De Blij's "The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape", highlighting key points as you read.

Using your notes and highlighted material formulate the following in a double-spaced, 2-3 page report. In order to earn the full 15 points you must provide all content specified below as well as your notes and marked up excerpt. Notes may be hand or type written. Use the Q3EYK document in the resource folder to be sure you're conforming to proper formatting.

Report Content
(1)Choose three key concepts presented in the excerpt and summarize their meaning within the context of the book. Be sure to provide examples of the concept much like you've done when formulating free response answers. (4 pts)

(2)Share the relevancy of what you read to the concepts, terminology, theories, and models that we've been introduced to in class this year. Cite references from the reading that are examples of human geography at work in the real world. (4 pts)

(3)Provide a reflective paragraph that shares your insights from the reading. Considerations for reflection: agreement/disagreement, new perspective(s) gained, how these topics might impact you and/or our "place" in the world today, and 20 years from now. Be sure to support all claims with references to the reading.(4 pts)

(4)Submit annotated excerpt and notes (3 pts)

FRQ: MNCs and Outsourcing (20 pts)

Globalization has been praised and criticized by geographers and economists.

(A)Define the concept of multinational corporation(MNC) and relate it to the new international division of labor. Give an example to illustrate this relationship.

(B)Define outsourcing, and explain its effect on economic conditions both in the core and periphery with reference to two of the following regions:
>North America
>Latin America
>East Asia
>Western Europe

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DUE: END OF DAY, MONDAY MARCH 9, 2009 (electronic & hard copy)

FRQ: Political Organzation of Space (20 pts)

(1)Explain the unitary governmental structure. Give an example of a unitary state, and explain one advantage of having a unitary structure in this example.

(2)Explain the federal government structure. Give an example of a federal state, and explain one advantage of having a federal structure in this example.

(3)Define devolution. Choose a state from either Europe or Asia that has recently experienced devolution, and explain the causes that led the state to devolve. (Yogoslavia, USSR, England)


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DUE: END OF DAY, MONDAY MARCH 2, 2009 (electronic & hard copy)

Unit 5: Agriculture

Agriculture has been evolving since its inception some 12,000 years ago.
(a) Explain the major trends in innovation that characterize the third agricultural revolution.
(b)Define agribusiness and relate it to the third agricultural revolution.
(c)Explain one positive effect of agribusiness on the individual farmer in the periphery.
(d)Explain one negative effect of agribusiness on the individual farmer in the periphery.

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DUE: Beginning of class FRI, FEB 20, 2009 (electronic & hard copy)

FRQ: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces

Explain how language can be used as both a centrifugal(breaking up) and a centripetal(bringing together) force.
(A) Provide two specific countries as examples of both a centrifugal and a centripetal force. (Papua New Guinea, India, Belgium, Iraq)
(B) Explain language isoglosses and why they are difficult to establish. (Denmark, Japan)

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DUE: Beginning of class WED, FEB 4, 2009 (electronic & hard copy)