Be able to define globalization 2. Be able to define Absolute location. Understand what latitude is. Understand what Relative location is 5.

1 . Be able to define globalization

2. Be able to define Absolute location.

3. Understand what latitude is.

4. Understand what Relative location is 

5. What is the definition of Geography?    

•Geography is the study of our planet's surface and the processes that 

shape it

•Geography is unique in that it links the physical sciences with the social 

sciences

•Physical geographers have generally focused on how Earth's physical 

processes work 

•Human geography is the study of the various aspects of human life that 

create the distinctive landscapes and regions of the world

•Physical and human geography are often tightly linked

6. What are the criteria which links countries that form the different regions? 

7.  Know if  Boundaries between regions are  necessarily precise and sharp.

8.Think about Globalization. Has  the spread of Western culture such as food and drink, movies and TV programs wiped out local cultural differences. 

9. Does Economic globalization have an impact on social or cultural features of regions?

10. What is the definition of  "Brain drain" ?

11.  About what percentage of Earth's surface is land? 

12.  The World Bank ranks countries within four groups. What are they?

13. What are the four clusters of the world's highest population density? 

14. What has caused most of the world's relief features (i.e. mountains)?

15. Know what an Isthmus is. 

16. Know which countries are located in the Greater Antilles.

17. Know where most of the plantations were located within Middle America.

18. What is the largest island in the Lesser Antilles?

19. Understand where the Mayan and Aztec civilizations lived  i.e. in the Highlands or Lowlands).

20. What are the major characteristics of the idealized Spanish town in Middle America?

21. Who were the Mestizos?

22. What is Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population?

23. What was the cause of the rebellion in Chiapas? 

24. Be able to explain what a maquiladora is.

25. Know the definition of Mulatto.   

26. What are the native people in Canada called?

27. Be able to describe the American Manufacturing Belt.

28. Be able to give an example of a secondary economic activity.

29. Be able to give an example of the tertiary sector of the U.S. economy?

30. Know what is meant by the transformation of raw materials into finished products and which sector that is associated with. 

31. Know all the major cities within the  American Manufacturing Belt (the Continental Core)?

32. Know what the capital of Canada is.

33. Be able to define the term ecumene.

34. What part of the country does most of the Canadians live?

35. What is The North American Free Trade Agreement?

36. Be able to define the North American Core? 

37. Know what the two major language groups are in Canada are.

38. Know where the Intermontane Basin and Plateau is.

39. Be able to locate the St. Lawrence River.

40.  Know the major climate groups in the Koppen-Geiger scheme. 

41.  Be able to explain what a  functional region is.

42.  Be able to explain subduction.

43.  Understand what is meant by the "Ring of Fire".