Warmup:Please write the question and your answer.

As an academic discipline, geography is principally concerned with the:A) Nature and meaning of place names.B) Impact of the environment on human understandings and

activities.C) Evolving character and spatial organization of Earth’s

surface.D) Absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on

Earth’s surface.E) Construction of maps that depict places, peoples, and

processes as accurately as possible.

Take out a sheet of paper

• Turn to page 84.

• Complete “Locating Key Places”AND

• Understanding main ideas 1-5 (you do not need to write the questions.)

Warmup

Which of the following is true concerning time-space convergence*?A) Places seem to all look the sameB) Places seem to be getting closer togetherC) Places are increasingly concentrated on

maintaining their historiesD) Places are making a greater effort to converge

activities to save timeE) Places are getting closer together in space but

not time*You don’t know this term, but it means the same thing as a vocab word you HAVE studied.

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TEST

TOMORROW

Next Week

9/27 – Globalization and hand out Review9/28 – Gender Economics and Environmental

Determinism. 9/29 – Review9/30 – First 6 Weeks Test10/1 Geography BINGO; Globalization paper

due.

Get ready to take the short answer portion of your test.

Warmup

Write the difference between arithmetic density, physiological density, and agricultural density.

Warmup

• Review due tomorrow.

Tests

Out of 88 (5th period not included)• A – 25• B - 17• C - 19• 60-69 - 19• Below 60 - 8

Correcting Tests

• Take home a copy of the test• On a separate sheet of paper:• Write the question you missed– Write out the correct answer Correct: A – lines of

latitude– Incorrect: A

• Staple to your test answers and turn in by Wednesday

Assignment

• Read the handout “Globalization”.• From your reading and experience, do you

think that globalization is more of a positive force in the world, or a negative force?

• Explain your answer in a paper that is at least one page.

• Be sure to include examples.• Due Friday.

• Oligarchy – government by a very few.• Intractable - not easy to control; stubborn• Subsidies – a contribution of money from the

government.• Maize - corn• Hunger strike - a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken

in protest against objectionable conditions.• Cold War – conflict between US and Soviet Union

(1945-1991) • Deregulate - remove government regulatory controls• Vilify – to speak ill of; defame• Incremental – slow growth or gain

Globalization

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