helpful information about your semester exam

Here is what will be covered on the semester exam.

• The Concept of Excellence / Our Twenty-First Century World
• A Message to Garcia
• Greek concepts: arete, polis, agora, Socrates
• CIA World Factbook
• Did You Know 3.0

• Population and Settlement
• population terms: life expectancy, CBR, CDR, developing/developed nations, RNI, net migration rate, immigration/emigration, push/pull forces, TFR
• population pyramids

• Political Geography
• world leaders and important facts about the following key countries: Germany, Mexico, China, Brazil, India, Canada, Japan, Russia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Syria, France, and the United States

• Cultural Geography
• Slumdog Millionaire
• key world religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism

Here is the breakdown.

• Questions 1 - 21: Excellence and Our Twenty-First Century World
• Questions 22 - 57: Population and Settlement
• Questions 58 - 82: Political Geography
• Questions 83 - 130: Cultural Geography

You will write TWO essays on this test.  There are three topics to choose from.

• Essay Option #1:  Socrates famously stated, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Describe the importance of this philosophy.  Discuss things you learned this semester that illustrate Socrates' words.
• Essay Option #2: Religion, language, and ethnicity are important aspects of cultural geography.  As a student in a predominantly Christian, English-speaking school, what did you observe about people with other cultural characteristics?  Describe the differences you observed, as well as ways in which we are all similar. 
• Essay Option #3:  The world is filled with problems and difficulties.  Discuss some of the things you learned in Human Geography this semester, and how they could help our country deal with specific domestic and international challenges.

Two-thirds of your exam grade will be the objective (130 Scantron questions) portion of the test; one-third will be the essay (TWO essays) portion of the test. 

I would recommend reviewing your tests, my blogs, the PowerPoints and links I posted, plus your notes and blogs.  

I hope this helps you prepare for Tuesday's exam.  Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck!