Human Cultural Geography

[jeremy1999]

Does anyone have any information on how I would find some help with this dantes? Ive looked everywhere and cant find anything. Im taking the test next week!! AHHH!!!

[highlanderburial]

I am going into the test blind and totally unprepped! As I am not paying for it, I don't much care. I read the sample questions but they seem kind of scattered and around the point of a normal geography course. I will let you know what was on it when I get out of it.

-HB

[highlanderburial]

Firstly, there weren't a lot of questions that jumped out at me as something that you could simply grab a book and study. You seemed to need a general knowledge of world geography and where countries are in relation to water bodies etc.

What crops were NOT originally domesticated in North America

What US city historically suffers the most natural disasters

Know what classifys an undeveloped, developed and developing country

Know the difference between regional languages and what are language families

Where did Buddism originate
Where did confucianism originate

Know what a megolopolis is and what regions of the US are NOT classified as a megolopolis

You will be given graphs which show population in contrast to food supply

What is a consumption indication of a developed region (electricity?)

What is considered a non-renewable resource

A cold temp, but a clear sky in January in upstate NY is likely caused by what kind of weather pattern

What human tool causes the most drastic changes in the natural environment (bronze, steel, fire etc)

Do a google search for noted Cultural Geographers (there aren't many!) Learn a few of their notable theories

What city out of a list lies between 40 deg and 60 deg lat north or south and has a rainy winter and warm summer

What city in 20-30 deg north or south has a wet winter and a dry summer from a list

Learn what economic systems are and what regions can fall into them

Know what a core-periphery model is

Know what causes a pushing force in migration from countries

China is considered (multiple choice: resource rich, developed...resource poor developed....resource rich undeveloped etc....)

What is not considered a grass land: tiaga, meadow, plain, etc]

A country that is not near another that controls that country is an example of ...............(imperialism)

Where were humans located on the earth around 10,000 bc

Where did humans develop urbanization

What are the advantages of a flat map over a glope.....

What is false about lattitude: it's a meridian arc, it passes through Greenwich, it goes from 0 to 90 deg, it runs north and south

Know a few land physiography terms (I didn't know quite a few of them)

That's all I remember for now. If one of my questions doesn't make sense than it's probably my memory! I won't know if I passed this one for several weeks, but that's what I remember from the test as I took it 30 minutes ago. There weren't many questions on the test that seemed difficult. Some of them seemed WAY too easy to be right, but after reading them a few times, I realized it was the only answer. I probably would take the Social Sciences Clep before this one. There are a lot of questions from the CLEP book that would apply to this test from there. As this test seemed kind of wandering and ambiguous at times, I probably would have been stressed out while taking it if I had paid for it. Unless your a big-time geography nut, I would pass this one by.

[sgloer]

Looking forward to your results, and thanks for the detailed feedback--this is a test that there really wasn't much info on!