COMPARATIVE CULTURES & GEOGRAPHY
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Your final exam is worth approximately 150 points that will count towards your total grade. Half of it will test your knowledge of political geography (countries). Key topic points from the five region fact sheets should also be reviewed in preparation for the final exam.
The second half of your final exam will consist of 85 multiple choice, matching and true/false questions. Below and on the reverse you will find the second part of your study guide for the multiple choice section of the final. Terms may be added or deleted as we approach the end of the semester.
CULTURE
8 Cultural Universals
Characteristics of Culture
Know these terms:
Adaptive Mechanism
Cumulative
Diffusion
Polygamy
Globalism
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Static
Tribalism
Culture
GEOGRAPHY
Longitude Latitude
Equator Prime Meridian
Physical Features (Isthmus, etc.) Immigration factors (push/pull)
Five Themes of Geography Examples Absolute/Relative Location
Movement of People /Goods/Ideas 3 Types of Regions
MEXICO
Aztecs Montezuma
Quetzalcoatl Malinche (Doña Marina)
Spanish Conquest
Cortés Vera Cruz
Smallpox Repartimiento System
Tenochtitlán New Spain
Criollo Mestizo
Peninsulare African Slaves
Encomienda Catholic Church
Father Hidalgo Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Cinco de Mayo Benito Juárez
Porfirio Diaz Felipe Calderón
Mexico’s Challenges Ejidos
Maquiledora NAFTA
PRI Chiapas
SOUTH AFRICA
Jacob Zuma Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu Sharpeville
African National Congress (ANC) Xhosa
Boer Zulu
Afrikaner Apartheid
Khoisan
SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS
Types of Newspaper Articles Outlining
Thesis Statements T-Charts
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (5 REGIONS)
Part of your final exam will test your knowledge of political geography and key facts about each of the five regions we have studied. Below you will find a list of the countries you will be expected to locate on the final exam. Along with the countries, you will need to locate the seven continents, four oceans, and the compass directions. There will also be true/false questions covering the information on the fact sheets. You should review all your maps and the fact sheets in preparation for the geography portion of the exam.
Region #1 – East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia:
Vietnam Pakistan Philippines Indonesia China
Taiwan Japan Afghanistan South Korea India
Region #2 – Europe:
Spain Italy Greece Norway United Kingdom
Austria Portugal Russia Germany France
Region #3 – The Middle East:
Iran Iraq Egypt Israel Libya
Saudi Arabia Turkey Algeria Syria Kuwait
Region #4 – North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean:
Brazil Colombia Chile Peru Argentina
United States Haiti Mexico Guatemala Cuba
Region #5 – Sub-Saharan Africa:
South Africa Liberia Nigeria Sudan Congo
Somalia Ethiopia Rwanda Ghana Kenya