Unit 4 Review and Test Date

Friday's class will be used to work on your review. The test will be Wednesday, December 16th.

Ms. D's Unit Review for Test

The Test will be on December 16th, 2009. There will be a review day on Monday and Tuesday


Unit Review for Ms. D’s unit

Chapter 14- Study of Population
1. What is Demography?
2. What are the two factors that influence population growth?
3. To calculate Natural increase, what two factors do you need?
4. What is the definition of Net Migration Rate?
5. What is the Rule of 70?
6. What ages make up Dependency Load?
7. What is a Population Pyramid?

Chapter 15- First Nations: The Treaty Process
1. What is a treaty?
2. What are the two purposes of a treaty?
3. What is the definition of First Nations?
4. When were the first treaties implemented?
5. Explain the proclamation of 1763.
6. Explain the Indian act of 1876?
7. Why did the original treaties fail?
8. What are the two types of treaties? Explain each.
9. What percentage of Nunavut's population is Inuit?
10. What does the word Nunavut mean?
11. How much of Canada does Nunavut cover?
12. What is the population of Nunavut?
13. What is the cost of living in Nunavut compared to the cost of living in the rest of Canada?

Chapter 16 – Settlement Patterns
1. What are the two types of population distributions?
2. What is the difference between population density and population distribution? Draw a diagram to help you explain.
3. What are the two main types of settlement patterns?
4. Explain in detail the three types of rural settlement patterns. Draw diagrams to help you explain each.
5. What are three factors that affect settlement patterns?
6. Why did the first cities develop?
7. What two factors determine the distance between cities?
8. What is a threshold population? Give examples of each type of threshold population.
9. What is the difference between low and high order goods and services?
10. Explain the multiplier effect?
11. What is the difference between urban growth and urbanization?
12. What is the problem defining urban growth among different countries?
13. What is a mega city?

Chapter 17 – Urban Land Use
1. What percentage of Canadians live in cities?
2. Explain the six types of urban land use.
3. What two factors affect residential density?
4. What are the five types of commercial land use? Give an example of each.
5. Explain the four types of industrial land use.
6. What are the four factors that affect urban land use?

Unit 4 Long Term Project

In the interests of staying on track, we are going to do some project work while the essay process is underway.

See the project outline below. We are in Rm 115 Tuesday and Wednesday . The following week, we will be in the lab on Monday and Tuesday, December 14 and 15 -- Rm 115 as well.

Your Long Term Project for Unit 4 will be due Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

Geography 20G - Unit 4: Long Term Project

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that deals with a current urban development issue. Your presentation should be five to seven minutes in length and should:

· Clearly define and explain the issue you are addressing
· Present either through a “sell”/justify a position approach or clinically discuss several positions

You may use the site below to assist you in preparing your presentation.

http://www.actden.com/pp/

A presentation rubric will be added shortly.

Presentations will begin after a suitable work schedule has been arranged.


The following are potential topics. Others may be considered but must be approved by the instructor.

New Urbanism - What is it? What does it look like? Where is it taking place?

http://www.newurbanism.org/newurbanism/sitemap.html

Evaluate the proposal referred to as “Victory City”.

http://www.victorycities.com/

Evaluate the concepts put forth in “Sustainable Urban Design and Climate”.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/design/design.shtml

Discuss strategies for Downtown revitalization.

http://www.emich.edu/public/geo/557book/dt.frameset.html

Examine and discuss efforts to reuse “Big Box” stores that are no longer in operation.

http://www.bigboxreuse.com/





Debate whether or not sports facilities assist positively in urban renewal.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000300

http://www.naiop.org/foundation/ares07mixeduse.pdf


http://www.ualberta.ca/~bhumphre/papers/pfm2003.pdf

http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Rs_detail.aspx?rsId=2265


Discuss various ideas for urban renewal.

http://www.creativecity.ca/resources/making-the-case/urban-renewal-1.html

The Essay

Over the last number of days, you have written an in class essay and you have been working on the objectives for each part of the essay. Below is a summary of the class notes for this section:

The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.

for example:

What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)

Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)



The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.



Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):



1. Answer the question (thesis statement)



2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)



3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)






Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):



1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)



2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)

3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)



You have all written an introductory paragraph, the first paragraph of the body, and a conclusion based on the in class essay you were assigned. All students were checked to ensure that each paper fulfilled the objectives above.

After successfully completing this task, you were assigned another in class essay. This particular assignment made use of the material in the textbook from Chapter 15. The essay question for this assignment was as follows:

How have past treaties failed to meet the needs of First Nations people?


Make sure you can identify which specific sentences accomplish each of the objectives outlined above for both the introductory paragraph and the body paragraph.

Ms.D's Project

See me for your choice selection!!!!!

Travel Pamphlet Project


Students will create a travel pamphlet that highlights an urban and rural place and what they have to offer a traveler. After the student has picked the two locations they will need to inform the teacher which places they picked. This is to ensure that there is no overlap on the project. One choice must be Canadian and the other choice can be international.

The project must be done on the computer using the internet and completed individually.
Students can use Power point or another format that has been Okayed by teacher.

Projects will be presented in class. Each student will have a maximum of 5 minutes to present their project.

What is to be included in the project:

• Pictures of the location (At least three pictures for each location)
• The weather (climate)
• Population (and population distribution)
• Country
• Capital city
• Type of government and/or leader(s)
• Language(s)
• Major religion(s)
• Food
• Type of land use (Urban or Rural)
• History of the Place (Brief history-Who founded it, when, why, what influenced the founding of the location, etc…) Try to answer these questions.
• Geography of the area (Mountains, coastal, plains, forested, etc…)
• Famous Land marks and/or Museums. (At least three for each location).

You will also need to have a work cited or resource page for each location you are doing for this project. Each location has to have at least two resources used for research.


There is a Rubric available to the students. Please see me for the rubric.


You Will have class time to complete this project.