Monday, December 16, 2013

exams begin tomorrow!

Good luck to all of you on all your exams!

The Human Geography exam is at 10:00 on Thursday.  One of your classmates, the immortal Grace, put together this awesome set of review questions that we used in class today, and allowed me to share it with the rest of you.  Very impressive, Grace, and I was glad to see Section 1 answer so many of these correctly!

No need to blog again until we come back in January.  Spend your time studying, and good things will happen.

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QUESTIONS

1.       List the names of the three main characters in “God Grew Tired of Us”.
2.       Name the tribe one of the boys was from (hint: the only tribe we talked about)
3.       Who was the war in Sudan fought between?
4.       Name the boys' route through the African continent (the countries they went to)
5.       Why was the Sudanese war fought in the first place?
6.       Explain why these “Lost Boys” ran away from home.
7.       Name some of the problems the Lost Boys faced while on the road to the refugee camps.
8.       Name some of the different jobs the boys had while in America.
9.       What was some of the boys' major accomplishments?
10.   Define
a.       Crude Death rate
b.      Total Fertility rate
c.       Rate of Natural Increase
d.      Net Migration Rate
e.      Crude Birth Rate
f.        Life Expectancy
11.   What does TFR stand for?
12.   What does RNI stand for?
13.   Whose net migration rate is higher- Mexico, the US, or Canada?
14.   What is the replacement rate?
15.   Pakistan’s TFR is 3.43. Is that higher or lower than the world’s average?
16.   If Japans TFR is 1.2, is their population increasing or decreasing?
17.   Name 3 push forces
18.   Name 3 pull forces
19.   Name 2 basic examples of the characteristics of culture.
20.   What is the official language of Brazil?
21.   Name a country with  more than one Official Language and then give those languages
22.   What is the language of business, finance, and commerce?
23.   Name one country that has merged ethnic groups peacefully, and one that has not.
24.   The Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians coexisted in what country?
25.   Over 80% of India belongs to what religion?
26.   What main religion has the most members?
27.   Name the commonwealth realm based on the use of the euro
28.   Name the economic alliance between the US, Mexico, and Canada
29.   What is the name of the alliance formed between the US, England, France, Spain, Italy, and 23 other countries?
30.   Name the alliance that coordinates the policies of oil-producing countries.
31.   What is the name of the alliance with almost every nation on earth
32.   NAME THAT RELIGION
a.       Has the smallest number of members
b.      The predominant religion in India
c.       Was founded by a sage called Siddhartha Gautama
d.      Has the largest  number of members
e.      Over 87% of Indonesians practice this religion
f.        Along with Christianity and Islam, its an Abrahamic religion
g.       Its denominations include Sunnis and Shi’ites.
h.      Its holy book is the Qur’an.
i.         Its members try to follow the eight-fold path
j.        The oldest living religion
k.       Two denominations of this religion battled in Ireland.
l.         Its holy scriptures are the Vedas
m.    Was founded in the 7th century
n.      Primarily located in the Americas, Southern Africa, and Europe
o.       Holy books are the Talmud and the Torah
p.      Believe that “attachment to desire is the origin of all suffering”
q.      This religion has no real founder, and does not have a strict set of beliefs.
r.        The story of its central figure can be found in the New Testament
s.       They believe in observing the 5 pillars
t.        Believe in being reincarnated until you reach nirvana

ANSWERS  (Good to go!)

1.       John Bul, Panther, and Dan
2.       John was form the Dinka Tribe.
3.       The Muslims in the north VS. the Christians and Animists in the south
4.       Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya
5.       There was oil found in Sudan and the Muslims didn’t want to share it with the Christians
6.       The Muslims were attempting "ethnic cleansing."
7.       The boys faced lions, starvation, dehydration, and bombing attacks from the Sudanese government
8.       Sorting gaskets at a factory, developing checks at a bank, waiting tables at a hotel, working at McDonalds, working in a grocery store, security guard.
9.       Starting a school, and starting a medical clinic
10.   Definitions:
a.       The amounts of deaths per 1000 of a population
b.      The average number of children born to one woman
c.       The annual growth rate of a country without immigration (measured by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate)
d.  immigration rate minus emigration rate (if the number is positive, population increases; if it's negative, population decreases)
e.  number of births per 1000 population
f.      The average amount of years expected to be lived by a group of people born in a given area in the same year.
11.   Total Fertility Rate
12.   Rate of Natural Increase
13.   Canada’s
14.   2.1
15.   Yes, the world’s average is 2.27
16.   Their population is decreasing
17.   Push forces
a.       Civil war
b.       Oppressive or persecuting government
c.       Bad environment
d.      High unemployment rate
e.      Religious persecution
18.   Pull forces
a.       Good government
b.      Religious freedom
c.       High employment rate
d.      Better health resources
19.   Characteristics of Culture            
a.       Religion
b.      Ethnicity
c.   Language
20.   Portuguese
21.   Countries with more than one official language
a.       Canada
                                                               i.      French
                                                             ii.      English
b.      Switzerland
                                                               i.      German
                                                             ii.      French
                                                            iii.      Italian
                                                           iv.      Romansh
22.   English
23.   Countries that have merged peacefully- US, Switzerland. Countries that haven’t- Sudan, Yugoslavia, Germany
24.   (the country formerly known as) Yugoslavia
25.   Hinduism
26.   Christianity
27.   The European Union
28.   The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
29.   The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
30.   Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
31.   United Nations (UN)
32.   NAME THAT RELIGION
a.       Judaism
b.      Hinduism
c.       Buddhism
d.      Christianity
e.      Islam
f.        Judaism
g.       Islam
h.      Islam
i.         Buddhism
j.        Hinduism
k.       Christianity
l.         Hinduism
m.    Islam
n.      Christianity
o.      Judaism
p.      Judaism
q.      Buddhism
r.        Hinduism
s.       Islam
t.        Buddhism

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