FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review
Diffusion – 2 types – relocation and expansion (3 subgroups)
Population patterns – MDC and LDC trends, why?
East-West Divide vs. new North-South Divide
MDC vs. LDC – industrial patterns
Outsoucing/offshoring
Thomas Malthus, Ester Boserup and von Thunen (connections)
Von Thunen vs. concentric model (Burgess)
Commercial vs. subsistence farmer – when and where?
Rostow’s Development Model – modernization model
International Trade vs. Self-Sufficiency
Agricultural land use models – choices in farming
Urbanization land use models – concentric, sector and multiple nuclei
Burgess, Hoyt, Harris/Ullman
Gravity model
Development of cities
Development of women – GDI and GEM
Political cooperation – examples past and present, why? examples
Centripetal and centrifugal forces (language, religion)
International division of labor – job sectors, why
Immigration patterns – push/pull, why
Green Revolution – where, why, benefits
Nation, state vs. nation-state
How religion has shaped physical landscapes
Core-periphery – development and cities
Changes because of immigration to US, specific regions (why?)
MDC industrial shifts -international, interregional, intraregional
Change/diffusion of languages, isolation of languages
Location of services – why?, 4 types of cities
Devolution
Globalization of all themes
* I found this on some site somewhere, thought it is worth sharing.
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3 Comments
1 jennfier wrote:
no pictures:( i need some examples in a p[icture for class and there are none. include maps or something
2 admin wrote:
try searching the rest of the site using tags or the search bar. you will find summaries and images for many of these topics.
3 lucas wrote:
i have a project that i have to explain , show pictures of one of the topic we learned this year. I picked diffusion so i have to explain and show what contagious, stimulus, hierarchical, relocation and expanison but i cant find any good pictures on google to show