HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITYOF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY FINAL EXAM THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2016, 2-4 PM Review: Class notes Handouts including PowerPoint lectures (Languages through Urbanization + Tourism) Definition of terms listed below. The essence of your 5 themed exercises. Readings: Review the chapters/sections that are listed on the syllabus including Chapter 9 Economic Geography Exam Format: There will be a combination of a) Multiple choice questions based on definitions and terminology (see list). b) Four (4) short topical essays where you will illustrate your understanding of geo- graphic concepts, basic human geography and all the aspects of cultural geography covered in class, focusing on the five themes of cultural geography as presented by the textbook and the PowerPoint slides and illustrated by your five themed exercises. 1. Creation of culture regions by looking at extent of activities discussed by the major topics covered in class. 2. Differentiation of culture types 3. The interaction between people and between people and their environ- ment in the development of cultural areas. 4. Cultural ecology and human adaption to its facets including the effect of the human use related to the major topics covered. 5. The uniqueness of landscapes created by the major topics covered in class. 6. The spread of culture (diffusion) as illustrated by the major topics covered from points of origin to other areas on earth.

DEFINITIONS and TERMINOLOGY for FINAL EXAM There is a glossary at the back of your textbook. 1st agricultural revolution Bi-national state Commodity chain 1st urban revolution Buffer state Commodity circuits 2nd agricultural revolution Business district Commodity system 2nd urban revolution Cadastral pattern Commons 3rd agricultural revolution Capital city Comparative advantage 3rd urban revolution Central place Consequent boundary Acculturation Centrifugal force Consumer goods Agriculture Centripetal force Core area Alternative tourism Chain migration Cosmomagical city Animism Christaller Model Craft trade Antecedent boundary City-state Creole Aquaculture Colonialism Crop Assimilation Colony Cuisine Basic sector Commercial agriculture Cultivate

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Cultural diffusion Field sectioning Messages Cultural ecology Field separation Metes and bounds Cultural interaction Floriculture Metropolitan area Cultural mal-adaption Fundamentalism Microclimate Cultural production Fundamentalist Migration Cultural simplification Gentrification Mini-state Cultural tourism Geographic city Monotheism Demographic transition Geopolitics Mother country model Gerrymander Devolution Ghetto Multiplier effect Dialect Global city Nationalism Diet Globalizing city -state Diffusion Green Revolution Neighborhood Domestication Gross domestic product Nomadic herding Economic base (GDP) Non-basic sector Economic development Guild trade Orthodox Economic development in- Hamlet Paddy agriculture dicators Hearth Part- Economic development Heartland Theory Periphery strategies Hinterland Pidgin Ecotourism Holy place Pilgrimage Enclave Homeland Plantation Horticulture Political boundary Ethnic cuisine Human Development Index Polytheism Ethnic cultural region (HDI) Primary Sector Ethnic Hunter-gatherer Productivity Industrial revolution Pull-push factor Ethnic homeland Intensive subsistence Quaternary Sector Ethnic island agriculture Quinary Sector Ethnic neighborhood Involuntary migration Race Ethnic region Landlocked state Regionalism Language Religion Ethnicity Legal city Religion secularism Lingua Franca Religious adherent Ethnographic boundary Linguistic family Remnant toponym Exclave Linguistic family tree Return migration Extensive subsistence Linguistic geography Rimland Theory agriculture Livestock ranching Rural Exurb Long lot Sacred site Factory system Mariculture Satellite state Farming Market gardening Secondary Sector Fence Mass tourism Secular religion Field pattern Megalopolis

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Seed agriculture Subsistence agriculture Transportation network Seed crops Suburb Tribal religion Shifting cultivation Superimposed boundary Slash and burn cultivation Survey pattern Universalizing religion Social cultural region Sustainable development Urban Social heterogeneity Swidden cultivation Urban environmental Sovereignty Syncretic religion problems Sphere of influence Terracing Urban function Standard language Territoriality Urban hierarchy State Tertiary Sector Urban models Stateless nation Toponym Urban social patterns Sub-nationalism Tourism Vegetative planting Subsequent boundary Township and range Von Thunen Model

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