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   > Go to Blackboard and complete Assignment 1.0a (counts as one 10 point Chapter Quiz grade)

ASSIGNMENT NUMBERING (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ...) BELOW IS AS YOU WILL FIND IN THEM Blackboard UNDER ASSIGNMENTS.

True Maps, False Impressions:

Making, Manipulating and Interpreting Maps

Read Chapter 1 (pdf file)

All files listed are pdf files

Additional Reading: more on maps, the geographer's tool

Assignments note: You will need to go to Blackboard to submit your answers.

1.1 Assignment 1: What is Geography? What is Human Geography?

1.2 Assignment 2: Interpreting Choropleth Maps

1.3 Assignment 3: More on Thematic Maps

1.4 Assignment 4: Interpreting Population Change, 1900-2000

One Billion and Counting:

The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth in India

Read Chapter 5 (pdf file)

All files listed below are pdf files

Additional Reading1: General info on population, growth, doubling times, carrying capacity

Additional Reading 2: Population pyramids (age-sex diagrams)

   > Population Pyramid Review This does not count as an Assignment.

Additional Reading 3:The Demographic Transition Model

Assignments note: You will need to go to Blackboard to submit your answers

2.1 Assignment 5: Why do we live where we live?

2.2 Assignment 6: Population Pyramids

2.3 Assignment 7: Demographic momentum - a case study of India

2.4 Chapter 5 EXTRA CREDIT: Can you figure out the US Rate of Natural Increase and the Population Growth Rate?

   > Email me for the Chapter 5 Extra Credit Answers

Rags and Riches:

The Dimensions of Development

Read Chapter 7 (pdf file)

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Additional Reading 1: Measuring Development

Additional Reading 2: The Economic Transition Model

Additional Reading 3: Core-Periphery Relationships

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3.1 Assignment 8: Where does stuff come from?

3.2 Assignment 9: Where is stuff made... and why?

Reading the Urban Landscape:

Census Data and Field Observation

Read Chapter 10 (pdf file)

All files listed below are pdf files

Additional Reading 1: Concentric Ring and Sector Models

Additional Reading 2: Multiple Nuclei Model and more

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4.1 Assignment 10: Reading the Urban Landscape

Take Me Out to the Ballgame:

Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy

Read Chapter 9 (pdf file)

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Additional Reading 1: Markets and Geography

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5.1 Assignment 11: Baseball as Geography

   > Discussion: Assignment 11

Preserving the Planet:

Human Impact on Environmental Systems

Read Chapter 14 (pdf file)

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Additional Reading 1: Environmental Systems Analysis (ESA)

Additional Reading 2: The Disappearing Aral Sea

Additional Reading 3: Comparing ESA and IPAT

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6.1 Assignment 12: Environmental Systems Analysis - Assignment Information

   > The article "Scourge of Cows" (open this pdf file)

   > The Flowchart (open this pdf file)

   > Use your notes and the flowchart to answer the questions for Assignment 12 in Blackboard

Layers of Tradition:

Culture Regions at Different Scales

Read Chapter 2 (pdf file)

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Addtional Reading: Regions in Geography

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7.1 Assignment 13: The Southwest and New England

   > "The Southwest" - my perception of "The Southwest" - an example for Assignment 14

7.2 Assignment 14: Vernacular New England - postcard

*Notes on Assignment 14...

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   > After I see and approve your postcard, you will need to check off in Blackboard Assignment 14 that you have done this assignment... I may ask you to make some edits before I give you the final OK.

Do Orange and Green Clash?

Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland

Read Chapter 12 (pdf file)

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Additional Reading 1: Irish History Part I

Addtional Reading 2: Irish History Part II

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8.1 Assignment 15: Mapping Segregation in Northern Ireland

8.2 Assignment 16: The Segregation Index

Final Test Info

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