Module 11 - Geography and Culture

Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4 : : Activity 5

Activity 3:  Readings

• Read the following chapters in Introduction to Geography: People, Places and Environment. These readings examine population growth in the developing world, and the ways that modern nations organize the political and geographic map to extract and consume resources in a global economy.
  • Chapter 1: “Density” (pages 14-15)
  • Chapter 5: “World Population Growth” (pages 171-187)
  • Chapter 8: “Agriculture Today” (pages 319-331), “World Distribution of Food Supplies and Production” (pages 338-349)
  • Chapter 9: “What is a Natural Resource?” (pages 354-370)
  • Chapter 10: “Cities and Urbanization” (pages 392-402)
  • Chapter 11: “European Nation States” (pages 439-444), “How States Demarcate and Organize Territory” (pages 461-464)
  • Chapter 12: “Gross Natural Product and Quality of Life” (pages 483-490), “Why Some Countries are Rich and Some Countries are Poor”  (pages 496-499), “The Formation of the Global Economy” (pages 521-525)
• Log on to Thinkwell, and read:
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 3.1.8 – The Economic and Political Impact of Natural Resources
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 3.1.9 – The International Impact of Regional Natural Resources
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 3.1.10 – Resource Consumption and the World Economy
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 3.1.11 – Physical Geography and the Drawing of Political Lines
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 3.1.13 – Physical Location and its Impact upon Society and Culture