Geog 1010 Global Geography

Professor: Luke J. Marzen

Office: 0314K Haley Center

Phone: 334-844-3462

Email: marzelj@auburn.edu

Homepage: http://www.auburn.edu/~marzelj/index.htm

 

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Announcements:  

 

Quiz Thursday

 

Fruits We'll Never Taste EC flex opportunity. Read the article and write up a summary andreaction to Fennelly’s arguments for Global Diversity. 2-3 pages typed and due Tuesday April 24th.

 

Exam 3 part 1 April 24th

Exam 3 review sheet

 

Map quiz features.

 

Latin America & Caribbean Map quiz  5  Thursday  April 12  Practice Map

 

Know location of countries and capitals:

Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruaguay, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic

 

Know location of Physical features:

Caribbean Sea, Amazon River, Orinoco River, Paraguay River, Parana River, Rio Grande, Uruguay River, Andes Mountains, Llanos,    Pampas, Sierra Madre Mountains

 

 

Related current events:

 

Hunger kills 18,000 kids per day

Female infanticide problems in India

India-Pakistan tensions

Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide

Where Sunni and Shi'a Get Along

 

 

Course outlines:

 

Geographers' tools - Intro to GST

Basics of maps

Cultural change in a global world

population and the demographic transition

Geopolitics

Climate

Tectonics

Study Outline for Exam 1

 

Sub-Saharan Africa

North Africa SW Asia 1

North Africa Southwest Asia 2

 

 

 

South Asia

South Asian Population Flex answers

South and Southeast Asia monsoon

Southeast Asia

E. Asia

Exam 3 part 1 April 24th

Exam 3 review sheet

 

Latin America Flex assignment for April 17th and 19th.

Read the Latin America chapter (4) in the textbook and take the multiple choice quiz online at the companion website: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_rowntree_gad_1.

The hint button will show you where in the text you can read to help you learn the material in order to answer the question. You can take the quiz as many times as you want before you e-mail your scores to the class TA. E-mail the score to the class TA whose name is Britt Johnson and he will record your flex score (percentage will be weighted to 10 points so if you get 100% you’ll get 10 flex points). Britt’s email address is johnsb2@auburn.edu. This will be due before the exam 3 part 1 on Tuesday April 24.   

 

 

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Textbook link-

Diversity Amid Globalization companion site

 

Online Maps and general information about nations-

CIA World Factbook

Perry Casteneda library of online maps

The Lonely Planet travel guide

Alabama maps

Topographic maps

 

Other reference-

Online dictionary

 

Geography as a career-

Careers in Geography

AU Geography Homepage

Technical jobs in Geography