1. Warmup: Please write the question and your answer. As an academic discipline, geography is principally concerned with the: A)Nature and meaning of place names. B)Impact of the environment on human understandings and activities. C)Evolving character and spatial organization of Earth’s surface. D)Absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on Earth’s surface. E)Construction of maps that depict places, peoples, and processes as accurately as possible.

2. Take out a sheet of paper Turn to page 84. Complete “Locating Key Places” AND Understanding main ideas 1-5 (you do not need to write the questions.)

3. Warmup Which of the following is true concerning time- space convergence*? A)Places seem to all look the same B)Places seem to be getting closer together C)Places are increasingly concentrated on maintaining their histories D)Places are making a greater effort to converge activities to save time E)Places are getting closer together in space but not time *You don’t know this term, but it means the same thing as a vocab word you HAVE studied. PICTURES TODAY TEST TOMORROW

4. Next Week 9/27 – Globalization and hand out Review 9/28 – Gender Economics and Environmental Determinism. 9/29 – Review 9/30 – First 6 Weeks Test 10/1 Geography BINGO; Globalization paper due.

5. Get ready to take the short answer portion of your test.

6. Warmup Write the difference between arithmetic density, physiological density, and agricultural density.

7. Warmup Review due tomorrow.

8. Tests Out of 88 (5 th period not included) A – 25 B - 17 C - 19 60-69 - 19 Below 60 - 8

9. Correcting Tests Take home a copy of the test On a separate sheet of paper: Write the question you missed – Write out the correct answer Correct: A – lines of latitude – Incorrect: A Staple to your test answers and turn in by Wednesday

10. Assignment Read the handout “Globalization”. From your reading and experience, do you think that globalization is more of a positive force in the world, or a negative force? Explain your answer in a paper that is at least one page. Be sure to include examples. Due Friday.

11. Oligarchy – government by a very few. Intractable - not easy to control; stubborn Subsidies – a contribution of money from the government. Maize - corn Hunger strike - a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against objectionable conditions. Cold War – conflict between US and Soviet Union (1945-1991) Deregulate - remove government regulatory controls Vilify – to speak ill of; defame Incremental – slow growth or gain

12. Globalization

16. ERCOS Asset Management