City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Key Terms: Mercantile colonialism, industrial colonialism, neocolonialism, extractive infrastructure, technology, nation, state, the division of labor, primary products, GNP/GDP, progress, development, dependency, ecological divide, export earnings.
Study Questions:
What are the main differences between mercantile colonialism,
industrial colonialism, and neocolonialism? Why was Africa's political
independence from colonialism not accompanied by technological
and economic independence? What is the relationship between nation
and state in modern Africa, and how has this affected the continent's
development? Why are poor tropical countries incapable of securing
an adequate level of nutrition?
Key Terms: Greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, carbon, climate change, sea level rise, core and periphery, economic development, globalization, city-state, sovereignty, borders.
Study Questions:
What is the scientific consensus of the IPCC on what is causing
global warming? What can you personally do to help reverse the
effects of global warming? What are the impacts of global warming
already being felt around the world? Compare the characteristics
of a core and a periphery and then describe the relationship between
them. What are the economic and political significance of national
borders? How have Singapore and Hong Kong affected the regions
around them? In a world of emerging region states, what will be
the role of the national government? What are the effects of economic
and political globalization?
Key Terms: desertification, fund (nonrenewable) and flow (renewable) resources, fossil fuels, watershed, river basin, ground water, nomadic pastoralism.
Study Questions:
Is oil a fund or flow resource? and water? Did the construction
of the Aswan Dam improve Egypt's agriculture? What is the relationship
between water resources and population growth? What did the Sahara
Desert look like 10,000 years ago? What strategies do the Tuareg
use to survive in the harsh and unpredictable desert environment?
Which regions of the world are expected to suffer catastrophically
low supplies of water in the 21st century?