City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Week TWELVE - Middle East & North Africa - water resources
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? What does the construction
of dams do for 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?
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, HIV/AIDS.
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? How is the impact of AIDS like
a war? What does it mean to develop?What are GNP/GDP and what
do they show about a country's development? What do they NOT show?
Developing countries have work forces engaged for the most part
in which sector of the economy?
Key Terms: core and periphery, economic development, globalization, sovereignty, borders, WTO, bioinvasion, outbreak, quarantine, zoonotic.
Study Questions:
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 effec
City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Week TWELVE - Middle East & North Africa - water resources
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? What does the construction
of dams do for 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?
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, HIV/AIDS.
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? How is the impact of AIDS like
a war? What does it mean to develop?What are GNP/GDP and what
do they show about a country's development? What do they NOT show?
Developing countries have work forces engaged for the most part
in which sector of the economy?
Key Terms: core and periphery, economic development, globalization, sovereignty, borders, WTO, bioinvasion, outbreak, quarantine, zoonotic.
Study Questions:
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 effec
City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Week TWELVE - Middle East & North Africa - water resources
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? What does the construction
of dams do for 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?
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, HIV/AIDS.
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? How is the impact of AIDS like
a war? What does it mean to develop?What are GNP/GDP and what
do they show about a country's development? What do they NOT show?
Developing countries have work forces engaged for the most part
in which sector of the economy?
Key Terms: core and periphery, economic development, globalization, sovereignty, borders, WTO, bioinvasion, outbreak, quarantine, zoonotic.
Study Questions:
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 effec
City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Week TWELVE - Middle East & North Africa - water resources
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? What does the construction
of dams do for 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?
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, HIV/AIDS.
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? How is the impact of AIDS like
a war? What does it mean to develop?What are GNP/GDP and what
do they show about a country's development? What do they NOT show?
Developing countries have work forces engaged for the most part
in which sector of the economy?
Key Terms: core and periphery, economic development, globalization, sovereignty, borders, WTO, bioinvasion, outbreak, quarantine, zoonotic.
Study Questions:
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 effec
City College of San Francisco- Division of Earth Sciences
Week TWELVE - Middle East & North Africa - water resources
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? What does the construction
of dams do for 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?
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, HIV/AIDS.
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? How is the impact of AIDS like
a war? What does it mean to develop?What are GNP/GDP and what
do they show about a country's development? What do they NOT show?
Developing countries have work forces engaged for the most part
in which sector of the economy?
Key Terms: core and periphery, economic development, globalization, sovereignty, borders, WTO, bioinvasion, outbreak, quarantine, zoonotic.
Study Questions:
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 effec