A Correlation of
The Cultural Landscape
An Introduction to
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Topic I: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5–10%) Textbook Chapters
and Key Issues
A. Geography as a field of inquiry
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
B. Evolution of key geographical concepts
and models associated with notable
geographers
C. Key concepts underlying the
geographical perspective: location, space,
place, scale, pattern, regionalization and
globalization
D. Key Geographical skills:
1) How to use and think about maps and
spatial data
2) How to understand and interpret the
implications of associations among
phenomena in places
3) How to recognize and interpret
different scales and relationships among
patterns and processes
4) How to define regions and evaluate
the regionalization processes
5) How to characterize and analyze
changing interconnections among places
E. Geographic technologies, such as GIS,
remote sensing and GPS
F. Sources of geographical ideas and data:
the field, census data and satellite imagery
Topic II: Population (13–17%) Textbook
A. Geographical analysis of population
1) Density, distribution, and scale
2) Implications of various densities and
distributions
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
Chapter 1 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 and 2
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
Chapter 1 Key Issue 2
Chapter 1 Key Issue 3
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1;
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
Chapter 2 Key Issue 1;
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
Chapters and Key Issues
Chapter 2 Key Issue 1
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
1
2
3
2
Key
Key
Key
Key
Issue
Issue
Issue
Issue
4;
4;
1
3
3) Patterns of composition: age, sex,
race, ethnicity
4) Population and natural hazards: past,
Chapter 3 Key Issue 1
present and future
B. Population growth and decline over time and space
1) Historical trends and projections for
Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4
the future
2) Theories of population growth
Chapter 2 Key Issues 3 and 4
including the Demographic Transition
Model
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3) Patterns of fertility, mortality and
health
4) Regional variations of demographic
transitions
5) Effects of population policies
Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4
Chapter 2 Key Issue 3
Chapter 2 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 3 Key Issue 3
C. Population Movement
1) Migration selectivity
Chapter 3 Key Issue 4
2) Major voluntary and involuntary
Chapter 3 Key Issues 1, 2, and 4
migrations at different scales
3) Theories of migration, including push
Chapter 3 Key Issues 1 and 4
and pull factors, human capital and life
course
4) International migration and refugees
Chapter 3 Key Issues 1 and 3
5) Socioeconomic consequences of
Chapter 3 Key Issues 3 and 4
migration
Topic III: Cultural Patterns and Processes (13–17%) Textbook Chapters and Key
Issues
A. Concepts of culture
Chapter 4 Key Issue 1;
Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3;
1) Traits
Chapter 6 Key Issue 1;
Chapter 7 Key Issues 1 and 2;
Chapter 4 Key Issues 1 and 3;
Chapter 5 Key Issue 1;
2) Diffusion
Chapter 6 Key Issue 2;
Chapter 7 Key Issue 1;
Chapter 5 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 6 Key Issue 2
3) Acculturation, assimilation, and
Chapter 5 Key Issues 1 and 3;
globalization
Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3;
4) Cultural regions
Chapter 7 Key Issue 2
Topic III: Cultural Patterns and Processes (13–17%) (Cont.) Textbook Chapters
and Key Issues
B. Cultural Differences
1) Language
Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
2) Religion
Chapter 6 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
3) Ethnicity
Chapter 6 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 7 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
4) Gender
Chapter 4 Key Issue 4
5) Popular and folk culture
Chapter 4 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4
C. Cultural landscape and cultural identity
1) Values and preferences
Chapter 4 Key Issues 2 and 4;
Chapter 5 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3
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2) Symbolic landscapes and sense of
place
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
3) Environmental impact of cultural
attitudes and practices
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5
6
4
6
Key
Key
Key
Key
Key
Issue 2;
Issue 4;
Issues 2 and 3
Issues 2 and 4;
Issue 3
Topic IV: Political Organization of Space (13–17%) Textbook Chapters and Key
Issues
A. Territorial dimensions of politics
1) The concept of territoriality
Chapter 8 Key Issue 1
2) The nature and meaning of boundaries Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
3) Influences of boundaries on identity,
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
interaction and exchange
4) Federal and unitary states
Chapter 8 Key Issue 4
5) Spatial relationships between political
Chapter 7 Key Issues 2,3, and 4;
patterns and patterns of ethnicity,
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
economy and the environment
B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern
1) The nation-state concept
Chapter 8 Key Issue 1
2) Colonialism and imperialism
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
3) Democratization
Chapter 8 Key Issue 3
C. Changes and challenges to politicalChapter 8 Key Issue 4
territorial arrangements
1) Changing nature of sovereignty
Chapter 7 Key Issue 2
2) Fragmentation, unification, alliance
Chapter 7 Key Issue 2;
Chapter 8 Key Issues 2 and 3
3) Supranationalism and devolution
Chapter 7 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 8 Key Issue 4
4) Electoral geography, including
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2
gerrymandering
5) Terrorism
Chapter 8 Key Issue 4
Topic V: Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13–17%) Textbook Chapters and Key
Issues
A. Development and diffusion of agriculture
1) Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
2) Second Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1
3) Green Revolution
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
4) Modern Commercial Agriculture
Chapter 10 Key Issue 3
B. Major agricultural production regions
1) Agricultural systems associated with
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
major bioclimatic zones
2) Variations within major zones and
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4
effects of markets
3) Linkages and flows among regions of
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4
food production and consumption
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C. Rural land use and settlement patterns
1) Models of agricultural land use,
including von Thunen’s model
2) Settlement patterns associated with
major agriculture types
3) Land use/land cover change,
irrigation, conservation
(desertification/deforestation)
Chapter 10 Key Issue 3
Chapter 12 Key Issue 1
Chapter 10 Key Issues 2 and 4
D. Modern commercial agriculture
1) Biotechnology, including genetically
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
modified plants and animals
2) Spatial organization and diffusion of
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 3
industrial agriculture
3) Organic farming and local food
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
production
4) Environmental impacts of agriculture
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
Topic VI: Industrialization and Economic Development (13–17%) Textbook
Chapters and Key Issues
A. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
1) The changing roles of energy and
Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4;
technology
Chapter 14 Key Issues 1 and 3
2) Industrial Revolution
Chapter 11 Key Issue 1
3) Evolution of economic cores and
Chapter 11 Key Issue 1
peripheries
4) Geographic critiques of models of
Chapter 9 Key Issue 4
economic localization (i.e., bid rent,
comparative costs of transportation),
industrial location, economic
development and world systems
B. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
1) Spatial organization of the world
Chapter 9 Key Issue 2;
economy
Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4
2) Variations in levels of development
Chapter 9 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3
3) Deindustrialization and economic
Chapter 11 Key Issue 3
restructuring
4) Globalization and international division Chapter 1 Key Issue 3, Chapter 11, Key
of labor
Issue 4
5) Natural resources and environmental
Chapter 11 Key Issues 2 and 3
concerns
6) Sustainable development
Chapter 1 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 9 Key Issue 3;
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4
7) Local development initiatives:
Chapter 11 Key Issue 3
government policies
8) Women in development
Chapter 9 Key Issue 2
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Topic VII: Cities and Urban Land Use (13–17%) Textbook Chapters and Key
Issues
A. Development and character of cities
1) Origin of cities
Chapter 13 Key Issue 1
2) Rural-urban migration and urban
Chapter 13 Key Issue 1
growth
3) Global cities and megacities
Chapter 12 Key Issue 3, Chapter 13 Key
Issue 3
4) Suburbanization and edge cities
Chapter 13 Key Issues 3 and 4
B. Models of urban systems
1) Rand-size rule
2) Central place theory
3) Gravity model
C. Models of internal city structure
1) Concentric zone model
2) Sector model
3) Multiple-nuclei model
4) Changing employment mix
5) Changing demographic and social
structures
6) Uneven development, ghettoization,
and gentrification
D. Built environment and social space
Chapter 12 Key Issue 2
Chapter 12 Key Issue 2
Chapter 12 Key Issue 2
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
13
13
13
12
13
Key
Key
Key
Key
Key
Issue 2
Issue 2
Issue 2
Issues 1, 3, and 4
Issue 3
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
Chapter 12 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 13 Key Issues 2 and 4
Chapter 13 Key Issues 3 and 4
Chapter 13 Key Issues 1, 3 and 4
Chapter 12 Key Issue 4;
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3
Chapter 2 Key Issue 2; Chapter 7 Key Issue
1 and 2; see also related patterns: Chapter
12 Key Issue 3
1) Housing
2) Transportation and infrastructure
3) Political organization of urban areas
4) Urban planning and design
5) Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender and
socioeconomic status
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