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World Geography Final ExamNGS 5A.2NGS 18D.3NGS 11.3NGS 4CNGS 8C.3NGS 14.0NGS 14A.2NGS 14.2NGS 14B.3NGS 12.0NGS 15.0NGS 16A.1NGS 16.0NGS 3.3NGS 4.2Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may bedefined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the CaribbeanBasins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to acenter for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a regionof small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980sand 1990s)Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identifyconflicts over resource use, the relative advantages anddisadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefitsof tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of adiving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to puttogether a position paper for or against developing tourism in a newlocation,The increasing economic interdependence of the worlds countriesExplain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape thefeatures of places, as exemplified by being able toEvaluate the long-term effects of the human modification ofecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affectswater bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheresozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health ofhumans)How human actions modify the physical environmentAnalyze the role of people in decreasing the diversity of flora andfauna in a region (e.g., the impact of acid rain on rivers and forests insouthern Ontario, the effects of toxic dumping on oceanecosystems, the effects of overfishing along the coast ofnortheastern North America or the Philippine archipelago)The significance of the global impacts of human modification of thephysial environmentExamine the characteristics of major global environmental changesand assess whether the changes are a result of human action,natural causes, or a conmbination of both factors (e.g., increases inworld temperatures attributable to major global action, the linkbetween changes in solar emissions and amounts of volcanic dustin the atmosphere attributable to natural causes)The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.How physical systems affect human systemsDescribe how patterns of settlement are associated with the locationof resources (e.g., the organization of farming activities aroundagglomerated settlements in Southeast Asia; the spatialarrangement of villages, towns, and cities in the North American cornbelt)The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, andimportance of resourcesThe spatial behavior of peopleThe changing physical and human characteristics of placesGeography 2011 29