1. SAMPLE QUESTIONS

2. Pages you may skip BOX 7.2 – P 312 BOX 7.3 –PP 318-319 PP 330-335 PP. 346-347 BOX 9.1—PP393-395 PP. 412-420 (DO READ THE CONCLUSION ON PP 421-422) The test will cover chapters 7,8 and 9

3. –HOW IS DEVELOPMENT MEASURED? –WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ‘DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM’? –WHAT ARE THE GEOGRAPHICAL THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT? –WHY IS THE MALTHUSIAN EXPLANATION OF POVERTY PROBLEMATIC?

4. EXPLAIN: SEE-SAW MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL; TERMS OF TRADE; GLOBALIZATION; OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTRES; WORLD CITIES; AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES; NATION-STATE; NIDL WHY IT IS THAT LOW WAGES AND POVERTY IN A COUNTRY CAN LEAD TO FURTEHR UNDER- DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY?

5. WHY HAS THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY LINE EMERGED AS A BUSINESS STRATEGY? WHY MAY MANY THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES NOT BENEFIT FROM GLOBALIZATION? WHAT ARE SOME OF THE POSSIBLE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION?

6. WHY DOES CAPITALISM NEED IMPERIALISM? HOW ARE NATION-STATES FORMED? WHAT IS THE SCALE DIVISION OF LABOR WITHIN THE STATE? HOW ARE THE NATION AND THE STATE DIFFERENT? HOW CAN ONE APPLY SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY?

7. HOW IS THE NATION-STATE FORMED? WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE? WHY WAS THE US FOR DECOLONIZATION? IN WHAT SENSE IS NEW IMPERIALISM NEW?

8. WHY DOES THE NATION-STATE SEEM TO HAVE LOST ITS POWERS? OR, HAS THERE BEEN THE DEATH OF THE NATION-STATE? WHY MAY IT BE PROBLEMATIC TO SAY THAT POLITICAL BOUNDARIES ARE NO LONGER IMPORTANT?

9. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE? WHY DO TROPICAL AREAS GENERALLY NOT HAVE GOOD QUALITY SOILS? HOW IS CROP ROTATION DIFFERENT FROM FIELD ROTATION? HOW IS CROP ROTATION DIFFERENT FROM FIELD ROTATION? WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN POPULATION AND INTENSIVE SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE? WHY HAS THERE BEEN A DECLINE IN SHIFTING CULTIVATION ? HOW DOES VON THUNEN EXPLAIN THE GEOGRAPHY OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE ?