Midterm 1: Review Sheet

• Geographic eye and the concept of Place (including three realm diagram)
• Did you read ALL of chapters 1,2,3?
• Can you answer the questions at the back of each chapter?
• Major European colonizers of Africa?  Where did each colonize?
• Impacts of colonization?
• PRB data sheet for 2013.  Know your individual country as well as Africa, the world, and the sub-regions of Africa (use Chad as a surrogate for the Sahel)
• TFR
• Natural Increase
• Age Structure
• Population Momentum
• Africa's population by 2050 (and regional variations)
• LDS populations in Africa. Countries with most LDS?
• Urban rates compared to other global regions
• Rural to Urban "Push-Pull" factors
• Determinants of Fertility (Proximate and Secondary)
• Define Sahel and Harmattan
• Rainy season variables and mechanics
• Climate variables (Precipitation and Temperature)
• Isolines
• ITCZ
• Insolation
• "Tropics"
• High and Low pressure