Special Posting: Study Guide 2012

CWI: Study Guide January 2012


1. Identify three types of maps and when they would be used

2. Identify the major religions of the World.
Design a chart that compares the religions. What do they have in common?

3. Identify and briefly describe three different types of governments. Name one country for each form of government:

4. Name the different types of economies and key characteristics:

5. Identify the types of resources available to countries; give examples:

7. Identification of key terms/people:

Infrastructure

GNP

Per capita income

Nicolas Kristof

Tom Friedman

Greg Mortenson

7. Map identification: review the areas of the world and individual countries we have studied; be able to locate using an outline map

8. What are the major challenges facing Africa?

9. What are some of the hot spots around the world that our President must act on?

10. Editorial Cartoon analysis…look over the VoiceThread activity to prepare

11. Key elements of Confucianism

12. Current events: why is the study of current
events essential to understanding the world and how you will fit into this
future…what are the key events that we have discussed this semester…predictions

13. Values: what values are important for the US to consider when deciding on relationships with other countries?

The best way to prepare is to go over the sections in the text that we used and to use your own notebook to generalize themes on the direction of the world, certain regions and how the US should interact with the global community.
You may use your portfolio work to help guide you. And it goes without saying that you have the BLOG!!!!! You have one entry for each week and it only takes about 3 minutes to read each entry.

The mid term is a mixture of short answer, fill in the blank, identification and map work.