Geography homework

GEOGRAPHY – CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Guide:

FIVE DEFINITIONS (4 points each): You will be asked to define and give examples of FIVE of the following possibilities I will choose from.

Culture, Race, Ethnicity, Culture Trait, Culture Complex, Relocation Diffusion, Contagious Diffusion, Expansion Diffusion, Environmental Determinism, Possibilism

Two essays;

Study well so you can write factual and thoughtful answers.

1) (Worth 30 points) Describe the goals and purposes of the Human Genome Project. List the major human migration movements out of Africa over the past 100,000 years. What might be the most important finding of this knowledge?

2) (Worth 50 points) Explain the theory of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”. What major geographic factors led to the dominance of Europeans across the world according to this theory? Be specific and factual in your answer. Do you agree with this theory?