Geography GEO 1310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolution, Sub-Saharan Africa
16 May 2018
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Exam 2 Study Guide
Chapter 5
Caribbean
• Lesser & Greater Antilles, Rimland
• “ugars role i deforestatio, rilad forests
• Natural disasters – 3 kinds, examples –Haiti, Chile, Mexico City earthquakes, Montserrat volcanic
explosion, Hurricanes Mitch, Irma, Maria – damage to Puerto Rico; what creates more
vulnerability to natural disasters?
• Platatio Aeria, Moo-crop production – sugar
• Slavery, sugar, indentured servants (when? where?), Asian populations, Maroon societies
(where do some still exist)? – maroon society in Suriname
• Creolization, African cultural influence – religion, music, dance - reggae
• Trend in family size in the Caribbean? Factors associated with smaller family preference?
• Caribbean diaspora - Brai drai, Brai gai, reittaes – define, why important? –
economic flight of Caribbean peoples across the globe
• Revolution and independence, – which was 1st country to gain independence in Latin America
(after US)? Spanish-American War, when did most Caribbean countries gain independence? –
Haiti, 1791. Monroe Doctrine that limited European control over the western hemisphere led to
the Spanish-American War.
• Spanish-American War, when did most Caribbean countries gain independence? (compare to
Latin America, Sub-“ahara Afria, “outh Asia, Puerto ‘ios political status – The
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
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• Economic development – sugar, bananas (banana wars), tourism (most popular tourist sites?),
free trade zones
• Offshore banking, online gambling
• Tourism – apital leakage – the gap between the gross receipts an industry brings into a
developing area and the amount of capital retained.
• Cuban Revolution – major gains, Fidel Castro, Communism and ideal of equality, US Embargo,
Guantanamo, Cuban Medical Internationalism (Cuban doctors in Venezuela, Brazil, etc.), Cuba-
Venezuela relationship, restoration of diplomatic relations between US & Cuba, educational
tourism
Chapter 6
Sub-Saharan Africa:
• Size of African continent, plateau continent, great escarpment, rift valley, Pangaea,
Gondwanaland, assets and problems, tropical climates (role of insolation, ITCZ)
• Sahel, desertification, transhumance – Sahel is an area of transition between the Sahara and
wetter savannas. Desertification is causing a desert to form from commercial logging and
destroying the woodland ecosystem.
• Deforestation – why? Biofuels, Green Belt movement in Kenya – planting trees to preserve the
wildlife. Wangari Maathai received a Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to start the movement
• Wildlife conservation – are populations in decline or recovering? Why?
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Document Summary
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