Why were some of the biggest cities in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century no longer the biggest cities at the beginning of the 21st century?

Geography Worksheet

Geography Worksheet

Directions: Answer all 7 activity questions and cite sources in APA format. (Any references used should be separate for each activity not combined)

There are now about 200 political states that send representatives to the United Nations. Maps of the world often divide the land masses into different political states demarcated by international borders. These borders are often disputed and tend to change over time. Is their location better explained by geography or by history? Why?

Rural-to-urban migration in Latin American cities often results in large squatter settlements surrounding the city. (Answer at minimum two of the following four questions, and respond to at least two other classmate’s post.)
A) Where did the residents of these slums come from, and why did they move? Who owns the land they move onto? When did this phenomenon begin, and for what reasons? At what rate are these squatter settlements still growing? (Hint: Push and Pull factors).
B) Many work in the informal economy and live in informal housing. What does this actually mean, in practical terms? Are the urban poor better off or worse compared to their rural counterparts?
C) When one city is much larger than any other, it tends to attract more migrants. How successful are governmental attempts to create second big cities, and do these secondary cities reduce the migration pressure on the largest city?
D) What other programs have governments implemented to address the problems of the peripheral poor, or what programs or policies might be helpful? Mention as many ideas as you can, keeping in mind the limited capital resources.

Why were some of the biggest cities in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century no longer the biggest cities at the beginning of the 21st century?
At the opening of international currency markets on June 7, 2010, the following values were quoted as the value of each currency, in U.S. dollars.
Australian dollar 0.8153

Brazilian real 0.5316

Euro 1.1942

Indonesian rupiah 0.00011

Japanese yen 0.0109

South African rand 0.1279

Check these values to today’s newspaper. Calculate the percentage each has risen or fallen against the dollar or against one another. What flows of goods, or investment, or of tourists should these fluctuations have triggered?

Tabulate your Work as described below

Country/Currency 2010 Rates Today’s Rates Difference
Australian dollar 0.8153
Brazilian real 0.5316
Euro 1.1942
Indonesian rupiah 0.00011
Japanese yen 0.0109
South African rand 0.1279

You are given the choice of living in one location on Earth. What would that location be and why? Please be sure to include specifics from the different chapters we reviewed during the course (climate, cultural, politics, etc.) Then tell us how you envision life being there.

Given what you have learned in the course and the information in your text, write a paragraph response to describe the state of the Earth in each of the following areas:
A) global environment,
B) global security and human rights,
C) regional cooperation,
D) human development, and
E) the unity of the Earth.
Policemen

What are the arguments for and against the USA being the world’s policemen?

7) The Association of American Geographers (AAG) website identifies many different subgroups within the field of geography and you can view the groups at http://www.aag.org/

After our study which subgroup do you have the most and least interest in? Why?