Review NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement Eliminated

Review

NAFTA �North American Free Trade Agreement �Eliminated economic barriers in North America

Cultural Traits �A unique assortment of behaviors and beliefs that distinguish a society �EX: Music, Language, and Hygiene �Africa has the fewest common cultural traits �Europe is not connected by language

Cultural Diffusion �Ideas that spread �Windmills were created in Northern Europe and spread to Texas

Globalization �Globalization has good and bad �Has effected the middle east. Riots such as those that began in Tunisia spread spontaneously across Asia �But helps with the increased availability of medical services

Damages to the physical environment �Diesel motors negatively affected the environment because it contains more pollutions than any other fuel �Or near cataclysmic effect because of Russia’s dependence on nuclear energy in Chernobyl

Human-Environment Interaction �Affects economics �Desalinization plants are used to obtain fresh water �Building of dams allows for population growth �Geothermal energy power plant next to a volcano �But man has not utilized all possible forms of energy

Economic Activities �Primary – traditional �Secondary – labor force �Tertiary – Combination of the past 2 and technology �Quanternary – based solely on technology or service oriented

Things you should already know! � Women face unequal status with men globally � Know the difference bw developed and developing � African Americans came to America against their will (slaves) but have since assimilated � The Amazon – Brazil � Push-Pull Factors � How boundaries are made for countries � Religious intolerance leads to job discrimination � Know all three regions (formal, functional, perc) � Population Pyramids!!! How do they look and why! � Why will countries fight against one another (resoruces) � Urbanization = cities!! � Be able to tell a graph!