Population Geography
Geography 460 | Fall 2006
Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach
Class
Information
Midterm
Answer
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READINGS
Powerpoint Slide Presentations
Practice Exercises and Graded ASSIGNMENTS
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Data
Sets with Thematic Maps
Produce a Map of Your State by County for EACH
of the Following 'Themes':
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Percent of Persons Under 5 Years of Age
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Percent of Persons Over 65 Years of Age
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Median Family Income
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Percent Below the Poverty Level
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Percent of Persons with Bachelors Degree or Higher
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Median Value of Owner Occupied Housing Units
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Percent of Persons Foreign Born
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Final
Country Report
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Your Country from the Population Pyramid Exercise (or
what it used to be )
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Net Migration: Positive or Negative?
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Where do emmigrants go to?
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Where do immigrants come from?
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History of Migrations to America:
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When did it begin?
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What period (decades?) had the largest numbers of
immigrants?
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Trace the Geography of the Immigrants:
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Where did they land?
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Where did go when they got here?
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Where are most decendents today (if you can still identify
them)?
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Using the Web to collect data for Countries
Updated: 11.02.06
© 2006 Frank Gossette, CSULB