1. "Clickable Map of San Diego County", Scroll down to "U.S. Statistics",
Click on "International Stats".
A) Describe U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services
The question should be changed to what information can be derived from this
chart, and list the main factors contributing to the increase in the balance
for 1997?
2. USGS Under "About USGS", choose "Mission".
A) What is its mission?
B) Choose "USGS on the Web", Choose "mapping", Choose "national mapping
program". What are 3 of the things that the USGS does? Report in paragraph
form. The question should be changed to Choose "USGS on the Web", Choose
"mapping", Choose "national mapping program". What are 3 of the things that
the USGS does? Report in paragraph form.
3. USGS Mapping
A) Query the database. Find 4 geographic features that have names that
interest you. This is not a question, because it does not ask me for
information. The question should be make a query into the data base using
the following information:
Feature name State or Territory Feature Type
White Oregon Rapids
Black California Woods
Red California Dam
Sea California Harbor
Write the name of the feature and it's nearest city.
4. WTGONLINE -Choose 4 countries, click on the "Business section for each country".
A) Compare the economies of the 4 countries.
5. Yahoo -Search for SANDAG's home page. Once you are there, Go to "About SANDAG", then choose "Board of Directors".
A) What is SANDAG's vision statement?
6. ESRI
A) Under "ESRI Library," choose "About GIS," choose "What is GIS?" Define what is GIS and what are the components that make up GIS?
B) Under "Arc Data" select a geographic area, data type, or data provider and examine 2 of the applications of GIS and summarize them.
7. CIA Fact Book -Choose "World Factbook 98".
A) Find out something new about 4 different countries. Write a paragraph for each country and the new things you find.
8. US Census Bureau -Under "US census bureau", choose "About the Bureau".
A) Define its mission statement.
9. National Geographic -Choose "resources", click "map machine".
A) Compare literacy and life expectancy for 4 countries.
A) Examine the county maps for 4 states and describe differences in county boundary lines and topographic relief.
11. http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/index.html
A) Explore the official webapges of 4 nations and provide a nugget of information from each one. Report your answer in complete sentences.
12. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
A) Click on "Objectives to this tutorial". What are the objectives and what is unique about this tutorial?
13. University of Indiana Law -Choose "Volume 4, #1".
A) What are some of the issues discussed in the introduction by Aman?
B) What does he say about the papers by professors Sassen, Eisenstein and Ong?
A) Click on any other Fall issue. Summarize Aman's introduction and 3 of the papers discussed therein.
15. US Census-Click on "geographic name server", click on "census bureau's US gazetter". Go to "Tiger Home Page".
A) What is TIGER and how is it used?
B) Describe what the name TIGER means?
Chapter2
1. Go to Professor Stutz's Website- Click on "Clickable Map of San Diego County", Scroll down to "U.S. Statistics", Click on "Social Indicators".
A) How has the urban population percentage changed from 1970-1995? Explain. Why do you think this is the case?
B) How has the fertility rate changed from 1970-1995? Why is this the case?
C) How has the life expectancy at birth changed from 1970-1995? Explain why you think this has happened?
D) What is the per year average increase in life expectancy?
E) Based on this rate of increased life expectancy, and based on your age presently, How long would you expect to live?
2. Library of Congress -Go to " About the Library" to "Help & FQA's ".
A) What are the library's mission and its priorities?
3. Econwpa --Click on "USA" Go to "agriculture and natural resources", Go to "U. S. State Fact Sheets
A) What was the Poverty Rate, Per-Capita Income, Unemployment Rate,
and Total Number of Jobs in California during 1997
4. World Bank - About the "World Bank", choose "Overview of the World Bank Group".
A) What is the main focus of the World Bank's development strategies?
B) What are IBRD and IDA?
C) Where is the World Bank headquartered?
5. University of Virginia - Go to "Interactive Data" choose "Domestic Economic Data" choose "County & City Data Book"
A)What is the percentage of people your age in San Diego County?
B) Describe the Geospatial and statistical data center?
6. ESRI MAPS -Click on "ARCDATA Online", then choose "About ADOL".
A) What is ARC DATA online?
7. US Census -Click "State", then choose "State population estimates".
A) Compare growth between 1990 and 1997 (change to 1998) for 4 states or 4
regions.
A) Choose 4 countries. In paragraph form, compare infant mortality, fertility rate, life expectancy, and population.
9. Oregon State University -Choose "Area comparisons" option.
A) Compare SD county with another county in California using the following categories: population, infant deaths, births, personal income. Report your findings in paragraph form.
10. US Census -Scroll down to "Tutorial "and Then choose "introduction"; with "American FactFinder" and choose it. Then choose "About My Community. Then choose "introduction".
A) Explain how the community data was generated?
11. US Census - Click Current U.S. population count icon", Click "U.S."; with "Population Clock").
A) What is the current U.S. population?
B) How often is there a net gain of 1 person?
A) What is the current population of the world?
B) What is the projected percent gain for July 1998 to July 1999 (Replace
percent gain for July 1998 to July 1999; with population for the year 2000
and year 2010)?
Chapter 3
A) Examine Issue #40. How much of the world's land area is affected by desertification? How much is threatened in Kenya?
B) Examine Issue #41. How is desertification affecting California's Central Valley?
2. ESRI -Click "Your industries", then choose "environment management"
A) What is meant by the saying, "Geography Matters to Logistics and Vehicle
Management" and what are the five areas covered by ESRI?
3. National Science Foundation
A) Choose "Geosciences", then choose "news". In what ways can global
climate change severely affect marine life? "Nov. 24th, 1997 article
B) What is smog levels like in rural Africa? "Dec 9th, 1997 article".
C) The growth of Information Technology is changing the
face of the economy". What does the article say about Information Technology
and schools? "Jul. 1, 1998 article".
D) What is the reason for the decrease in carbon monoxide
in the Mid-Atlantic region and what is the percentage of the decrease from
1997 to 1998"? "Sept. 10, 1999 article".
4. Voyage Publishing A) Read and summarize an article from 4 of the 8 categories.
5. Social Science Data Archives
A) Click on "About the Archives". Summarize the article of the "Social Science data archives.
6. NCSS-Click on Read "President Tedd Lewy's remarks" to "Standards and Position Statements" then choose "NCSS Position Statements".
7. Penn State -Click on Research".
A) What type of research does the "Earth System Science Center (ESSC)"conduct? Report in paragraph form.
B) What type of research does the " Environmental Resources Research
Institute (ERRI)"conduct? Report in paragraph form.
A) Choose "Gab the weekly scoop of the travel news". Pick four counties in four out of the six geographic regions. Summarize the news reviews in paragraph form.
Explain in paragraph form.
9. EPA
A) Choose "news and events", then choose "press releases". Read and
summarize 1news release.
B) Choose "projects and programs", choose "industry partnerships", and
choose "commonsense initiative". What did Carol Browner says about the
commonsense initiative?
C) Choose "media programs", choose "acid rain program". What are the
primary causes of acid rain? What are their origins?
D) Choose "media programs", choose "office of air quality", choose
planning and standards". What does the office do? (Change "office of air
quality", choose planning and standards". What does the office do? To "Ozone
Layer Protection Program". What are the primary causes of Ozone depletion?
A) Select two countries and compare then in terms of climate, population,
and demographics. Report in paragraph form.
11. AG
A) Click "about". What is "AgEcon Search"?
Chapter 4
1. The Trip -Under "Guides/Tools", choose "destination guides" -Under "City Information", choose "two cities"
A) Give a brief summary of the description of the city. What is the exchange rate,etc?
B) After completing the summary, go back to the home page. Under "trip planner", see how much it would cost to fly to the two cities and report what you find.
2. Travelocity -choose "Become a member"
A) Give the cost to visit 4 places that interest you. Why did you choose those cities?
B) Go to the "global map" on the home page. Select it. What is the feature destination? Give the best mode and route of transportation to the featured destination? Why is your answer the best mode and route?
3. Infospace -Under "yellow pages", Choose "maps and directions"
A) Give driving directions from SD to a place you would like to visit. Bring up a map of a town in America, and describe the major lines of transportation including subways, freeways, and railways.
B) Bring up a map of a rural city and a more developed city. Compare and contrast their transportation lines.
C) Go to "city guide", choose "Los Angeles", Choose" overview map" Give a brief summary of location of the major freeways. How they are distributed?
4. Prof Stutz Web Page -Go to "tripquest"
A) Select the destination Washington D.C. from San Diego. Give a description of what you find under route type. (Choose door-to-door and city-to-city)?
5. Prof Stutz Web Page - Go to "Clickable Map of SD county", clickon "San Diego Source", then choose "News and Special Reports", choose "Current Conditions-Traffic", then click on "LA/Orange County".
A) Compare and contrast the traffic flows on the major interstates at 7:30, 12 noon, and 5:00. Which way is most of the traffic flowing and at what speed?
6. ETRADE
A) Take the tour. Give a brief summary of what you find.
B) What are some of the international sites on this website? Visit a few and give a description of how they are different than U.S. websites?
7. VISA
A) Go to two different regions. Pick several countries in Asia and Africa. Choose "cities". Where are ATM's located? Use a map if you need to. Are there many ATM's in foreign countries? Give a brief summary of the spatial distribution.
8. Earth Cam -Go to "traffic cams". Go to "cities"
A) Go to the "Brooklyn Bridge" cam at different times: 9, 12, 6. Give a description of what you see.
B) Go to a couple of other sites at different times and describe the traffic flow.
9. Rand McNally
A) Choose 2 countries. What are some of the ways to get there? Give a description of the entry requirements.
B) Go to "Road Construction". Search "5 freeway in California in October". What information does it give? Is there any construction going on in San Diego? What kind and when will it be completed? In a short paragraph, report your findings and answer the above questions.
10. Hotbot -Choose" travel under plan a purchase". Choose the" Caribbean" as a region. Choose" Montserrat".
A) In a short paragraph, describe the ways in which you can get there? Would you want to go there now ? Why?
A) What are some of the resources for qualitative researchers? What kind of information can you acquire from this site? Report you findings in a short paragraph.
12. Progress.org
A) What are the best sites for research? Where are they (physically)? What kind of info can they give us? Is it reliable? Answer these questions in a short paragraph.
B) Give the best sites for students.
13. Knowledge Tree -Scroll down. Click on "what's so good about telecommuting".
A) Summarize each of the 4 sections
14. T-Jobs -Go to "telecommuting jobs"
A) Give some of the hot topics in telecommuting.
15. Yahoo Business
A) Pick 2 articles (sites) and summarize there offerings.
Chapter 5
1. Hammock
A) Choose "Agricultural Engineering"," Farm Machinery", "Harvesting Equipment" Give some types. What are their characteristics?
B) Choose" farm and resources economics", "farm management", "rising budgets table 1". Give some of the items on the budget for the farm.
C) Choose " Living with Regulations" Summarize the article. Do you agree with the authors, why?
2. Econ Ag
A) Read 4 of the articles summaries, summarize them and add your own thoughts
3. Gopher
A) Give a brief description on some of the agricultural resources.
4. Econ Ag
A) Read 4 of the article summaries and summarize them.
5. Ohio State
A) Choose "gardening", "fast sheet database" Use the search engine to learn something new about 4 fruits or vegetables in all regions. In a short paragraph for each, report your findings.
B) Choose "gardening", "plant dictionary", Choose "pests and diseases". Give a description of some of the pasts and diseases that affect agriculture.
6. Inverizen -Choose "search", and enter "fruits"
A) Summarize 2 of the sites that come up.
7. Web2 Airmail
A) Choose "tractors". Summarize "How could a grown man be nuts about Old Farm Tractor?" What do you think? Write a paragraph on your thoughts.
B) Choose" Farm Life". Read this months slice and give your thoughts of Farm Life? Does it seem desirable?
8. Map Quest
A) Give directions to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and other farm state's cities.
B) Bring up a map of a rural and a more developed state and in a paragraph compare their transportation systems.
9. USDA
A) Go to" General Information". What type of resources do they have at the library? Give a description.
B) Give a description of the NAL.
10. Econ Ag
A) Read four of the article summaries and summarize them.
11. USDA -Choose "news and Info", "disaster assistance" Answer each of the following in paragraph form:
A) Describe the emergency loan assistance program.
B) Describe the disaster reserve assistance program.
C) Describe the emergency conservation program.
D) Describe the non-insured crop disaster assistance program.
E) Go to "Disaster News Locator". Summarize 2 of the disasters of 1998.
Chapter 6
A) Click on the "usacitylink icon". Learn something new about 4 cities and report your findings.
B) What are some of the seasonal cities that are on the webpage? Summarize a few.
A) Choose" Metropolitan San Francisco and LA County", choose "population and race". What are the types of information you can find about the cities? What is the racial distribution in the cities? Report your research in paragraph form.
3. Dr. Stutz's website Click on "Clickable Map of SD county", Scroll down to "Other Maps", click on "Downtown Tijuana".
A) If you are a migrant worker from Central America and looking for a job in SD, how long does it take you to walk from the Tijuana bus station to the SD trolley if you walk 2 miles an hour?
4. Dr. Stutz's website Click on "Clickable Map of SD county", Under "interactive map", click on "Showcase of Homes".
A) Compareand contrast homes in Julian with those in Coronado, Rancho Santa Fe, and Clairemont in terms of price, setting, size, and proximity to downtown.
5. Dr. Stutz's website Click on "Clickable Map of SD county", scroll down to "Community Stats", Click on "Crime Rates", Choose "Total crime rates per 1,000".
A) Compare the 95/96 change in total crime rates by community locations vis-a- vis downtown San Diego, the seashore, and communities adjacent to interstates. Explain in paragraph from.
Chapter 7
A) Pick four of the sites and summarize the kind of information they can give.
A) Go to "San Diego County", Select "service industries" under Summary Report. Summarize what the report states. Has the service industry in San Diego grown? By how much? Do you think it will grow more?
B) Select "Crime". How have the crime statistics changed over the year? How does the police and FBI statistics differ? Report your findings in a short paragraph.
C) Select "Income, Money Census" under Summary Report. How is San Diego's income distributed? Does ethnicity affect distribution? Report your findings.
3. NASA
A) Go to the "urban extent maps". How has the urban extent diffused? In what direction, scope, and density? Be Specific, if you're not familiar with the Bay Area, get out an atlas, and get acquainted. Report your findings in a paragraph.
4. Best Practices -Go to "search", choose "Project Subject category", then choose "project Category", then choose "urban governance"
A) Choose two countries. Summarize their methods of urban governance.
5. CCHP3 Unicam
A) Summarize the first paragraphs.
B) Choose "urban diagram". Give your thoughts of the diagram.
6. Dr. Stutz's website Click on "Clickable Map of SD county". Scroll to "SD county statistics", choose "Income & Poverty", choose "SD employment average wage/salary by industry".
A) Which industry comprises the greatest 1994 employment in SD county? Which comprises the least?
B) Which industry comprises the greatest average wage? Which industry comprises the least average wage? Why do you expect these outcomes? How do you explain these outcomes?
7. Dr. Stutz's website Click on "SD average Wage and Salary comparedwith California and the United States".
A) How does SD's average wage and salary compare to California and the U.S. averages?
B) For which secotrs is San Diego's wage/salary lower than California's average? How do you explain this? Is it related in your opinion to proximity to the international border with Mexico? See pg. 69-71 in your textbook.
C) Ask the same questions for the U.S. average?
Chapter 8
1. US Census Report on each of the following in paragraph form.
A) What are the top 10 countries of US trading?
B) What percentage of imports/exports do they account for?
C) For the top country, what were the trends over the past year?
D) For any other country, what were the trends over the past year?
2. US Census Report on each of the following in paragraph form.
A) What types of goods saw the largest decrease for exports?
B) What types of goods saw the largest decrease for imports?
C) What was the trade deficit for 1995, 96, 97?
D) How did the goods deficit change for any geographic area?
3. WTO -Click "development", choose" trade and development", read the article" Participation of developing countries in world trade". In paragraph form, answer each of the following:
A) Why did the share of developing countries in world trade peak in 1780?
B) What type of goods show a high correlation with export performance?
C) What type of products compromise the bulk of production and exports in developing countries?
D) How does inflation figure into the success or lack thereof for developing countries?
4. World Bank
A) Choose "regions and countries". Choose 4 countries. Summarize their development progress. B) Choose" development Topics", choose "AID's Economics". What kind of news is new in the AID's epidemic?
5. Bureaus of Doc -Choose "Bureaus of DOC", choose" Bureau of Economic Analysis".
A) What is the current overview of the U.S. Economy? How does it differ from 1997? Report your findings.
B) Choose "International Data under Bureau of Economic Analysis". Report on what kind of data that is available. Give two ways in which you could incorporate this info into a term paper. Report your findings.
6. Gov Stats
A) Choose "Regional info". In a paragraph, compare and contrast at least 4 regions of the US using the regional economy option.
B) Choose "data", "economy at a glance". Examine the civilian labor force, unemployment, and unemployment rate. How have they fluctuated, or have they? What are the current statistics for all three categories? Report your findings.
7. Progress
A) Choose "best sites for research", Choose the "social Science information Gateway". What kind of economic info can you find? Report on what you find.
8. Netec
A) Choose" International Economics", choose "International Factor", choose "Movements", and choose "International Business", choose "Trade Shows Conferences/Exhibitions". What are the International Conferences occurring right now and in the recent past? Report on your findings.
Chapter 9
1. ODCI CIA
A) Choose "Publications", and then choose "1997 World Factbook". Summarize the economics of 4 countries. Each country must be on a different continent. Give specifics.
2. WTO -Choose "development", choose "trade & development Website", enter the "Trade and Development Center", go to "Regions overview under Issues" Report on each of the following:
A) What issues still need attention in Africa?
B) What can the WTO do for Africa?
C) What percentage of the GDP of Sub Saharan AFrica does South Africa account for?
D) What were some of the achievements of the Uruguay Round negotiations?
3. World Bank
A) Choose "countries and regions". Click on a region and read the overview for it. In a paragraph, compare recent developments for 4 of the 6 regions.
4. Gov Docs -Choose "News & Events", Choose ":Mexico & Canada: doing business with our friendly neighbors" Report on each of the following:
A) Who was the number one purchaser of U.S. exports?
B) Who were the number three purchasers of U.S. exports?
C) Who was the number two? D) What is the main idea from this article?
5. Gov Stats -Choose "publications/Research Papers", then choose "news releases", then choose "international programs", choose "international comparisons of manufacturing productivity and labor costs", 1997]
A) Examine and summarize four of the tables. What does each tell us about the evolving economy?
6. Progress
A) Choose "Zoom to Random economics site". What site does it zoom to? Summarize the site's offerings. Is it pertinent to the world economy in some manner?
7. Retec -Choose "Economics Data", and then choose "Federal Reserve Economic Data". In a paragraph, answer the following:
A) What are the types of data you can retrieve from this site? Explain a few and how they would monitor the economy.
Chapter 10
1. WTO -Choose" international trade". Report on each of the following:
A) What was the value for world goods exports for 1997?
B) Briefly summarize the overview for world trade in 1997.
C) Briefly summarize the outlook for 1998. D) How has the Asian financial crisis affected the world economy?
2. World Bank -Choose "1998 Annual World Report"," overview".
A) Summarize the World Bank's progress.
B) Give the country that received the largest loan in the Bank's history.
C) Describe the Strategic Compact.
D) How has the East Asian Financial crisis affected the World Bank's plans? Give your answer in paragraph form.
3. Gov Doc -Go to "About DOC", Choose "Trade Missions Policy Statement".
A) Summarize the statement of policy.
B) Report on how many jobs exports support and how much has it fueled the total economic growth since 1993.
C) Report on who our ( the U.S.) principal economic competitors.
4. Gov Stats -Choose "surveys and programs", and then choose "international programs", choose "international price indexes", and then choose "glossary".
A) Define four terms that are new to you. B) Give the current U.S. import and export price indexes.
5. Dr. Stutz's website Go to "Clickable Map of SD county". Under "County stats". Click on "Economy".
A) How did export sales to NAFTA countries change between 1994 and 1996? Explain in parargraph form.
B) How did export sales to the Caribbean change?
C) How did export sales to China change?
D) How did export sales to the "rest of the world" change?
E) At the bottom of the table, choose "View explanation of export statistics." Summarize SD merchandise export sales to selected destinations.
Chapter 11
A) Report on the kind of economic info you can get from the Library of Congress.
2. US Census
A) Summarize the goods and services section.
B) Summarize the goods by geographic area. Which countries are prominent?
3. ODCI CIA
A) Go to "publications", choose "Factbook", and then choose "Factbook Info". Pick 4 countries and survey their natural resources. Write an short essay on each and explain why you think your four countries will or will not be a large part of the world economy.
Chapter 12
1. Hong Kong 97
A) Choose "news archive". Summarize 2 articles.
2. PBS - Hong Kong -Click on "Hong Kong Timeline".
A) What political parties have coexisted over the years? Give a brief description of each.
B) When was Hong Kong established as a colony? Report on when and the historical events leading up to its establishment as a colony. Include economic aspects.
C) -Click on "discussion". Read and summarize 4 of the posts in " Hong Kong in the Western Media".
3. Geographical Encyclopedia -Choose "countries a-z", and then choose "continue".
A) In a short paragraph, compare and contrast the economy, primary products, major industries, main exports of a developed and an undeveloped country.