Getting to this page on the Internet
 

 

The purpose of this exercise is to give you access to materials that will supplement information presented in Chapters 6 and 7 of your text.  The regions covered are 

• North Africa/Southwest Asia   Islam, focus on cultural geography
• Subsaharan Africa  focus on medical geography

According to the map, approximately what proportion of the population in France is Muslim?

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The Islam Project Maps Select one of the other maps listed here, and summarize briefly something that you learned:

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Make notes about something you learn about the spread of the Ebola virus. 

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Daily Mail & Guardian Home Page   A major news source from South Africa. 

• Scroll down and click on Archive Search (over on left, about half way down, under Letters)
• In the box under Archive Search (over on left), type in Ebola, then click GO
• Read the article "Desperate fight to stop spread of Ebola" published in 2000, or one of the other articles that mentions Ebola.
• Note down something you learned

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EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite provides access to information about articles published in approximately 3,200 periodicals (both magazines and journals); for about 2,000 of those periodicals, fulltext copies of the articles are in the database. Here's how you use EBSCOhost

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu> [If you are at an Information Workstation in the Library, just click on HOME near the top of the screen.] 
2. Click on Fulltext Articles  [If you are coming in from off campus, your user ID is your library card number] 
3. On the next screen, click on Magazine & Journal Articles  (EBSCOhost) (top left)
4. On the next screen, click on 
5. On the next screen, click on  
6. Click in the small boxes next to Full Text and Cabrillo College Library Journals. This will limit your search to articles that are either fulltext in the database, or available in print form in the library. You might also want to click on Peer Reviewed; this will limit your search to more scholarly journals.
7. Type in your search terms.  Then click on  

Topics you may want to search: 

• medical geography
• cultural diffusion
• spread of Islam
• Ebola virus

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Date of the periodical_______________________________________ 

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage  http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Geography
4. Under Course-related Materials, click on GEOG 4, World Regional Geography, K. Ducote