Each answer to a question should be at least 2 pages in length. You may use outside resources. 1. How is the epidemiologic transition like the demographic transition? How is it different? What does the epidemiologic transition mean when comparing the lives of people in the developed world with the lives of people in less developed countries?

2. Explain why religious conflicts occur. Is it only that religious ideologies disagree, or is geography involved? How do you think religious conflicts can be resolved?

3. Support the argument "every ethnicity should have its own state." Now criticize this argument from a geographic perspective

. 4. If industrial location is chosen according to situation factors in order to minimize transportation costs, explain why many industries are locating in Southeast Asia and shipping goods to markets in North America.

5. For most of human history, our "solution to pollution" has been to increase environmental capacity by putting the pollutant into a larger body of water or a bigger mass of air. Discuss what happened to that solution in the 20th century: what changed?