Geog 1

The Great Migration in the United States took place between

1910 and 1925

During the Cold War until ________, Europe was divided into East and West by the Iron Curtain.

1989

The Canadian Shield or the Laurentian Plain is the geologic center of the North American continent and covers approximately what percentage of Canada?

40%

In the late 1400s when Europeans arrived in the Americas, about how many people already populated the continent?

90 to 112 million

Relative locations of places are shown on what type of map?

??(NOT reference)

Approximately, how many landlocked countries are in the world?

Above 40

The ethnic and cultural mix of Latin America is often referred to as triple heritage, referring to its main sources of people and culture from all of the following except

Asian

What is the term for a small country that is overly dependent on one export commodity and is ruled by a corrupt elite?

Banana Republic

When Europeans came to the Americas, they brought diseases to which indigenous Americans had never been previously exposed, including all but which of the following?

Bird flu

The Atlantic Trade Triangle brought slaves to the Americas with _______ receiving the largest number.

Brazil

The southern cone of South America includes all of the following except:

Brazil

Historically the colonizers with the most European colonies in the Caribbean were the

British

In reference to total area (land), which North American regions are the second largest and third largest countries in the world?

Canada; United States

Which of the following could a physical geographer study?

Climate and Landforms

The _________________ marked a pivotal moment for mobilizing locals-indigenous groups, labor unions, and coca growers against the government and the World Bank in Bolivia, in protest of the rate hikes and privatization plan.

Cochabamba Water Wars

The visible imprint of people on the surface of the earth is seen in the ___________ landscape.

Cultural

The terraced rice fields of Ifugao Province in the Philippines is an example of:

Cultural Landscape

The terraced rice fields of Ifugao Province in the Philippines is an example of:

Cultural landscape

More than 50 percent of Europeans are fluent in a second language, and the most common is:

English

Due to cold temperatures and winter glacial expansion, the Canadian Shield has very fertile soils.

False

There is basically one way to correctly regionalize the world in geography textbooks.

False

A climate region of the world is a ________________ region.

Formal

The three major language groups in Europe are

Germanic, Romance, Slavic

The northern plains of Europe found in Finland, Germany, Poland, Holland, and elsewhere were formed by:

Glaciers

The Industrial Revolution spread from ___________ into Europe.

Great Britain

The convergence of tropical trade winds at the __________________ has a great impact on the climates throughout the Tropics.

Intertropical Convergence Zone

Globalization included colonial empires such as the Ottoman in Southwest Asia, the French in the Maghreb, and the _____________ in the Pacific.

Japanese

Until the 1960s, _________ was the official language of services in the Roman Catholic Church worldwide.

Latin

Secularism has grown strongly since World War II. A strong sign of secularism in Europe is:

Low church attendance

MesoAmerica Includes

Mexico and Central America

Mountains lift and block winds, thereby creating ____________ climates on the windward side and _____________ climates on the leeward side.

Moist; Dry

The highest mountain in the western hemisphere is

Mt. Aconcagua

After World War II, _______ was formed to stop the growing influence of the Soviet Union.

NATO

In early history (dating back to the Greeks and Romans), the primary purpose or reason for colonialism was:

Need for resources and tribute

A region that people may imagine to exist, such as "Dixie," is a:

Perceptual

Interpreting the impact of tectonic activity on the landforms of East Africa would probably be the work of a ______________ geographer.

Physical

The uniqueness of a location and its shaping refers to:

Place

The southeastern United States and eastern Canada have relatively high amounts of ______________ because these regions regularly receive air that is laden with water vapor from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

Precipitation

Using physical geography to define world regions, a geographer may use:

Precipitation

The majority of the Latin American population practices:

Roman Catholicism

In general, where Orthodoxy prevails the Slavic languages are spoken; Roman Catholic areas of Europe often speak a ____________ language.

Romance

he center of trade and industry in Brazil is located in

Sao Paulo

The member countries of the Warsaw Pact in Europe were considered _______________ countries of the Soviet Union.

Satellite

Multiple regions exist within a large area such as Africa (West Africa, East Africa, etc.). This is an example of the importance of _____________ in the study of regions.

Scale

Recent trends in North America depict that immigrants are now moving to and living in _____________ rather than ______________.

Suburbs; Central Cities

Which of the following is not part of the Greater Antilles?

The Bahamas

All maps are distorted in area size or direction or both. They are all inaccurate.

True

Many guest workers immigrated to Germany and Belgium following World War II, especially from:

Turkey

Secular states in Europe include France, Belgium, and:

Turkey

Canadian troops fought in both World War I and World War II alongside the:

United Kingdom

_______ was the destination of Mormon members as they migrated westward during the mid-nineteenth century.

Utah

Which country is not part of the Southern Cone region of South America?

Venezuela

The perception of place refers to a way people construct their ideas about:

What a place is like

The world climate regions as classified and defined by _______________ and modified by Alan Arbogast may be used to denote regions.

Wladimir Koppen

The influence of human behavior on earth since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s is so significant that it constitutes a new geological era called the

anthropocene

_________ is the subdiscipline of geography concerned with the construction of maps.

cartography

What does the North Atlantic Drift affect?

climate

Christianity spread beyond Western Europe, in part through missionary activity, starting in the 1500s, through

colonialism

Several components in the atmosphere are responsible for the greenhouse effect, including water vapor, methane, ozone, nitrous oxides, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases. Collectively, these are known as

greenhouse gasses

Charles Darwin conducted his research in Latin America and the Caribbean because of:

high levels of biodiversity

What are coastal climates are also referred to as, because of the year-round influence of the ocean?

maritime

A large percentage of the US population lives in a relatively small area connected by an Interstate that spans from Washington, DC, to Baltimore up to New York City and then to Boston. This chain of urban cities is known as

megalopolis

The world's largest _______________ is found in the Amazon area of Latin America.

rain forest

The study of oxisols in the tropics is an example of research and understanding in:

regional geography.

In 1054 CE, Christianity in Europe split into the Roman Catholic Church and:

the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Plantation agriculture in the rimland was successful due to all of the following except:

the use of native crops

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union in Europe included Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, and importantly _____________.

ukraine

The Wisconsin Glaciation was the most recent glaciation in the region and ended nearly 10,000 years ago. Following this glaciation was a period of retreat causing which of the following?

All of the above: aquifers saturates, Hudson Bay was filled, New rivers formed

The ______________ Mountains, which are the longest mountain chain in the world, run north to south along the western side of South America and shape the climate because of their elevation.

Andes

During the most recent glaciations, topsoil from the ______________ area was actually scrapped off by enormous continental glaciers and carried south to the United States, where it was deposited in the Great Plains and Midwest.

Canadian Shield

Northern Europe is traditionally Protestant and Southern Europe is predominantly:

Catholic

Europe as a formal region is often defined by Christianity, Indo-European languages, and:

Caucasian people

Bolivia was brought to a standstill in 2003, as local protestors mounted strikes and roadblocks against the government's decision to export natural gas through which "unpopular" neighboring country?

Chile

The Atlantic Trade Triangle included all of the following regions except:

China

There were two waves of colonialism between 1500 and 1975. Which of the following is not true of the first wave (1500-1825)?

Economies were focused on tourism

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, China, and

France

In 1993, three countries signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to allow for increased free trade and flow of goods amongst countries. Which of the following countries was not part of the agreement?

Greenland

The spread of Christianity from its hearth in Jerusalem to people and lands along the northern Mediterranean Sea is a good example of

Hierarchal Diffusion

Why did the Incan, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America grow and thrive?

Highly productive farming systems

Swiss banking is known for its security and secrecy laws. The other major players in global banking are Germany and:

Luxembourg

The belief of some Americans that the new nation was divinely predestined to expand across the continent was called

Manifest Destiny

In the 1950s and 1960s, Canada encouraged Inuits to move to villages by providing all of the following except

Manufacturing jobs

In the west of Europe there is a marine west coast climate, while in much of the south of Europe, the climate is:

Mediterranean

The first wave of Islam arrived in Europe with the Moors in Spain, followed by eastern Europe with the rise of the:

Ottoman Empire

A transportation network that favors movement to and from a central point or location, such as a capital city to a residential area, is known as what type of network

Radial

There are two basic types of maps: thematic maps and ______________ maps.

Reference Maps

Understanding the context behind the transmission of AIDS in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America is using a _____________approach.

Regional

Collecting data for research or mapping by using instruments that are far from the area of study is called:

Remote Sensing

Which mountain range is smaller than the Andes and is found in Mexico and Central America?

Sierra Madre

Many farmers in less densely populated areas, such as Amazonia, practice _______________, also known as shifting cultivation or swidden agriculture where an area is cleared and then burned for the vegetative remains to release nutrients back into the soil.

Slash and Burn

Geography is the study of people, place, environment, and:

Space

What do abstract connections and constructs of time, distance, and relations refer to?

Space

During the colonial era, Panama was controlled by

Spain

The hacienda style of land use was a(n) ________ innovation.

Spanish

What is the degree of contact between people and places?

Spatial interaction

To "maintain international peace and security," "to develop friendly relations among nations," to "achieve international cooperation" in order to solve economic and social problems, and to "be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends," was the mission statement for this organization following World War II.

The United Nations

_____________ means considering and understanding the context of what is going on in the world

Thinking Geographically

Considering the altitudinal zonation of Latin America, you would most likely find vegetables in the __________ zone.

Tierra templada

A name of a place, or place-name, is referred to as a:

Toponym

Which of the following is not a major topographic or physical geographic landscape of North America?

Tropical Rainforest

Fieldwork and field studies are still critical to research by geographers in the 21st century.

True

Habitable zones in Canada are referred to as

ecumene

Transportation networks may be intentionally designed to

enhance connectivity for some communities while marginalizing others

The physical context of the earth refers to:

environment.

Many people of the Islamic faith have become residents of Europe, especially from:

former colonies of Europe

A public school district in the United States is a _________________ region.

functional

Many older neighborhoods near the center of a city in North America have experienced a refurbishing, known as _______________, and as a result of these renewal efforts, home values in the area have increased.

gentrification

Sovereignty is an international legal term that means

having the final say over a territory

The origin or place that a new good or service is initially produced is referred to as the

hearth

We can see places that were tied together and places that were not, by studying:

historical spatial interaction

Research in new regional geography sees regions as:

human constructs.

The two major fields of study within geography are physical geography and _____________.

human geography.

What fueled the second wave of colonization in the second half of the nineteenth century?

industrialization

One method of finding absolute location on a map is by using:

longitude and latitude

Contemporary Latin American agricultural landscapes are usually divided into small-scale subsistence farms called ________________ or large-scale commercial farms called _________________.

minifundias; latifundias

What type of precipitation occurs on the windward side when a parcel of air rises over a mountain or ridge and cools?

orographic

What are elongated cuts in bedrock from glaciers called?

striations