St. Rita Geography Finals Reed

Farmers have been forced to remove approximately ____________ acres from production.

1 million

What percentage of the world's population does NOT have access to clean water?

1/6

The loss of trees and forest organisms to deforestation accounts for as much as _____percent of the world's CO2.

10

The occupation of North America by Europeans began in what century?

16th century

By 1907, what percentage of the Native American population discovered in 1492 was still existent?

2%

Reservations now cover _____ percent of Canada.

20

How much water does the average human require daily to meet basic domestic needs?

20-50 liters

In 2007, the developing countries were responsible for about percent of total greenhouse gases.

30

Unemployment in Mendoto was at _____ percent in 2009.

41

As a result of programs implemented in the 1930s during the Great Depression, the U.S. high school graduation rate increased from 20percent to ______percent.

60

Approximately ___ percent of Native Americans were killed by infectious diseases within 100 years of first European contact.

90

What percentage of riparian areas in North America have been lost or degraded?

90%

The most common way for shantytown dwellers across the globe to get water is through:

A communal spigot

What led to the ecological disaster of the 1930s in the Great Plains region?

A drought combined with dust storms that blew away the topsoil

A likely result of polar ice caps melting is:

A higher sea level

What is an example of a transaction taking place in the informal economy?

A housekeeper who is paid in cash and does not report her income

An unintended effect of society's preference for boys over girls can be:

A shortage of marriageable women

Which of the following describes the state of drinking water in North America?

Access to tap water is comparatively at a low cost.

The Appalachian Mountains were created when the North American Plate collided with:

Africa

Mendota, a town in California's Central Valley, is known for which of the following industries?

Agriculture

The only developed country that did NOT sign the Kyoto Protocol was:

Agriculture

Which of the following mountain chains is the oldest, and hence the most eroded?

Appalachians

In nearly all societies, families prefer boys over girls. This is true for all of the following reasons EXCEPT boys:

Are easier to raise and considered more easy-going

What is NOT an extractive resource?

Automobiles

Which of these crops is NOT thought to be closely linked to early settled life and population growth in North America?

Beans

The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet in:

Cairo, Illinois.

Which of the following countries is NOT one of the top three greenhouse gas emitters?

Canada

Most Canadians are content to be called:

Canadian

What name is given to the entire mountainous mass in western North America?

Canadian Shield

According to the textbook, members of which of the following groups can be properly referred to as North Americans?

Canadians

All of the following Native American tribes were relocated during the Trail of Tears EXCEPT for the:

Cheyenne

The largest producer of total greenhouse gas emissions is:

China

The observed higher temperatures of Earth's surface and climates in recent decades usually goes by the name of:

Climate change

The agreement signed by 181 countries in 2009 to sharply limit CO2 emissions was the:

Copenhagen agreement.

The study of the growth and decline of the numbers of people on Earth, their distribution across Earth's surface, age and sex distributions, and migration patterns is the study of:

Demographics

The great drought that affected the Great Plains of North America in the 1930s is known as the:

Dust Bowl

The rubbing of the North American Plate against the Pacific Plate causes____________________ along the Pacific Coast of North America.

Earthquakes

Which of the following is NOT a positive "ripple effect" of developing countries investing more resources in the education of females?

Educated women have fewer children, which helps the family financially

All of the following are sectors of the economy EXCEPT for:

Education

In which sector of the economy is agriculture?

Extraction

Which of the following types of water resource degradation is NOT commonly linked to urbanization?

Fertilizer and pesticide runoff

The DeSoto expeditions began in the area now known as:

Florida

The heavy migration to California in 1849 was stimulated by news of the discovery of:

Gold

Which of the following features on the North American physical landscape is the work of glaciers that once covered large parts of the continent as recently as 10,000 years ago?

Great Lakes

Development may decrease human well-being by:

Having negative effects on the environment

Which term does the text use to refer to all Spanish-speaking people from Middle and South America?

Hispanic

Which of the following statements about global climate change is INCORRECT?

Human activities that release carbon dioxide and methane contribute to global climate change.

Which of the following was NOT a stated goal of the 30 most polluting countries that signed the Copenhagen agreement?

Increase research into glacial melting of the polar ice caps

In which of the countries listed below is the amount highest of virtual water required to produce one ton of corn?

India

Which of the following is NOT among the problems that arise from the use of gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of societal and human well-being?

It overemphasizes social aspects of well-being at the expense of economic aspects.

The highest level of greenhouse emissions per capita is produced by:

Jamaica

Which of the following accords with the theory of global warming?

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are increasing and trapping the sun's heat.

In some of the countries of Central Europe, the population is aging and declining due to:

Low birth and death rates

What population has been most devastated by the troubles in California's Central Valley?

Low-wage Hispanic male agricultural workers

A common disease caused by polluted water is:

Malaria and Cholera

What process resulted in the formation of the North American central lowland that lies in between the two major mountain ranges of the continent?

Material that erodes from the Rocky Mountains has been deposited by wind, rain, and rivers.

A disadvantage of using GDP per capita as a measure of economic development is the fact that GDP per capita:

May hide intense disparities in income

GDP per capita statistics may underestimate the role of women in the economy because:

Much of women's work is unpaid or takes place in the informal economy

The Grand Banks are found offshore of:

Newfoundland and Maine

The Rocky Mountains were created by the collision of the North American Plate with the:

Pacific Plate

The leading cause of death among girls between the ages of 15-19 worldwide is:

Pregnancy

Which mountain range dominates western North America?

Rocky Mountains

Between 1945 and 2009, Earth's population:

Roughly tripled

______ refers to the biological category of male or female, while ____ refers to the differences between the sexes as defined by a particular social group

Sex; gender

Which of the following statements best summarizes the story of how humans first came into North America?

Small bands of hunters came from eastern Siberia by crossing the Bering Land Bridge.

Greenhouse gases include all of the following, EXCEPT:

Sodium chloride

The colonial economies in what region of North America depended on cash crops such as rice and tobacco?

Southern

What is NOT an example of a human resource?

Steel

The chief source of river pollution in North America is:

Storm-water runoff

Which world region ranks overall lowest in GDP per capita?

Sub-Saharan Africa

Water scarcity is the result of all of the following EXCEPT:

Sustainable farming initiatives

Which of the following is NOT an effect of massive, interstate, water engineering projects in the Southwest?

The Colorado River now carries more water than ever.

By reversing the flow of the Chicago River, the city of Chicago is now sending its wastewater to which water body?

The Gulf of Mexico

Which geographic phenomenon is most responsible for the constant threat of earthquakes along the Pacific coast?

The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are presently rubbing up against each other.

The direct cause of global warming is:

The increased amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

What typically occurs with the shift from subsistence to a cash economy

There are less birth and death rates

Drug abuse, family violence, and malnutrition are often the result of:

Unemployment

"American" is the term used to describe residents of which country?

United States

In which of the countries listed below is the amount lowest of virtual water required to produce one ton of corn?

United States

Which of the following is NOT a direct or indirect component of the calculation of virtual water?

agricultural and industrial technology

Developing nations are usually characterized by __________________ economies, while developed nations are usually characterized by the presence of ______________________ industries.

agricultural; service

A dead zone is:

an area in which a species has been permanently lost.

All of the following are root causes of high unemployment in California's Central Valley EXCEPT for:

anti-immigrant legislation.

In addition to irrigation, farmers on the Great Plains have turned to using fossil water from the Ogallala, the largest of what type of feature in the region?

aquifer

The introduction of which of the following allowed Native Americans to begin building cities by freeing up community members to engage in activities other than agriculture, hunting, and gathering?

corn, squash and beans

meaning of the term sustainable development

effort to improve present standards of living without jeopardizing those of future generations

Which of the following activities is most likely to occur in the informal economy?

housework

The vibrant agricultural economy of Central and Southern California was made possible mostly by government-funded

irrigation

The rising levels of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere are attributable to

large-scale burning of fossil fuels

The Great Lakes were formed by:

melting glaciers

All of the following are possible results of global warming, EXCEPT:

multinational corporations abruptly pulling out of developing nations.

Water is now the third most valuable commodity in the world, after:

oil and electricity

Which of the following activities does NOT contribute to increased levels of greenhouse gas emissions?

photosynthesis

The amount that a local currency equivalent of U.S.$1 will purchase in a given country is a measure of:

purchasing power parity

The expansion of railroads across North America in the nineteenth century facilitated the transfer of ___________________ from the West and ___________ from the East.

raw materials, manufactured goods

The efforts to improve present living standards in ways that will not jeopardize future generations fall under the general heading of:

sustainable development

Much of the lowland in Louisiana and Mississippi is filled in by:

the Mississippi River delta.

A shift toward purchasing locally grown produce was a response to:

the global economic recession.

Southern California's water needs are so intense because:

the natural state of Southern California is desert.

About 70percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere comes from_______________; the remainder comes from _________________.

the use of fossil fuels; the loss of trees and other forest organisms