FSU GEA 1000 Exam 1
Which of the following is not a member of the TPP?
China
Who is Brazil and Chile's largest trading partner?
China
Which of the following is a reason for the water crisis?
Climate Change
___________ is a major industry in Wyoming
Coal Mining
_____________ is a result of the construction of the Trans-Amazon Highway
Deforestation
The _____ emits longwave radiation
Earth
What mountain range extends from the Bering Strait in the far north through Alaska into Mexico?
The Rocky Mountains
Which of the following was NOT a reason why many campanies moved factories to the southeastern United States?
Lack of Labor Unions
Which subregion in Middle, Central, and South America is characterized by relatively high GDP and HDI rankings?
Southern Cone
Every year, almost ____ of the U.S. population and ___ of the Canadian population move to a different location
1/6, 1/3 ?
What year was Mexico added to NAFTA?
1994
How many species have been introduced to North America
4000?
Which of the following is a latitude line?
45 N
There are ____ cities in the world with over 10,000,000 people
50 ?
____ of the world's population lives in cities
50%
____% of the Native people in North America were killed within the first 100 years of settlers because of diseases brought by the settlers
90
__________ is farming conducted by large-scale operation that purchase, produce, finance, package, and distribute agricultural products.
Agribusiness
Ethnic groups are a group of people that share
All of the above
What is HDI?
An index that calculates a country's level of well-being, based on a formula of factors that considers adjusted income, data on life-expectancy at birth, and educational attainment
_____ _____ is the migration of educated young adults to cities or foreign countries, depriving the communities where they come from the talent they spent years of nurturing
Brain Drain
_______ was the first country in North America to commit to the reduction of fossil fields
Canada
Haciendas are large factory farms that grow and partially process a single cash crop.
False
The rate of natural increase increase in Middle and South America has increased from 1975 to 2014
False
What are greenhouse gases?
Gasses that trap heat energy and keep it close to the Earth
_________ is the study of Earth's surface and the processes that shape it.
Geography
____________ are the strategies that countries use to ensure that their own interests are served in relations with other countries.
Geopolitics
_____ _____ store 21% of the world's surface fresh water.
Great Lakes
_________ are lines that measure the distance from the euqator and run east to west.
Parallels
Which of the following is not a type of a plate boundary?
Platonic
