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