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