Geography 1

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State with longest coastline in USA

Alaska

Which of the following cities is located in the Rndstad conurbation?

Amsterdam

Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the _____________?

Ancona Line

One of the major active diamond mines in USA is in the state of

Arkansas

The capital and primate city of Greece is ________?

Athens

What does the word geography mean?

to write about the Earth

Where two geography realm meet and there is no sharp boundaries

transition

Cartoonist Georges Remi(Herge), who created Adventures of TinTin was from which country?

Belgium

What is the capitol of Germany?

Berlin

What is the Capital of Switzerland?

Bern

The Danube River empties into the ____________?

Black Sea

Who is head of the state for Canada

British Queen

Where is the city that acts as the administrative headquarters of the European Union located?

Brussels

Which of the following cities is NOT part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?

Brussels

Which US State contains the largest number of Asians?

California

Which country has the longest coastline in the world

Canada

What region in Spain wants to separate from it?

Catalonia

Which of these forces leads to devolution?

Centrifugal

One place or region that can supply the demand for resources and foods in another place or region, providing the basis of trade

Complementarity

Which city in the Discontinuous North serves as a break of bulk, or entrepot, city?

Copenhagen

deepest lake in USA

Crater

The lowest and hottest place in USA

Death Valley

The country located in the Jutland Peninsula and the smallest state ( in area) in the Discontinuous North is _____________?

Denmark

The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the _____________?

Elbe

The two leading language groups in Canada are

English and French

What is currently the currency of Italy?

Euro

The people called Native Americans in the US are called ______________ in Canada

First Nations

The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is _____________?

France

The two European powers that fought over control of the territory that became Canada was ?

French and British

Production of particular goods by particular people in particular place is called _________?

Functional Specialization

Which of these countries has the highest population?

Germany

The Southwest Region has the largest cluster of ________?

Hispanics

Which state has the Willis Tower, tallest building in US

Illinois

Which theme of geography studies peoples' adaption to their environment as well as the changes that people introduce to their environment?

Interaction

What is it called when a different location from the one originally supplying a good can provide a desired good more economically?

Intervening opportunity

A continental climate is most likely to be found in __________?

Kansas

Helium was first discovered in 1905 in

Kansas

The contiguous geographic center, which reflects the 1912 addition of New Mexico and Arizona to the US and falls near the town of Lebanon

Kansas

The fastest-growing large metropolitan area in the US

Las Vegas

The Tower Bridge is present in which city?

London

What is the Capital of Luxembourg?

Luxembourg

What is the Capital of Spain?

Madrid

Which US state has the longest freshwater coastline

Michigan

Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area?

Milan

Which theme of geography involves travel from one place to another and includes the exchange of goods and ideas?

Movement

Highest mountain peak in USA

Mt. Mckinley

Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority preens in many European countries?

Muslims

Which of the following States contains territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiography province?

Nevada

Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the _______________?

North Sea

Alaska belongs to the region known as the ?

Northern Frontier

Which of these countries is not part of the European Union?

Norway

Washington DC is to the United States as ________ is to Canada

Ottawa

The Louvre is present in which European country?

Paris

Which of these are an example of a primate city?

Paris

Land reclaimed by the sea adjacent to the shore of Netherlands by constructing dikes and then pumping out the water trapped behind them

Polders

The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?

Pyrenees

Montreal and the lower course of the St. Lawrence Seaway are located in the Canadian province of ________?

Quebec

smallest US state

Rhode Island

Germany's Ruhr industrial complex is linked via the Rhine River to the port of ___________?

Rotterdam

What river are you most likely to see at the top of the Eiffel Tower?

Seine

The Flamenco dance originated in which European country?

Spain

The Great Lakes' main outlet to the sea is _______?

St. Lawrence River

Which European county was the last to grant women the right to vote?

Switzerland

Which country does not wish to become part of the European Union?

Switzerland

Which of the following is a major natural gas producing state?

Texas

Which region of North America contains the most important agricultural area in this realm?

The Continental Interior

What is the cost of moving a good and the ability of that good to withstand the cost?

Transferability

In the northern hemisphere, the Prime Meridian passes which countries?

UK, France, Spain, all of the above

If you are looking at the Stone Henge, then you are probably in this country

United Kingdom

Canada's largest city on the Pacific Ocean is

Vancouver

Which is the smallest country in Europe?

Vatican City

Which European city is known as the "city of mask?"

Venice

Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Western Colorado are all part of the ______?

Western Frontier

The latitude longitude intersection and an address for a location are both example of _______?

absolute location

_____________ forces divide a nation

centrifugal

_____________ forces unite a nation

centripetal

What is not one of the 5 themes of geography?

clone

Regions that produce surpluses of goods needed elsewhere exhibit ___________?

complementarity

The physiography region called the Canadian Shield __________?

contains enormous mineral resources

The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as ___________?

devolution

Europe's unofficial lingua franca (common language) is ____________

english

The European Single Market launched in 1993 including 4 freedoms, which of these is a freedom it states?

goods, capital, service, and labor, ALL OF THE ABOVE

What is the branch of geography centered on the study of people, places, spatial variation in human activities, and the relationship between people and the environment?

human geography

The North European Lowland _______________

is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions

A map which depicts a small territory is referred to as a ________ scale map

large

Geography is the study of ___________________________?

man nature interaction and its variation over time and space

People with single language, common history, and a similar background form _________?

nation

German reunification _____________?

occurred in 1990

The North Slope of Alaska contains large quantities of

oil

Europe's relative location is _______________

one of centrality within the land hemisphere

What is the natural process that occurs on the earths surface, this branch of geography studies the physical setting for human activities.

physical geography

What is a location distinguished by a specific physical and cultural characteristic?

place

The information technology embodies the ____________ sector of a nation's economy

quaternary

______________ location is the location of something to comparison to the location of something else

relative

What is the relationship between distance on a map and the distance on the ground expressed as a ratio?

scale

A map depicting a large area, such as an entire country, is considered a _____ scale map

small

technological breakthroughs now allow for the major exploitation of which of the following Albertan resources

tar sands

Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in ___________?

the Po River Valley

The North American region with the greatest disparity in income between rich and poor is ?

the South

The term balkanization refers to ?

the division and fragmentation of a subregion of the Discontinuous South of Europe


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