World Geography Final
In 1492, roughly _______ Native Americans lived in North America. By 1907, about ________ remained
18 million, 400,000
The five (5%) of the world's population that lives in North America produces what share of the greenhouses gases released into the atmosphere?
26%
By 2008 as predicted by the United Nations, what percentages of the earth's population now lives in cities?
50%
A Primate City is defined as:
A city that dominates a country's economy, culture, and government and in which population is concentrated
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
Universalizing Religion
A religion that is able to be practiced outside of a particular location.
Approximately what percent of the North American population is employed in Agriculture?
About 2%
Developing nations are usually characterized by ______ economies, while developed nations are usually characterized by the presence of _______ industries
Agricultural, service
Where do most manufacturing called Maquiladoras locate in Mexico?
Along the U.S. border
Which of the following do not describe Europe climate types?
Arid and Semiarid climate
The following characterize the European Union (EU) pillars EXCEPT
Assimilation as standard for acceptance
Which of the following relationships is accounted for the rate of natural increase?
Birth rates and death rates in a given population
Which of the following is an accurate description of the area of North America known as the New England Colonies?
By the 1700s, diverse industries were supplying markets in North America and also exporting to British plantations in the Caribbean
Liberation Theology
Catholic activists that taught the redistribution of wealth
What term refers to the practice of immigrants from a common region settling near each other in their new country?
Chain migration
Demographic Transition
Change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates
_______ is defined in terms of the average (mean) of weather elements (such as temperature and precipitation) over a specified period of time
Climate
The _____________ is an EU program that places tariffs on imported agricultural goods and give subsidies to farmers.
Common Agricultural Program
Which of the following statements describes the dominant population clusters in the North Africa?
Concentrated along the Nile River Valley and the Atlas Mountains
The relationship between Canada and the United States is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
Conflicting
Country X has a death rate of 15 and a birth rate of 40, while Country Y has a birth rate of 20 and a death rate of 9. Which country has a higher Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)?
Country X
What is the primary cause of contemporary population growth in the countries of Middle and South America?
Decreasing mortality
Structural adjustment policies in Middle/South America in the 1980s were based on all of the following concepts, EXCEPT
Democratization
Which of the following factors holds that the expansion of European capitalism created the Latin American condition of underdevelopment
Dependence theory
Which of the following statements describes a feudal social system (Feudalism)?
Developed as a result of frequent invasions in western Europe
The creation of the EU formalizes which of the following processes?
Economic integration of Europe
Despite much economic, political, and cultural diversity among the countries of Middle and South America, which one of the following characteristics do they have in common?
Experience as colonies of Europe
In which sector of the following economy is agriculture?
Extraction
After defeating Germany in 1945, it was divided and the USA, France and Britain together created the German Democratic Republic (GDR) while the Soviet occupied the German Federal Republic (FRG) (T or F)
FALSE
Belize, Haiti and Barbados belong to British Commonwealth (T or F)
FALSE
Roman languages, Germanic languages and Slavic languages, all account for 35% of Indo-European Speech Group (T or F)
FALSE
The Mid-Atlantic region of North America offered all of the following benefits, EXCEPT:
Fewer people than New England
Trail of Tears
Forced removal and relocation of the Cherokee Native Americans to Oklahoma in tribal areas
The rivalry in North America between France and England led to:
French and Indian War
What term describes rainfall caused by the interaction of large air masses of different temperatures and densities?
Frontal precipitation
_______ Regions are characterized by a focus on some activity, while _______ regions are characterized by a clear defined boundary
Functional ; formal
Continental Divide
Gently sloping, considered to be over 400 million years old
Strategies used by countries to gain territory, resources, or influence
Geopolitics
Three groups of Islands in the Caribbean
Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Bahamas
Which of the following measures indicates the total value of all goods and services recognized as produced in a country during a given year divided by the population?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Development may decrease human well-being by:
Having negative effects on the environment
Union European Council comprises all
Head of State or Government get together to set Europe's general strategy
The following statement describe the Pillars of the European Union EXCEPT
High quality of Living Standard
Which of the following represents a strategy implemented during the Soviet era to increase Russia's power and influence?
Increase the Soviet influence by making non-Russians speak Russian & adopt their cultures
The U.S. ________ has made possible the dispersal of industry and related services into suburban and rural locales across the country
Interstate highway system
A country is undergoing a demographic transition. This means that the country:
Is moving from high birth and death rates to much lower birth and death rates.
Which of the following does the term shari'a (sharia) represent?
Islamic religious law
Which of the following describes the flow of the Nile River?
It flows north through Sudan, then through Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea
The Caribbean Islands (__ & __ Belong to)
Jamaica and the Bahamas belong to the British Commonwealth
______ provides the main means by which learned customs and skills pass from one generation to the next
Language
Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922 under the control of:
Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
The following affects the climate of Russia EXCEPT
Longitudinal Position
Which of the following describe the term Comarca?
Loosely defined territory, where Indians have political and resource control
Which of the following is responsible for the negative rate of natural increase in Europe?
Low birth rates
Which statement best describes the human landscape of Middle and South America just before its encounter with Europeans?
Many people were living in socially organized, technologically advanced cities
Systematic representation of the three-dimensional Earth surface on a two-dimensional flat surface is called
Map Projection
What is the name given to the set of values that governs the activities and movements of female in Middle and South America?
Marianismo
Close to 80% of North Americans now live in _______, cities of 50,000 or more plus their surrounding suburbs and towns
Metropolitan areas
Remittances
Money that is sent back to support family in mother country
Suppose that Country A has a TFR (Total Fertility Rate) of 4.5 and Country B has a TFR of 1.3. Which statement best summarizes the population trend in these countries?
More babies are being born in Country A than in Country B.
Which of the following describe the term Isthmus?
Narrow strip of land that has water on both sides and joins two larger bodies of land
What factors explain the rapid conquest of Middle and South America by Spain and Portugal?
Native Americans were vulnerable to diseases introduced from Europe
The period of human history characterized by the expansion of agriculture and the making of polished stone tools is the:
Neolithic Revolution
Which statement most accurately describes the impact on the Native American population of the diseases that were introduced by Europeans to Middle and South America?
Ninety percent died within 150 years of first contact with Europeans
Scandinavian Peninsula in Europe is composed of?
Norway and Sweden
Largest religions in Russia
Orthodox & Islam
Following the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, ______ took all lands to the east of the demarcation point, and _______ took all lands to the west
Portugal, Spain
Most of the countries in Latin America rely heavily on:
Primary Economic Activity
What was the name for the type of dependency Europeans fostered in North Africa?
Protectorate
The passage of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) has had which of the following effects?
Reduction and removal of tariffs between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
What do the countries of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq have in common?
Significant populations of Kurds
Group of farmers including the Rus, that emerged from what is now Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus and moved east founding many settlements including Kiev and Moscow
Slavs
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
The chief source of river pollution in North America is
Storm-water runoff
Which of the following is NOT true about the spread of Islam in Europe?
Switzerland by Iran
A blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith
Syncretism Religion
In Antigua and Barbuda, tourism has a direct contribution of 13% to GDP and affects growth in many other sectors (T or F)
TRUE
The EU28 depend on nuclear power for 30% of their total needs (T or F)
TRUE
Tourism alone provides 50% of GDP and directly or indirectly employs 40% of the population
The Bahamas
Which of the following is NOT part of the Greater Antilles?
The Bahamas
New York City obtains most of its water from:
The Catskill Mountains
Stretches from the Pyrenees in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east
The European Plain
The term used after World War II to describe the long, fortified border zone between Western Europe and Eastern Europe is
The Iron Curtain
What feature on the physical landscape CANNOT be explained by the theory of plate tectonics?
The Mississippi River delta
Which of the following is largely responsible for the warm and wet climate of northwestern Europe?
The North Atlantic Drift
What region of the United States is considered the most populated?
The Northeast and Great Lakes
What accord is allowing a free movement of people across intra-European Union border?
The Schengen Accord
Aerial Photography
The acquisition of imagery of the ground taken from an airborne platform (like outer space)
Replacement level
The amount of fertility needed to keep the population the same from generation to generation
Ecological Footprint
The amount of land required to sustain their natural resources.
Which of the following premises best supports the theory of plate tectonics?
The earth's surface is made up of large plates that float on molten rock
Which of the following conveys the meaning of the term sustainable development?
The effort to improve present standards of living without jeopardizing those of future generations
Brain Drain
The loss of highly educated intellectuals to better countries
What statement best reflects the European Standard of acceptance for immigrants?
The need for assimilation being replaced by the need for acculturation
What was accomplished by the enactment of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The peaceful division of Middle and South America between Portugal and Spain
What term refers to the highest temperature-altitude zone above 12,000 feet in South America?
Tierra helada
What was the primary reason that the EU was formed?
To work together to prevent another war
Urban Sprawl
Transition of urbanization into areas and regions that weren't formally urbanized or were more agricultural and not well expanded.
Megalopolis
Two cities that are growing then merge together!
Canada's cold climate is related
Winds that blow from west to east in the middle latitudes
