Geography 1
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