Geography Final Exam

In 1492, roughly______ Native Americans lived in North America. By 1907, about____ remained

18 million, 400,000

The 5% of the world's population that lives in NA produces what share of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?

26 percent

By 2008 as predicted by the United Nation, what percentage 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 1930 in the Great Plains region?

A drought combined with dust storms that blew away the topsoil

Approximately what percent of the NA population is employed by Agriculture

About 2%

Developing nations are usually characterized by______ economies while developed nations are usually characterized by the presence of_______ industries

Agricultural, service

12. Where do most manufacturing called Maquiladoras locate in Mexico?

Along the U.S. border

Which of the following does not describe Europe climate type?

Arid and Semiarid climate

The Benelux also called Low Countries is comprised of

Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherland

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

New York City obtains most of its water from:

Catskill Mountains.

What term refers to the practice of immigrants from a common region settling near each other in their new country?

Chain migration

The _______is an EU program that places tariffs on imported agricultural goods and give subsidies to farmers.

Common Agricultural Program

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

4. 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 expansion of European capitalism created Latin American condition of underdevelopment

Dependency theory

2. Which of the following statements caused 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

Aerial Photographic is computerized system designed for the storage, retrieval and analysis of geographically referenced data

False

After defeating Germany in 1945, it was divided and the USA, France and the Britain together created the German Democratic Republic (GDR) while the Soviet occupied the German Federal Republic (FRG)

False

Belize, Haiti and the Barbados belong to the British Commonwealth

False

Roman languages, Germanic languages and Slavic languages, all account for 35% of Indo-European Speech Group

False

The Ecological Footprint is the effort to meet food demands without degrading the environment or natural resources

False

The Mid Atlantic region of North America offered all of the following benefits, EXCEPT:

Fewer people than New England.

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 characterized by a clear defined boundary.

Functional; Formal

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?

GDP

Strategies used by countries to gain territory, resources, or influence

Geopolitics

Three groups of Islands in the Caribbean are:

Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Bahamas

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 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 describes the flow of the Nile River?

It flows north through Sudan, then through Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.

13. Which of the following is NOT true about the Greater Antilles?

Its included The Bahamas

Which of the following statement is true for the Caribbean Islands?

Jamaica and the Bahamas belong to the British Commonwealth

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.

Systemic representation of the 3-D Earth surface on a 2-D surface is called a

Map Projection.

What is the name given to the set of values that governs the activities and movements of females in Middle and South America?

Marianismo

Continental Divide

Marks the separation between rivers flowering eastward and westward

Close to 80% of North Americans now live in ________, cities of 50,000 or more plus their surrounding suburbs and towns

Metropolitan areas

Suppose that Country A has a TFR (Total Fertility Rate) of 4.5 and Country B has a TFR d 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.

Most of the countries in Latin America rely heavily on:

None of the above

Scandinavian Peninsula in Europe is composed of

Norway and Sweden

Following the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, _______ took all lands to the east of the demarcation point, and _______ took all the lands to the west

Portugal, Spain

The passage of the North American Free Trade At (NAFTA) has had which of the following effects?

Reduction and the removal of tariffs between Mexico, the US, 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, andBelarus 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

It provides all European countries with basic needs.

Social protection

The lowest crude birth rates (%) are found in which stage of the Demographic Transition?

State 3

The Chief source of river pollution in North America is

Storm Water Run off

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

Tourism alone provides 50% of GDP and directly or indirectly employs 40% of the population

The Bahamas

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

Stretches from the Pyrenees in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east:

The European Plain

The term used after World War Il 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

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

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 leet in South America?

Tierra helada

42. The EU28 depend on nuclear power for 30% of their total needs

True

In Antigua and Barbuda, tourism has a direct contribution of 13% to GDP and affects growth in many other sectors

True

Language provides the main means by which learned customs and skills pass from one generation to the next

True

Replacement level is the amount of fertility needed to keep the population the same from generation to generation

True

_____________is defined in terms of the average (mean) of weather elements (such as temperature and precipitation) over a specified period of time

climate

Canada's cold climate is related to

its location in the far northern latitudes