Geography- North America

In 1942, roughly ___ Native Americans lived in North America. By 1907, about ___ remained.

18 million, 400,000

The five (5%) of the worlds population that lives in North America produced what shade of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?

26%

By 2008 as predicted by the United nation, what percentage of the earths population now lives in cities?

50 %

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

Approximately what % 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

Suppose you are on the beach at night, and you experience a breeze blowing from the land out to the ocean. This breeze is caused by:

Air flowing from the cooling land onto the relatively warmer water

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 filling 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

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

Chain migration

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 birth rate of 40, while country Y has a birth rate of 20 and death rate do 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate

Country X

In which sector of the following economy is agriculture?

Extraction

GIS is computerized system designed for the storage, retrieval, and analysis of the geographically referenced data T/F?

False

With 36.29 million people living in Canada, 27% of them live within 100 miles of the US border T/F?

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 that is 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

Which of the following measures indicates the total value of all goods and services recognized as produced in a country during a given year?

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Development may decrease human well- being by:

Having negative effects on the environment

The US ___ has made possible the dispersal of industry and replayed 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

Canada's cold climate is related to

It's location in the far northern latitudes

Systematic representation of the three- dimensional flat surface is called

Map projection

Continental divide

Marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward & westward

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

Metropolitan areas

Suppose that country A has 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

The passage of the North American free trade (NAFTA) has had which of the following effects?

Reduction and removal of tariffs between Mexico, the United stares, and Canada

The push/ pull phenomenon of urbanization pushes people out of ___ and pulls them into ___

Rural areas, cities

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 cited source of river water pollution in North America is

Storm-water run off

New York City obtains most of its water from

The Catskill mountains

What feature on the physical landscape CANNOT be explained by the theory of plate tectonics? (The pacific ring of fire, mount pinatubo, pangaea, the Mississippi River delta

The Mississippi River delta

The period of human history characterized by the expansion of agriculture and the making of polished stone tools?

The Neolithic revolution

What region of the United States is considered to be the most populated?

The Northeast and Great Lakes

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

Population growth depends on rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration T/F?

True

Replacement level is the amount of fertility needed to keep the population the same from generation to generation T/F?

True