World Regional Geography Final Exam Study Guide

Which South American country participated in the African slave trade?

Brazil

**True or False** The two primary European countries that colonized South America were Great Britain and Germany.

False

True or False: A graticule is an object which holds scientific information.

False

True or False: A mental map is depicted on the screen of your GPS receiver in your automobile.

False

True or False: For geographers, the terms "space" and "place" are synonymous.

False

True or False: Functional regions are defined by established, administrative boundaries.

False

True or False: Globalization refers only to the spread of economic systems around the world.

False

True or False: Latitude is measured in relation to the Prime Meridian.

False

True or False: Regions are natural entities that exist independently of human perception.

False

True or False: Remote sensing is limited to images collected by satellites.

False

True or False: Since geography deals with existing physical and cultural landscapes and regions, geography deliberately avoids considerations of past conditions.

False

Which water body is surrounded by a geologically-active Ring of Fire:

Pacific Ocean

Wegener's supercontinent is known as:

Pangaea

**Select all that apply** Which of the following South American countries are landlocked?

Paraguay Bolivia

Which of the following statements is also incorrect?

Mayan languages are still used in parts of Mexico today.

Middle America's largest country today in terms of both population and geography is _______.

Mexico

Which Middle American country once had control of a large geographic area in the United States?

Mexico

True or False: A map scale is the ration between distance on the map and distance on the ground.

True

True or False: A sense of place describes the attachment a person has to a location not the actual location itself.

True

True or False: A thematic map displays a single category of date or a specific spatial distribution.

True

True or False: Absolute location is determined by reference to an agreed-upon system of coordinates.

True

True or False: Geography may be described as the study of spatial variation.

True

True or False: Google Earth is a web-based tool which represents the globe and is searchable to find specific locations on the earth's surface.

True

True or False: Scale implies the degree of generalization permissible or supportable.

True

True or False: The smaller the scale of the map, the larger the earth area it displays.

True

True or False: The term "cultural landscape" suggests the impact of human activity on the natural environment.

True

True or False: The term "projection" designates the method chosen to depict the earth's curvature on a flat surface.

True

Which of the following is a systematic subfield of geography? - Urban Geography - Regional Geography - Geographic Information Science - Cartography - Geology

Urban Geography

You are new in town and asked a random person on the street "How do I get to the local employment office?" Which of the following responses include both relative distance and relative direction?

Walking from here will take you about 12-15 minutes. First go to St. Augustine's ahead, turn right and you'll see a bright white building. Go to that building and turn left. You will walk to the National Bank. The office is across the street from the National Bank.

A maquiladora is:

a foreign-owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods

A growth pole is:

a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area

Central America, as defined by geographers, is:

a region within Middle America lying between Mexico and Colombia

A large-scale map shows:

a small area

A street address is an example of

absolute location

The situation of a place

can change over time as external relations of the place changes

**Select all that apply** Which of the following are examples of a quantitative thematic map? -choropleth map -isometric map -topographic map -cartogram

choropleth map isometric map cartogram

In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the:

commercial/industrial spine

An isoline on a map

connects points of equal value to the mapped item

Density and dispersion are independent statements about the location of things within a defined area. They are different in that

density is the number of items in the area and dispersion describes their proximity

The three elements common to spatial distribution are

density, dispersion, and pattern

All regions have the following characteristics except

derived location

**Select all that apply** Which of the following is one of the four main properties of maps? - direction - shape - area - distance

direction shape area distance

The globe is divided into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres at the:

equator

The slums of South America's large cities are known as:

favelas or barrios

Which of the following crops were major exports of plantations located in Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina? tobacco corn squash cotton

tobacco cotton

An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region is:

tourism

**Select all that apply** Which of the following is true about the globe grid? - All meridians are one-half the length of the equator. - The scale on the surface of the globe changes depending on the direction. - Parallels increase in length as one nears the poles. - Meridians are parallels intersect at right angles.

All meridians are one-half the length of the equator. Meridians and parallels intersect at right angles.

Which mountain range is located along the western side of South America?

Andes

Match the South American country with its capitol city. Buenos Aires Santiago La Paz Caracas Bogota

Argentina Chile Bolivia Venezuala Columbia

Mexico City is built on the ruins of what ancient civilization?

Aztecs

The art and science of making and interpreting maps is called:

Cartography

To which country did Panama belong before its 1903 United States-supported revolution acheved independence?

Colombia

__________ has had a major problem with rebel groups like the FARC and ELN funded by the cocaine drug trade.

Columbia

**Select all that apply** Which countries are located in South America and border the Pacific Ocean?

Columbia Chile Peru Ecuador

Central America's oldest democratic republic does not currently have a standing army.

Costa Rica

Which of the following is not a major cause of tropical deforestation in Central America?

Costa Rica's large-scale paper and pulp industry

Of the following, which country does not have coastlines in both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?

El Salvador

Mestizos are persons who are of mixed _________ heritage.

European and Amerindian

**True or False** After the revolution led by Castro, Cuba became partners with the United States.

False

**True or False** New England relied on the export of cash crops for its early economy.

False

**True or False** Only 3 percent of the population of Middle and South America is poor and lacks access to land, adequate food, shelter, water and sanitation, and basic education; stories in the media propagate myths about push factors in order to bolster support of U.S. immigration laws.

False

**True or False** South America is located in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres

False

**True or False** The Amazon River is located in Chile, South America.

False

**True or False** The Panama Canal is located at the mouth of the Amazon River to provide greater access from Brazil to shipping corridors of the Atlantic Ocean.

False

**True or False** There are volcanoes in the Caribbean region.

False

The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through:

Greenwich, England

Which Middle American and South American countries were not settled by the Spanish?

Guyana Belize Suriname

This country was formerly France's richest colony in the Caribbean, but is now one of the poorest countries in the world.

Haiti

Which of the following statements about latitude is NOT true? -Latitude is a measure of distance north and south of the equator -Latitude is always written as some number between 0 degrees and 180 degrees -Lines of latitude intersect meridians of longitude at right angles -Latitude lines are always parallel to each other

Latitude is always written as some number between 0 degrees and 180 degrees

All of the following are key reference points in the grid system except the - North Pole - South pole - Prime Meridian - Polar circumference - Equator

Polar circumference

Which of the following is a territory of the United States?

Puerto Rico

Which of the following cities in NOT the capitol of its country?

Rio de Janeiro

The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of _________.

Spain and Portugal

Which of the following is not a reason that has led to underdevelopment in Middle and South America?

Sustainable development of urban construction

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico

Which of the following colonial associations is incorrect?

Trinidad and Tobago - United States

**True or False** Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the United States.

True

**True or False** Per capita, North Americans contribute the largest amounts of greenhouse gases

True

**True or False** Prior to recent immigration laws, people traveled easily between Tijuana and California.

True

**True or False** Inuit populations in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic were diminished due to diseases brought by trappers and missionaries

True

**True or False** Women in North America mostly entered the workforce during WWII and now represent over half of the working population.

True

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because

a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion

Absolute location

is a precise location on the surface of the earth

a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n):

isthmus (isthmian)

The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is know as:

map scale

You have to get across town before rush hour. You plan your route based upon previous driving experiences and expectations of traffic. This plan is also called a _________ map.

mental

Which region of the early United States was the economic core?

mid-Atlantic region

The part of South America where the dominant ethnic group is European, but not Spanish, is _________.

northeastern coast

The dominant economic activity in Venezuala's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is __________:

oil production

Geography as a discipline

originated in ancient Greek interest in the physical structure of the earth and in the nature and activities of different people groups

An altiplano is a(n):

plain high in the Andes

A contour is an isoline showing ____________.

points of equal evaluation

Perceptual regions

reflect personal or popular impressions of territory and spatial divisions

Map scale defines the

relationship between the size of an earth feature and its size on the map

The physical attributes of a place

represent the current state of continuing processes of change and development

The location of a place described by its local physical characteristics is called its _____.

site

**Select all that apply** Which of the following is characteristic of regions? - spatial extent - hierarchical arrangement - defined boundaries - historical sequence

spatial extent hierarchical arrangement defined boundaries

To fit the spherical Earth onto a flap map, a Mercator projection:

stretches out the poles, depicting them with lines equal to the length of the equator.

In 1982, Argentina fought a war with the United Kingdom over _________.

the Falkland Islands

**Select all that apply** The Caribbean Islands are territories of which of the following countries? the Netherlands United Kingdom France United States

the Netherlands United Kingdom France United States