Globalization and Diversity Ch 3,4 &5

Which North American region lies west and north of the Piedmont and is an internally complex zone of higher and rougher country reaching altitudes of 3,000-6,000 - PG 74 - R feet?

Appalachian Highlands

Today, approximately how many undocumented immigrants live in the US?--- PG 85- L

Approx 11 -12 Million

What percentage of the world's plant and animal species are found in the Amazon rainforest?

At least 50%

Which North American region is complex, and is made up of drowned river valleys, bays, swamps, and low barrier islands? - PG 74- R

Atlantic Coastline

What type of pollution is the greatest cause of acid rain?- PG 73 R

Atmospheric Pollution

The rise of offshore banking in the Caribbean is most closely associated with ________, which began this industry in the 1920s. - PG 164 - L

Bahamas

This city is now the largest home port for cruise lines and the second largest cruise-ship port in the world in terms of total visitors.—PG 165 - L

Bahamas

What is creolization? - PG 155 - L

Blending of African, European, and some Amerindian

Which Latin American country is most closely associated with deforestation?

Brazil

Almost half of U.S. Hispanics live in this state.- PG 85 figure

California

What areas of North America would be most vulnerable to climate change?PG 77 - L

Coastal localities - especially low lying zones in the Arctic, along the East Coast, and in the Gulf of Mexico

What is grassification?

Conversion of a rain forest into pasture

In which Caribbean country did the 2005 Hurricane Dennis have the most devastating effect? - PG 145 - L

Cuba

In which Caribbean country is the Santeria religion most common? - PG 155 - L

Cuba

Which country runs the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) that trains doctors from the Americas? - PG 160 - R

Cuba

Which Caribbean countries have the lowest rates of natural increase in the region? - PG 150 - L

Cuba and Puerto Rico

This is the process in which immigrants were absorbed by the larger host society- PG 84 - R

Cultural Assimilation

What city in Latin America was designed to be, and is an example of a sustainable city?

Curitiba

What is the source of the place-name, "Caribbean"?

Derived from the name of native peoples from the area known as Caribs?

What do we call new suburbs that include retailing, industry, office, and entertainment activities, but are less connected to the central city, and more connected to other suburban centers? - PG 82 - L

Edge Cities

What term refers to the situation in which a group of people with a common background and history identify with one another? - P 84 - R

Ethnicity

What practice was most responsible for the deforestation of the islands of the Caribbean? - PG 145 R and 146- L

Europeans mainly removed them for sugar cane fields

This is the process involving the displacement of lower-income residents of central-city neighborhoods by higher-income residents, the improvement of deteriorated innercity landscapes, and the construction of shopping complexes, sports and entertainment attractions, and convention centers in selected downtown locations. - PG 82 - L

Gentrification

What is the greatest threat to biodiversity in Latin America?

Global demand for natural resources?

Beneath which part of the United States is its largest aquifer, the Ogallala Aquifer, located?- PG 72 L

Great Plains

Maroon societies were composed of which group of people? - PG 154 - R

Groups of runaway slaves

On which island of the Caribbean did HIV/AIDS first appear? PG - L

Haiti

What are Maroon societies -PG 154 - R

Hidden settlements of escaped slaves existed wherever slavery was practiced

During which period did the largest number of immigrants to the United States come from Southern and Eastern Europe? == PG 85 - L

Phase 3 - 1870-1920 - during industrialization in the US, offering escape to political strife and poor economies in S and E Europe.

Which North American region is the transition zone between nearby flat lowlands and steep mountain slopes?- PG 74 -R

Piedmont region

In what region of the United States is the Piedmont located?- PG 69 - MAP

Southeast

What is the most common language in the Caribbean? - PG 155 -L

Spanish

What is the name of the mountain chain that extends the length of South America's west coast?

Andes

Which language may soon surpass English as the leading global language of Internet users?

Spanish

An estimated ________ Mexican-born residents (more than 10 percent of Mexico's population) now live in the United States.- PG 85 - L

12 million

Cultural geographers estimate that Native American populations in 1500 c.e. at ________ for the continental United States and another 1.2 million for Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and Greenland - PG 79 - R

3.2 million

Currently, how many people live in the North American Region?- PG 77 - R

345 million

What is the approximate population of the Caribbean? PG 149 - R

44 Million

What percentage of today's Toronto population is foreign-born? _______________-- PG 86 - L

44%

How long are the Andes Mountains?

5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers)

As of 2001, how many Free Trade Zones were there in the Dominican Republic? - PG 163 - R

50

At what wind speed does a tropical disturbance become a hurricane? - PG 145 - L

74 MPH

More than ________ percent of Quebec' population speaks French, and language remains the "cultural glue" that holds the homeland together -- PG 86 - R

80%

Today what percentage of the North American population is urban?-- PG 81 - L

80%

How much of its original forest cover has Haiti lost? PG -R

97% , only 3% remains

Which pattern of emigration from the Caribbean is LEAST likely to occur?

A Haitian migrates to Liverpool, England ?

In which of the places would one find a concentrated Cajun culture?-- PG 86 - R and PG 87 figure

Acadia - southwestern Louisiana

What is the major environmental problems is associated with Mexico City and Santiago?

Air pollution

Why were many cities of the Caribbean surrounded by walls? - PG 152 - L

Spanish Caribbean cities were laid on grid pattern and susceptible to counter European raids

Historically, these places have been underused as areas of settlement in Latin America, especially compared to settlement patterns in other regions.

Along major rivers

What percentage of the people in Haiti between the ages of 15 and 49 are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus? - PG 150 - R

1.9% of the population

Over the last 40 years, approximately what percentage of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has been destroyed?

1/5th

How many residents does a city need in its metropolitan area to qualify as a megacity?

10 Million

The United States consumes about how many times as much oil as it produces?PG 93 - R

10 million barrels per day - about half of the total consumption

What is the rimland of the Caribbean? - PG 142 - R

Includes Balize and Guianas, Carribean coast of Central and South America

From which country did the indentured workers who migrated to Guyana and Trinidad come? --PG 155 - L

India

When did the third stage of North America's settlement end? - PG 79 - R

Just after 1910

What element of plantation life was missing from the Caribbean when Europeans established the plantation economy there? - PG 155 - L

Labor / Indentured labor

What is the most distinctive characteristic of the Amazon River?

Largest river by volume and area in the world Drains 8 countries Home to the largest rain forest

Where are the people of Latin America concentrated? - PG 113 - L

Major population clusters Central Am / Mexico are in the interior plateaus and valleys

The ________ basis of Caribbean households is often singled out as a distinguishing characteristic of the region. - PG 166 - R

Matriarchal (female-dominated)

What region of the United States contains the country's densest population settlement?- PG 78 - R

Megalopolis

Which U.S. city has become the destination of choice for Cubans migrating to the United States? - PG 150 - R

Miami Florida

What was the name of the official United States policy that held that the United States would not tolerate European military involvement in the Western Hemisphere? - PG 158 - R

Monroe Doctrine

What factor has prevented Caribbean countries from reaping the full benefits of their extensive investment in education? - PG 168 - L

Most leave the Caribbean - Brain Drain

Where is Megalopolis located? - PG 78 - R

NYC - 22 million Boston - 7.6 million Baltimore / Wash DC - 8.6 million Philadelphia - 6.5 million

Many city planners and developers are involved in ________, an urban design movement stressing higher-density, mixed-use, pedestrian-scaled neighborhoods where residents can walk to work, school, and entertainment - PG 82 - R

New Urbanism

By the middle 1800s, when most colonial governments in the Caribbean began to free slaves, they sought indentured laborers from which other world region(s)? - PG 155 - L

Often from South, Southeast and east Asia

What was the most common number of crops grown under the plantation system of agriculture? - PG 151 - L

One. Mono-crop production

What was the name of the initiative designed to launch rapid industrialization in Puerto Rico?--PG 13 - L

Operation Bootstrap

What employment sector is identified with natural resource extraction, including mining and agriculture?- PG 95 - L

Primary

During this country's Operation Bootstrap, island leaders encouraged U.S. investment by offering cheap labor, local tax breaks, and, most importantly, federal tax exemptions. - PG 163 - L

Puerto Rico

In which part of the Caribbean is the forest cover largely intact? - PG - R

Puerto Rico

Why hasn't the Caribbean Sea supported large commercial fishing operations? - PG 142 - R

Quantities of any one species is not large enough

What employment sector is identified with information processing?- PG 95 - L

Quaternary

What Canadian province has a majority of French-Canadian citizens?- PG 87 - figure

Quebec

What cultural homeland is home to the Inuit? - PG 91 - L

Quebec / Eskimo North American Indian and Inuit populations -- in both United States and Canada

Which of the following is TRUE of Cuba? (1990, the country denounced communism, Since 1995 the country has had multi-party democracy, Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as President in 2008, It has the fastest growing population in the Caribbean, in 2001 Cuba launched a failed invasion of the U.S. )

Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as President in 2008 in 2001 Cuba launched a failed invasion of the U.S.

What well-known form of music is most closely associated with the Caribbean?—PG 155 - R

Reggea, calypso, meringue, rumba, zouk, steel drums

What are the boundaries of Latin America? PG 102 - R

Rio Grande (called Rio Bravo in Mexico) to Tierra del Fuego

What are the two largest cities in Latin America?

Sao Paulo and Mexico City

During what period of time has the Sunbelt region of the United States grown most quickly? - PG 81 - L

Since the 1970s the southern states From Carolinas to TX grew more than NE and Midwest. 1990's - GA, FL, TX and NC grew by more than 20%. Dallas Ft Worth, Houston, Atlanta had some of the fastest metropolitan grown between 2000-2010

What waterway opened up the Great Lakes to improved global trade connections? - PG 90 - L

St. Lawrence Seaway

During which era of the Historical Evolution of the U.S. City did the city first develop a star-shaped pattern?- PG 81 - R

Streetcar Suburbs

Historically, what crop has been the most important one in the Caribbean?

Sugar Cane

What are the primary compounds found in acid rain? - PG 73 L

Sulfer Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides

During which era of the Historical Evolution of the U.S. City did suburban growth begin? - - PG 81 - R

Technological Revolution in the 1920s - The mass production of cars.

46) What employment sector is identified with services?- PG 95 - L

Tertiary

What is the "cultural glue" that holds Quebec together? - PG 86 - R

The French language

What is the Caribbean diaspora? - PG 150 - R

The economic flight of the Caribbean people across the globe

Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Caribbean forests were removed for all of the following purposes, EXCEPT (ship building, to clear land for sugarcane cultivation, fuel for sugar processing, Timber for home building, the export of tropical hardwoods). - PG - R

The export of tropical hardwoods

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for treating the Caribbean as a region that is distinct from Latin America? - PG 140 - R

The reason it is lies within its distinct cultural and economic history

Which of the following is NOT believed to be a cause of the high rate of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean? - PG 150 - L

Tourism and Prostitution

By the early twentieth century, which foreign country was dominant in the Caribbean?

United States

According to your text, how did European colonialists in the Caribbean view forests? - PG - L

Unproductive

What do we call the situation wherein metropolitan areas sprawl in all directions and suburbs take on many of the characteristics of traditional downtowns?-- PG 81 - R

Urban decentralization

What is the source of approximately 70 percent of Mexico City's water?

Wells were dug to tap into the freshwater aquifer - apprx 70% of the water of the city is from the aquifer

Which North American region features mountain-building, alpine glaciation, and erosion?- PG 74 - R

West

From which part of Africa did the majority of slaves who were brought to the Caribbean come?--PG 154 - figure

West Africa, especially Gold Coast (now Ghana), Bight of Biafra (now Nigeria) Angola, and southern Africa

What is "indentured labor"? - PG 155 - L

Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time, often several years