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Measure of distance East and West of the Prime Meridian
Longitude
•The measure of distance north and south of the equator
Latitude
• Basic systems needed to keep an economy running(water, transportation and electricity
• Infrastructure
The typical weather conditions at a particular location as observed over time
Climate
Government where people freely choose leaders and decide public policy
Democracy
A city and its surrounding suburbs
Metropolitan Area
The total of all goods and services produced by a country in a year
Gross National Product
Mexican factories set up near the United States’ border by foreign businesses which use the cheaper labor there
Maquiladoras
Persons of mixed French and Native American Ancestry
Metis
The head of a government and the majority party’s leader in Parliament
Prime Minister
Person of mixed Spanish and Native American Ancestry
Mestizo
Breaking up large land holdings and redistributing the land to the poor
Land Reform
Goods sent out of a country for sale
Export
Jamaican music dealing with social problems and religion
Reggae
Goods brought into your country from another
Import
Poorly planned development that spreads a city’s population over a wider and wider area
Urban Sprawl
Serbian leader who went to war in the 1990’s and allowed his troops to commit war crimes
(murder, atrocities)
Slobodan Milosevic
The Policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group through violence
Ethnic Cleansing
European religious movements which led to the formation of Protestant churches
Reformation
Three hundred year period in Europe of renewed interest in the arts and classical
learning
Renaissance
Brown haze caused by the reaction of sunlight with gasses from burning fossil fuels
Smog
A hot desert wind from North Africa which blows northward over the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe
Sirocco
Discrimination against or hatred of Jewish people
Anti- Semitism
Eastern European region breaking into small hostile units
Balkanization
How do geographers use the system of Latitude and Longitude?
It allows them to determine an absolute location.
Was the birthplace of the Renaissance.
Italy.
Where is the Mid- Atlantic Ocean Ridge system found on land?
Iceland.
Most countries in Latin America have economies based on
Agriculture.
Most of South America’s people live
Along the coastline.
Croats are _____,
Roman Catholics
Serbs are _____,
Orthodox Christians
Albanians are _______.
Muslims
Taxes are very high in some European countries because
of all the social welfare programs provided to citizens.
What European organization allows for Easy movement of people among member nations and Competition in the world
market.
European Union
What do map projections have in common?
They all have some distortion and inaccuracy.
Why was Panama chosen as the site for the canal?
Panama had the shortest route between the oceans.
Eastern European countries have many environmental problems because
the Soviet Union cared more about production than pollution.
Immediately after World War II the region of Eastern Europe became
A buffer zone of Communist countries.
List some dances and/or types of music African culture has given Latin American
Reggae, Calypso, Samba
Eastern Europe has diverse cultures because
the area is a crossroads for trade and invasions.
The province of Quebec has the customs and culture of
France.
In order to explain how large landforms were formed, scientists use the theory of
plate tectonics
The earth’s revolution and tilt cause
the seasons
The farther north of the equator a place is located, the
colder its average temperatures will be.
You are living in the Arctic circle and tomorrow you have 24 hours of day light. What day will it
be?
Summer Solstice
North America and South America are continents in which hemisphere?
the Western Hemisphere
Cartographers use symbols on maps to show
natural and man-made features on the earth’s surface
The most accurate representation of the earth’s surface is found on a
globe
You are taking the most direct cruise from the United States to Europe. You must cross which
ocean?
Atlantic Ocean
You are driving from Chicago to Denver. In order to determine how long it will take to drive there in your
car, you would need to use which item on a map?
Scale
What happens as you travel farther north of the equator?
It becomes colder
What is the ancient technique used to grow crops on hillsides or mountain slopes?
terraced farming
List some factors that effect climate
Temperature and precipitationElevation
Continental or maritime location
The United States has which form of government structure?
Federal
Zero population growth occurs when
The birth rate and the death rate are almost the same
Opening a McDonalds in India is an example of ?
cultural diffusion
Many people relocate to Houston because they get better jobs and higher salaries. This would
be an example of
pull factor.
The country which would have the highest Gross National Product would be a Developed
or Developing country?
Developed country.
The very first people to come to what is now North America migrated from __________ by crossing
the ___________.
Asia, Bering Strait land bridge.
What is a postindustrial economy?
an economic phase where manufacturing no longer plays a dominate role in society and service
industries dominate the country’s economy.
What happened to the USA as a result of the Louisiana Purchase?
The United States nearly doubled in size.
Some French of Quebec are attempting to
separate from the rest of Canada
When were Germany and Berlin divided?
after WWII.
The shifting of national boundaries in Eastern Europe was changed mainly by
wars caused by ethnic differences.
Most people in Latin America speak ________ and practice the ______ religion.
Spanish, Catholic
In which country is most of the South American rainforest located?
Brazil
Most people in the northern part of Western Europe are ___________ and those in the
southern part of Western Europe are__________.
Protestant, Catholic
The Canadian territory of Nunavut has the customs and culture of
Native Americans.
Christianity is subdivided into _____________ groups. (List some groups)
Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic
List some things that Spanish conquistadors brought to Latin America.
European diseases.Their religion.
Their language.
At the end of World war II Germany was divided amongst the Allied Powers of
France, United States, Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Farmers using _____ in the tropics exhaust the soil and must relocate.
slash and burn
Because Mexico sits on four tectonic plates, the region
experiences many volcanoes and earthquakes
Most of Canada’s urban and industrial growth took place close to the border of the United
States because of
1. the milder climate and fertile soils.2. proximity to the United States.
Because prevailing winds blow from west to east on the U.S Pacific coast, the side of the coastal
mountains which get the most rainfall would be the
Western side.
Define Columbian Exchange
Movement of plants, animals and diseases between Europe and the New World.
Heavy industry (steel, cars) has developed in the U.S Great Lakes region because of natural
resources such as
Iron ore and coal.
A ______ is a mid-latitude grassland while a ______ is a tropical grassland.
chaparral, savanna
The Allied powers responded to the Berlin Blockade by
Airlifting supplies to West Germans.
Which is the Great Plains’ most valuable resource?
Fertile soil
List some landforms shared by both the U.S and Canada
Rocky Mountains.Great Plains.
Appalachians.
Define the Continental Divide
The point where the flow of rivers to the east or west is decided.
Most people in Latin America practice what religion?
Catholism
Cattle production is important in what South American Counties
Argentina and Brazil.
Large scale ethnic fighting amongst Serbs, Bosnians and Croats occurs on the ____
peninsula.
Balkan
What resource is found in the North Sea?
Oil
Where did large cities of the American West and the Canadian Prairie provinces developed
in the late 1800’s
Along transcontinental railroads.
List some Romance languages
FrenchSpanish
The only ISLAMIC country in Europe is
Albania.
Why did East Germans build the Berlin Wall?
To keep the East Germans from escaping to the West.
Define Weathering
Physical and chemical processes change rocks.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located on the island of
Hispaniola.
The physical feature that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea is
Yucatan Peninsula.
Farmers in the Great Plains Region of U.S and Canada produce
Grains and cattle.
A population pyramid is used to display a country’s
Ages and genders of its population.
List some activities that causes to deforestation of the rainforest?
Logging.Clearing land for farming.
Clearing forest for cattle grazing.
How are the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians different?
The Rockies are much younger and higher than the Appalachians.
Definer the Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the Western hemisphere between Portugal and Spain.
The term “ethnic cleansing” was used in Kosovo to describe the large-scale murder
______ by the Serbs.
Croats
In a command economy all decisions are made by the
Government.
Houston is a major refiner of petroleum products. When cotton is made into cloth (clothing) it is an example of
the _________ level of economic activites.
Secondary
Shipping clothing to stores is an example of the _________ level of economic activity.
Tertiary
Growing cotton is an example of the _________ level of economic activity.
Primary
A periodic climatic change that causes the waters off the west coast of South America to
warm is
El Nino.
Houston, Texas is in the ________ climate zone.
Humid Subtropical
If you wanted to visit a South American country where you could swim in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans you would go to which country?
Colombia
Portuguese is the most common language spoken in what South American Country?
Brazil.
Which three nations signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 to make
trade easier among these nations?
United States, Canada and Mexico
Define megalopolis
Where several large cities and their suburbs develop together.
Canada’s climates are generally colder than those of the United States because
Canada is located farther north of the Equator than is the United States.
