GWA Final Prt. 1

Question 1

Define Imperialism

Answer 1

A policy of extending one’s own rule to a foreign country

Question 2

Define Urbanization

Answer 2

The increase of people living in towns and cities. Shift from rural areas to urban

Question 3

Diffusion

Answer 3

The movement of customs or ideas from one place to another

Question 4

Population Density

Answer 4

The concentration on how many people are in an area

Question 5

Literacy

Answer 5

The ability to read and write

Question 6

What age does the Old Stone Age

Answer 6

Paleolithic Age

Question 7

What age does the Middle Stone Age

Answer 7

Mesolithic Age

Question 8

What age does the New Stone Age

Answer 8

Neolithic

Question 9

What was the shift called from hunting to farming

Answer 9

Agricultural Revolution

Question 10

What are the five characteristics needed for a civilization

Answer 10

-Organized Government
-Organized Religion
-Social Classes
-Division of Labor
-System of Writing

Question 11

What are 3 different types of maps

Answer 11

Population map, Political map (boundaries), and resource map

Question 12

What connects equal places of rainfall?
Tempreture?

Answer 12

Rainfall: Isohyet

Temp: Isotherms

Question 13

What is the dependence of countries on goods?

Answer 13

Commodity Dependence

Question 14

What is the description of a place using physical & human characteristics?

Answer 14

Place

Question 15

What is the Patriarchal Family?

Answer 15

The eldest male is in charge of the family

Question 16

What is a Matriarchal family

Answer 16

The eldest female is in charge of the family

Question 17

What is the Mercator Projection map

Answer 17

Distorts the poles

Question 18

What is the Interrupted Projection map

Answer 18

Distorts the distances of landmasses (ocean)

Question 19

What is Peter’s Projection map

Answer 19

Distorts landmasses

Question 20

What is Robinson’s Projection

Answer 20

Map we use today, only distorts the pacific ocean

Question 21

Describe the Aztecs

Answer 21

Most successful civilization, died out from disease passed from the Spanish, big on sacrifice

Question 22

Describe the Olmecs

Answer 22

First Mesoamerican civilization, stayed for a short period of time. Known as the Rubber people

Question 23

Describe the Incas

Answer 23

In Peru upon the Machu Picchu Mountain (apart of Andes mountain range)

Question 24

Describe the Mayas

Answer 24

South Mexico & Guatemala. Had a slash and burn agricultural system

Question 25

What was the Bay of Pigs

Answer 25

The attempt to overthrow Castro (a communist dictator that took over Cuba), but failed

Question 26

What do the Great Antilles consist of

Answer 26

Consist of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico

Question 27

What do the Lesser Antilles consist of

Answer 27

The rest of the Caribbean

Question 28

What is the volcanic & earthquakes region of Latin America called

Answer 28

Ring of Fire

Question 29

What is the Pampas

Answer 29

A flat grass-land that is home for the Gauchos, located in Argentina

Question 30

What are the Sierra Madres

Answer 30

The mountain ranges along the east and west coast of Mexico

Question 31

What is the Atacama

Answer 31

The Atacama Desert is the oldest desert in the world

Question 32

What is Angel Falls

Answer 32

The tallest river in the world, in Venezuela. Named after James Angel

Question 33

What is Devil's Is.

Answer 33

Was a French penal colony, an island off the coast of French Guiana

Question 34

What is the Bridge of Americas

Answer 34

North and South America, a highway that connects the two and goes over bodies of water. (Starts in Alaska, ends in Argentina)

Question 35

What is Easter Island

Answer 35

An island with stone heads

Question 36

What are the Galapagos Is. famous for

Answer 36

Where Charles Darwin experimented his idea of adaptation

Question 37

What are Gauchos

Answer 37

Latin American Cowboys

Question 38

What is the boundary of Oceania?

Answer 38

Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, 3 island groups (Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia)

Question 39

Where do most people live in Australia?

Answer 39

Mostly near the east coast

Question 40

Who was the first person (European) to arrive in Australia

Answer 40

Dutch, Abel Tasman

Question 41

Where does AUS rank in the world (population & area)

Answer 41

Pop.: 55th Area: 6th area, 7th continental

Question 42

What is the only major city on the west coast of AUS

Answer 42

Perth

Question 43

What is the most common language spoken in Africa?

Answer 43

Arabic

Question 44

What happened at the Berlin conference?

Answer 44

The rivers/water were declared neutral (for the use of trade) & divide Africa among the 4 European nations

Question 45

Who controlled most of Africa in the 1800's

Answer 45

France

Question 46

What percent of Africa is tropical

Answer 46

18%

Question 47

Who are the Mau Mau's

Answer 47

Began a Guerilla Campaign against Europe and fellow Africans

Question 48

What is Nationalism

Answer 48

The loyalty and pride in one's country

Question 49

What are poor farmers of Latin America called

Answer 49

Peons

Question 50

Name of first four independent countries in Africa

Answer 50

Liberia, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa

Question 51

What is the dry land below the Sahara desert called

Answer 51

Sahel

Question 52

Which European country controls the Falkland Is.

Answer 52

U.K

Question 53

Who is the head of the Constitutional Monarchy of Canada

Answer 53

Charles the 3rd

Question 54

Name the five themes of geography

Answer 54

Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, Place (Mr.Lip)

Question 55

What year did Mr. Perry travel the world

Answer 55

1989

Question 56

What is the national dish of Canada

Answer 56

Poutine

Question 57

Where was the first University established in the Western Hemisphere

Answer 57

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Question 58

Name an example of a sub continent

Answer 58

India

Question 59

Which type of map shows topography

Answer 59

Physical

Question 60

What is the Southern tip of S. America called

Answer 60

Cape Horn

Question 61

Which Latin American country has a rainforest, other than Brazil

Answer 61

Costa Rica

Question 62

What religion was practiced by all early civilizations

Answer 62

Polytheism

Question 63

Which country in Latin America was first to receive independence

Answer 63

Haiti