latin america n so on Flashcards
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Life Expectancy is a measure of
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Health
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Life Expectancy in Latin America is about
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74 years
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Life expectancy in Sub Saharan Africa is about
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61 years
4
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Life expectancy in Canada is about
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81 years
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Life Expectancy in the US is about
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77
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Population of North America (us n canada) is about
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375 million
7
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population of sub Saharan Africa is about
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1.2 billion
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The population of Latin America is about
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580 million
9
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The longest river is
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Nile
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The largest river by volume is
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Amazon
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This is the largest city on the African continent.
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Lagos
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Benin and this modern country were once known as the Slave Coast.
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Nigeria
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Forty percent of the European Union’s imports of fresh vegetables come from this country:
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Kenya
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This is the largest country in population in Africa.
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Nigeria
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This is the major river system in Central Africa.
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Congo/ congo river
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This river system in southern Africa drains into an inland delta.
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Okango
17
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The Boers were southern African colonists from which European nation?
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The Netherlands
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About this percent of Africa is still forested.
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20%
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Large-scale segregation was established in the Republic of South Africa through the creation of ________.
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Homelands
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Which colonial powers policy was based on assimilation of native peoples?
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british
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The Unilateral Declaration of Independence was created in opposition to proposals for black majority rule in the country now known as ________.
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Zimbawae
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Which one of the following diseases is caused by the tsetse fly?
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Sleeping sickness
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________ is a modification of shifting cultivation where crops are rotated around a village, fallow periods are shorter and soil may be enriched through household waste.
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Bush Fallow
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The Great Rift Valley is located in:
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East Africa
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Which country was the first to gain independence in the 1950s?
Ghana
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This is the major river system in West Africa.
Niger
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The parasite bilharzia causes ________.
Schistosomiasis
28
________ is famous for diamonds in Sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa
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These two countries ended the colonial period with civil wars between Soviet-supported Marxist forces and U.S.-supported pro-Western forces.
Angola and Mozambique
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The highest rates of AIDS infection are in ________.
Southern
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Victoria Falls is located on the:
Zambezi River
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The civil war in the late 1990s in Liberia spread to the neighboring country of
Sierra Leone
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During the colonial period of Africa, why were Europeans reluctant to move into the interior of Africa?
The disease with no natural immunity
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After World War I, who lost their colonies in Africa?
Germany
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What was the purpose of the South African Pass Law?
control public movements of non-whites
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This is the highest mountain on the African continent.
Kilamnjor
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This is the largest island near Africa.
Madagascar
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This early Ethiopian society adopted Christianity around 500 A.D.
Aksum
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The Congo basin hosts the ________ largest rainforest in the world.
Second
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The highlands in this modern country were one of the centers of domestication of plants and animals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ethiopia
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he settlement of Madagascar began about 500 A.D. with the arrival of people from this region.
Present day indonesia
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Petroleum is the major mineral export from this country.
Nigeria
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In Zimbabwe, half the GNP is associated with the:
Informal economy
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The Harmattan is a hot, dry wind that blows out of the ________.
Interior of africa
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You can find a Mediterranean climate in ________.
Republic of south africa
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The planting of several crops together is called:
Intercropping
47
Which of the following is true of Sub-Saharan Africa?
-highest average birth rates in the world
-lower population density than the global average
-most countries are 40% to 50% under 15 years of age
-All of these are true.
-None of these are true.
All
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The idea of ujamaa promoted by Julius Nyerere meant:
African socialism based on traditional values of communal ownership
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What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
divide Africa between the major European colonial powers
50
The best estimate of the number of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa is
over 800
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The ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in the early 1990s was mostly in the countries of:
Rwanda and Brudini
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The Savanna Grasslands of Africa have ________.
Long dry season
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Zambia is most noted for exports of:
Copper
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This is the largest Christian denomination in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Roman catholiscism
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Over half of Canadian exports go to:
The united states
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Miami has what type of climate?
Marine Costal
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This is the largest Canadian city on the Pacific coast.
Vancouver
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Which of the following sports is a U.S. innovation?
Baseball
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The western coastal formation of North America sits along the fault line of two active crustal plates, the ________ and the Juan de Fuca plate.
Pacific Plate
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This is the largest landowner in the New West."
The Federal Government
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Most Canadians live:
Within 200 miles of the US border
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The largest religious denomination in Canada is ________.
Roman Catholiiscm
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The ________ imposed quotas on the number of new immigrants who would be allowed to enter the U.S.
Johnson Reed Act
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Canada's oil deposits are mostly located in:
Alberta
65
When did Canada separate from Great Britain?
1867
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What is defined as the withdrawal of investments from activities (and regions) that yield low rates of profit in order to reinvest in new activities (and new places)?
Creative Destruction
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After the Seven Years War, the ________ for the most part dominated the European-inhabited territory of North America.
British
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The ________ wave of immigration to North America was dominated by large numbers of Irish and German.
First
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What was the purpose of the North America Act of 1867?
Creation of the domination of canada
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This is the largest religious group within the United States.
Roman Catholics
71
Approximately how far from the mainland of the United States is Hawai'i?
2000 miles
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This is the newest territorial division within Canada, occupied by about 20,000 people, mostly Native Americans.
Nunavut
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Columbus thought he had arrived in ________; however, he actually had arrived in the Caribbean.
Far east
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This U.S. government policy states that European military interference in the Western Hemisphere, including the Caribbean and Latin America, would no longer be acceptable.
Monrone Doctrine
75
Why was Hurricane Katrina in 2005 different and far more destructive than most Gulf Coast storms ?
All
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Approximately what percentage of Americans have some access to the Internet?
75%
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Approximately half of current migrants to Canada come from:
Asia
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The best estimate of the proportion of Americans living in poverty in 2002 is:
1 in 10
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A federal state is a form of government in which power is allocated to ________.
Units of local government within the country
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Evidence exists that Inuits had trading relations with Norse settlers as early as the ________ century A.D.
10th century A.D
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From 1860 to 1920, the predominant migration pattern within the U.S. was:
Rural to Urban
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A high estimate of the number of Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada when the first Europeans arrived is:
18 million
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Canada's current population is:
44 million
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The largest minority in the United States is:
Hispanics
85
Which of the following is more stationary?
North American Plate
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When did the federal government begin playing a more active and direct role in the American economic and social life?
Late 19th century
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The last of the original colonial possessions to join the Canadian federation in 1949 was:
Newfoundland
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On the North American continent, the jet stream brings ________ to most of the continent in the winter.
Precipitation
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In both Canada and the U.S., ________ was far and away the most influential of the four colonial powers.
Great Britain
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About 25% of Canadas population is of ________ ancestry.
French
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The urbanization rate for North America is approximately:
80%
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If this state were a country, it would have the sixth largest GNP in the world.
California
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By 1990, ________ had become the largest source region of immigrants to the U.S.
Mexico
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________ is the capital of Canada.
Ottawa
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Effectively, the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 was targeted at ________, as they then made up most of the migrant population to the U.S.
Southern and Eastern Europeans
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Mormons are concentrated in which U.S. state?
Utah
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Although its inhabitants have diverse origins, North America is considered Europeanized because of the predominance of:
Europeanan lanugaes and christianity
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The first inhabitants of North America probably originated in what is today northern ________ and ________.
China and Siberia
99
Which of these cities is not located in Cascadia?
Los Angeles
100
Nevada is located in which of the following physiographic provinces?
Intermontane Basins and Plateaus
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________ is a formerly glaciated landscape that contains fertile soils and an abundance of lakes and rivers.
The Interior Lowlands
102
Most Canadians are of:
British ancestry
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Which of these regions is mostly covered with grasslands?
Pampas of argentina
104
Which of the following is(are) true of liberation theology?
All
105
Which of these major river systems in South America flows into the Pacific Ocean?
None, pa
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Where is the Atacama Desert located?
Pacific coast
107
This is the most likely addition to NAFTA.
Chile
108
What was The Demographic Collapse in Latin America?
Epidemics of diseases from europe
109
Most people in Latin America speak Spanish or ________.
Portuguese
110
On what was the first boom in Manaus, Brazil based?
Naturual Rubber
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This was one of the centers of administration of the viceroyalty of New Spain.
Havana
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