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1
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Life Expectancy is a measure of

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Health

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2
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Life Expectancy in Latin America is about

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74 years

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3
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Life expectancy in Sub Saharan Africa is about

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61 years

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4
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Life expectancy in Canada is about

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81 years

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5
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Life Expectancy in the US is about

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77

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6
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Population of North America (us n canada) is about

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375 million

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7
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population of sub Saharan Africa is about

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1.2 billion

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8
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The population of Latin America is about

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580 million

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9
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The longest river is

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Nile

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10
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The largest river by volume is

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Amazon

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11
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This is the largest city on the African continent.

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Lagos

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12
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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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13
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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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14
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This is the largest country in population in Africa.

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Nigeria

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15
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This is the major river system in Central Africa.

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Congo/ congo river

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16
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This river system in southern Africa drains into an inland delta.

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Okango

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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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18
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About this percent of Africa is still forested.

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20%

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19
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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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20
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Which colonial powers policy was based on assimilation of native peoples?

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british

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21
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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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22
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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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23
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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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24
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The Great Rift Valley is located in:

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East Africa

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25
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Which country was the first to gain independence in the 1950s?

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Ghana

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26
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This is the major river system in West Africa.

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Niger

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27
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The parasite bilharzia causes ________.

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Schistosomiasis

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28
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________ is famous for diamonds in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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South Africa

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29
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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.

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Angola and Mozambique

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30
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The highest rates of AIDS infection are in ________.

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Southern

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31
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Victoria Falls is located on the:

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Zambezi River

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32
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The civil war in the late 1990s in Liberia spread to the neighboring country of

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Sierra Leone

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33
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During the colonial period of Africa, why were Europeans reluctant to move into the interior of Africa?

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The disease with no natural immunity

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34
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After World War I, who lost their colonies in Africa?

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Germany

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35
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What was the purpose of the South African Pass Law?

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control public movements of non-whites

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36
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This is the highest mountain on the African continent.

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Kilamnjor

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37
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This is the largest island near Africa.

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Madagascar

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38
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This early Ethiopian society adopted Christianity around 500 A.D.

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Aksum

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39
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The Congo basin hosts the ________ largest rainforest in the world.

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Second

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40
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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.

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Ethiopia

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41
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he settlement of Madagascar began about 500 A.D. with the arrival of people from this region.

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Present day indonesia

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42
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Petroleum is the major mineral export from this country.

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Nigeria

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43
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In Zimbabwe, half the GNP is associated with the:

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Informal economy

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44
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The Harmattan is a hot, dry wind that blows out of the ________.

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Interior of africa

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45
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You can find a Mediterranean climate in ________.

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Republic of south africa

46
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The planting of several crops together is called:

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Intercropping

47
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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.

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All

48
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The idea of ujamaa promoted by Julius Nyerere meant:

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African socialism based on traditional values of communal ownership

49
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What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

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divide Africa between the major European colonial powers

50
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The best estimate of the number of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa is

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over 800

51
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The ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in the early 1990s was mostly in the countries of:

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Rwanda and Brudini

52
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The Savanna Grasslands of Africa have ________.

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Long dry season

53
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Zambia is most noted for exports of:

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Copper

54
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This is the largest Christian denomination in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Roman catholiscism

55
Q

Over half of Canadian exports go to:

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The united states

56
Q

Miami has what type of climate?

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Marine Costal

57
Q

This is the largest Canadian city on the Pacific coast.

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Vancouver

58
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Which of the following sports is a U.S. innovation?

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Baseball

59
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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.

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Pacific Plate

60
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This is the largest landowner in the New West.”

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The Federal Government

61
Q

Most Canadians live:

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Within 200 miles of the US border

62
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The largest religious denomination in Canada is ________.

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Roman Catholiiscm

63
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The ________ imposed quotas on the number of new immigrants who would be allowed to enter the U.S.

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Johnson Reed Act

64
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Canada’s oil deposits are mostly located in:

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Alberta

65
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When did Canada separate from Great Britain?

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1867

66
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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)?

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Creative Destruction

67
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After the Seven Years War, the ________ for the most part dominated the European-inhabited territory of North America.

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British

68
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The ________ wave of immigration to North America was dominated by large numbers of Irish and German.

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First

69
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What was the purpose of the North America Act of 1867?

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Creation of the domination of canada

70
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This is the largest religious group within the United States.

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Roman Catholics

71
Q

Approximately how far from the mainland of the United States is Hawai’i?

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2000 miles

72
Q

This is the newest territorial division within Canada, occupied by about 20,000 people, mostly Native Americans.

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Nunavut

73
Q

Columbus thought he had arrived in ________; however, he actually had arrived in the Caribbean.

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Far east

74
Q

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.

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Monrone Doctrine

75
Q

Why was Hurricane Katrina in 2005 different and far more destructive than most Gulf Coast storms ?

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All

76
Q

Approximately what percentage of Americans have some access to the Internet?

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75%

77
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Approximately half of current migrants to Canada come from:

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Asia

78
Q

The best estimate of the proportion of Americans living in poverty in 2002 is:

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1 in 10

79
Q

A federal state is a form of government in which power is allocated to ________.

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Units of local government within the country

80
Q

Evidence exists that Inuits had trading relations with Norse settlers as early as the ________ century A.D.

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10th century A.D

81
Q

From 1860 to 1920, the predominant migration pattern within the U.S. was:

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Rural to Urban

82
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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:

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18 million

83
Q

Canada’s current population is:

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44 million

84
Q

The largest minority in the United States is:

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Hispanics

85
Q

Which of the following is more stationary?

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North American Plate

86
Q

When did the federal government begin playing a more active and direct role in the American economic and social life?

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Late 19th century

87
Q

The last of the original colonial possessions to join the Canadian federation in 1949 was:

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Newfoundland

88
Q

On the North American continent, the jet stream brings ________ to most of the continent in the winter.

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Precipitation

89
Q

In both Canada and the U.S., ________ was far and away the most influential of the four colonial powers.

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Great Britain

90
Q

About 25% of Canadas population is of ________ ancestry.

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French

91
Q

The urbanization rate for North America is approximately:

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80%

92
Q

If this state were a country, it would have the sixth largest GNP in the world.

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California

93
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By 1990, ________ had become the largest source region of immigrants to the U.S.

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Mexico

94
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________ is the capital of Canada.

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Ottawa

95
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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.

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Southern and Eastern Europeans

96
Q

Mormons are concentrated in which U.S. state?

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Utah

97
Q

Although its inhabitants have diverse origins, North America is considered Europeanized because of the predominance of:

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Europeanan lanugaes and christianity

98
Q

The first inhabitants of North America probably originated in what is today northern ________ and ________.

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China and Siberia

99
Q

Which of these cities is not located in Cascadia?

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Los Angeles

100
Q

Nevada is located in which of the following physiographic provinces?

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Intermontane Basins and Plateaus

101
Q

________ is a formerly glaciated landscape that contains fertile soils and an abundance of lakes and rivers.

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The Interior Lowlands

102
Q

Most Canadians are of:

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British ancestry

103
Q

Which of these regions is mostly covered with grasslands?

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Pampas of argentina

104
Q

Which of the following is(are) true of liberation theology?

A

All

105
Q

Which of these major river systems in South America flows into the Pacific Ocean?

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None, pa

106
Q

Where is the Atacama Desert located?

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Pacific coast

107
Q

This is the most likely addition to NAFTA.

A

Chile

108
Q

What was The Demographic Collapse in Latin America?

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Epidemics of diseases from europe

109
Q

Most people in Latin America speak Spanish or ________.

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Portuguese

110
Q

On what was the first boom in Manaus, Brazil based?

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Naturual Rubber

111
Q

This was one of the centers of administration of the viceroyalty of New Spain.

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Havana

112
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