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Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
Q

Components of culture are artifacts, social institutions, and ____.

A

Mentafacts

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2
Q

In the koppen-Geiger scheme, the world’s drier climates are grouped under ____.

A

the letter B

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3
Q

The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: _____ .

A

Eurasia

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4
Q

The world’s population is now over ____.

A

7 billion in total size and is expected to be about 11 billion by the year 2050

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5
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The earth rotates to the ___.

A

east

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6
Q

The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the ___ realm

A

Middle America

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7
Q

Where geographic Reims meet ___ not sharp borders, mark their contacts.

A

Transition zones

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8
Q

___ force tie a nation together.

A

Centripetal

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9
Q

A map with the fractional scale 1:2500,000,000 has a ____ scale than one with a scale of 1:1,000,000

A

Smaller

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10
Q

The area surround an urban center is its ___

A

hinterland

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11
Q

At the height of the Pleistocene gladiators, glacial ice extended as far south as the ___

A

Ohio river

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12
Q

Culture refers to patterns of __

A

Learned behavior

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13
Q

Nearly all of the world’s richest countries lie in the ___

A

Mid-latitudes

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14
Q

___ happens when people move and take their culture to a new location

A

Relocation diffusion

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15
Q

The United Kingdom consists of ___

A

Northern Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland

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16
Q

The European Union in 2014 contains ___ than it did when founded in 1957

A

More member states

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17
Q

The Ruhr is not located in the Paris basin. ____

A

The Ruhr is in Germany near the Rhine.

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18
Q

The three Nordic countries all have their major concentrations of population in the ___

A

southern part of their land areas.

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19
Q

___ one of the principles of special interaction

A

Expansion diffusion is not

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20
Q

___ is the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain autonomy at the expense of the central government

A

Devolution

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21
Q

The most populous country in the European realm is ___

A

Germany

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22
Q

The wide plain that runs from western France to Poland is the ___

A

North European Lowland

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23
Q

The “Balkanization” of a region implies ___

A

It’s political breakup

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24
Q

A characteristic feature of Mediterranean Europe is the region’s ___, especially on the Spanish Meseta.

A

absence of natural forests

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25
Q

___ is NOT one of the four Motors of Europe

A

Tirana, Albania

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26
Q

The lowest income part of Italy is the ___

A

Mazzogiorno

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27
Q

The largest economy in Europe is ___

A

Germany

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28
Q

The industrial revolution began in __

A

England

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29
Q

The country in the European Realm with the largest area is ___

A

Ukraine

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30
Q

The Iberian Peninsula is where ___ can be found

A

Portugal

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31
Q

The term ___ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from moderating influences of large water bodies

A

continentality

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32
Q

The southern border of Russia is about latitude ___

A

50 degrees North

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33
Q

The ___ is the name of the industrial region along the Volga

A

Povolzhye

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34
Q

The ___ is the largest unbroken lowland in the world

A

West Siberian Plain

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35
Q

Murmansk, St Petersburg, Vladivostok, and Kaliningrad are important Russian seaports but ___

A

Moscow is not a seaport

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36
Q

The Ural Mountains may be described as ___

A

Rich in mineral Resources

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37
Q

Russia’s economy is highly dependent on its exprt of ___

A

oil and natural gas

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38
Q

Lake Baikal in Russia is notable for being so ___

A

deep

39
Q

In the past ten year’s Russia’s population has ___

A

declined

40
Q

During World War 2, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the entire population of __ exiled to the desert of Kazakhstan.

A

Chechnya

41
Q

Lenin’s tomb, the Kremlin, and St. basil’s cathedral are in central Moscow but ___

A

The winter palace is in St. Petersburg

42
Q

The term ___ is closely associated with Taiga

A

Coniferous Tree

43
Q

In 2006 Azerbaijan began exporting oil to the world market via a pipeline through ___

A

Georgia

44
Q

In the 16th century, __ transformed Russia into a major military power and imperial state

A

Czar Ivan IV

45
Q

The huge size of Russia leads to decreased interactions among its far flung population, which geographers cite as an example of ___

A

distance decay

46
Q

Russia’s population density is greatest in the ___ part of the country

A

southwest

47
Q

__ is the Canadian province that contains majority of French-speaking citizens

A

Quebec

48
Q

The largest city in French-speaking Canada is ___

A

Montreal

49
Q

The population of Canada is about the same as ___

A

California

50
Q

The two major language groups in Canada are __

A

English and French

51
Q

___ but not Wisconsin, Texas, nor Pennsylvania contains territory located in the intermontane Basin and Plateau physio-graphic province

A

Nevada

52
Q

The major mountain chain in the eastern US is the __

A

Appalachains

53
Q

About __ of US Territory still remains in the hands of Native American nations

A

4%

54
Q

The first European settlement in what is now the US was at ___

A

St. Augustine, Florida

55
Q

The great Lakes’ main outlet to the sea is the ___

A

St. Lawrence River

56
Q

From 1790 until 2010, the center of US population has moved ____

A

from Maryland to Missouri

57
Q

Humid America is generally considered to be ___

A

east of 100 degrees West longitude

58
Q

The dryness in the western half of the US is largely due to the ___

A

rain shadow effect

59
Q

The recntly created political unit of ___ is populated and governed by indigenous first nations people

A

Nunavut

60
Q

The __ religious denomination is predominant at location X, below.

A

South, excluding Florida and Texas

61
Q

In 1980, the geographic form of the American city was most strongly shaped by the __

A

automobile

62
Q

The primary migration “pull factor” for the US is ___

A

economic opportunity

63
Q

Ethnic concentrations in the US include Asians and the Pacific coast, Native Americans and the west, Blacks and Mississippi, but ___

A

not Hispanics and South Dakota

64
Q

Haiti was once a colony of ___

A

France

65
Q

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as an ___

A

isthmus

66
Q

The core area of the Aztec state was located in the ___

A

Valley of Mexico

67
Q

___ that import capital and skills and usually produce only one crop for export

A

Plantations are efficient operations

68
Q

The term applied to persons of mixed white and Amerindian ancestry is ___

A

mestizo

69
Q

The Switzerland of Central America, the region’s only truly democratic republic is ___

A

Costa Rica

70
Q

Panama was part of ___ before 1903 US-supported revolution achieved independence

A

Columbia

71
Q

Communal land ownership in Mexico is organized by organizations called ___

A

ejidos

72
Q

A maquiladora is a ___

A

foreign owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods

73
Q

Cuba, on the largest Carribean island, became independent in the 20th century, ___, and has a cigar industry that is important

A

officially encourages tourism

74
Q

The principle language of Cuba is ___

A

Spanish

75
Q

The ___ elevation zone is typically used for dairy and growing barley and potatoes, according to altitudinal zonation

A

tierra fria

76
Q

The maya language is still spoken today in the ___

A

Yucatan and Guatemala

77
Q

The nationality of citizens in Curacao is ___

A

Dutch

78
Q

A devastating ___ struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 10, 2010

A

Earthquake

79
Q

Bolivia, Ecuador, and Columbia are partially inside the amazon basin but ___

A

Paraguay is entirely outside it

80
Q

The climate of central Chile is ___

A

Mediterranean

81
Q

South America’s largest city in population is ___

A

Sao Paulo

82
Q

The world’s largest wetland is the ___

A

Pantanal de Mato Grosso

83
Q

In the European-Commercial Region ___

A

85% of the population is pure European

84
Q

Patagonia lies in both ___

A

Argentina and Chile

85
Q

Major reasons for bringing Africans as slaves to Brazil include its plantation economy, small Amerindian population, and low cost of slave labor. ____

A

The Africans had no experience in sugar cane production

86
Q

The treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a boundary was to be drawn separating newly discovered territories of ____

A

Spain and Portugal

87
Q

The ___ Current is a cool offshore current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline

A

Peru

88
Q

In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the ___

A

commercial/industrial spine

89
Q

Fazendas are ___

A

coffee plantations

90
Q

The poorest area of Brazil is the ___

A

sertao

91
Q

The major Brazilian city is located on the Amazon River is ___

A

Manaus

92
Q

Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo is famous for it’s ____

A

oil deposits

93
Q

Angel Fa;;s is located in the same country as ___

A

the Orinoco River

94
Q

The world’s driest desert, the Atacama, is located in ___

A

northern Chile

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