Midterm 1 Flashcards
Components of culture are artifacts, social institutions, and ____.
Mentafacts
In the koppen-Geiger scheme, the world’s drier climates are grouped under ____.
the letter B
The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: _____ .
Eurasia
The world’s population is now over ____.
7 billion in total size and is expected to be about 11 billion by the year 2050
The earth rotates to the ___.
east
The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the ___ realm
Middle America
Where geographic Reims meet ___ not sharp borders, mark their contacts.
Transition zones
___ force tie a nation together.
Centripetal
A map with the fractional scale 1:2500,000,000 has a ____ scale than one with a scale of 1:1,000,000
Smaller
The area surround an urban center is its ___
hinterland
At the height of the Pleistocene gladiators, glacial ice extended as far south as the ___
Ohio river
Culture refers to patterns of __
Learned behavior
Nearly all of the world’s richest countries lie in the ___
Mid-latitudes
___ happens when people move and take their culture to a new location
Relocation diffusion
The United Kingdom consists of ___
Northern Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland
The European Union in 2014 contains ___ than it did when founded in 1957
More member states
The Ruhr is not located in the Paris basin. ____
The Ruhr is in Germany near the Rhine.
The three Nordic countries all have their major concentrations of population in the ___
southern part of their land areas.
___ one of the principles of special interaction
Expansion diffusion is not
___ is the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain autonomy at the expense of the central government
Devolution
The most populous country in the European realm is ___
Germany
The wide plain that runs from western France to Poland is the ___
North European Lowland
The “Balkanization” of a region implies ___
It’s political breakup
A characteristic feature of Mediterranean Europe is the region’s ___, especially on the Spanish Meseta.
absence of natural forests
___ is NOT one of the four Motors of Europe
Tirana, Albania
The lowest income part of Italy is the ___
Mazzogiorno
The largest economy in Europe is ___
Germany
The industrial revolution began in __
England
The country in the European Realm with the largest area is ___
Ukraine
The Iberian Peninsula is where ___ can be found
Portugal
The term ___ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from moderating influences of large water bodies
continentality
The southern border of Russia is about latitude ___
50 degrees North
The ___ is the name of the industrial region along the Volga
Povolzhye
The ___ is the largest unbroken lowland in the world
West Siberian Plain
Murmansk, St Petersburg, Vladivostok, and Kaliningrad are important Russian seaports but ___
Moscow is not a seaport
The Ural Mountains may be described as ___
Rich in mineral Resources
Russia’s economy is highly dependent on its exprt of ___
oil and natural gas
Lake Baikal in Russia is notable for being so ___
deep
In the past ten year’s Russia’s population has ___
declined
During World War 2, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the entire population of __ exiled to the desert of Kazakhstan.
Chechnya
Lenin’s tomb, the Kremlin, and St. basil’s cathedral are in central Moscow but ___
The winter palace is in St. Petersburg
The term ___ is closely associated with Taiga
Coniferous Tree
In 2006 Azerbaijan began exporting oil to the world market via a pipeline through ___
Georgia
In the 16th century, __ transformed Russia into a major military power and imperial state
Czar Ivan IV
The huge size of Russia leads to decreased interactions among its far flung population, which geographers cite as an example of ___
distance decay
Russia’s population density is greatest in the ___ part of the country
southwest
__ is the Canadian province that contains majority of French-speaking citizens
Quebec
The largest city in French-speaking Canada is ___
Montreal
The population of Canada is about the same as ___
California
The two major language groups in Canada are __
English and French
___ but not Wisconsin, Texas, nor Pennsylvania contains territory located in the intermontane Basin and Plateau physio-graphic province
Nevada
The major mountain chain in the eastern US is the __
Appalachains
About __ of US Territory still remains in the hands of Native American nations
4%
The first European settlement in what is now the US was at ___
St. Augustine, Florida
The great Lakes’ main outlet to the sea is the ___
St. Lawrence River
From 1790 until 2010, the center of US population has moved ____
from Maryland to Missouri
Humid America is generally considered to be ___
east of 100 degrees West longitude
The dryness in the western half of the US is largely due to the ___
rain shadow effect
The recntly created political unit of ___ is populated and governed by indigenous first nations people
Nunavut
The __ religious denomination is predominant at location X, below.
South, excluding Florida and Texas
In 1980, the geographic form of the American city was most strongly shaped by the __
automobile
The primary migration “pull factor” for the US is ___
economic opportunity
Ethnic concentrations in the US include Asians and the Pacific coast, Native Americans and the west, Blacks and Mississippi, but ___
not Hispanics and South Dakota
Haiti was once a colony of ___
France
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as an ___
isthmus
The core area of the Aztec state was located in the ___
Valley of Mexico
___ that import capital and skills and usually produce only one crop for export
Plantations are efficient operations
The term applied to persons of mixed white and Amerindian ancestry is ___
mestizo
The Switzerland of Central America, the region’s only truly democratic republic is ___
Costa Rica
Panama was part of ___ before 1903 US-supported revolution achieved independence
Columbia
Communal land ownership in Mexico is organized by organizations called ___
ejidos
A maquiladora is a ___
foreign owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods
Cuba, on the largest Carribean island, became independent in the 20th century, ___, and has a cigar industry that is important
officially encourages tourism
The principle language of Cuba is ___
Spanish
The ___ elevation zone is typically used for dairy and growing barley and potatoes, according to altitudinal zonation
tierra fria
The maya language is still spoken today in the ___
Yucatan and Guatemala
The nationality of citizens in Curacao is ___
Dutch
A devastating ___ struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 10, 2010
Earthquake
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Columbia are partially inside the amazon basin but ___
Paraguay is entirely outside it
The climate of central Chile is ___
Mediterranean
South America’s largest city in population is ___
Sao Paulo
The world’s largest wetland is the ___
Pantanal de Mato Grosso
In the European-Commercial Region ___
85% of the population is pure European
Patagonia lies in both ___
Argentina and Chile
Major reasons for bringing Africans as slaves to Brazil include its plantation economy, small Amerindian population, and low cost of slave labor. ____
The Africans had no experience in sugar cane production
The treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a boundary was to be drawn separating newly discovered territories of ____
Spain and Portugal
The ___ Current is a cool offshore current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline
Peru
In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the ___
commercial/industrial spine
Fazendas are ___
coffee plantations
The poorest area of Brazil is the ___
sertao
The major Brazilian city is located on the Amazon River is ___
Manaus
Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo is famous for it’s ____
oil deposits
Angel Fa;;s is located in the same country as ___
the Orinoco River
The world’s driest desert, the Atacama, is located in ___
northern Chile
