MIDTERM REVIEW

Question 1

What factors affect climate?

Answer 1

Latitude
Air Masses
Continentality 
Elevation
Mountain Barriers
Ocean Currents
Pressure Cells
Storm Tracks

Question 2

What kinds of vegetation are found in the forestlands?

Answer 2

Deciduous & coniferous trees

Question 3

What kinds of vegetation are found in the grasslands?

Answer 3

Grass

Question 4

What kinds of vegetation are found in the tundra?

Answer 4

Mossed and lichen

Question 5

What kinds of vegetation are found in the desert?

Answer 5

Sagebrush
Cacti
Shrubs

Question 6

What explains the reasons for the seasons?

Answer 6

Th tilt of the earth on its axis!

23.5°

Question 7

What causes earthquakes?

Answer 7

Transform tectonic plate movements

Question 8

What is the physical and chemical process that changes the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s surface?

Answer 8

Weathering!

Question 9

What’s the difference between climate and weather?

Answer 9

Climate is the long term weather conditions in a place

Weather is the short term conditions of the atmosphere at a particular location and time

Question 10

What’s a Region?

Answer 10

An area of the earth’s surface with similar characteristics (physical, political, economic, and cultural)

Question 11

What’s absolute location?

Relative?

Answer 11

Absolute: direct address, or lat and long.

Relative: describes a place relative to its surroundings (3 blocks from the library)

Question 12

What are the 3 ways people altar the environment?

Answer 12

Adaptation
Modification
Dependency

Question 13

What’s desertification?

Answer 13

When fertile land becomes a desert. Mainly as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.

Question 14

Why do people live on the coast?

Answer 14

Because that’s where trade is the fastest and the most abundant.

Question 15

What can a ovulation pyramid show?

Answer 15

Can show birth rates, death rates, how developed a country is, how the country lives, education rates, and who can read, etc.

Question 16

What stage population pyramid has a low birth and low death rate?

Answer 16

Contracting (stage 4)

Question 17

What stage population pyramid has a high birth rate and low death rate?

Answer 17

Stationary (stage 3)

Question 18

Which pyramid has a high birth and death rate?

Answer 18

Expanding (stage 1+2)

Question 19

What’s the different between immigration and emigration?

Answer 19

Immigration: coming into the country
Emigration: exit a country

Question 20

What’s culture? What elements impact culture?

Answer 20

The knowledge of values, norms, and attitudes shared and passed by members of a specific group.

Elements: arts, language, relationships, beliefs, institutions, technology

Question 21

What is the feeling of pride and loyalty toward your country?

Answer 21

Nationalism

Question 22

What’s the difference between race and ethnicity?

Answer 22

Race: biologically transmitted traits that are obvious and considered important.

Ethnicity: specific groups that shares a language, customs, and common heritage

Question 23

What are the 3 types of Christianity?

Answer 23

Catholicism
Orthodox
Protestant

Question 24

All countries have what kind of economic system?

Answer 24

Socialist (mixed)

Question 25

What are the levels of economic development?

Answer 25

``` Primary Secondary Tertiary Quarternary Quinary ```

Question 26

What is democracy?

Answer 26

Citizens hold power either directly or through elected representatives

Question 27

What is a dictatorship?

Answer 27

Centralized power around an individual or a military group (mainly one person) like in North Korea.

Question 28

What's an oligarchy?

Answer 28

2 kings rule a nation. Small group of people have control over a country, organization, or institution.

Question 29

What's a theocracy?

Answer 29

When the country is controlled by religious leaders.

Question 30

What's a republic?

Answer 30

Supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.

Question 31

What's a monarchy?

Answer 31

Oldest form of government. Family controls that country. Less power to the citizens.

Question 32

Whats a single-party state?

Answer 32

Only the ruling party governs. Small group of people (they call the selves the "elite party") will rule that country.

Question 33

What's a unitary government?

Answer 33

When the upper level government doesn't recognize states or subdivisions of land or entities.

Question 34

What's a confederate government?

Answer 34

Power is divided between national and state authorities. Primary power is given to individual states (mainly lower government controls)

Question 35

What's a federal government?

Answer 35

Divide power between central government and constituent government. (Central government sees people as a whole, lower government sees people as individuals)

Question 36

What's the European Union?

Answer 36

A group of countries in Europe that formed a confederation to made trade faster and easier

Question 37

What was the Cold War? who did it involve and why?

Answer 37

The Cold War was a war that had no physical fighting, just an increase in military power. It happened when USA and Russia disagreed about communism and democracy.