Geography Final Exam
Question: Climate is the pattern of weather over a long period of time.
Answer: CLIMATE
Question: Distortion is a change in size, shape or position when shown on a map.
Answer: DISTORTION
Question: Vertical Climate is the overall weather patterns of a region as influenced by elevation. The higher the higher you go the colder it gets!
Answer: VERTICAL CLIMATE
Question: A Tundra is a climate zone with very cold winters, cold summers, and little rain or snow; a vast, treeless plain in the article regions between the ice cap and the tree line; also a vegetation zone that is a treeless plain with grasses, mosses, and scrubs adapted to a cold climate.
Answer: TUNDRA
Question: Replacement Rate is the total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself.
Answer: Replacement Rate
Question: The number of years that an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics.
Answer: Life Expectancy
Question: A huge food shortage.
Answer: Famine
Question: The exact Position of a place on earth.
Answer: Absolute Location
Question: Total number of people in an area.
Answer: Population
Question: The Distance north or south of the Equator, measured in units called degrees.
Answer: Latitude
Question: All the plants and trees in an area is called VEGETATION
Answer: Vegetation
Question: A system that allows for the year round watering of crops is called PERINNIAL IRRIGATION
Answer: Perennial irrigation
Question: A type of tropical grassland
Answer: Savanna
Question: Natural forces that change Earth's physical features including forces that build up and wear down Earth's surface
Answer: Physical Processess
Question: The forces that DIVIDE people and countries
Answer: Centrifugal Force
Question: The annual rate of population growth. The percentage is calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate it does not include people moving into our out of a country.,
Answer: Rate of Natural Increase
Question: The location of a place described in relationship to places near it.
Answer: Relative Location
Question: The average number of people who live in a unit or area such as a square mile.
Answer: Population Density
Question: Geography is , the study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products.
Answer: Geography
Question: Centripetal Force is a force that unites / brings together people and countries.
Answer: Centripetal Force
Question: any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time
Answer: Renewable Resource
Question: a resource that cannot be reused or replaced easily (ex. gems, iron, copper, fossil fuels)
Answer: Nonrenewable Resource
Question: an area of high, flat land
Answer: Plateau
Question: A wind that changes direction with the change of season, occurring especially in southern Asia and Africa.
Answer: Monsoon
Question: when the birth rate equals the death rate
Answer: Zero Population Growth
Question: Hydroelectric potential is the electrical power that can be generated from flowing water.
Answer: Hydroelectric Potential
Question: The way the population is spread out over an area.
Answer: Population Distribution
Question: The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees.
Answer: Longitude
Question: A River Basin is the area drained by a river its tributaries.
Answer: River Basin
Question: The condition of the air and the sky from day to day.
Answer: Weather
Question: An area defined by one or more natural or cultural charateristics taht set it apart from other areas. Example: Alabama and Auburn Football is BIG STUFF in the southern region of the U.S., but not the northern region of the U.S..
Answer: Region
Question: land surrounded by water on three sides
Answer: Peninsula
Question: the time required for a population to double in size
Answer: Doubling Time
Question: A map that shows a particular theme or topic. Example: Political maps are thematic maps.
Answer: Thematic Map
Question: ...Because the world is round and your flat paper map is flat
Answer: Why are certain parts of flat maps always distorted
Question: The most accurate way to view the earth is to use a GLOBE.
Answer: What is the most accurate way to view the earth
Question: North America and South America are located entirely in the western hemisphere.
Answer: What 2 continents are located entirely in the western hemisphere?
Question: Scale: Shows the relative size: Compass: Shows Direction, KEy: Part of a map that explains the symbols Title: Describes what the map is about.
Answer: Tell what each of the following parts of map is used for : scale: Compass: Key:
Question: A physical map shows mountains,deserts, and land features
Answer: What does a physical map show? An economic activity map?
Question: The four seasons happen because of the tilt of the Earth's axis. At different times of the year, the sun's rays hit different parts of the globe more directly. The angle of the Earth's axis tilts the Northern Hemisphere towards the sun during the summer.
Answer: What causes the changing of the seasons?
Question: Altitude, Latitude, Prevailing Winds, Precipitation, and Ocean Currents effect Earth's Climate Regions.
Answer: What factors affect the Earth's Climate Regions?
Question: Asia is the largest continent on Earth.
Answer: What is the LARGEST CONTINENT ON EARTH?
Question: Asia is home to the most people on Earth.
Answer: Which Continent is home to the most people on Earth?
Question: ...By comparing birth rates and death rates.
Answer: How do demographers calculate population growth?
Question: wind and water
Answer: What two physical processes ten to wear down mountains
Question: An example of a RENEWABLE RESOURCE IS Wood.An example of a NON RENEWABLE RESOURCE IS fossil fuels/oil.
Answer: Give one Example of a Renewable and a Nonrenewable resource
Question: .Asia winsCONTINENTS (by size) #1 Asia - (44,579,000 sq km) #2 Africa - (30,065,000 sq km) #3 North America - (24,256,000 sq km) #4 South America - (17,819,000 sq km) #5 Antarctica - (13,209,000 sq km) #6 Europe - (9,938,000 sq km) #7 Australia/Oceania
Answer: How does Europe compare in six to other continents?
Question: Russia is the largest country in the world.
Answer: How does Russia compare in size to other countries?
Question: The European Union, the EU, makes sure benefits come from inter state trading activities. The EU policy tries to promote trade among other countries.
Answer: How has the European Union improved the movement of goods, people, and ideas between countries?
Question: Christianity is the most common religion with over half being Roman Catholic.
Answer: What is the most common religion found in Europe and Russia?
Question: ...The Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains act as natural borders between Europe and Asia.
Answer: What landform divides Euripe and Asia into 2 separate continents?
Question: growing slowly
Answer: Are the populations of Europe and Russia growing quickly or slowly?
Question: The Sahara Desert is a geographic feature that covers much of North Africa.
Answer: What georgraphic feature covers much of North Africa?
Question: The longest river in the world is the NILE RIVER. It Flows SOUTH to NORTH. The Nile river flows FROM THE WHITE NILE AND BLUE NILE RIVERS. . The Nile River goes TO the MEDITERENEAN SEA.
Answer: What is the longest river in the world? Which direction does it flow? Where does the river flow FROM and TO?
Question: Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing, fishing and trade.
Answer: What is the major part of Africa's economy?
Question: ...The Aswan high dam is important because it controls the Niles annual floods, which previously flood settlements bordering the river, and generates electricity and makes the Nile easier to control.
Answer: What was Egypt's main reason for building the Aswan High Dam?
Question: Apartheid was when there was a law in South Africa that separated whites and blacks. Black people did not have many rights under APARTHEID.
Answer: Explain Apartheid and its INFLUENCE on South Africa.
Question: .Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994. Blacks could now have citizenship and the right to vote. It also helped them get out of low paying jobs and bad schools.
Answer: How did the END OF APARTHEID change South Africa?
Question: British Colonies
Answer: Colonies from which continent colonized much of Africa
Question: ...
Answer: How does Africa's elevation compare to the other 6 continents on Earth?
Question: AsiaAfricaNorth America South AmericaAntarcticaEuropeAustralia
Answer: How does Africa's size compre to other continents?
Question: ...Mount Everest (also known as Qomolangma, or Chomolungma) in Asia's Himalayas is the world's highest mountain peak. When measured from sea level to its summit, it's 29,029 feet (8,848 meters) tall.
Answer: What is the tallest mountian in the world? What mountain range is it located in?
Question: About 36 percent of China's population now lives in urban areas. About 64 percent live in rural areas.
Answer: What percentage of Asia's population lives in rural areas?
Question: Hinduism & Buddhism
Answer: What is the main religion in the MOnsoon Asia?
Question: Size: AsiaPopulation: China and India
Answer: What are the 2 largest countires in Asia, in terms of size and population?
Question: ...Saudia Arabia has the largest oil supply
Answer: Describe the distribution of oil in Southwest Asia?
Question: ...It came from the belief that economic growth would be compromised by too fast population growth
Answer: What was the goal of China's One Child Policy?
Question: 1. Judiasim, 2., Christianity, and 3.Islam
Answer: Name 3 religions that orginated in Southwest Asia.
Question: Islam
Answer: What is the dominant religion in Southwest Asia?
Question: ...
Answer: Countries from which continent colonized much of Monsoon Asia?
Question: Siberia is a region of central and eastern Russia stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific OceanSiberia is a sub-arctic climate being cold and frigid almost all year round.So, with it being SOOOOO cold, the population density is low. In other words, IT'S TOO COLD FOR MANY PEOPLE TO WANT TO LIVE THERE!
Answer: Where is Siberia? What is its climate like? How does this affect its population density?
Question: ...The ultimate goal of OPEC, is to keep oil prices stable so the geopolitical things can also be stable.
Answer: What is the major goal of OPEC?
Question: Dry, Tropical, Polar, Continental, temperate, Moderate
Answer: Name the Earth's 5 major Climate Regions