2017 Geography Midterm Review

Cold, treeless region - long winter, short summer, grass and low bushes is a ____ biome.

El Nino and La Nina occur when _____ currents and weather patterns reverse.

Housing near the Central Business District is expensive for all these reasons EXCEPT...

Which of the following is NOT true of Ivan III of Russia?

Things cause people to leave a place or migrate to a place are called ____ and ____ Factors.

Sales people, teachers, and doctors are examples of ____ economic activity.

What country colonized Brazil and what language do they speak?

Most of Latin America has a ___ economy.

People settle in volcanic regions for all the following reason EXCEPT...

Mountains and rainforests are ____ making travel and trade difficult.

Colonized by different countries + African slaves makes Caribbean islands ____.

Production of goods and services determined by demand from consumers; free enterprise.

Which of the following is NOT true about Germany at the end of World War II?

Goods brought in from another country are called ____.

North Atlantic Drift affects climate of Northwest Europe in all these ways EXCEPT...

Tourism very large part of economies in what region of Latin America?

Economy in which key industries owned by government - private businesses also encouraged.

System of trade - street vendors or markets.

Tendency for cultures to become more alike.

Production of goods and services determined by a central government

Because the sun never sets during summer, the Scandinavian Peninsula is called ___.

_____ is the world's deepest lake, called Jewel of Siberia,

Ruling family (King or Queen) holds some power - limited by a constitution.

The massacre of 6 million Jews by the Nazis in WWII is called the ______.

Transfer of animals, plants, culture between Americas and Old World 15th and 16th centuries.

Collectivized farming, industrialized USSR, killed 30 million people.

Countries splintering along cultural or religious lines as in Eastern Europe is called _____.

All of the following moved from America to Europe in the Columbian Exchange EXCEPT ____.

Demographic Transition Stage 2: high birthrate+declining death rate = _____ economy.

Reasons Great Britain left the European Union (BREXIT) include...

Increasingly integrated world economy, marked by free trade and free flow of capital

The Inca used ____ to grow food in the Andes Mountains.

Can be replaced through natural processes; trees

Which of the following is NOT and advantage of globalization?

Interdependent community of plants and animals.

The Industrial Revolution (mass production) created many jobs - led to rapid _____.

Merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups.

Geographers use all of these EXCEPT ___ to categorize countries as more or less developed.

Countries of Eastern Europe dominated by the Soviet Union during Cold War were called ______.

Period of hostility between Soviet Union and U.S. from 1945-1991 is called the _____.

Which of the following is NOT true of this country?

Growing only enough to feed yourself and family

Individual or group holds complete power

How did the Bubonic Plague spread across Asia and then to Europe?

Spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior

Fishing, farming, and mining are examples of _____ economic activity

Which of the following is NOT a reason people want to live in a place?

Which of the following is NOT true of the European Union?

The explosion of a ____ at Chernobyl, Ukraine created an environmental disaster.

Reclaimed land in the Netherlands - build seaworks, then drain and fill - area called a ____.