World Geography-Exam

Question 1

• Because they contain valuable water supplies and can protect coastal areas from storms and floods, ___ are important

Accepted Answer

Wetlands

Question 2

What state is #11

Accepted Answer

Florida

Question 3

What state is #2

Accepted Answer

Tennessee

Question 4

What state is #6

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North Carolina

Question 5

What state is #9

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Question 6

A smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river

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Tributary

Question 7

The source of a stream or river

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Headwaters

Question 8

Southern Europe is a popular destination for tourists because of its___ summer climates

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Warm, dry

Question 9

What State Water Project is the countries largest state-built water and power development project

Accepted Answer

California

Question 10

Geography was important to the colonial New England economy because

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It had an excellent natural harbors and an abundant supply of timber

Question 11

In Latin America, large agricultural estates owned by families or corporations

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Latifundia

Question 12

A wind turbine is a source of_____energy.

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Renewable

Question 13

What region of Florida providing rich habitats for a variety of animals and plant species

Accepted Answer

The Everglades

Question 14

What state is #3

Accepted Answer

Arkansas

Question 15

What state is #12

Accepted Answer

Mississippi

Question 16

A network of safe houses in the United States that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom

Accepted Answer

Underground Railroad

Question 17

What state is #4

Accepted Answer

Arkansas

Question 18

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.

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Isthmus

Question 19

What U.S state supports a variety of wildlife, including grizzly bears, bald eagles, wolves, and bobcats

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Alaska

Question 20

A belief in the right of a nation to be an independent state

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Nationalism

Question 21

A body of mountain ranges formed by fault-line activity.

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Massifs

Question 22

What climate zone grow bananas and sugarcane- hot land

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Tierra caliente

Question 23

An independently governed community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands, notably present in Ancient Greece.

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City-states

Question 24

What state is # 8

Accepted Answer

West Virginia

Question 25

What state is #7

Accepted Answer

Alabama

Question 26

Which climate zone has permanent ice and snow- frozen land

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Tierra helada

Question 27

Prior to independence, Panama was part of

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Columbia

Question 28

Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients, leading to plant gowth that depletes oxygen

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eutrophication

Question 29

Relationship between two places in which one produces something the other needs, resulting in an exchange.

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Complementarity

Question 30

Musical form that developed in the United States in the early 1900’s, blending African rhythms and European harmonies

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Jazz

Question 31

A dialect used in everyday speech that blends elements of several languages

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Patois

Question 32

Rebirth; the period in European civilization characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values.

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Renaissance

Question 33

Member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and Southeast Asia

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Bedouin

Question 34

Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from automobile exhausts

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Smog

Question 35

Which climate zone is the most densely populated-temperate land

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Tierra templada

Question 36

A resource formed in the Earth by plant and animal remains

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Aqueduct

Question 37

A farming method used in dry regions in which crops are grown that rely only on the natural precipitation

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Dry farming

Question 38

What state is #10

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Louisiana

Question 39

What city builds levees and damages the natural landscape that once protected from flooding

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New Orleans

Question 40

Local form of a language used in a particular place or by a certain group.

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Dialect

Question 41

What river that flows 2,350 miles from its source in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico

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The Mississippi

Question 42

A channel or pipeline for carrying a large quantity of flowing water

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Aqueduct

Question 43

What climate zone grow potatoes and barley-cold land

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Tierra fria

Question 44

What state is #1

Accepted Answer

Kentucky

Question 45

What state is #5

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 46

Islands in the Antilles are surrounded by___, which are home to a wide variety of fish

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Coral reefs

Question 47

A large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters

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Hurricane

Question 48

Planting young trees or seeds on lands where trees have been cut or destroyed

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Reforestation

Question 49

The removal of all trees in a stand of timber

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Clear-cutting

Question 50

How did the Great Lakes form

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Glacier basins filling with water

Question 51

What major cause of the 2008 economic downturn in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A crisis in the home mortgage banking sector

Question 52

A group or chain of islands

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Archipelago

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