World Geography Review - Quiz 1

Who was responsible for establishing the Line of Demarcation?

What are 2 products that came from the Western Hemisphere during the Columbia exchange?

The first European settlers in the New World attempted to settle in Newfoundland

What are 2 products that came from the Eastern Hemisphere during the Columbia exchange?

What is an imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude that is an equal distance from the North and South Poles?

The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 gave which country more of modern day Brazil?

What is a line of longitude at 0 degrees that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

Which 2 of the following are south of the Equator?

Humans established settlements through domestication and farming in what period?

Economy is the distribution of the wealth and resources of a country or region

Who were the first European explorers in the 900s?

What type of map shows natural features, such as bodies of water?

Christopher Columbus thought he had reached India when he landed in the Caribbean

History is the study of future events or affairs

What motivated Columbus to explore?

Lines of latitude run north and south

The Treaty of Tordesillas moved the Line of Demarcation further EAST in 1494

What was drawn in the Atlantic Ocean dividing the Western Hemisphere to resolve a conflict between Spain and Portugal?

The ecosystems of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres were not changed by the Columbian Exchange

Which 2 of the following are north of the Equator?

What did the first Americans travel over to arrive in America?

Italy backed Christopher Columbus's voyages to the New World

Lines of longitude run north and south

Which type of map shows countries or states, and may also show capitals and other major cities?

Religion is an organized belief system

What is a system that rules a state called?