Geography mid-terms

The most common measurement of a country's wealth is called the Lowest Common Denominator

Source of a river

Mexico and Central America form a separate continent

A ban on trading with foreign countries

Canada's capital is ____ and it is located in ____

The Bahamas are built on coral outcroppings

An artificial waterway

Dios de los Muertos means day of the dead in English

The highest tides in the world are found in Normandy

The area between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast mountains is called the

An area of land between hills or mountains

An underground source of water is called a/an

The foundation of society is religion

Socialism is what type of economic system?

The area between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coastal mountains

The Mexican Plateau is a small area in the north

Churchill, Manitoba is known as

Subtracting a state's crude death rate from its crude birth rate gives us the population growth

The Lesser Antilles is a chain of islands that form the western border of the Caribbean

Define Theocracy

An area of water bordered on three sides; smaller than a gulf

The point beyond which trees cannot grow is the tundra line

A steep face of rock and soil

Weaker nations that border a more powerful one are in that nation's sphere of influence

Oligarchy is defined as

A piece of land jutting out into the water

There are at least 17 major language families

Force that created the Appalachian, Rocky and Pacific mountains

A deep valley with steep sides

Most countries in Central America are Socialist

The longest river in America is the

Western boundary of the Great Plains

What is the most prominent language family in the world?

Archipelago

Cuba is the only Democracy in the Caribbean

What type of economy allows competition without a lot of government interference?

The study of human population

Belize is the only country in Central America to have English as its official language

Define life expectancy

Canada's political districts are called

Maine shares a border with Ontario and Quebec provinces

The MacKenzie is the longest river in Canada

Demographics

The executive of a province is called the

Mountain ranges and rivers often form natural borders

The British Monarch is represented in Canada by the Governor General.

What do we call the area of hard rock that surrounds Hudson Bay?

The rule of man over man is called government.

This is the easiest quiz I've ever taken

What two benefits does religion provide in a society?