Exam I Review

Weather can be defined as the ___while climate could be defined as the ___of the atmosphere.

The largest population clusters are:

Which of the following Caribbean republics was devastated by an earthquake in 2010?

A transform plate boundary formed the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.

Which Caribbean Island has the most active volcanoes

Culture is defined as the study of the spatial distribution of people, places, and things.

Which mountains are in Missouri, Aransas, Oklahoma, and Kansas?

The Rockies developed further inland due to a lesser slope subduction of an oceanic plate.

Starkville is 150 mi NE of Jackson and 100 mi W of Tuscaloosa is an absolute location.

Four essentials of a map are:

What is an example of a primary economic activity (first level)?

Half of Montserrat is uninhabitable due to a volcanic threat.

Panama (an isthmus) connects the Americas (connects North/Middle America to South America).

The land at the base of the Appalachians that gently slopes to the Atlantic is known as:

Which cultural hearth had the coldest climate and rockiest soils?

Which plate boundaries move side by side?

What is not one of the 3 major areas of water drainage in North America?

The central core of urban areas became urban ghettos but are slowly becoming revitalized.

Hispaniola houses both:

The southern cultural hearth had the rockiest soils.

The rain shadow is:

Geography can be studied utilizing remote sensing and GIS?

1780-1850 in the US saw expansion in territory, urban pop., & economic power, is known as:

What is the 450-mile stretch from Baltimore/DC to Boston known as?

Oppression is an example of:

This area is known as the highly-eroded area, which is the core or nucleus of North America.

Arid is the most prominent climate across Middle America.

Native Americans are concentrated in the W & African Americans are concentrated in the South.

Africans were brought to N. America via the Atlantic Slave Trade to assist with agriculture.

The topographic profile of the U.S. is: Coast, Rockies, Plains, Appalachians, Coast.

Transform, Divergent, and Convergent are the three types of plate boundaries.

What type of plate boundary formed the Appalachian Mountains?

Oklahoma experiences earthquakes.

Volcanoes and earthquakes occur frequently at divergent plate boundaries.

What is the economic trade agreement between Mexico, US, and Canada?

Coastal areas having moderated temperatures while inland areas having more variation is:

Which ancient civilizations were in Middle America?

Initially, Democrats and Republicans supported the North American trade agreement.

Which modern day city is the former capitol city of the Aztec civilization?

Push and pull factors do not work together to drive immigration.

The Dominican Republic is part of the U.S.

A location being south or north of the equator, which impacts the climate, is known as:

What is the tallest peak in the Cascades?

Tropical cyclones, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in Middle America.

Canada and the United States are the North American Realm.

What piece of legislation forced Native Tribes from the SE to locations west of the Mississippi

What is defined as the basic special unit for the world?

The Aztec civilization and Inca civilizations were both in Middle America?

The Sierra-Nevada Mountains make Las Vegas cooler and wetter.

Christopher Columbus first landed in Florida when arriving in North America.