World Geography Semester Final Review

A body of land that is surrounded by water.

Which of the of following is a main contributor to deforestation in Latin America?

What US President played in significant role in building the Panama Canal?

A large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land.

Enormous moving pieces of the earth's lithosphere.

Tourist travel to Cork, Ireland to kiss which national monument?

Which of the following is NOT a weather extreme

Hanoi is the capital of which country?

How long is the Niagara River?

The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time.

A narrow deep valley with steep sides.

The west coast of Chile is farther east than New York.

What are the two most spoken languages in South America?

What group of people are of pure European and born in either Portugal or Spain?

Zuider Zee was elected PM of Germany and played a significant role in uniting Germany.

By area, what is the largest state in the United States?

Imaginary lines that go around the earth and over the poles, mark locations east and west.

What is the capital of Norway?

The North Atlantic Drift brings warm water from the tropic to the west coast of what continent?

The words "Allahu Akbar" is repeated this many times on the Iran flag.

Most of Europe consists of what type of climate?

What is the longest mountain range in the world?

The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is smaller than Louisiana.

Glaciers store between 70% and 80% of all the freshwater in on the planet.

What water way allows ships to go from the Mediterranean Sea directly to the Red Sea?

Which of the following groups did NOT factor into the culture of Latin America?

In which country would you find the Albert Canal?

Which American city was once called New Amsterdam?

Low land between hills or mountains.

Separates the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe.

Imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator, mark locations north and south.

Under Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia carried out a program of ethnic cleansing.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the smallest mountain chain on earth.

Runs the entire length of South America and is part of a larger chain that runs through N.A.

The Adriatic Sea and the Aegean Sea are arms of what larger body of water?

On the banks of which river does the Portuguese capital of Lisbon stand?

Which South American city is named River of January?

In which country are women more likely to get promoted to the boardroom in large companies?

What is the central plateau of Spain?

A large, level area of grassland with few or no trees.

About how long is the Panama Canal?

What is the only US state named after an English county?

Fjords are steep U-shaped valleys carved out by glaciers, they connect to the sea.

What religion does the majority people in Latin America adhere to?

What is the currency of Switzerland?

Which mountain range splits Spain and France?

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

Who was the first person to walk on a tightrope across Niagara Falls?

Which US state has the most farmland, in square miles?

What is the wettest city on Earth?

About 90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

Production of goods and services is determined by the government.

Which of the following countries has the largest population of Muslims?

Bolivia has two capitals; La Paz and Sucre.

After WWII, East. Europe became a region of satellite nations dominated by which country?

Siberia used to use solid blocks of tea as currency.

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

What is the capital of France?

A narrow channel connecting two larger bodies of water.

Helsinki is the capital of which country?

Which of the following in NOT an island chain in the Caribbean Sea?

Which of the following would be found in a region that had undergone balkanization?

The North Atlantic Drift has a direct impact on the climate of Western Europe.

What is the capital of Pakistan?

A lowland region that is saturated by water

Which of the following countries has the highest life expectancy?

Natural elevation of the earth's surface with steep sides and greater height than a hill.

A sheltered area of water deep enough for docking ships.

The official language of Guyana is English.

The Dutch reclaimed land from the sea by creating polders.

Which of the following things did the Europeans introduce to the Native Americans?

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world equally between which two countries?

Which country is known as the Great Sandy Desert?

Weather conditions at a particular location of a long period of time.

Rome is closer to the North Pole than New York.

Mantle means, "A fracture in a rock formation causing a disconitnuity (break)?"