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1
What is Urbanization?
A shortage of water
More people moving away from an area
More people moving in to an area, making it more urban, creating problems
How many people live in an area
2
What Percent of All Oil Comes From the Middle East?
20%
70%
40%
30%
3
What Resources do People Want from the Amazon Rainforest?
The wood
Land to farm on
Land for cattle
Sap for rubber
4
What Religion did the Mayans Practice?
Christianity
Buddhism
Hinduism
Animism/Catholicism
5
What is Colonialism?
Taking full or partial control over a country
Exploring a country economically
Occupying a country with settlers
All of the Above
6
What is One Goal of Terrace Farming?
To run out of food
To grow less food for people
To maximise land use, to not waste any land
To grow more food
7
What Type of Map Would You use if You Were Trying to Find How Many People Lived in Washington D.C?
Economic
Land Use
Political
Population
8
What Does HDI Stand For?
Hydro Dipped Ice
Happy, Dirty Ibex
Human Detail Index
Human Development Index
9
What is China's One Child Policy Meant to Help
More workers to work
More children to help their parents
Slower growing population
Faster growing population
10
Why is Japans Overpopulation a Problem?
Land area
Volcanoes
Unemployment
Trade with other countries
11
What did Most of the Women do in the Mayan Civilization?
Weave
Hunt
Sleep
Cook
12
What is Free Trade?
Buying items from other countries for free
Trade between contries without unnessesary restrictions
Trade that has no food involved
Trade to help struggling countries
13
What Group Were Targeted in the Genocide?
Men, women, and children from Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups
Anyone who opposed the government
Anyone who wasn't on the government
Anyone who wanted to leave the country
14
What is a Cause of Mexico City's Population Growth?
Hunger
Domestic Migration
Poverty
People moving away
15
What Does a Climate Map Show?
Not the climate
The climate in diffrent parts of the world
The population on China
How far apart the US and Greenland are
16
What is information technology (IT)
People that work in libraries
The ability to own a computer and know how to use it
How people learn how to use computers
The use of computers or other technology to store, exchange, and find data
17
What is a Rate of Natural Increase?
How many babies are born each year
The diffrence in amount of births and number of deaths in a given period
How many jobs are invented
The amount of people that learn how to read or write each year
18
Why did the Rwandan Genocide Happen?
The country was over feeding the animals
Other countries were not helping the country sustain itself
The government wasn't building roads
The Hutu were sick of being oppressed by the Tutsi
19
Why is the Aral Sea Shrinking a Problem?
Fish dying
People not being able to swim
No where for the water to go
Harder for farmers to get water
20
What is a Micro-Enterprise?
A buisness that impacts all the world
A large buisness
A buisness that has a small store
A buisness that is very small, usally with 6 or less employees
21
What is Projection?
How locations are spread out on a map
How rainy an area is
How dry an area is
How the map is shaped to turn a 3d location into 2d
22
What is Vertical Trade?
Trading goods with someone taller than you
Trading goods to a more established country
Buying and selling of items of the same time but at different prices
When you swich hights with someone
23
Where is the Amazon Rainforest
Central South America
Central South Asia
North Europe
South South America
24
What is the Best Map to Find Borders of Countries?
Physical
Population
Political
Economic
25
What Does OPEC Try to Regulate the Price of?
Water
Oil
Food
Building Resources
26
Why is the Aral Sea Shrinking?
To many people swimming in it
Diversion and Droughts
To many fish
Over Use
27
Where are Most of the Member Countries of OPEC Located?
Mongolia
Europe/Asia
Middle East/Asia
China
28
What Country was the Mayan Empire Located?
Mexico
Panama
Guatemala
Honduras
29
Why is Water Stress a Problem?
People have to much food
Houses start to collapse
People are thirsty
It is harder to grow food
30
What Does HDI Measure?
How well a school does in teaching its kids
How well a countries health, knowledge, and standard of living is
How much money the country makes
How bad a country does in food, water, schooling
31
What was Apartheid?
Thirst
Poverty
Hunger
Racial Segregation
32
Apartheid was a lot like Segregation in the US
True
False
33
What is Outsourcing?
Getting the best people for jobs that they are good at
Getting items from other places, especially in place of an internal source
Having more poeople move to a country to help its economy grow
Kicking people out of a place
34
What is Characteristic of Similar Geographic Regions?
They have similar natural and/or artificial features
They are diffrent becuase of government type
They are all cold
They all are rainy
35
The Earliest Mayans Were Simple Farmers
False
True
36
What Type of Map Would You use if you Were Trying to Find the Elevation of Mount Everest?
Physical
Vegetation
Climate
Political
37
The Mayans Were a Violent Group
True
False
38
What did most of the Men do in the Mayan Civilization?
Cook
Help with chores
Farm
Hunt
39
What is a Micro-Entrepreneur?
Someone who sells goods from their house
Someone who sells houses
Someone who starts a micro-enterprise
Someone who didn't go to college
40
What is One of India's Biggest Comparative Advantages
Lower Labor Costs
More supplies
More land area
Less people
41
What are 2 Other Less-Common Religions
Zoroastrianism
Judiasm
Chrisianity
Hinduism
42
Where did Apartheid Happen?
South Africa
Central African Republic
Rwanda
Sudan
43
What Directions are on a Compass Rose?
North, South, South, North
East, West, up, down
North, South, East, West
Up, down, left, right
44
What is a Scale on a Map Used For?
To see how close Russia is to Alaska
To see how much cake Ryan wants to eat on his birthday
To see the temperature of a specfic area
To be able to compare the size of the map to the size of the world
45
What are the Bad Effects of Mexico City's Population Growth?
Overcrowding
Crime
Under-crowding
Pollution
46
Japans Population is Evenly Spread Out
True
False
47
What Does a Rising GDP Show?
Nothing
The economy is staying the same
The economy is rising
The economy is droping
48
Where did the Darfur Conflict Happen?
Rwanda
Sudan
Asia
Madagascar
49
What is a Good Title for a Map About the Amount of People in India?
Population in India
Climate of Japan
Population in Israel
Climate of India
50
Why did it Happen?
The Sudanese government was not caring for the non-arab population of Sudan
Suddans weather was bad
South Sudan split apart from Sudan
Sudan was not feeding its population
51
What is a Cultural Region?
A specific region that practices the same cultural traditions
A specific region that practices diffrent cultural traditions
A region that has a culture
A region that has less than 1000 people
52
What is Distortion?
The misrepresentation of an area on a map compared to in real life
The latitude of a location
How big an area is
How far apart two areas are on a map
53
What are Some Problems Caused by Urbanization?
To much food
Poverty
Pollution
Homlessness
54
Colonialism is a problem
False
True
55
Why is Colonialism a Problem?
Human Right Violations
Spread of Disease
Ethic Rivalries
Environmental Degradation
56
What is Terrace Farming?
Growing plants in oceans
Growing food on top of mountains
Growing food on the sides of hills or mountains
Growing food on top of buildings
57
What is the Main Religion in the Middle East?
Judiasm
Muslim/Islam
Christianity
Hinduism
58
What is a Key on a Map Used For?
To be able to compare the size of the map to the size of the world
To relate symbols to acutal natural/ human-made landforms in real life
To see when it will rain in a specific location
To tell direction (North, South, East, West)
59
What is Globalization?
More space to grow food on land
How trade and technology make the world a more connected and interdependant
The use of food and water to bring everyone closer
More people living on the globe
60
What City did we use as an Example for Spatial Inequality This Year?
San Jose, CR
Austin, TX
Guatemala City, GUAT
Mexico City, MX
61
What Two Groups are Trying to Save the Rainforest?
Environmental groups
The rubber tappers
The native Native Americans
The loggers
62
What is Spatial Inequality?
The unequal distribution of resources across diffrent areas
To many resources for not enough people
To many poeple living in an area
Not enough people living in an area
63
What Type of Map Would You use if You Were Trying to Find What the Biggest Land Use in Chile was?
Population
Climate
Vegetation
Economic
64
What Type of Map Would You use if You Were Trying to See if there is a Desert in Canada?
Climate
Population
Political
Vegetation
65
What Groups Were Associated in the Attacks?
Hutu and Tutsi
Sudanease and Hutu
Huts and Tuts
Tutsi and Tuti
