World Geography Final

Many Native Americans died from ___, a highly infectious disease introduced by the Europeans.

Refers to ocean storms that span hundreds of miles with winds of at least 74 miles per hour?

Great Lakes refers to a cluster of _ lakes located in the American Midwest and central Canada.

Geography is the study of Earth and its peoples, places, and _____.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador are called the

An example of an archipelago is _____.

Under Spanish rule, _____ became the capital of Colombia.

The United Kingdom is made up of England, Wales, _____, and Northern Ireland.

Lines of longitude measure distance on Earth _____

An example of a nonrenewable resource is _____.

What country held Panama shortly before the United States built the Panama Canal?

A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background?

Where is the deepest location on Earth?

Canada's capital city is _____, which is located in the province of Ontario.

Which line is used as a starting point to measure longitude?

Which other continent besides Antarctica is completely surrounded by water?

What is the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become integrated?

Which concept encouraged the United States's westward movement?

Which of the following describes how far above sea level a landform or location is?

Spanish conquistador _____ conquered the empire of the Inca.

In the late 1800s, thousands of __ moved from the South to the North in the Great Migration.

Simón Bolívar & José de San Martín were important in the history of the region because they

Where is the Ring of Fire located?

The largest city in the Andes and midlatitude region is _____, the capital of Argentina.

Moves over Earth's mantle, creating changes of Earth's surface features

The first Europeans to reach what is now Canada were _____, who arrived around A.D. 1000.

Parts of rock are moved elsewhere as the result of wind, rain, or ice is called

Mexico & Central America form a(n) ___ that connects the continents of North & South America.

What is the longest river in Europe and Russia’s most important waterway?

Which of the following is the largest ocean in the world?

The process of removing salt from water so that humans can drink it is known as _____.

Continents are part of Earth's _____.

Immigration from _____ and Asia has brought many Muslims to Western Europe.

What form of government does the United States have?

Some Native American groups on the Plains were ____ so they could hunt herds of bison.

One of the three vertical climate zones in South America is tierra caliente, which has _____.

Which state does not belong to the 48 contiguous states?

Which European government controlled the American colonies in New England?

São Paulo and _____ have the most and largest favelas in Brazil.

The Trail of Tears is one example of many _____ of Native Americans in America's history.

What causes earthquakes?

Brazil gained independence partly as an indirect result of the actions of the French emperor

What is the name of the line that is equally distant from the North Pole and the South Pole?

Western Europe is separated from Southern Europe by two mountain ranges: the Alps & the

Altitude is an important feature in the Andean region because it determines _____.

Fighting in World War II did not stop until _____.