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0 degrees longitude
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capiercorn
Equator
Prime Meridian
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Steam engines influenced things like boats, factories, mines, and other things
True
False
3
Cultural backgrounds like religion or morals in traditional occupation of territory caused conflict in cultural differen
True
False
4
In the late 80’s and 90’s, what countries where the best command economies?
Russia and Europe
Canada and Germany
Only America
Europe and Asia
5
Brazil
Tropical
Desert
Humid subtropical
Marine west coast
6
A cognitive region does not include feelings
False
True
7
Below freezing
Subarctic southeastern
Washington state
Desert
Marine west coast
8
A farming method that involves cutting and burning of plants to create a field
Cognitive map
Slash and burn
Maps
GDP
9
Communist economy
Socialism
No social classes
Command
Democracy
10
Negative things that make people want to move to a new area
Push factor
Pull factor
Slash and burn
Columnar
11
Tropic of Capricorn is 23.5 degrees south
False
True
12
Longitude runs north to south
True
False
13
What controls flooding and holds water
France
Levees and dikes
A bath tube
Nothing
14
Census gives the total population of an area for political representation
True
False
15
All life on earth, man and organism
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Lithosphere
16
Latitude and Longitude do not from a Grid
False
True
17
Command economy
Controlled by 3rd party systems
Controlled by no one
Controlled by the people
Controlled by the government
18
Total value is of Goods produced
GDP
Communist
Traditional
Market
19
How has the living in Norway gotten better?
It hasn’t
The discovery of oil helped
Selling info about countries to other countries
Trading people for money
20
Why do we have seasons?
Cause of time and space
Cause humans cause Seasons to change
Cause the earth spins in a 24 hour rotation
Cause of the earths tilt and revolution
21
Latitude runs east to west
True
False
22
Ring of Fire located in a area of a basin where earthquakes and volcanoes erupt
False
True
23
Shaped pyramid is a sex and age structure for a society
Social classes
Dike
The Mercator project
Columnar
24
Something that attracts people to live in an area
Communist
Pull factor
Market
Push factor
25
What country has a Desert climate?
Brazil
Egypt
Washington State
Greenland
26
Traditional
Rich history/custom
No social classes
No rich history/costume
Rich history with no custom
27
What are physical features
The sun
The weather
Water, cities, roads and etc
A star in outer space
28
Economic is the creation of wealth
True
False
29
Signal curve doesn’t allow for wide spread geographic communication
False
True
30
Marine west coast
Cold climate
Humid subtropical
Cool climate
Hot climate
31
Internet impacts us with immediate info and results
False
True
32
Administrative region is a portion of a country
True
False
33
Market
Controlled economy
Restricted economy
Restricted and controlled by a 3rd party
Unrestricted economy
34
How was Irish and Jewish migration different ?
Jews migrated b/c of famine and Irish was from war
Jewish was b/c of political reasons and Irish was b/c of rabid animals
Jewish was from war and Irish was b/c of famine
They weren’t different
35
Wet and dry
Desert
Humid subtropical
Tropical weather
Climate
36
Spanish is NOT the second language spoke in the USA
False
True
37
Population is not a group of people living in a area
False
True
38
Arrangement of natural and artificial physical areas on a map
Axis
Topography
Revolution
Cognitive Region
39
0 degrees latitude
Tropic of Capiercorn
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Prime Merdian
40
What links southern England and Northern France together
Immersed Tube tunnel
Bored tunnel
Cult and cover tunnel
Channel tunnel
41
What technologies helped enhanced the ability to modify the environment?
Cars, Dams, tunnels , Bridges and more
Candy
The bow and arrow
Robots
42
What is absolute location?
Not from there
Direct location and includes coordinates
Descriptive location
Indirect location
43
Hot and dry
Marine west coast
Egypt
Desert
Subarctic southeastern US
44
Representation of an area with physical features like roads and cities
Population
Time zone
Cartographer
Map
45
Earth is divided into 24 time zones
False
True
46
Green houses gases are gases trapped in the atmosphere and was effect by humans
True
False
47
A 24 hour spin that earth does
Axis
Functional Region
Rotation
Revolution
48
Earth is axis is at a 23.4 degree tilt
True
False
49
If a country sells oil for medical supplies to country B, how’s country B negatively affected?
Was never negatively effected
Reduce in medical care for country B
Country B could lose profit
Country B is polluting the air with oil
50
Crust of the earth
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
51
23.5 degrees north of Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Prime Meridian
Equator
Tropic of Capircorn
52
A GDP doesn’t allow not to have a map on you’re technical devices and doesn’t help figure out where your going
False
True
53
The atmosphere is the air we breath or around us
True
False
54
A scale does not help find the distance between two locations
True
False
55
A center point with many interconnecting linkages
Administrative Region
Functional Region
Cognitive Region
Physical features
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A mental representation in of one’s physical environment
Map
Cognitive map
Channel tunnel
A GPS
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What country has humid subtropical Tropical/ Tropical weather?
Africa
North Pole
Brazil
Egypt
58
Washington State has Marine West Coast climate
True
False
59
What do people of Norway depend on to live?
Trading
Mining
Selling highly secret intelligence to other countries
Fishing and Farming
60
How was it possible that the Mediterranean Sea help connect much of the ancient world?
It helped sell slaves to help other countries for labor force
It did nothing but cause great wars
It helped sell territory to other countries
It helped connect Rome, Egypt and Greece so they can trade
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Weather prevailing in a area in general over long periods of time
Population
Climate
Time zone
Economic
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Humid subtropical is not hot and humid
False
True
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A 365 and 1/2 rotation around the sun
Rotation
Revolution
Saturn
Solar system
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Relative location
Direct area
The exact location
Includes coordinates
A description of an area
