CH. 4-7

Question 1

Which region contains the worlds largest Amazon

Answer 1

Latin America

Question 2

Which region contains Neotropics (Tropics in W. Hemisphere)

Answer 2

Latin America

Question 3

What is urban primacy

Answer 3

A city within a country that is three to four times larger than any other city in the country. (Mexico City, Caracas, Guatemala, Buenos Aires)

Question 4

What is the Treaty of Tordesilla

Answer 4

The division of the the America’s made by the pope after the founding made by Christopher Columbus. West to Spain East to Portugal.

Question 5

What is the FARC

Answer 5

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Challenge

Question 6

What is the ELN

Answer 6

National Liberation Army – gained wealth and weapons through the drug trade

Question 7

Why is urban primacy a bad thing?

Answer 7

Too many natural resources are concentrated into one urban center

Question 8

What is maquiladora

Answer 8

Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the US

Question 9

Where do smaller language groups exist in Latin America?

Answer 9

Central America, Amazon Basin, southern Chile

Question 10

What is the process of integration of Latin American workers into global labor markets

Answer 10

Remittances

Question 11

What is the average TFR for a Guatemalan woman

Answer 11

4 children/woman

Question 12

What is the main environmental issue in Africa?

Answer 12

Deforestation

Question 13

What are the primary biofuels in Africa and what are they being used for?

Answer 13

Wood and Charcoal; they’re being used for house hold energy needs such as cooking

Question 14

What are the two causes of desertification in Africa?

Answer 14

Expansion of agriculture and overgrazing

Question 15

What is transhumance?

Answer 15

Movement of animals

Question 16

What are the three main biomes in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 16

Tropical forests, savannas/grasslands, deserts

Question 17

Who are Boko Haram

Answer 17

Armed Jihadist group formed in northeaster Africa who have escalated violence in north and south Africa

Question 18

Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of IDP’s?

Answer 18

The Democratic Republic of the Congo at 3 million

Question 19

Who are the apartheid?

Answer 19

Official policy of racial segregation that shaped relations in S. Africa for ~ 50 years

Question 20

What are the trade languages used in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 20

Swahili and Hausa

Question 21

Where is HIV/AIDS thought to have originated from?

Answer 21

In the forests of the Congo from the crossover of chimpanzees to humans

Question 22

Where was the Aswan Dam completed and what has it done for North Africa?

Answer 22

It was completed along the Nile River south of Cairo, Egypt and has increased storage capacity, made more water available for agriculture

Question 23

What is included in the Maghreb?

Answer 23

Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia and is dominated near the Mediterranean coastline by Atlas Mountains

Question 24

What is Mesopotamia best known for?

Answer 24

One of the first recorded big cities in modern Iraq to which contained Eridu and Ur

Question 25

Why is overgrazing an issue in the Middle East?

Answer 25

The region is too dry to upkeep trees and and browsing made by sheep and goats

Question 26

What is salinization

Answer 26

The buildup of toxins and salt in the soil

Question 27

What are the major environmental issues in the middle east?

Answer 27

Deforestation, overgrazing, salinization, and coastal pollution

Question 28

What are the primary types of agriculture practiced in the middle east?

Answer 28

Dry farming, oasis/irrigation, and the use of exotic rivers

Question 29

Where do the dry climates take place in the Middle East?

Answer 29

Dry Climates dominate along western Morocco to easter Iran and provide little precipitation

Question 30

Where do the mild midlatitudes dominate in the Middle East?

Answer 30

Mediterranean climates dominate along the basin and Black Sea

Question 31

What is the issue of hydropolitics in the Middle East?

Answer 31

It is the interplay of water resource issues and politics raising tensions between countries that share drainage basins.

Question 32

What is the dominant Muslim religion in Middle East?

Answer 32

Sunni Islam by 73%

Question 33

What is the reason for the east Mediterranean being considered as the "hearth of Judeo-Christianity?

Answer 33

Jewish religion lies deep in Israel, while Christianity was born along the eastern Mediterranean

Question 34

What is a medina and what is it dominated by?

Answer 34

a walled cored in traditional Islamic city dominated by the central mosque and its associated religious, educational, and administrative functions

Question 35

Which Muslim religion is the Qom Mosque visited by?

Answer 35

Shiites