Finals geo 1

Question 1

The _____ is the number of people in a country who can read and write.

Answer 1

Literacy rate

Question 2

Where would you be least likely to find substance farms?

Answer 2

Europe

Question 3

What term mean the smallest Urban settlement?

Answer 3

Village

Question 4

What are geometrical boundaries usually back on?

Answer 4

Lines of latitude and longitude

Question 5

A limit to the amount of product that can be imported is ____.

Answer 5

A quota

Question 6

The most important centers for economic power and wealth are ____.

Answer 6

World cities

Question 7

He most basic economic system is a _____ economy.

Answer 7

Substance

Question 8

What is a factor that is NOT a measure of development?

Answer 8

Population

Question 9

Clusters of concentrated development on the perimeter highways of an urban area are called _____.

Answer 9

Edge cities

Question 10

What country has a totalitarian form of government?

Answer 10

Cuba

Question 11

Islamic houses of worship are called ____.

Answer 11

Mosques

Question 12

How is a popular density expressed?

Answer 12

Persons per square mile

Question 13

____ is a movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established principles and teachings.

Answer 13

Fundamentalism

Question 14

The spread of new fashions from the big cities to the small town is an example of ____.

Answer 14

Hierarchical diffusion

Question 15

Natural increase is solely based on ____.

Answer 15

Births and deaths

Question 16

The increase in connections between cultures round the world is called ____.

Answer 16

Globalization

Question 17

About what % of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere?

Answer 17

90%

Question 18

Individuals who help spread a region are ____.

Answer 18

Missionaries

Question 19

The spread of an idea or innovation though a society is a _____.

Answer 19

Expansion diffusion

Question 20

The belief in many Gods is called ____.

Answer 20

Polytheism

Question 21

What are folds?

Answer 21

Places where rocks have been compressed into bends

Question 22

What are 3 processes that creat landforms?

Answer 22

Tectonic processes, erosion, and weathering

Question 23

The hydronic cycle is driven by ____.

Answer 23

Solar energy, winds, and gravity

Question 24

One result from a lowered water table is ____.

Answer 24

Ground settlement or slumping

Question 25

The solid horizon is composed of ____.

Answer 25

Humus, subsoil, and weathering rock

Question 26

Forest do NOT ____.

Answer 26

Increase soil salinization

Question 27

Acid rain is caused by ____.

Answer 27

Chemicals in air pollution

Question 28

Where would you expect to find aquifers?

Answer 28

Near the ground water

Question 29

You might expect to find a geothermal power plant located ____.

Answer 29

Near a hot spring

Question 30

____ is NOT a renewable energy resource.

Answer 30

Coal power

Question 31

What happens to a hurricane where it moves inland?

Answer 31

It weakens

Question 32

In what region are tornados typical found?

Answer 32

Middle latitudes

Question 33

The conditions of the atmosphere at a given time and place is called ____.

Answer 33

Weather

Question 34

Mountains can influence climate though ____.

Answer 34

The orographic effect

Question 35

Areas of tropical grasslands, scattered trees, and scrubs are called ____.

Answer 35

Savanna

Question 36

Most temperature climates are located ____.

Answer 36

In the middle latitudes

Question 37

Wind systems that revers direction thereby causing wet and dry seasons are called ____.

Answer 37

Monsoons

Question 38

_____ is the process by which water vapor changes from a gas to liquid water droplets.

Answer 38

Condensation

Question 39

What appears to be a factor in global warming?

Answer 39

Increase levels of carbon dioxide

Question 40

Where are the most diverse ecosystem found?

Answer 40

In tropical climates

Question 41

Together, the 4 sphere of the earth make up the ____.

Answer 41

Earth environment

Question 42

On which day does the sun never set on the arctic circle?

Answer 42

June 21

Question 43

How many days are in a leap year?

Answer 43

366

Question 44

What causes the earthen tilt?

Answer 44

The gravitational pull of the sun, earth, and moon

Question 45

The shape of earth's orbit is ____.

Answer 45

Elliptical

Question 46

Planets are major bodies that orbit a ____.

Answer 46

Star

Question 47

When does the fall equinox occur in the northern hemisphere?

Answer 47

September 21

Question 48

Which area of earth receives the most solar energy in a year?

Answer 48

The tropics

Question 49

Most stars are grouped together in huge bodies called _____.

Answer 49

Galaxies

Question 50

The moon orbits the earth every ____.

Answer 50

29 1/2 days

Question 51

____ is the worlds largest island.

Answer 51

Greenland

Question 52

Earth is divided into eastern and western hemisphere by the prime meridian and the _____.

Answer 52

180 degree meridian

Question 53

The ____ ocean is the smallest of all the oceans.

Answer 53

Arctic

Question 54

Degrees are subdivided into ____.

Answer 54

Minutes

Question 55

_____ is another word for longitude.

Answer 55

Meridian

Question 56

The essential element of the world in spatial terms is similar to the theme of _____.

Answer 56

Location

Question 57

The theme of ____ involves the study of how people and things change location and the effect of those changes.

Answer 57

Movement

Question 58

There are ____ essential elements in geography.

Answer 58

Six

Question 59

The ____ of a region is/are an example of a physical feature.

Answer 59

Soils

Question 60

____ geography is the study of the way people live.

Answer 60

Human