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1
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Components of culture are artifacts, social institutions, and ____.

A

Mentafacts

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In the koppen-Geiger scheme, the world’s drier climates are grouped under ____.

A

the letter B

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The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: _____ .

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Eurasia

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The world’s population is now over ____.

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7 billion in total size and is expected to be about 11 billion by the year 2050

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The earth rotates to the ___.

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east

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The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the ___ realm

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Middle America

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Where geographic Reims meet ___ not sharp borders, mark their contacts.

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Transition zones

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___ force tie a nation together.

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Centripetal

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A map with the fractional scale 1:2500,000,000 has a ____ scale than one with a scale of 1:1,000,000

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Smaller

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The area surround an urban center is its ___

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hinterland

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At the height of the Pleistocene gladiators, glacial ice extended as far south as the ___

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Ohio river

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Culture refers to patterns of __

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Learned behavior

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Nearly all of the world’s richest countries lie in the ___

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Mid-latitudes

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___ happens when people move and take their culture to a new location

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Relocation diffusion

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The United Kingdom consists of ___

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Northern Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland

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The European Union in 2014 contains ___ than it did when founded in 1957

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More member states

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The Ruhr is not located in the Paris basin. ____

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The Ruhr is in Germany near the Rhine.

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The three Nordic countries all have their major concentrations of population in the ___

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southern part of their land areas.

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___ one of the principles of special interaction

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Expansion diffusion is not

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___ is the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain autonomy at the expense of the central government

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Devolution

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The most populous country in the European realm is ___

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Germany

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The wide plain that runs from western France to Poland is the ___

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North European Lowland

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The “Balkanization” of a region implies ___

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It’s political breakup

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A characteristic feature of Mediterranean Europe is the region’s ___, especially on the Spanish Meseta.

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absence of natural forests

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___ is NOT one of the four Motors of Europe
Tirana, Albania
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The lowest income part of Italy is the ___
Mazzogiorno
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The largest economy in Europe is ___
Germany
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The industrial revolution began in __
England
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The country in the European Realm with the largest area is ___
Ukraine
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The Iberian Peninsula is where ___ can be found
Portugal
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The term ___ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from moderating influences of large water bodies
continentality
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The southern border of Russia is about latitude ___
50 degrees North
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The ___ is the name of the industrial region along the Volga
Povolzhye
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The ___ is the largest unbroken lowland in the world
West Siberian Plain
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Murmansk, St Petersburg, Vladivostok, and Kaliningrad are important Russian seaports but ___
Moscow is not a seaport
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The Ural Mountains may be described as ___
Rich in mineral Resources
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Russia's economy is highly dependent on its exprt of ___
oil and natural gas
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Lake Baikal in Russia is notable for being so ___
deep
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In the past ten year's Russia's population has ___
declined
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During World War 2, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the entire population of __ exiled to the desert of Kazakhstan.
Chechnya
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Lenin's tomb, the Kremlin, and St. basil's cathedral are in central Moscow but ___
The winter palace is in St. Petersburg
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The term ___ is closely associated with Taiga
Coniferous Tree
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In 2006 Azerbaijan began exporting oil to the world market via a pipeline through ___
Georgia
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In the 16th century, __ transformed Russia into a major military power and imperial state
Czar Ivan IV
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The huge size of Russia leads to decreased interactions among its far flung population, which geographers cite as an example of ___
distance decay
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Russia's population density is greatest in the ___ part of the country
southwest
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__ is the Canadian province that contains majority of French-speaking citizens
Quebec
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The largest city in French-speaking Canada is ___
Montreal
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The population of Canada is about the same as ___
California
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The two major language groups in Canada are __
English and French
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___ but not Wisconsin, Texas, nor Pennsylvania contains territory located in the intermontane Basin and Plateau physio-graphic province
Nevada
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The major mountain chain in the eastern US is the __
Appalachains
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About __ of US Territory still remains in the hands of Native American nations
4%
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The first European settlement in what is now the US was at ___
St. Augustine, Florida
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The great Lakes' main outlet to the sea is the ___
St. Lawrence River
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From 1790 until 2010, the center of US population has moved ____
from Maryland to Missouri
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Humid America is generally considered to be ___
east of 100 degrees West longitude
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The dryness in the western half of the US is largely due to the ___
rain shadow effect
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The recntly created political unit of ___ is populated and governed by indigenous first nations people
Nunavut
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The __ religious denomination is predominant at location X, below.
South, excluding Florida and Texas
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In 1980, the geographic form of the American city was most strongly shaped by the __
automobile
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The primary migration "pull factor" for the US is ___
economic opportunity
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Ethnic concentrations in the US include Asians and the Pacific coast, Native Americans and the west, Blacks and Mississippi, but ___
not Hispanics and South Dakota
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Haiti was once a colony of ___
France
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A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as an ___
isthmus
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The core area of the Aztec state was located in the ___
Valley of Mexico
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___ that import capital and skills and usually produce only one crop for export
Plantations are efficient operations
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The term applied to persons of mixed white and Amerindian ancestry is ___
mestizo
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The Switzerland of Central America, the region's only truly democratic republic is ___
Costa Rica
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Panama was part of ___ before 1903 US-supported revolution achieved independence
Columbia
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Communal land ownership in Mexico is organized by organizations called ___
ejidos
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A maquiladora is a ___
foreign owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods
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Cuba, on the largest Carribean island, became independent in the 20th century, ___, and has a cigar industry that is important
officially encourages tourism
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The principle language of Cuba is ___
Spanish
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The ___ elevation zone is typically used for dairy and growing barley and potatoes, according to altitudinal zonation
tierra fria
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The maya language is still spoken today in the ___
Yucatan and Guatemala
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The nationality of citizens in Curacao is ___
Dutch
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A devastating ___ struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 10, 2010
Earthquake
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Bolivia, Ecuador, and Columbia are partially inside the amazon basin but ___
Paraguay is entirely outside it
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The climate of central Chile is ___
Mediterranean
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South America's largest city in population is ___
Sao Paulo
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The world's largest wetland is the ___
Pantanal de Mato Grosso
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In the European-Commercial Region ___
85% of the population is pure European
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Patagonia lies in both ___
Argentina and Chile
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Major reasons for bringing Africans as slaves to Brazil include its plantation economy, small Amerindian population, and low cost of slave labor. ____
The Africans had no experience in sugar cane production
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The treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a boundary was to be drawn separating newly discovered territories of ____
Spain and Portugal
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The ___ Current is a cool offshore current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline
Peru
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In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the ___
commercial/industrial spine
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Fazendas are ___
coffee plantations
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The poorest area of Brazil is the ___
sertao
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The major Brazilian city is located on the Amazon River is ___
Manaus
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Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo is famous for it's ____
oil deposits
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Angel Fa;;s is located in the same country as ___
the Orinoco River
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The world's driest desert, the Atacama, is located in ___
northern Chile

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