Semester Tes geography

Question 1

Latitude runs?
Latitude measures?

Answer 1

Runs east to west
Measures North to South

Question 2

What is Latitudes 0 called?

Answer 2

Equator

Question 3

Longitude runs?
Longitude measures?

Answer 3

Runs North to South
Measures East to West

Question 4

The starting point of longitude?

Answer 4

Prime Meridian

Question 5

Latitude lines can also be referred to as?

Answer 5

Parallels

Question 6

Longitude can also be referred to as?

Answer 6

Meridians

Question 7

Locations found between 0 and 30 are called?

Answer 7

Low latitudes

Question 8

Locations found between 30 and 60 are called?

Answer 8

Middle Latitudes

Question 9

Locations found between 60 and 90 are called?

Answer 9

High latitudes

Question 10

The 4 things that affect the climate?
(Explain)

Answer 10

Ocean current- bring cold air in the summer and warm air in the winter, keeps a mild temp
Rainfall- little to no rainfall: dry and humid
Landforms- Mountians can trap clouds making one side dry on side wet
Proximity to the equator- if your closer to the equator it will be warmer

Question 11

What were the Spanish explorers that came from Spain to North America called?

Answer 11

Conquistadors

Question 12

What is the merging of cultures called?

Answer 12

Cultural Convergence

Question 13

What is a local military leader?

Answer 13

Caudillo

Question 14

What are the grassy plains in central North America called?

Answer 14

Pampas

Question 15

Islands made of coral are called?

Answer 15

Cay

Question 16

Naturally occurring underwater structures made out of tiny Dead Sea animals?

Answer 16

Coral

Question 17

Definition of Tropical storms?

Answer 17

Winds on average 39mph

Question 18

Def of Hurricane

Answer 18

Winds 74mph and up to

Question 19

The name of the ocean current that warms?

Answer 19

El Niño

Question 20

The uppermost layer of the trees?

Answer 20

Canopy

Question 21

People of Native American and European descent?

Answer 21

Mestizo

Question 22

People of African and European descent?

Answer 22

Mulatto

Question 23

Def of a Market Economy?

Answer 23

Decisions about production, price, and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand

Question 24

Def of GDP per capita?

Answer 24

Total value of goods and services

Question 25

Def of command economy?

Answer 25

A single central government makes economic decisions

Question 26

Def of Traditional economy?

Answer 26

Families produce goods and services for their own use

Question 27

Physical characteristics of North America

Answer 27

The Andes mountains, Amazon basin

Question 28

Climates of North America

Answer 28

Dry and Arid (Lima, Peru) Wet and tropical (Amazon basin)

Question 29

Ecosystems in North America

Answer 29

Amazon Rainforest, Grasslands

Question 30

What two mountain ranges dominate Mexico?

Answer 30

Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Madre Occidental

Question 31

An area of land that is high and flat?

Answer 31

Plateau

Question 32

An area of land that juts out into any body of water?

Answer 32

Peninsula

Question 33

The four tectonic plates that intersect the central plateau of Mexico?

Answer 33

North American Plate Caribbean Plate Pacific Plate Cocos Plate

Question 34

Tectonic plates cause?

Answer 34

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Question 35

The four geographic regions of Mexico?

Answer 35

Northern Pacific Coast Southern Pacific coast Gulf Coastal Plain Yucatán Peninsula

Question 36

What geographic region of Mexico is Irrigation essential to?

Answer 36

Northern Pacific Coast

Question 37

What geographic region of Mexico is tourism important in?

Answer 37

Southern Pacific Coast

Question 38

Which geographic region of Mexico is one of the world’s major oil-producing regions?

Answer 38

Gulf coastal plain

Question 39

What three cultures make up Mexico?

Answer 39

Native Americans Spanish Mestizo

Question 40

What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs?

Answer 40

Hernan Cortez

Question 41

What Native American group dominated central Mexico?

Answer 41

Aztec

Question 42

The people born in Spain— who held high official positions?

Answer 42

Peninsulares

Question 43

People of Spanish Ancestry born in the Americas?

Answer 43

Criollos

Question 44

What was the name of large estates of land usually run as farms or cattle ranches?

Answer 44

Haciendas

Question 45

What was the labor system established in the Americas, which used Native Americans as slaves called?

Answer 45

Ecomienda

Question 46

The criollo priest who called for rebellion against the Spanish rule?

Answer 46

Miguel Hidalgo

Question 47

When was the Mexican Revolution?

Answer 47

1910

Question 48

When the revolution ended what government was put in place?

Answer 48

A democratic government

Question 49

What political party dominated Mexican politics for many decades?

Answer 49

Institutional Revolutionary Party

Question 50

The act of buying and breaking up large haciendas which were then given to landless farmers was called?

Answer 50

Land redistribution

Question 51

Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community?

Answer 51

Ejidos

Question 52

Growing only enough crops to feed yourself and your family?

Answer 52

Subsistence Farming

Question 53

Commercial farms owned by a private individual or farming company?

Answer 53

Latifundias

Question 54

Farm crops grown for sale and profit?

Answer 54

Cash crops

Question 55

Workers who traveled from place to place in search of work where called?

Answer 55

Migrant farmers

Question 56

NAFTA stands for?

Answer 56

North American Free Trade Agreement

Question 57

What countries are apart of NAFTA?

Answer 57

United States, Canada, and Mexico

Question 58

Factories that assemble products almost exclusively for out of country consumers?

Answer 58

Maquiladoras

Question 59

Mexicos most important economic activities?

Answer 59

Oil and Tourism

Question 60

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land?

Answer 60

Isthmus

Question 61

The three major land forms in Central America?

Answer 61

Mountainous Core Caribbean Lowlands Pacific Coastal Plain

Question 62

Four groups of people in Central America?

Answer 62

Europeans Native American Mestizo African

Question 63

The name of armed forests outside of the regular army?

Answer 63

Guerrilla

Question 64

A military Dictator

Answer 64

Caudillo

Question 65

The network of services that support a community?

Answer 65

Infrastructure

Question 66

Tremors that can occur after an Earthquake?

Answer 66

After shocks

Question 67

A sudden fall of a mass of ice and snow?

Answer 67

Avalanche

Question 68

The Caribbean island can be divided into what 3 groups?

Answer 68

The Bahamas The Lesser Antilles The Great Antilles

Question 69

Countries in the greater Antilles?

Answer 69

Cuba Jamaica Puerto Rico Haiti Dominican Republic

Question 70

Central America is made up of a mass of islands also referred to as an?

Answer 70

Archipelago

Question 71

Types of islands in Central America?

Answer 71

Mountain tops Coral Active Volcanoes

Question 72

Def of Windward?

Answer 72

Faces the wind —> 200 inches of rain (North and East side)

Question 73

Def of Leeward?

Answer 73

Facing away from the wind—> 30 inches of rain (South and West sides)

Question 74

Why did Africans come to the Caribbean?

Answer 74

Brought as slaves to work on plantations

Question 75

Why did Asians come to the Caribbean?

Answer 75

Came on their own after slavery was abolished to work on plantations

Question 76

What do farmers plant and cell in North America (3)?

Answer 76

Sugar Coconuts Rice —- Cotton Bananas Coca