World Geo Midterm Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Portugese | How is Brazil culturally different that the rest of Latin America? |
| United States | What political power overshadows Latin America today? |
| Economic Opportunity | Why do many Latin American immigrants come to the US? |
| Colombian Exchange | The diffusion of ideas and agricultural products between the Old and New Worlds. |
| United States | Most Canadians live close to what country? |
| Food, language, music | What evidence is there that cultural diffusion is happening from Latin America? |
| Megalopolis | A huge urban region formed when two or more metropolitan areas grow together. Near Water. |
| Negative Population Growth | Why do many Europeans believe that immigration into the region is necesary for its survival? |
| Language and Religion | How has Europe impacted culture in the Western Hemisphere the most? |
| Protestants and Catholics. | What groups are currently struggling in Northern Ireland? |
| Deforestation | How has slash and burn agriculture impacted the rainforests? |
| Shortest Route | Why was Panama chosen to be the canal location for the connection from the Pacific to the Atlantic? |
| Atlantic Provinces | Which Canadian Provinces are most like the New England states? |
| Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, Saskatchewan | What states and provinces are both in the Great Plains of North America? |
| Desert | What physical feature is present in North and Latin America but NOT Europe? |
| North Atlantic Drift | What helps to moderate the climate of Western Europe? |
| Navigable Rivers | What physical feature has contributed most to Europe's success? |
| Mediterranean | What is the climate of Greece? |
| Dictatorship and Communist | How is Cuba different from the rest of the Western Hemisphere? |
| Subsistence agriculture | Growing only enough food to survive |
| Commercial Agriculture | Growing food to sell |
| Economic Policies | What do the countries in the EU have in common? |
| Bolivia and Paraguay | Which South American countries are land locked? |
| Northern states to sunbelt states | Major migration patterns. |
| Push | Push or Pull- War |
| Pull | Push or Pull- High GDP |
| Pull | Push or Pull- Low Taxes |
| Push | Push or Pull- Famine |
| Pull | Push or Pull- Free Healthcare |
| Push | Push or Pull- Drought |
| Push | Push or Pull- High Uneployment |
| Pull | Push or Pull- High Per Capita Income |
| Push | Push or Pull- High Infant Mortality Rate |
| Push | Push or Pull- Military Dictatorship |
| Push | Push or Pull- Disease |
| Pull | Push or Pull- Economic Oppurtunity |
| Pull | Push or Pull- Political Stability |
| Push | Push or Pull- Foreign Invasion |
| Pull | Push or Pull- Variety of Consumer Goods |
| Push | Push or Pull- Harsh Climate |
| False | True or False- The rotation of the sun causes seasons |
| True | True or False- The orographic effect occurs when prevailing winds pass over mountains and the lack of rain creates a desert on the other side. |
| False | True or False- Longitude is the most influential factor of climate. |
| False | True or False- An archipelago is a chain of mountains. |
| Democracy | Government created by the US constitution |
| Theocracy | Vatican City and Iran |
| Monarchy | Ruled by a crowned authority |
| Command economy | Government plans all economic development |
| Market Economy | Free Enterprise |
| Mixed Economy | Capitalism + government pays for healthcare |
| Traditional Economy | Inherited Occupations |
| Primary Development | Miner |
| Secondary Development | Furniture Maker |
| Tertiary Development | Waiter |
| Quaternary Development | Nuclear Scientist |
| Subsistence Farming | Growing only enough to survive |
| Cash Crops | Growing crops to sell for profit |
| Maquiladora | Factory in Latin America that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product, usually back to the originating country |
| Ethnic cleansing | the elimintation of one ethnic group from a society by force of genocide or forced immagration |
| Amazon Rainforest | There are many different plant and animal species here. It is located in Brazil. |
| United Nations | April of 1945 - delegates of 50 nations meet in US to form an alliance designed to be peacekeeping force around the world |
| Balkan Peninsula | Yugoslavia - following WWII the balkan people, including the angry ones, were in this. hatreds were muted. after fall of soviet union and breakup of yugoslavia, tensions erupted . very bad fighting and ethnic cleansing occurred, people fled |
| United Kingdom | England Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
| Quebec | Canadian Province that has a high percentage of French people due to its cultural heritage. |
| Panama canal | It is the path of the ships to go through and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and back through |
| Pampas | Area in South America that has gauchos. |
| Northern Ireland | Area of conflict between the Protestants and the Catholics |
| Pyrenees Mountains | Natural Boundary between France and Spain |
| Venezuela | Contain the world's highest waterfall and is a member of OPEC |
| El Nino | Is the occational climatic event in which strong Pacific winds weaken or reverse allowing warm, tropical waters in the upper layer of the Pacific Ocean to flow back eastward to South America. Ocean temperatures near Peru heat up. Causes drought in Australia and Africa. Also affects monsoon rains in Indonesia and causes storms in California. |
| NAFTA | 1. A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. 2. Eliminates trade barriers and promotes trade. |
| Great Plains | From Montana to Texas and Minnesota to Arkansas |
| Colombian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and America |
| Serbs, Croats, and Muslims | What groups are currently have a struggle in the Balkans?? |
| Marine West Coast | What is the climate of Ireland?? |
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