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GEO Semester 1 FINAL
GEO Semester 1
Question | Answer |
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Employs thousands of workers and creates large quantities of manufactured goods | commercial industries |
Name the 4 nations in the United Kingdom. | England, Scotland, N. Ireland, Wales |
Marshy inlets of lakes and rivers | bayous |
An example of a Spanish conquistador | Cortes |
What does I.R.A. stand for? | Irish Republican Army |
A nation's freedom from outside control | sovereignty |
What country did England fight for control of the New World? | France |
Number of days between the last frost of Spring and first frost of Fall | Growing season |
Area of high, flat land | plateau |
The production of goods, usually by hand and done in a home | cottage industry |
location of a place in relation to other places | relative location |
Whose poetry showed the harsh conditions the worker faced in Industrial Revolutionary England | William Blake |
factories along the U.S./ Mexican border | maquiladoras |
Super-continent that some believe once existed | Pangea |
study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other | Geography |
Name the 5 Themes of Geography | Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region |
What state is Portugal about the size of? | Indiana |
Name the 5 Nordic nations | Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland |
Name the 3 types of economies in the world | command, traditional, market |
Major trading center even after Katrina (CITY) | New Orleans |
banking and financial center of Canada (CITY | Toronto |
major airline hub of the U.S. South (CITY) | Atlanta |
uses aqueducts for people; smog is problem (CITY) | Los Angeles |
French center of Quebec and Canada (CITY) | Montreal |
National capitol of U.S. (CITY) | Washington D.C. |
England's key city; center of European trade (CITY) | London |
capital of united Germany (CITY) | Berlin |
capital of Italy; history filled (CITY) | Rome |
cultural center of Germany (CITY) | Munich |
cultural, economic capital of France (CITY) | Paris |
oil and banking center of U.S. South (CITY) | Houston |
major financial center of U.S. (CITY) | New York |
capitol of Mexico and largest city in nation (CITY) | Mexico City |
has serious concerns with subsidence; romantic place (CITY) | Venice |
capitol of Greece; 1st Olympics there (CITY) | Athens |
national capitol of Canada (CITY) | Ottawa |
has major harbor and Asian immigration (CITY) | Vancouver |
center of Catholic church and home to pope (CITY) | Vatican City |
central location allowed King of Spain to control all the regions (CITY) | Madrid |
lines that run N/S between the poles | longitude |
imaginary lines that run parallel to the Equator | latitude |
Canada's core provinces | Ontario, Quebec |
contains chemicals that eat away at surface of rocks | acid rain |
Cuban area of Miami, FL | Little Havana |
famous landmarks in Paris | Louvre, Eiffel Tower |
biggest fishing area near U.S. | Newfoundland |
highest mountain in Greece | Mt. Olympus |
What does G.P.S. stand for? | Global Positioning System |
Two politically neutral countries in Europe | Switzerland, Austria |
Area in Greece that has fallen down between two fault lines | Grabens |
Two groups that have trouble raising their social class in any culture | Women and minorities |
"cornerstone" of any culture | language |
the worshiping of one God | monotheism |
An example of Polytheism | Buddhism |
daughter of Henry VIII; greatest ruler in England's history | Elizabeth I |
largest island in Greece | Crete |
means relating to the sea | maritime |
strip of land that juts out into the ocean | peninsula |
western boundary of Illinois | Mississippi River |
movement of weathered materials such as gravel, soil, and sand | erosion |
biggest 3 cities in U.S. by population | New York, LA, Chicago |
artificial watering of farmland | irrigation |
dry, treeless plain that sprouts grasses and mosses | tundra |
government controlled oil company in Mexico | PEMEX |
workers that travel from place to place | migrants |