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GEO Semester 1 FINAL
GEO Semester 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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