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Geography Final
Question | Answer |
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Dark soil that runs across is called what? | Black Belt |
What region of Kentucky has fertile soil and is known for their horses | The bluegrass region |
What is a steep cliff that overlooks a river and is prime nesting area for bald eagles? | Bluff |
Which state can you find the geyser Old Faithful in? | Wyoming |
Where do the four corners meet? | Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico |
What chain of islands is off the coast of Alaska? | Aleutians |
What is the site of Mormon settlers? | Utah |
How much of Nebraska is farmland? | 93% |
What does Oklahoma mean? | Red man |
What is only found in Nebraska? | A Unicameral |
What is fertile soil found in Western Ohio? | Drift |
What are rolling plains covered with high grass in the midwest? | Till Plains |
What is the only state with shoreline on 4 of the 5 great lakes | Michigan |
What is iron ore rich area in Minnesota? | Mesabi Range |
What is the Coastal region of Virginia? | Tidewater |
What is the southernmost location of the US? | Key West |
What is the Largest state in the south? | Texas |
What is the Largest state in New England? | Maine |
Which state is Wilmington, the chemical capital of the world found in? | Delaware |
Where are the Green Mountains located? | Vermont |
Where are the White Mountains located? | New Hampshire |
Where are the Everglades located? | Florida |
Where are the Ozark Mountains located? | Arkansas |
True or False: Tidewater is the area between the Delmarva peninsula and the midland | False |
True or False: The Delmarva Peninsula contains Delaware, Maine, and Virginia | False |
True or False: A wooded boggy region known as Pine Barrens and small farms known as Truck Farms can both be found in New Jersey | True |
True or False: The Timber line is a frigid area where only small scrub trees grow | False |
True or False: The Sonoran Desert is the name of the vast dessert that runs through Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado | True |
True or False: The great salt lake is the largest lake west of the Mississippi and can be found in Utah | True |
What do Haiti and the Dominican Republic Share? | Island of Hispaniola |
What is notorious for pirates and between British and Spanish control? | Island of Jamaica |
What island's capital is Havanna? | Island of Cuba |
What is a commonwealth of the United States? | Island of Puerto Rico |
What is a commonwealth of the United Kingdoms? | Belize |
What is called the Coral Islands? | Bahamas |
What are mountainous islands? | Antilles |
What is between the Sierra Madre ranges located in Mexico and dry year-round? | Northern Plateau |
What is the Grand Canyon of Mexico and located in the Sierra Madre Occidentals? | Copper |
What are the Western Mexican Mountains called? | The Sierra Madre Occidental |
What are the Eastern Mexican Mountains called? | The Sierra Madre Oriental |
What are the Southern Mexican Mountains called? | Sierra Madre Del Sur |
What city borders San Diego? | Tijuana |
What city borders El Paso? | Juarez |
What are land grants given out by the Mexican government in a land--redistribution program? | Ejidos |
What is the southernmost state in Mexico that in 1824 broke away from Guatemala and joined the original 19 states in Mexico? | Chiapas |
What is based on large-scale agricultural operations and employing and housing many workers and producing one product such as rubber, sugar, or cotton | Plantation Economy |
Who left written records? | Mayans |
Who's government is backed by the USSR? | Sandinistas |
Who are rebels backed by the USA? | Contras |
What was built by the USA in 1920? | Panama Canal |
True or False: El Salvador is the most populous nation of Central America | False |
True or False: Guatemala was the heart of the Mayan empire | True |
True or False: Belize has the highest per capita GDP in Central America | False |
True or False: Juntas were councils of military and civilian leaders who seize power, often resulting in civil wars | True |
True or False: The ruins of the Tarascan Indians are located in Michoacan | True |
True or False: A sombrero is a wide brimmed hat important to Mexico | True |
True or False: Leeward Islands are northern islands of the lesser Antilles | True |
True or False: Windward Islands are the islands that face the prevailing southeasterly winds that blow off the Atlantic | True |
True or False: The Three Island groups that form the West Indies are the Bahamas, the Windward, and the Leeward Islands | False |
True or False: Vladimir Lenin lead the Russian Revolution | True |
True or False: Mount Klyuchevskya is the highest peak in Siberia | True |
What is the small body of water that separates Russia from Alaska? | The Bering Strait |
What is the largest Siberian city? | Novosibirsk |
What is the large Pacifican Russian Island that is separated from Japan by a narrow channel? | Sakhalin |
What is the long chain of islands that extends from Kamchatka to Japan? | Kuril |
What is the large peninsula that extends south of Russia into the Pacific? | Kamchatka |
What is the area of Asian Russia east of the Urals? | Siberia |
What is the mountain range that splits European Russia from Asian Russia? | Ural Mountains |
What is the third largest Russian city that is known for making cars? | Nizhniy Novgorod |
What is another name for grasslands? | Steppes |
Who are fiercely independent nomads that lived on the grasslands? | Cossacks |
What is Europe's longest river? | Volga |
What is Europe's highest mountain? | Elbrus |
What is the Capital of Russia? | Moscow |
What is Russia's second largest city and main port? | St. Petersburg |
What is the flat glaciated plain north of St. Petersburg? | Karelia |
What was formerly called Stalingrad and is the most important shipping hub? | Volgograd |
What are the ethnic republics where the tatars live? | Tatarstan and Bashortostan |
True or False: The CIS was made to retain economic ties among the former soviet states | True |
True or False: Vladivostok is the main Russian port in Siberia | True |
True or False: The Soviets conducted nuclear testing on the Kuril Islands | False |
What are the mountains that divide Asia from Europe? | Ural mountains |
What is Russia that is east of the Ural Mountains? | Siberia |
What was the conflict between the USSR and the USA? | Cold War |
What are Russian rulers from the 1500s to the 1900s | Czars |
What are rulers without any limits on their power and authority? | Autocrat |
True or False: The key product of Venezuela is Bauxite ore | False |
What is the Sacred capital of the Incas? | Cusco |
What is the high plateau south of the Pampas in Argentina that rises in step like cliffs towards the Andes mountains? | Patagonia |
What is the second longest river system in South America? | Parana |
What is the third longest river in South America that can be found in Venezuela? | Orinoco |
What is the largest lake in South America? | Maracaibo |
What is the Incan language spoken by the lower classes of Peruvians? | Quecha |
What is the Native Indian language spoken as the second language after Spanish in daily life in Paraguay? | Guarani |
What is the capital of Ecuador? | Quito |
What is the capital of Columbia? | Bogota |
What is the capital of Paraguay? | Asuncion |
What is the capital of Venezuela? | Caracas |
What is the capital of Bolivia? | La Paz and Sucre |
What is the capital of Peru? | Lima |
What is the capital of Argentina? | Buenos Aires |
True or False: Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world | True |
True or False: Suriname has the lowest population density in South America? | True |
True or False: Bolivia is a landlocked country | True |
True or False: Half of the people in the Pampas live in Buenos Aires | True |
True or False: The Caribbean countries share the Llanos | True |
True or False: Francisco Pizarro was a famous catholic that dedicated his life to helping the Indians of Peru | False |
True or False: Peru's coast is a desert | True |
True or False: The key products of Columbia include coffee and cocaine | True |
True or False: Ecuador is the South American country found most south and includes the island Cape Horn | False |
What is the most famous of the caudillos of Argentina that led the country to economic ruin? | Jose De San Martin |
Who is the liberator of South America, liberated Bolivia, Columbia, and Venezuela | Simon Bolivar |
Who is a dictator in Chile that actually fixed the economy and transitioned to democracy but is still kind of a dictator with the secret police and murders and such but hey!? | Augusto Pinochet |
Who is is a marxist/communist "president" of Chile that ruined the country and lost power in just 3 years | Salvador Allende |
Who is the Great Liberator of Argentina and the southern region of South America? | Juan Peron |
True or False: Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world | True |
True or False: The Llanos are large block shaped mountains in the Guiana Highlands | False |
True or False: Mont Blanc is the tallest alpine peak in Italy | False |
True or False: The Apennine mountains for the backbone of England | False |
True or False: Olympia can be found on the Peloponnesus Peninsula | True |
True or False: The Black Forest is a famous feature found in the northern portion of France | False |
True or False: The headquarters of the EU can be found in the small neutral country of Lichtenstein because of its lack of an army | False |
True or False: The Iberian Peninsula contains Spain and Portugal | True |
True or False: The Meseta covers much of France and extends south to the Alps | False |
True or False: Madrid can be found on the Meseta | True |
True or False: The Tagus river flows through Portugal to get to the Atlantic Ocean | True |
True or False: The Danube river flows through Austria | True |
True or False: Denmark is famous for reclaiming much land from the sea by using dikes, pumping out the water, and developing polders | False |
True or False: The tiny country of Denmark actually controls the large island of Greenland | True |
True or False: Poland's two important rivers are the Galesia and Silesia | False |
True or False: The Dinaric Alps run along the Baltic Sea | False |
True or False: Transylvania, Walachia, and Moldavia | True |
True or False: Two of Poland's important regions are the Oder and the Vistula | False |
True or False: Bosnia Herzegovina and Albania have muslim majorites | True |
True or False: The Carpathian Mountains extend from the alps across Eastern Europe | True |
True or False: Mount Musala is the highest mountain in the Baltic Mountains | False |
True or False: The Dneiper River can be found in Ukraine | True |
True or False: A shatter belt is a region where the countries change size, shape, and number | True |
True or False: The Great Hungarian Plain stretches from Paris to Moscow, but covers very little of Eastern Europe | False |
True or False: The Balkan, Carpathian, and Rhodope Mountains are in the Eastern Balkans | True |
True or False: Pinsk is the name of the largest marsh in Eastern Europe | True |