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WR Geo Test 1 Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Introduction Quiz Questions (Some of these don't matter): What is the best way to get ahold of your professor? | Email is the best way to get ahold of professor. |
| How many exams will the course have? | The course will have 3 total Exams. |
| Who do you contact if you have technical issues? | Contact the Student Support Center if you have technical issues. |
| True or False: Exams take place during our class time. | TRUE |
| In a few sentences, please explain academic integrity and the repercussions for cheating or plagiarism. | Academic Integrity is to hold one's own work and workmanship, without a trace of involuntary academic assistance from other people. Academic dishonesty is when someone plagarizes off of someone else's work, and makes it their own. |
| CONTINUED -- In a few sentences, please explain academic integrity and the repercussions for cheating or plagiarism. | Any and all acts of Academic Dishonesty will result in Failure of the assignment and/or the class, a tarnished reputation of Academic Integrity, and a high likelihood of expellment from College (depending on if word of the acts are passed to the Dean). |
| True or False: 75% of your grade is based on grades from what? | 75% of grades is based on Exams. |
| Quizzes and Discussions are Due by what day and time each week? | Sunday at 11:59 PM is the due date for Every assignment. |
| What are the course learning outcomes for this class? | All of the above: Students will identify the locations of Countries, Cities, and Physical Features in Each World Region. (X3) |
| How many absences are you allowed during the semester? | 3 Absences are allowed for the semester. |
| (The questions start to matter from here) Name 3 examples of Landforms? | Island, Plateau, Peninsula |
| Seattle, Washington, and Minneapolis are at approximately the same latitude, but have vastly different climates thoroughly explain this phenomena. | This is because Minneapolis is located far inland, whereas Seattle is on the coast. Continentiality affects these cities differently because of their proximal differences to an ocean. |
| What are the 5 criterias for regions ? | The 5 Criteria for regions are Area, Boundaries, Location, Homogeneity, and Regions as systems. |
| Tulsa has what kind of Sub-Climate? | Tulsa is in the Cfa climate zone. |
| What is a glaciated valley partly filled by an arm of the sea? | A glaciated valley partly filled by an arm of the sea if a Fjord. |
| What is the essence of culture? | Language is the essence of Culture. |
| What is described as the most Interdisciplinary of Disciplines? | The discipline of Geography is the most Interdisciplinary of Disciplines. |
| The World's Geographic realms can be divided into which 2 categories? | The world's Geographic realms can be divided into Monocentric and Polycentric realms. |
| A ____________________ is an area of land Jutting out from a larger land mass and is almost an island. | A Peninsula is an area of land jutting out from a larger land mass and is almost an island. |
| Chapter 1: North American Realm: The world's leading hub of computer research and development as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Microprocessor industry? | Silicon Valley in Southern California is the World's leading hub of computer research and development as well as the headquarters of the United States' microprocessor industry. |
| Which map projection best suits a map of the United States? | The Lambert Projection is the best map that suits the United States. |
| According to the [Canada Tar-sands] Documentary, Alberta is growing by how many people each year? | According to the Documentary, Alberta is growing by 100,000 people per year. |
| What are 3 problems the tar sands oil operations are causing in Canada? | 1,The development of oil pipelines and other Syncrude construction projects are taking away some land and homes from Canada's First Nations peoples and indigenous tribes-peoples. |
| CONTINUED --What are 3 problems the tar sands oil operations are causing in Canada? | 2. Syncrude's oil extraction and production is resulting in chemical side-effects that are hazardous to the surrounding environment and people/s. |
| CONTINUED -- What are 3 problems the tar sands oil operations are causing in Canada? | 3. The companies trying to bribe the First Nations and Indigenous peoples as a form of Compensation for the damages to these peoples' land and for the companies' development over it. |
| Which sector involves the extraction of raw materials from nature (Agriculture, Mining, Fishing), was rapidly mechanized, and the workforce in this sector shrank considerably? | The [U.S.'s] Primary Sector involves the extraction of raw materials, mining, agriculture, and has shrank considerable from the development of the secondary and tertiary (etc) sectors. |
| Which Canadian rock star has been opposed to the Tar Sands and has made a stand against it? | Neil Young is the Canadian Rock Star against the Tar Stands, and has been making a stand against it. |
| What place ranks 3rd in the world in oil reserves, behind Venezuala? | Alberta Canada is the 3rd in the world in oil reserves behind Venezuala. |
| What kind of forests of the Northern Frontier constitutes as the habitat of endangered wildlife species such as the Caribou, Lynx, and Black Bears? | The Boreal forests of the Northern Frontier constitute as the habit of the endangered wildlife species such as Caribou, Lynx, and Black Bears. |
| The 2 great Drainage Systems that lie between the Rockies and the Appalachians? | The 2 great drainage systems between the Rockies and the Appalachians are the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river. |
| The United States' population is growing at what percent faster than Canada's? | The United States' population is growing 25% faster than Canada's. |
| Chapter 2 -- Middle America: Which city in Mexico is in the center of the worst violence and mentioned in the Drug Video? | The Mexican city that is in the worst drug violence is Alcapulco. |
| Explain how the Mormons settled in Mexico. Explain how the Drug Cartels have affected them and why. | The mormons left America because we illegalized polygamy, and some mormons were bent on making an autonomous mormon nation/community. |
| CONTINUED -- Explain how the Mormons settled in Mexico. Explain how the Drug Cartels have affected them and why. | The Cartels kidnapped the son of a particulaar mormon family; the mormon family challenged the cartels in a peaceful way, and won their son back. For the sake of retaining their reputation, this cartel went to the family to kill that son and his parents. |
| True or False: Much of the marijuana consumed in the United States is grown in Western Mexico? | True: Much of Mexico's marijuana is grown in Western Mexico. |
| Anthropologists refer to the Middle American cultural hearth as? | Anthropologists refer to the Middle American cultural hearth as Mesoamerican. |
| Another name of a narrow strip of land is? | Isthmus--A narrow strip of land (that is not a peninsula). |
| Middle America consists of how many countries? | Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama -- 8 countries make up Middle America. |
| What year did the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) go into affect? | 1994 is the year NAFTA (The North American Trade Agreement) went into effect. |
| The Easternmost and Smallest island of the Greater Antilles is: | The Easternmost and Smallest island of the Greater Antilles is Puerto Rico. |
| Before the Europeans arrived, two-thirds of continental Middle America (Lower Altitude) was covered by tropical rainforests. What is the current estimate of how much vegetation remains? | Its estimated that only 10% of the rainforests remain. |
| True or False: The largest Caribbean island-state in terms of both territory and population is Cuba. | True: the largest island state in terms of both territory and population is Cuba (out of Caribbean island nations) |
| Chapter 3: South America: In Central America, the leading cause of deforestation is? | The leading cause of deforestation is the clearing of land for cattle pasture. |
| According to the Guardians of the Amazon video, they said one report claims that deforestation is happening every minute by the equivalence of what example? | Deforestation in the Amazon (according to the video) is occurring at the rate of 3 Soccer fields worth of forest being dropped every minute. |
| What small minority group began arriving to Brazil in 1908? | The Japanese began arriving in Brazil since 1908 |
| Which subregion in Peru is the most isolated? | The East/Oriente is the most isolated region in Peru. |
| What town in Bolivia became a legend for Zinc, Copper, Lead, and several Ferroalleyes? | Potosi is the town in Bolivia that became a legend for Zinc, Copper, and several Ferroalleys. |
| It is about the size of Florida, but with one-sixth of the population? | Uruguay is the same size as Florida, but has one-sixth the population. |
| What are four major regions that constitute the European Realm? | Western Europe; Eastern Europe; The Balkans; The European Core. |
| The site of the original settlement at Pairs lay on an island in what river? | The Seine River is where the original Paris settlement was. |
| What animal found in the Northern province of Finnmark has become the scene of a Devolutionary movement and the herding indigenous Sammi? | Reindeer is the animal found in the Finnmark Northern Province that caused a devolutionary scene among herders. |
| Which country is the birthplace of European civilization, a major historic presence in the Mediterranean region, and a longtime member of the EU and NATO? | Greece |
| Amsterdam has a latitude and near-coastal location similar to what US city? | Seattle has the same latitude as Amsterdam and near-coastal location. |
| Europe is fragmented into how many states? | Europe is made up of 40 countries/states. |
| This term has come into use to describe powerful centrifugal forces whereby regions or people within a state, through negotiation or active rebellion, demand and gain political strength and sometimes autonomy at the expense of the center. | Devolution |
| Explain how climate change was mentioned in the documentary in regards to the wildfire history in California. How is it making an impact? | The documentary said that warming the air is making fires more likely to start in dry areas. |
| Based on our class documentary, in 3 or more sentences, explain your opinion on how you feel the Camp Fire was handled. Could things have been done differently or more appropriately? Could more lives have been saved? | Basic Summarization: The police Dep. did the best they can do to evacuate the people, given the circumstances and disadvantages dealt to them. Evacuating one sector at a time was likely the best strategy to reduce constipation and panic spread; |
| *Continued* Based on our class documentary, in 3 or more sentences, explain your opinion on how you feel the Camp Fire was handled. Could things have been done differently or more appropriately? Could more lives have been saved? | the evacuees were the nevertheless trapped between deep hills and flammable trees. |
| How did the camp fire start? Whose holds responsibility for it? | The A PG&E electrical wire got into contact with a flammable object (e.g. a tree) while being blown by the wind. The conditions for fire were ripe enough that day that PG&E were required to shut down Paradise's power, but they either |
| *Continued* How did the camp fire start? Whose holds responsibility for it? | --accidently or purposefully neglect this repsonsibility. |
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