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Geography Rev TF
Study for geography finals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is farming carried out mainly to provide food for farm families with little to sell? | Substance farming |
| What is the precise poine were a place is located on Earth? | Absolute location |
| What is a severe storm with high winds that spirals around a calm center? | Tropical cyclone |
| What is something that encourages people to move to a new place? | Pull factor |
| What is the number of people who live in a unit of area, such as a square mile? | Population density |
| What is a force that unites people and countries? | Centripetal force |
| What is an area defined by one or more natural or cultural characteristics that set it apart from other areas? | Region |
| What is using recources is ways that meet the needs of people today without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs? | Sustanibale development |
| What is a warm ocean current that flows off the west coast of South America every few years? | El Nino |
| What is something found in or living in a city? | Urban |
| What is the proces by which carbon and oxygen cycle among plants, people, animals, and the enviorment? | Carbon Oxygen cycle |
| What is the name of all the feeding relations within an ecocystem? | Food web |
| What is the using of goods and srevices? | Consumption |
| What is a geologic region that is well suited for permanent settlment by people? | Ecumene |
| What is the constant flow of migrants from one country into another country? | Migration stream |
| What is a force that divides people and countries? | Centrifugal force |
| What is a group of countries that acts as a single market, withaout trade barriersbetween memboring countries? | Common market |
| What is the removing or clearing away the trees from an area? | Deforestation |
| What is it to move from a country? | Emigrate |
| What is a wealthy countrie with an advanced economy? | Developed country |
| What is a poorer country with a less advanced economy? | Developing country |
| What is a form of international cooperation in which countries give up some control of their affairs as they work together to achieve shared goals? | Supernational cooperation |
| What is a severeor unusual weather conditions, such as a hurricane, a tornadoe, or a blizzard? | Extreme weather |
| What is the total value ao a good and service produced in a country in a year? | Gross Domestic Product |
| What is the name of all the plants and trees in an area | Vegetation |
| What is something found in an areas that aren't close to cities? | Rural |
| What is the worsoning economic conditions in the country side, including rising unemployment and growing poverty? | Rural decline |
| What is a society in which different cultural groups keeping their own identity, beliefs, and traditions? | Plural society |
| Who are people native of an area who have been conqured or dominated by other who came later? | Indigenous peoples |
| What is a change in the shape, size, or postion of a place when it is shown on a map? | Distortion |
| What is a place that is located in relation to another place? | Relative location |
| What is it called to move to a country? | Immigrate |
| What is a braoadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator? | Tropical rainforest |
| What is a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface? | Map projection |
| What is the scientific study of climate and weather patterns? | Meteorology |
| Who is someone that seeks safty by going to another country? | Refugee |
| What is the movment of people from rural areas to urban areas, cousing a groth in urban area? | Urbanization |
| What is something that encourages people to leave a place behind? | Push factor |
| What is a community of all the living things in an area and the enviorment in which they live? | Ecosystem |
| What is a sieries of plants and animals, each of which depends on the one below it for food? | Food chain |
| What is something made up water that is fresh, not salty? | Fresh water |
| What is a geologic area that includes all the land and waterways that drain into a body of water? | Watershed |
| What is the unequal distrubution of whealth of resources in a geolgic area, so that some areas are richer than others? | Spatial inequality |
| What is the variety of plants and animals living in an area? | Biodeversity |
| What is by or for each person? | Pre capita |
| What is great destruction or loss of life caused by natural forces? | Natural disaster |
| What is a map that shows a particular theme or topic? | Thematic map |
| What are the customes and ways of life handed down from ancestors? | Traditinal culture |
| What is a change in a way of life to suite new conditions? | Adaptations |
| What is the overall level of comfort and well being of a group or a country? | Standard of living |
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