Geography Exam Review

What is a major cause of carbon dioxide pollution?

• Carbon dioxide from cars
• Carbon dioxide from the Amazon Rainforest
• O2 from the Amazon Rainforest
• Water pollution

Clearcutting in the Amazon in favor of farmland is known as _______________?

• Desertification
• Deforestation
• Cash Crop Economies
• Water Pollution

Which is an example of a man-made water passageway that leads from one large body of water to another?

• Suez Canal
• Strait of Magellan
• Strait of Gibraltar
• Mediterranean Sea

The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain because it had the resources of __________________.

• Gold and Salt
• Coal and Salt
• Iron and Gold
• Coal and Iron

Which organizations promote development the most in Africa and Latin America?

• OPEC
• Treaty of Versailles
• NATO
• IMF and World Bank

The poem, "White Man's Burden" is associated with ___________________ in Africa.

• fighting AIDS
• fighting Ebola
• Imperialism
• Spheres of Influence in China

Animals overgrazing in the Sahel region has caused ________________.

• Deforestation
• Desertification

What was the main purpose of Europeans in the Scramble for Africa?

• Spreading Islam
• Acquiring resources
• Spheres of Influence in China
• Meiji Restoration

What was the war where Britain defeated then took Spheres of Influence in China?

• Opium War
• Boer War
• World War 1
• Russo Japanese War

Name the period where Japan industrialized/modernized quickly.

• Tokugawa Shogunate
• Opium War
• Boxer Rebellion
• Meiji Restoration