Fall Semester Geography Review #1

The arrival of new immigrant groups creates a more diverse culture when immigrants are pressured to assimilate quickly to their new community.

• True

• False

New immigrants creates a more diverse culture when the traditions of local and immigrant populations combine to create new custom.

• True

• False

If global climate change results in an area of temperate grassland receiving less rainfall and higher temperatures, it will

• have no effect on the biome.

• rapidly be replaced by temperate deciduous forest.

• gradually be replaced by savanna.

• begin to support more desert species.

What latitude line is located at 66 1/2 degrees North Latitude?

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

Which type of region is based upon feelings and not data?

• Formal

• Functional

• Perceptual

• Place

The belief in one God is known as what?

• Monotheistic

• Polytheistic

• Anism

• Religion

What is the difference between democracy in Canada and in the United States?

• Canada is a commonwealth of a constitutional monarchy

• U.S. government is totalitarian

• Canada's government has some unlimited power

• The United States has a commonwealth relationship with Great Britain

What river connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes?

• Mississippi

• Ohio

• St. Lawrence

• Missouri

The more developed an economy is, the less likely it is to gather and use raw materials.

• True

• False

The side of the mountain during the rain shadow that receives the least amount of moisture is the ______________ side.

• windward

• backward

• leeward

• greenward