Geography 1st Semester Review

What is it called when you use computer programs to process and organize details about places on Earth and integrate those details with satellite images and other pieces of information?

• Maps

• Globes

• Global Positioning System

• Geographic Information System

Equator divides Earth into the…

• Northern & Eastern Hemisphere

• Northern & Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern & Western Hemisphere

• Southern & Western Hemisphere

The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into…

• Northern & Eastern Hemisphere

• Northern & Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern & Western Hemisphere

• Southern & Western Hemisphere

True or False: Rising global temperatures & severe weather changes are indicators of climate change.

• True

• False

The population changes due to:

• birthrate

• death rate

• migration of people to or from the area

• all of the above

Exchange of capital, labor, goods, and services between countries refers to what?

• Market economy

• World Trade

• Democracy

• Ethnic groups.

What is an ethnic group?

• Groups of people who share a common language, history, or place of origin.

• An economy that is ran by the government and makes all major decisions.

• A group of people who moves from place to place searching for better living conditions.

• An average number of people living in a certain area.

2/3s of our freshwater supply is located where today?

• In lakes and rivers.

• In our oceans.

• In frozen glaciers.

• Deep underground.

When people move from small cities and villages to big cities, this movement of people is called what?

• Urbanization.

• Graduation.

• Migration.

• Job improvement.

Once a city grows and starts to develop, what suffers from the growth of a city?

• The habitat and environment around the city.

• The company owners because workers are moving away.

• The workers because companies start to move away.

• Nobody suffers and everyone is happy with the growth.