1st Quarter Exam: World Geography

Relative Location : ______________________::

Absolute Location : ______________________

• directional terms…..longitude and latitude

• longitude and latitude....directional terms

• geography......cartography

• GPS......grid system

Which of the following can be MOST correlated to temperature?

• longitude

• proximity to water

• vegetation

• latitude and elevation

Deserts, mountains and tropical rain forests have affected the history of many regions by—

• encouraging foreign invasions

• promoting political reform

• isolating peoples and cultures

• increasing social mobility

According to the diagram, what season is it in Australia on the June 21st solstice?

• summer

• winter

• spring

• fall

Many modern era jobs have come to this area of southern Central America as a result of urbanization, transportation, and economic activities associated with this man made structure built by the United States in the early 1900's, and controlled by the United States until 1999. What is this structure?

• Port au Prince in Haiti

• Panama Canal

• Bridge of the Americas in El Salvador

• Pan American Highway

Economic activities are designated as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. In a primary economy much of the population is dependent on use of the land, e.g., farming, mining, fishing, and hunting. In a secondary economy, much of the population is involved in manufacturing. This includes taking any products of the land and creating another product, e.g., grinding grain into flour. A tertiary economy has a large percentage of its population in the services sector. This includes sales, maintenance, and repair work. Finally, quaternary societies have citizens working at computers with information processing.

Using the map and reading above, which continent has the greatest percentage of quaternary economic activity?

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

• South America

Which of the following BEST explains the difference between democracies and totalitarian (autocracy) systems?

• power is controlled by one person in a democracy

• power is divided among citizens in a democracy

• power in democratic governments is usually unlimited

• power in a totalitarian system is often limited

What is the best title for this diagram?

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road

• Plantation Economy

Which of the following correctly lists a positive economic and a negative geographic impact of deforestation in the Amazon basin?

• Logging and its byproducts create thousands of jobs, and indigenous people who live in these areas can take these jobs.

• There is a possibility that thousands of cures can be found in the forest, and erosion from logging is destroying the soil.

• Cities and transportation systems are growing throughout the region, and more medical and health care is available.

• More land is made available for agriculture and ranching, and there is a loss of land in natural habitats.

Mountains and volcanoes are most likely found along the _______________ plate boundary.

• North America/Eurasian

• Antarctic/Indo-Australian

• Pacific/Eurasian

• South American/African