Geography A Final Review

What do many scientists believe about the Earth's continents?

• They look the same today as they did millions of years ago

• They were pushed together over millions of years

• They were pulled apart over a period of one or two centuries

• They once were joined in a single massive supercontinent

What are the two types of location that geographers use as reference points?

• population and coastal

• absolute and relative

• high and low

• human and physical

What causes day and night?

• revolution of Earth

• Earth's gravity

• orbit of Earth

• rotation of Earth

The condition of the atmosphere at one place and time is called what?

• weather

• permafrost

• climate

• doldrom

Natural increase is the difference between an area’s _________.

• death rate and birth rate

• internal and external migration rates

• birth rate and migration rate

• death rate and migration rate

NAFTA reduced trade restrictions among which countries?

• Mexico, the United States, and Panama

• Canada, the United States, and Mexico

• Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina

• Mexico, island countries of the Caribbean, and Bolivia

These were colonists in the Americas that moved to Canada after the Revolutionary War

• Quebecois

• Loyalists

• Inuit

• Pilgrims

Why do businesses in The United States practice outsourcing?

• labor force is better educated

• raw materials costs are lower

• production and labor costs are lower

• transportation costs are lower

What is the name of the growing southwestern region of the United States?

• Southern belle

• The Region

• Appalachia

• Sunbelt

This is the river that forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico

• Rio de la Plata

• Amazon

• Rio Grande

• Colorado