Unit 1: Geography & Culture Test Review

Poverty, War, Unemployment

What is the best title for the list above?

• Push Factors for migration

• Culture traits of a city

• Pull Factors of migration

• Government actions in a country

Answer explanation

Poverty, war, and unemployment ae all reasons people would move away from a place. These negative things would PUSH people away from where they live.

The diagram best demonstrates...

• Pull Factors

• Push factors

• culture traits

• corridors

Answer explanation

These positive factors would PULL people to live in that area.

Which of the following is not a geographic feature?

• hills and valleys

• rivers and lakes

• buildings and streets

• ocean and beaches

Which of these is an example of a body of water?

• Pacific Ocean

• Rocky Mountains

• Houston

• Great Plains

Answer explanation

Rivers, Oceans, Lakes, Streams are examples of bodies of water.

How does geography influence the economic development of an area?

• Geographic features lead to an economy based on free enterprise

• rivers and coastal areas limit economic development

• areas with many natural resources have weak economies

• Natural resources and climate determine job opportunities

Answer explanation

Geographic factors = climate, natural resources, physical geography bodies of water.

Economic development = how the people in the area make money

What is the best title for the list above?

• Transportation Corridors

• Transportation Barriers

• Culture Region

• Geographic Features

Answer explanation

Corridors are things that make travel easier or faster

Which of the following geographic features is an example of a transportation corridor.

• Appalachian Mountains

• Mississippi River

• Grand Canyon

• Rocky Mountains

Answer explanation

A river is an example of something that makes travel easier or faster.

Transportation Corridor = easier and/or faster transportation

Which of the following is an example of a transportation barrier?

• Hudson River

• Rocky Mountains

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

Answer explanation

Mountains are an example of a geographic feature that would make transportation more difficult.

Barrier = harder and slower transportation

The Himalayan Mountains keep Bhutan isolated from global markets.

The Himalayas act as a transportation---

• corridor

• barrier

• region

• blockage

Answer explanation

Mountains will slow or make transportation harder.

This photograph is an example of...

• fashion for students in North Texas

• the impact of physical processes on children

• ways humans adapt to the environment

• the factors that influence population patterns

Answer explanation

Adaptation describes how humans get used to the environment around them.