SS EOC Sem1

what is Physical Geography?

• Study of weather and what causes it

• Science of making maps

• Study of world's people, communities, and landscapes

• Study of world's physical features, such as landforms bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants

What is the main mountain range in the Eastern side of the United States?

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachians Mountains

• Mississippi River

• Continental Divide

A good indicator of a country's wealth is

• market economy

• public goods

• gross domestic products

• free enterprise system

A government in which government power is unlimited and citizens have few, if any, rights

• representative government

• political party

• nonrepresentative government

• political party

In the United States it is law that you must attend school until the age of

• 18

• 17

• 16

• 15

What is the process of conducting relations between countries?

• Foreign Policy

• humanitarian aid

• national intrest

• diplomacy

Geographers use _______ to classify different ways settlements form.

• spatial patterns

• linear patterns

• cluster patterns

• All of the above

What is a way that cultural diffusion occurs?

• People bring their culture to another country

• People trade goods in different regions

• People move to other countries to escape conflicts and wars

• All of the above

Three important cultural universals are:

• 1. 1. multicultural societies

  2. 2. Cultural Diffusion

     1. 3. Ethnic Group

• 1. 1. Multicultural Societies

  2. 2. Technology

  3. 3. Social Institutions

• 1. 1. Social Institutions

  2. 2. Creative Expressions

  3. 3. Technology

• 1. 1. Technology

  2. 2. Multicultural Societies

  3. 3. Cultural Diffusion

salt is a

• Mineral

• renewable resource

• metal

• fossil fuel