1st Semester Final Geography Study Guide

What are the tools a geographer uses?

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Define absolute and relative location. Give an example of each.
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What are the imaginary lines that create the four hemispheres of the earth? Tell what
hemispheres each line makes. _______________________________________________
What is latitude and longitude? Give an example of each.
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What are plate tectonics? What do their movements cause?
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What is the Ring of Fire? ___________________________________________________
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What are the two types of weathering and give an example of each?
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What are biomes? ________________________________________________________
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What is culture? List all of the aspects of culture. _______________________________
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What is birthrate and mortality rate? _________________________________________
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What is diffusion? _________________________________________________________
What is innovation? _______________________________________________________
What is acculturation? _____________________________________________________
What is dialect? __________________________________________________________
What are the major religions of the world? ____________________________________
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What is the difference between monotheistic and polytheistic? ____________________
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What is urbanization? _____________________________________________________
What are the metropolitan areas and megalopolis? ______________________________
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What are the types of government in the world? Explain each.

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Know all of the climate regions and characteristics of each (study climate regions chart)
Why affects weather and climate?
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What are the weather extremes? Which one forms without warning? _______________
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List all climate regions found in the U.S. and Canada and tell what states/provinces have
those climate regions: (Ex.-Mediterranean- California)
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What are the major landforms of the U.S. and Canada and where are they located? (Ex.
Appalachian Mountains- Eastern U.S. and South eastern Canada)
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What is the everglades? _________________________________________________
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What was beringia? ____________________________________________________
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What is Canadas longest river and where is it located?________________________
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What mountain chain is older Rocky or Appalachian Mountains and why? _________
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What type of economy does the U.S. have and describe it? _____________________
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What type of government does the U.S. have and describe it? __________________
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What was the Columbian Exchange? _______________________________________
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What are multinationals and give an example? ______________________________
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What are the four sub-regions of the U.S.?__________________________________
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What states make up New England? _______________________________________
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What are service industries? _____________________________________________

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What was the Dominion of Canada? _______________________________________
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What was the war that the British won to gain control of most of Canada?
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Who are the metis?
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What type of government does Canada have and explain it? ____________________
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Who is the majority party leader in Canada? ________________________________
Where do the majority of Canadians live and why? ___________________________
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What are the four sub-regions of Canada and list one important fact about each?
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What mountain chain runs down the western coast of South America? ______________
What is Tierra del fuego? ___________________________________________________
What are the major rivers of Latin America? Where are they located? _______________
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What are the plains regions of Latin America? Where are they located?
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Who are the gauchos and where are they located? ______________________________
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What are the two types of ancient farming techniques? Explain each. _______________
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Know that tourism is a growth industry. What are advantages and disadvantages of
tourism? ________________________________________________________________
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What two groups of people have influenced Mexican culture? _____________________
What is NAFTA? Who is it between? __________________________________________
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What was the Treaty of Tordesillas and who was it between? _____________________
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What are factories that are located close to the US border in Mexico? _______________
What led to the fall of the Aztec Empire? ______________________________________
What was the Aztec capital? __________________________________
What is the largest country in Latin America? ________________________
What does PRI stand for and what was it? _____________________________________
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What three ethnic groups make up the cultures of Central America and the Caribbean?
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What is Samba? __________________________________________________________
What makes up the island of Hispaniola? ______________________________________
What is an archipelago? ____________________________________________________
Where do most people live in Australia? _______________________________________
What is the smallest and flattest continent? ________________________________
What is an outrigger canoe? What is a voyager canoe? ___________________________
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What is the rabbit problem in Australia? What efforts are they making in order to fix it?
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Where did nuclear testing take place at in the Pacific? ____________________________