Fall Semester Exam Review
World Geography Fall Semester Exam Review
Below are materials that you need to know for your semester exam.
You will need to label transpiration, precipitation, run-off, condensation and evaporation when given a word bank.
Below are facts that will be very beneficial to know for multiple choice questions on your exam.
✓ Renewable resources can be replaced.
✓ Ethnic groups have a common language, history, and place of origin.
✓ Rivers in Texas have their source in the west and flow toward the Gulf of Mexico. (the question on the test has you look at a map to determine this)
✓ Topsoil is rich due to decaying plant life.
✓ Animals, plants, and humans all live together in the biosphere.
✓ A cultural hearth is a source area from which new ideas radiate.
✓ Push factors are what cause people to leave an area.
✓ Quaternary economic activities involve intellectual careers, including research and space exploration.
✓ The main reason why people move to cities is to find jobs.
✓ Sustainable development can best be characterized as using resources in order to meet current and future needs.
✓ Physical features often influence where people live. Which type of environment typically has the highest population density? – flat, fertile plains and river valleys
✓ One reason countries trade with each other is that natural resources are distributed unevenly among countries.
✓ China and India are the two most populated countries in the world?
✓ Arable land is land that can be cultivated for farming.
✓ One challenge of rapid population growth is providing adequate food production.
✓ Population distribution is strongly influenced by geography.
✓ Customs include both how people dress and the foods they eat.
✓ In a free enterprise economy, businesses are driven by the desire for profits.
✓ The Ring of Fire is a zone of earthquake and volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
✓ Communism - government decides what factories will make, how much products cost, and how much workers will be paid.
✓ Subsistence farming – growing only as much as the family needs to survive.
✓ People in poor, developing countries are most likely to work in primary and secondary economic activities. Primary economic activities often involve agriculture.
✓ In deserts and tundras only plants that can adjust to extreme temperatures can survive.
✓ Elevation and latitude impact an area’s climate.
✓ Formal regions have boundaries determined by common characteristics.
✓ Relative location is the location of a place in relation to other places.
✓ Cultural geography is another term for human geography.
✓ Less developed nations have a high infant mortality and a low life expectancy.
✓ Erosion is wearing away of the Earth’s surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water.
✓ The world’s population is unevenly distributed because natural obstacles greatly restrict where people can live.
Location Questions
When given a word bank, be able to label the following places on a map:
|Pacific Ocean |Atlantic Ocean |Indian Ocean |Gulf of Mexico |
|Mediterranean Sea |United States |Japan |China |
|Mexico |Canada |United Kingdom |Afghanistan |
|Iraq |Amazon River |Rocky Mountains |Nile River |
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Line of longitude
Line of latitude
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✓ The prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude.
✓ The equator is 0 degrees latitude.
✓ Be able to locate the equator, prime meridian.
run-off
precipitation
evaporation
transpiration
condensation
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