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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