Mid Term Study Guide
1. What are lines of latitude? What direction do they run?
2. What are lines of longitude? What direction do they run?
3. Define hemisphere
4. What is the imaginary line that divides the earth into northern and southern halves?
5. What is the imaginary line that divides the earth into eastern and western halves?
6. What type of map shows both natural and manmade features on the earth?
7. What is a map projection?
8. What is a three dimensional representation of the earth?
9. What is the solid rock portion of the earth’s surface?
10. What is the hydrosphere?
11. What is the crust?
12. What is the atmosphere?
13. What is the mantle?
14. What are tectonic plates?
15. What measures the size of waves caused by an earthquake?
16. What is a tsunami?
17. What is the flow of rock through cracks in the earth’s surface?
18. What is mechanical weathering?
19. What is the tundra?
20. Define the following
a. Ocean current
b. Greenhouse effect
21. What is a measurement system of the earth that can be divided into three zones: low, mid and high?
22. What is culture?
23. What is diffusion?
24. What is acculturation?
25. What is the belief in more than one god?
26. What is a dialect?
27. What is a state?
28. What is a nation?
29. What type of government is ruled by a king or queen?
30. What is communism?
31. What is democracy?
32. What is a metropolitan area?
33. What is urbanization?
34. How do the Rocky Mountains differ from the Appalachian Mountains?
35. Which landforms regions are not shared by US and Canada?
36. What are the key features of a representative democracy?
37. What US/Canada waterway is one of the world’s most important shipping routes?
38. What are multinationals?
39. What “field” do the majority of Americans work in?
40. What is a megalopolis?
41. What is a post industrial economy?
42. What industry are most Canadians employed in?
43. Who is Canada’s main partner in trade?
44. What is terrorism?
45. What is a global network?
46. What is a biological weapon?
47. What is urban sprawl?
48. What are sustainable communities?
49. What is infrastructure? Give examples.
50. What mountain range runs down the western coastline of South America?
51. What makes up the Greater Antilles?
52. What industry did Jamaica move to when they quit focusing on plantation farming?
53. What resources are abundant in Latin America?
54. What ancient civilization built their civilization by altering their environment?
55. What are push and pull factors?
56. Who still uses the slash and burn style of farming?
57. What are maquiladoras?
58. What is NAFTA and who is a part of it?
59. What is biodiversity?
60. What is a Junta?
61. What is the debt for nature swap?
62. What Aztec City became the site of Mexico City?
63. Describe the Northern European Plain.
64. What water surrounds the Scandinavian Peninsula?
65. What is the long lasting result of the British Empire?
66. What was the effect of the North Sea becoming a major source of petroleum?
67. What is the effect of the North Atlantic Drift on the continent of Europe?
68. What is a reason to create polders?
69. Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
70. What type of government did Athens develop?
71. Who controlled several nation’s economies in Eastern Europe after World War II?