Geography 100 Review 1

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What are the languages of Sardinia?: Sardinian (Sardu), Italian.
Polders are lands that have been?: Reclaimed from the sea adjacent to the Netherlands by using dikes and pumps.
What bodies of water collectively make up the Mediterranean?: Atlantic, Aegean, Adriatic.
In what city is Belgium's light industry concentrated?: Antwerp
Yerevan is the captial of?: Armenia.
The Walloons speak?: French.
What countries border on the Black Sea?: Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia.
What bodies of water are associated with Turkey?: Black Sea, Aegean Sea.
The rivers that flow through France are?: Seine, Loire, Rhone.
The language spoken in ANdorra is?: Catalan.
Which are the Baltic Republics?: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
What European country has coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?: Spain.
England's major river is the?: Thames.
Balkanization refers to?: Southern part of Eastern Europe that got divided into small political units (enthic cleansing)
The Flemish speak?: Dutch.
Devolution refers to?: The process where regions within a state demand and gain political strength at the expense of the central government.
The major linguistic branches of the Indo-European languages are?: Anatolian, Celtic, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavonic, Iranian, Indic, Greek.
The capital of Malta is?: Valletta.
The Walloons live in?: South Belgium.
Riga is the capital of?: Latvia.
The Danube River runs from?: West to East.
Which river runs through Paris?: Seine.
The Rhine flows from?: South to North.
The capital of Andorra is?: Andorra La Vella.
Liege is a _____ in the country of _______?: City, Belgium.
A macroscale vegetation region is known as a?: Biome.
The transformation of raw materials into finished products is associated with the _______ sector of a nation's economy?: Manufacturing Industry.
A narrow strip of land connecting two large land bodies is known as a?: Land Bridge.
As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico are known as?: Greater Antilles.
A Malquiladora is?: Factory that assembles imported duty free/raw materials into finished products.
The Central American country where English is spoken is?: Belize.
Belize's colonial name was?: British Honduras.
Tierra Templada is?: The intermediate altitudinal zone in Middle/South America. (Temperate zone - crops of coffee, tobacco, corn, wheat.
The two language groups in Canada are?: French, English.
The three leading fossil fuels are petroleum, natural gas, and?: Coal supplies.
The Yucatan Peninsula is part of the country of?: Mexico.
Which is the biggest state?: Alaska.
Which is the smallest state?: Rhode Island.
Which state reaches farthest north?: Alaska.
Which state reaches farthest south?: Hawaii.
Which state reaches farthest west?: Alaska.
Which state is split into two by a lake?: Michigan.
Which two states are perfect rectangles in shape?: Wyoming, Colorado.
Which state is shaped like a saucepan?: Oklahoma.
In which state would you be if you visited Lake Huron?: Michigan.
In which state would you be if you visited Lake Ontario?: New York.
In which state would you be if you visited the Great Salt Lake?: Utah.
Which state in northern USA is called south?: South Dakota.
Which state in southern USA is called north?: North Carolina.
Where do the four corners meet?: Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona.
How many states have a border with Mexico?: 4
How many states have a coastline on the Pacific?: 3
How many states have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico?: 5
The term _____ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from moderating influences of large water bodies?: Continental.
In the earth's greatest ocean basin, water circulates in giant cells called?: Gyres.
The mountain chains in west central Russia that is often regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia is called?: Ural Mountains.
The term _____ refers to huge state farm and literally means "a grain and meat factory" in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak?: sovkhoz
Russian imperialism in the 19th century was aimed chiefly at?: Central Asia.
Who was responsible for consolidating Russia's gains in the early 1700s and in making a European style state out of locally knit country?: Peter the Great.
Fortified trading towns in Central Asian were known as?: Gorods.
Seward's Legacy refers to?: The US buying Alaska from Russia.
Two Russian words that entered the international vocabulary introduced by Gorbachev are?: Glasnost - open society

Penestroika - change economy
Czarina Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition thrust was aimed at?: North America and the Black Sea regions.
The low countries of Western Europe are referred to collectively as?: The Spanish Low Lands.
The major mountain chain in the eastern United States is the?: Appalachian Mountains.
The megalopolis is?: A synonym of conurbation, one of the large coelescing supercities forming in diverse parts of the world.
The conurbation produced by the coalescence of the Boston-Washington urban corridor along the northeastern seaboard of the US is known as?: Megalopolis.
Montreal and the lower course of the St. Laurence Seaway are locaterd in the Canadian province of?: Quebec
What geographic feature isolates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe?: Pyrenees and Straight of Gibraltar.
What alphabet do the Russians use?: Cyrillic.
What body of waters has connections with the Baltic sea?: North Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland.
The Great Lakes' main outlet to the sea is?: St. Lawrence River
The Panama Canal was opened in?: 1914.
The core area of the Aztec state was located in?: Valley of Mexico / Tenochtitlan.
The funnel-shaped connection between North and South America extending from Mexico through Panama to Columbia is an example of?: Land bridge.
The chielf and political architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution that created the Soviet Union was?: Lenin.
The modern Russian state, which began as forest-based empire launched by Czar Ivan the Terrible, was centered in the city of?: Tartarstan.
How many republics are located in the Transcaucasian region?: 3.
Which countries are in conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region?: Armenia, Azerbaijan.
Most of the population of Russia is found in the?: Core area (Moscow, St. Petersburg).
What is the name of the republic that was separated from the Ingush Republic and which is a major oil refining state?: Chechnya.
About _____ percent of the earth's crust is under water?: 71.
The disintegration of the nation-state is referred to, in a word, as?: Devolution.
_____ are located in humid coastal tropical lowlands and produce a single crop, using imported captial and seasonal labor supply?: Plantations.
Guatemala today claims the country of?: Belize.
Name the Russian republic whose population has affinities with an ethnic group in Georgia?: Ossetia.
Amerindians in Canada are having their rights recognized by the federal government as evidenced by the formation of?: Nunavut.
We associate the term "first nation" with?: Canada's indiginous people of American decent.
Land in Mexico which is communally owned is called?: Ejidos.
Which state is split into two at the inlet of the sea?: Maryland.
In which state would you be if you visited Mississippi Delta?: Mississippi.

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