World Geography 1st Semester Review
1. What are the five themes of geography?
2. How is absolute location different from relative location?
3. What type of imaginary lines is also known as parallels? Meridians?
4. What is a hemisphere? What are the 4 hemispheres of the earth?
5. What imaginary line separates the Northern Hemisphere form the Southern Hemisphere?
6. What imaginary line separates the Eastern Hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere?
** Be able to use latitude and longitude.
7. Draw a diagram of the earth’s interior.
8. What makes up the biosphere?
9. Explain the theory of continental drift.
10. How does the movement of tectonic plates shape the earth’s surface?
11. What type of plate movement do you have in a Divergent boundary?
12. What type of plate movement do you have in a Convergent Boundary?
13. What type of plate movement do you have in a Transform Boundary?
14. What is the Ring of Fire?
15. What is the most important factor that influences climate?
16. Explain the differences between weather and climate.
17. What is a solstice? What are the seasons that start when we experience a solstice?
18. What is an equinox? What are the seasons that start when we experience an equinox?
19. Define: commercial farming, subsistence farming, cottage industries, commercial industries.
20. Define: sustainable resources.
21. Define: market economy, command economy, traditional economy.
22. Define: democracy, autocracy, oligarchy, and monarchy (both absolute and constitutional).
23. What is a megalopolis?
24. What are goods? What are services?
25. Know the basic law of supply and demand and how each affects prices.
26. What is meteorology?
27. What is cartography?
28. Name the four oceans of the world and know their locations.
29. Name the seven continents of the world and know their locations.
30. Define: isthmus.
31. Define: peninsula.
32. Define: archipelago.
33. Define: standard of living.
34. Define: cultural hearth.
NORTH AMERICA
35. What is NAFTA?
36. Which Canadian province threatened to secede from Canada? Why?
37. What human adaptation of the environment played a significant role in the industrialization of the US
South?
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38. Draw a picture of the Columbian Exchange & explain its importance.
North America
Corn, turkey, potatoes, cacao, tobacco
Europe
Livestock, disease, sugar, grains, fruits,
slaves
39. What are the three branches of the US government and what does each do?
40. What type of economy does the US use? Explain.
41. What makes the US such a culturally diverse country?
Latin America
42. Why is Spanish the native language in so many Latin American countries?
43. Why is the Amazon Basin of importance to the world? How is it changing?
44. How do the following things affect the environment: slash & burn farming, terraced farming?
45. What is the difference between push & pull factors in migration?
46. Why is the Panama Canal so important to world trade?
47. What are biodiversity, deforestation and global warming?
Latin America Map Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Gulf of Mexico,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Strait of Magellan, Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Lake
Maracaibo, Lake Nicaragua, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama Canal, Andes
Mountains, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre del Sur, Yucatan Peninsula, Baja
California, U.S., Amazon River, Angel Falls, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Jamaica
World Map Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Arctic Ocean,
Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, equator, Prime Meridian,
Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle
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