World Geography FALL Semester Review

Factors that Affect Climate-

Latitude (low, mid, high regions, tilt, earth/sun relationship)

Elevation (the higher you go, the colder it gets)

Mountain Barriers (Orographic Effect, windward, leeward, rainshadow)

Proximity to Water (Continentality is another name for the rain shadow effect, farther away from water the more extreme seasonal temperature differences)

Ocean Currents (warm/hot or cold: Examples- cold Peru current; warm North Atlantic Drift)

Storms (common storms that occur in certain areas at certain times of the year)

Atmospheric Pressure (high pressure, or low pressure)

  1. The earth has low, mid and high regions of latitude. Label the low, mid and high areas on the diagram below:

  1. Which region has four seasons?Mid
  2. Which region has two seasons?Low
  3. Which region is the coldest?High
  1. What is the main characteristic of a desert? Dry, less than 8 in of rain a year. Can be hot or cold
  1. How do mountain barriers, ocean currents and atmospheric pressure cause deserts?

Affects the amount of moisture in the desert based on the cause

  1. Match the following deserts with the appropriate cause as listed in #6:
  1. Sonoran desert (California/Arizona) – Mountain Barrier
  2. Atacama (Chile, South America) – Ocean Currents/Rain shadow of Andes Mountain
  3. Sahara (Northern Africa) – Atmospheric Pressure
  1. London, England and Calgary, Canada are about the same latitude. What is the difference in the climate of the two cities? What is the most significant climate factor that explains the difference?

England – temperate climate and wet / Canada – cold; North Atlantic Drift causes warm ocean currents to keep the climate warm even though it’s a mid-high Latitude

Government Systems:

DemocracyRepublicTheocracy

Constitutional MonarchyDictatorshipAbsolute Monarch

  1. What type of government systems typically allow multiple political parties,

freedom of speech, and free flow of information?Democracy/Republic

  1. What type of government bases its laws on religious interpretation?Theocracy
  1. What types of government systems are typically authoritarian and strictly control social, economic, and political aspects of people’s lives allowing for little freedom?Dictatorship, Absolute Monarch,

Economic Systems:

Communism……………..Socialism (Mixed Economy)………………Free Enterprise

  1. Which type of economic system bases what is produced on what consumers

want (demand)?Free Enterprise

  1. In which economic systems are decisions strictly controlled by the

government? Communism

Map Skills:

  1. When reading a map or answering a question about a map, what features of a

map should you analyze before attempting to answer the question? Look at the title of the map and the key to determine the main purpose of the map

Population- be able to recognize or define the following terms:

Population densityPopulation distributionPopulation PyramidZero growth

  1. Will population ever be evenly distributed across the world? Why or why not?

No, there are too many physical features that will not allow people to live on/People live in places with fresh water and rich soil

  1. The population density of Canada is 9.27 people per square mile. For the U.S.

it is 76 people per square mile. Canada is only slightly larger in area than the

U.S. Why is Canada so much less densely populated than the United States? Cold climate

  1. What time period did world population growth increase dramatically? What is most likely the cause of this growth: higher birth rate or lower death rate? Between 1950 and 2000; lower death rate due to better medicine

*Especially when asked to compare pyramids, take the time to read all titles and labels. Sometimes the graphs may be drawn to different scales

  1. What part of the pyramid indicates that a population is growing?The top thinning out
  1. Which of the countries above has the highest total population? How do you

know?United States/ the bar is evenly distributed throughout

  1. Which of the countries above is most likely the least developed? Why?Kenya, the death rate is slowing down which means they are getting better medicine, the other countries have established medicine

Level of Development Standard of Living Level of Economic Activity

-more developed-high -Primary (farming, mining)

-newly industrialized -low -Secondary (manufacturing)

-less developed -Tertiary (service industry)

-Quaternary (information)

21. Would a country with an infant mortality of 6.4 be more or less developed than acountry with an infant mortality of 64?More

22. Would a less developed country be more likely to export raw materials or would they be more likely to import raw materials?Export

23. What could you infer about the standard of living in a country with a low lifeexpectancy?

Poor health conditions, medicine, lack of sanitation

Other review points…… match these words with the appropriate phrase or question below:

NAFTAtariffscarcity/scarce

Interdependenceirrigationprecipitation

Industrialized nationservice-sectorprone to…

Pangaearelative/absolute location

tectonic processesweathering and erosion

24. Process that creates mountains. Process that wears down or shapes mountains.Tectonic Processes

25. Trade agreement that limits tariffs and other trade barriers between U.S.,Canada and Mexico. What are positive and negative results of this agreement? NAFTA

26. Czech Republic and Slovakia used to be one country- Czechoslovakia. The Czechside had industry and the Slovakia side had agriculture, together they made agreat team. They split peacefully in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union. Interdependence

27. Because of its Caribbean location, Haiti is regularly hit by hurricanes.Prone to

28. If there is not enough of something, it is said to be______.Scarcity/scarce

29. Tertiary economic activity within a country.Service

30. Supercontinent that is part of the theory of continental drift.Pangaea

31. Las Vegas has a rapidly growing population despite the lack of rain and water because of______(the ability to move water from where it was to where it wasn’t).Irrigation

32. A more developed country.Industrialized nation

33. Location using coordinates. Location describing where something is in relation tosomething else.Relative/Absolute Location

34. A tax on imported or exported goods.Tariff

Review M.R.H.E.L.P. (Five themes of Geography)

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35. What are the major languages and religions of North America and Latin America?English, Spanish, Portuguese, French

What historical events have shaped the spatial diffusion of these characteristics?Colombian Exchange/ Outsourcing of jobs to less developed countries

36. Is the 19th Century the 1800s or the 1900s? 1800

37. What are some technological innovations in transportation and communication in the 1800s? In the 1900s?Automobile, telephone, airplane, ships

38. What characteristics would define the mid-western United States as a formal or perceptual region?Perceptual/ Breadbasket of the United States