Quiz 1
A geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface. Measures an angle (defined below) which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles
What is latitude?
The dominant religion in the Middle East and North Africa.
What is Islam?
The dominant religion in Indonesia.
What is Islam?
The original home of humankind.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
The only MDC in the world experiencing significant population growth, due primarily to immigration.
What is the United States?
A digital system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.
What is geographic information system (GIS)?
A great peninsula, fringed by smaller peninsulas and islands and bordered on its seaward sides by the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
What is Europe?
The world’s most linguistically diverse country, with approximately 850 languages spoken.
What is Papua New Guinea?
A climate pattern caused by winds and temperatures in the Pacific Ocean with global impacts.
What is El Niño?
The first to establish a permanent presence in North America.
What is Spain?
A biome that lacks trees, has widespread permafrost, and is the coldest on Earth.
What is tundra?
The permanently frozen depths (approximately three meters) of the tundra and subarctic zones in Russia and the Near Abroad.
What is permafrost?
A continent that contains at least 70% of the world’s freshwater.
What is Antarctica?
The country where civil war led to the genocide of the Tutsi.
What is Rwanda?
A Canadian province with a large French-speaking population and a strong French heritage.
What is Quebec?
The agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species, variety, or breed in a field or farming system at a time.
What is monoculture?
A Pleistocene-era geologic process that shaped Europe's modern geological landscape.
What is glaciation?
An ancient, rigid social system that assigns Hindus a social rank. Ranks are inherited and cannot be changed, and socializing outside of your rank is very limited.
What is the caste system?
The leading trade partner of Latin America, and as such, Latin American countries are affected by economic conditions of this country.
What is China?
A horrific even in which thousands of Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, and others were forced to migrate from their ancestral homes westward to a specially designated Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
What is the Trail of Tears?
The layer of Earth is divided into tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
The major biome of Russia.
What is the boreal forest biome?
An island where 900 Moai statues were built between AD 1200–1500, but deforestation of their land contributed to the demise of their civilization.
What is Easter Island?
An organization that aims to promote democracy, good governance, human rights, gender equity, and development across the African region.
What is the African Union?
The ancestors of all indigenous people in the Americas.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?