Political
Economical
Geographical
Social
Pot Luck
100
Based on the formal region of North America, what other country shares the boundaries with the US?
Canada
100
What are characteristics of a less developed nation?
subsistance farming, high birth rates, lack of healthcare, high death rates
100
What does a climograph tell us about a nation?
amount of rain (percipitation) and the temperatures of a location
100
What does a population pyramid tell us about a country?
population of male and female, their ages, and also how industrialized a nation is
100
What does this population pyramid tell us about this nation? 
Less developed nation that has a low standard of living
200
What type of government is it when the government owns most of the production and controls what is put into the economy, as well as runs the healthcare system.
Socialist Govt.
200
A newly industrialized nation is usually characterized by having?
lots of people engaged in manufacturing jobs
200
How was the The Andes Mountains formed?
The result of two tectonic plates colliding
200
Which of the following is likely to encourage cultures to diverge (separate) from each other
isolation
200
What does the following climograph tell us about this area? 
It is a desert region
300
What is the purpose for the United States to develope renewable resources of energy?
less reliance on foreign sources of oil
300
How will a city decide where to put a landfill?
GIS
300
Why do most areas near the equator have warm climates?
they receive the most direct rays from the sun
300
A developing country is plagued by malaria. A vaccine for malaria is distributed throughout the country. What will most likely happen next?
The country’s infant mortality rate will decrease.
300
What does this chart show us about the world population in the 1700s? 
That the population grew after the industrial revolution of the 1700s
400
Which of the following is an effect of Spanish colonization still evident in Latin America today?
Most Latin Americans follow the Catholic religion
400
Which of the following trade agreements includes Mexico, Canada and the United States?
NAFTA
400
United States and Canada share a continent. Which factor best explains why these neighboring countries have different climates?
Latitude
400
The current destruction of rainforests around the world is primarily due to the
human demand for timber and farmland
400
Plant roots can grow into crevices in rock and eventually break the rock apart. This is an example of-
the biosphere affecting the lithosphere through mechanical weathering
500
Why does Texas have large population of Spanish speaking residents because it-
borders Mexico
500
Which is a major feature of an economy based on subsistence farming?
Farmers grow enough food for their families only
500
Mountain-building rock structures are most often caused by
tectonic plate collisions
500
Frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in an area of the Pacific Ocean called the “Ring of Fire.” Which of the following causes such events?
the movement of tectonic plates
500
Rift valleys form when
continental plates pull apart over millions of years