Geography Basics
What are Canada’s political divisions called?
What are provinces?
People of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry are called what?
What are Mestizos?
The United States government is a federal republic rather than a pure democracy.
What is true?
The Earth's spinning movement about its axis is called what?
What is rotation?
What is the largest city in Sweden?
What is Stockholm?
What box explains what various symbols on a map stand for?
What is a legend?
What is the second-largest religious group in South America?
What is Protestantism?
Manufacturing plants in northern Mexico owned by foreign companies are called what?
What are maquiladoras?
The Earth's 23.5° tilt is responsible for what?
What are seasons?
The prime meridian passes through which location?
What is Greenwich?
What is the longest river in the United States?
What is the Missouri River?
This country is known to have one of the cleanest environments in the world.
What is Finland?
Who runs the executive branch in Canada’s political system?
What is the Prime Minister?
This term refers to deep cracks in the Earth’s surface where land moves in different directions.
What are faults?
This country holds roughly 60% of the world’s lithium supply.
What is Bolivia?
What imaginary lines run north and south around the Earth?
What are lines of longitude?
How do high-context cultures primarily communicate?
Relying on implied and nonverbal cues
Who represents the British monarch in Parliament?
What is the Governor General?
This is the primary cause of the diverse landforms in the United States.
What are tectonic forces?
What is the term for rivers that "feed" other rivers?
What are tributaries?
True or False: The Andes Mountains form the longest mountain range in the world.
What is true?
What term refers to the breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, and temperature changes?
What is weathering?
This country nationalized its industries in the 2000s.
What is Venezuela?
What is the process by which oceanic crust slides under continental crust?
What is subduction?
The highest waterfall in the world is found in which country?
What is Venezuela?