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A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is know an a(n):
isthmus
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Which of the following countries is location in the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
A. Guatemala
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
d Tenochtilan probably had over one-hundred thousand inhabitants at its peak.
e. The Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish.
C. The Mayan civilization arose in the highlands of Mexico (arose in the lowland tropics)
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Which of the following is not a Middle Americcan Amerindian group?
D. Incas
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Who conquered the Mayans?
Pizarro
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Who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortez
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The coming of the Spanish led to all but which of the following?
C. loss of Portugese provinces in Middle America
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Which Amerindian group is most associated with the Caribbean island?
Arawaks
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Differences between Mainland and Rimland.
- Mainland: vast estates, early remotemness, haciendas, Euro-Amerindian culture, local self- sufficiency
- Rimland: small farms, early accessibility, plantations, Euro-African influence, commercial activity
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Which of the following associations is incorrect?
E. Haiti and Santo Domingo
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What is the largest Caribbean country in both area and population?
Cuba
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How much land of Middle America does Mexico account for?
70%
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The island containing Haiti and Dominican Republic is known as:
D. Hispaniola
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A group of islands is known as..
Archipelago
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What island is the Caribbean's leading oil producer?
Trinidad
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Mestizo= ?
White and Amerindian ancestry
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Mulatto= ?
White-black ancestry
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The new supranational group in the Caribbean is known as...
ACS
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The Assocation of Caribbean States developed as a result of:
E.
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Ejidos= ?
land in Mexico which is communally owned
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Most Mexicans today are:
C. mestizos
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Discoveries of this commodity have changed Mexico's economic outlook significantly...
oil
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Which Mexican city is the center of its leading petroleum- producing region?
Villahermosa
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Lowest to highest elevations.. Altitudinal climatic zones..
Tierra caliente, tierra templada, tierra fria, puna
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What altitudinal climatic zone do most people live in?
Tierra templada
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Central America's oldest democratic republic...
Costa Rica
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Which of the following countries does not contain a significant part of the Andes?
B. Paraguay
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Relgion most closely associated with South America= ?
Roman Catholicism
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The antiplano is...?
a plain high in the Andes
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The language of the Inca state?
Quecha
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What was the original center of the Incan Empire?
Cuzco
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Lima became the capital of the viceroyalty of:
Peru
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Brazil contains about ____ percent of the population and area of South America.
50%
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About ___ percent of South Americans live in urban areas.
75%
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South America's largest city in population size is:
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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What are the 3 megacities of South America?
Sao Paulo, Brazil; Beunos Aires, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Argentina
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The rings of slums surrounding South America's large cities are known as:
favelas
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The fast growing sector of the Brazillian economy is:
commercial agriculture
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Volta Redonda is most closely indentified with Brazil's:
iron and steel manufacturing activities
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The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
oil production
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The areas of flat plains in Venezuela are known as:
llanos
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Colombia is the world's second largest exporter of:
coffee
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South America's densest railroad network is found in:
Argentina
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Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina:
d. Buenos Aires
D. Maracaibo Lowland (in Venezuela)
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Who conquered the Incas?
Pizarro
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Which is the least developed country in the Southern Cone?
D. Paraguay
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The desert in North of Child is the:
Atacama
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Most of North Africa/ Southwest Asia lies in which climate region?
B
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Which of the following does not lie in the Fertile Cresent?
B. Oman
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Shi'ite Muslims were followers of:
Ali (Muhammad's cousin)
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Which of the following are currently officially Islamic republics?
E.
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Which of the following areas has few, if any, oil reserves?
D. Turkey
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The North Africa/ South Asia realm contains about ____ percent of the world's oil reserves.
65%
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What are the countries of Maghreb?
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
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The major mountain range in North Africa is the:
D. Atlas
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Which of the following countries is not in the The African Transition Zone?
E. Egypt
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Which country is not in the Horn of Africa?
A. Chad
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Iran differs from ost of the North American/ Southwest Asian realm in that:
it is dominately Shi'ite
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An irrigation system used to bring water from the Elburz Mts to Tehran is:
Qanats
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What are the 5 republics of Turkestan?
Kazahstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan
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The Qoraqaloghiston (Karakalpak) are is located in:
Uzbekistan
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Where is the site of the Garaum (Kara Kum) Canal?
Turkmenistan
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The republic which fought a civil war to avoid an Islamic fundamentalist government is:
Tajikistan
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Where is the Orange River located?
South Africa, Namibia
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The major reason that Africa contains no continental-scale moutain range is that:
Africa was once the center of the landmass from which all other continents broke off, with Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south
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The Zaire River basin supports what type of vegetation?
tropical rainforest
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The worst of the endemic African diseases is:
Malaria
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The vector for yellow fever is the:
mosquito
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The vector for river blindness is the:
worm
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Before independence, the modern state of Zaire was a colony of:
Belgium
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One of the last countries to give up its African colonies was:
Portugal
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The most populous country in Africa, which also has significant oil supplies is:
Nigeria
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Two countries that were originally part of the German East Afria, but which were given to the Belgians after WWI are:
Rwanda and Burundi
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Africa's richest region in terms of minerals is:
Southern Africa
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The great river in Souther Africa is the:
Zambezi
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The Copperbelt, Great Dyke, and Witwatersrand are:
mineralized belts and mining centers for Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa respectively
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The mineral found at the confluence of the Orange and Vaal River that changed the economic geography of South Africa was:
diamonds
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What was unique about the Mayas?
They were the only culture hearth that arose in the lowland tropics
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Where was the Aztec cilivization headquarter?
Tenochtitlan
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Maquiladoras=?
foregin owned factories
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What countries make up the Middle East?
Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel
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The Spanish conquest stressed the "3 G's"... What are these?
Gold, God, and Glory
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What 3 islands make up the Greater Antilles?
Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica
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What is NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Agreement
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What countries are in the "Southern Cone?"
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
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What is the vector of sleeping sickness?
Tsetse fly
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What countries are in the Arabian Peninsula?
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman
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