World Geography: Exam #2 quizzes

The movement of the seat or headquarters of the Russian Empire to St. Petersburg allowed that city to become a

Forward Capital

In its push eastwards, Russia eventually colonized

Alaska

Which two countries are fighting over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh?

Armenia and Azerbaijan

What is NOT true about Russia's population

Male life expectancy has increased dramatically in recent decades

Taiga

The extensive coniferous forest vegetation that covers much of Russia and Canada

Distance decay

Explain how increasing the distance between places tends to reduce interactions among them.

The centralized economic planning practiced in the Soviet Union was characterized as

Command Economy

What best characterizes tundra landscapes

Treelessness, with mosses, lichens and sparse grasses

Continentality

inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.

Permafrost

Permanently frozen water in the near-surface soil and bedrock of cold environment

In the period of Soviet domnation of Eastern Europe (1945-1989), the countries there are

Satellite states

Chechnya

fought and lost a war for independence from Moscow during the 1990s and 2000s

Hydraulic civilization theory

major cultural hearths and cities developed in association with irrigation-based agriculture

What is an example of a "stateless nation"

Kurds

About 90 percent of Muslims consider themselves to be

Sunni

Ottoman Empire

ruled over much of southwest Asia, including present-day Syria, Palestine, and Iraq at the start of World War 1

Iran

This large country differs from others in the Middle East ( Southwest Asia) in that it's people speak Farsi, are ethnically Persian, and are largely muslim

difference between expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion

Expansion diffusion: a phenomenon that originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward

Relocation diffusion: the phenomenon is carried by migrants to a distant location and diffuses from there

The state of Israel

It was created in 1948 from territory that was formerly administered by the British

What is NOT one of the eight impacts of oil-related developments in the NASWA realm noted in the book

Outmigration from the realm

The Arab Spring

A series of antigovernement, pro-democracy protest and uprisings in NASWA beginning in 2011

Syria

This country's civil war displaced 13 million people, including 6 million who left the country. It was controlled by an Alawite minority group

What countries is NOT within Maghreb

Saudi Arabia

What is NOT noted in the book as a geographic obstacle to a Two-State Solution

The Golan Heights

The share of people in Africa who still depend on agriculture for their livelihood is approximately

60%

Does Africa's ethnic territories largely coincide with its political boundary framework, true or false

False

Endemic

When a disease in a host population affects many people in a kind of equilibrium without causing rapid and widespread deaths

Land Tenure

refers to the way people own, occupy, and use land

Green Revolution

The successful late twentieth-century development of higher-yield, faster-growing varieties of rice and other cereal crops

Formal economy

The part of a national economy that is regisered with the government agencies and complies with laws and regulations, including the payment of taxes

What is most true about HIV/AIDS in Africa?

The highest prevalence rates are in southern Africa

Africa, like North America contain a cluster of great lakes, most of which:

Lie in deep trenches called rift valleys

Indirect Rule

when colonizing powers leave indigenous power structure in place and make the local rulers represent the colonial power

Sub-Sahran Africa contains what landscapes

Rift valley, great lakes, rainforest, major rivers

The largest proportion of the west african slave trade went to what area

Brazil

Pandemic

when a disease spreads worldwide