Geography Final

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How many members in the Senate

100

When are senators reelected

every 2 years (there was 34 up this year)

What is the House of Reps based on?

population

How many members are there?

435 members

When are they elected?

2 years, elected on even years

What are congressional districts?

areas/regions from which members are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

How many people does each average?

765,000 people

______ is the practice of setting boundaries of electoral districts to favor specific political interests, often resulting in districts with convoluted, winding boundaries rather than compact areas.

Gerrymandering

Electoral College is made up of ____

presidential electors formed every four years to vote for the president and vice president.

How many do you need to win an election?

270

About how many people live outside of their country of birth?

281 million

The US has the highest estimation of immigrants at ______

50 million

6 reasons for emigration?

1. Economic opportunity

2. Education

3. To join family

4. Safety - war, conflict, human rights (asylum seekers)

5. Environmental factors

6. Personal aspirations

What do we call the factors that influence decisions?

Push-pull factors

The HDI is the _____

human development index

What 3 categories make up the HDI

a long and healthy life

being knowledgeable

having a decent standard of living.

What are remittances?

Migrants sending money back to their home country

Whats the difference between migration and internal migration?

Internal is within the country

What’s the longest motorable road?

Pan-american highway

What is the darien gap?

66 mile gap in Pan American highway

A ____ ______ is a foreign national granted the right to stay in a country for a certain length of time.

temporary resident

A ___ ____ _____ is a non-citizen who has been granted authorization to live and work on a permanent basis.

lawful permanent resident

_____ is the process by which U.S. _____ is granted to a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)

Naturalization, citizenship

1969‐mi land border between United States and Mexico is the longest in the world separating:

an affluent region from a relatively poor one

What is the longest border?

US and Canada: 5525 miles

Culture – shared patterns of ____ behavior, attitudes, and knowledge

learned

Does taste determine what you eat?

No, it’s a learned behavior

What is the Colombian Exchange?

widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Old World and New World.

_____ are grown in 125 countries and are eaten by over a billion people worldwide

Potatoes

Describe foodways

How cultures obtain and prepare food

Name of Sri Lankan fishing?

Stilt fishing

5 most produced crops?

1. Sugarcane

2. corn

3. rice

4. wheat

5. potatoes

What is the range of the Wine Belt?

50-30 degrees latitude

Italian region with the most centenarians?

Sardinia

First National park is ____ in _____

Yellowstone, 1872

What percent of the land is federally owned?

640 million acres, 28%

Where is most land federally owned?

The west and state of Alaska

What state is 89% federally and state owned

Alaska

what are the 5 federal land management agencies

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - 244 m. acres 

• Forest Service (FS) - 93 m.

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) - 89 m. acres - National Wildlife Refuge System. 

• National Park Service (NPS) - 80 m. acres

• Dept. of Defense - 17 m.

How many units are in the National park service? When was it created?

431 units, 1916

How many national parks are there in the US

63

How many National parks does canada have

38

What is africa’s most famous national park

Etosha, the salt basin

What did the Antiquities act of 1906 do?

was the first law protecting cultural and natural resources on federal lands.

What’s our newest national park?

Congaree, 2003

Which national park is home to “the north face”

Yosemite

____ ____ Is the largest national park outside of alaska

Death Valley

what is the rapid cooling thats causes contraction and formation of hexagonal columns

Columnar basalt

What is the BLM

Bureau of Land Management - 1946

what is the 10 40 window

the area of the most spiritual need

what are the two types of islam/muslims

• Sunni – 80-85%  

• Shiite – 15-20% (orthodox)

number of christians vs muslims

2.3 billion and 1.8 billion

largest muslim population is in ___

indonesia

2023, Dearborn became the first ___ ____ ____ in the US. The city is home to both the Arab American National Museum and the largest mosque in North America. 

Arab-majority city

first muslim in congress?

keith ellison 2006

of the 46 majority muslim, how many declare it as state religion?

23

A ___ ___ is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.

state religion

what happened in 621 for muslims

Muhammad took his Night Journey to the “farthest mosque” which is now the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

5 pillars of islam?

• Belief in Allah

• Prayer five times per day facing Mecca

• Charitable donations - zakat

• Fasting during Ramadan

• Pilgrimage or Hajj, if possible, to Mecca

number of roman catholics?

1.1 billion

largest church?

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast)

number of protestants?

800,000

lutheranism’s number?

80 million

_____ has the highest proportion of Lutherans of any country in Africa, at about 50% of the country's population

Namibia

____ _____ is a historic landmark and Lutheran church in Namibia.

Christ Church

 is a maritime tradition that takes place when a ship crosses the equator.

 "Crossing the Line" or "Sea Baptism"

2 states that have a plurality of the population is Lutheran.

Minnesota and North Dakota

Eastern Orthodox has how many followers?

225-300 million

what in 1054 divided the Eastern and Western Roman Catholic Church

Great Schism

number of hindus outside of india?

60 to 70 million

3 types of buddhism?

Theravada – more conservative, follows Buddha’s teachings

Mahayana – more spiritual and mystical

Vajrayana – similar to Mahayana

how many buddhists?

400 million

spirit houses are:

built for when you move into a home so spirits from past residents have a place to stay

Common buddha design architecturally?

stupa

how many countries are in the world?

193-196

A nation is:

a group of people

nation-states:

created for a group of people

balkanization is:

process of fragmentation into smaller region-states

an exclave is

part of a state separated from the main part

an enclave is

completed surrounded by another country (vatican,lesotho)

a pene-enclave

almost surrounded by a country

whats the mercator projection?

the distortion of size on maps

states are ___ and it is better for defense, communication, and trade

compact

names of a protrusion of a geo entitity

salient, panhandle, bootheel

micro-states

less than 1 million people

AOSIS is what?

alliance of small island states

Secession is when a what happens?

a group withdrawals from a larger entity

Antecedent boundaries are drawn before it’s populated. (True or false)

true!

Relic boundaries ___

no longer function

what’s the scale of the HDI?

0.3-1 (Higher is better)

What is a vietnamese dish of broth, noodles, herbs, and meat

Pho

Coca leaves are notorious for

being cocaine, and in coca cola or coca tea

chica morada is what

a peruvian drink of purple corn

blue zones:

areas where people live longer

name the 5 blue zones

costa rica, japan, loma linda, greece, and italy

what type of monument can the president establish? what was the first? How many are there

national, devil’s tower, 85

what does the wilderness act of 1968 do

it makes sure agencies have to recognize and take care of these areas