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Geography Midterm Practice 2018

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10th grade Geography Quiz on Geography Midterm Practice 2018, created by Jose Vazquez on 13/12/2018.
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Question 1

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Fortune seeking prospectors swarmed the west looking for gold
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  • Gold Rush
  • Colony
  • Megapolis
  • Sovereingty

Question 2

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Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Answer
  • States of the West
  • States of the Midwest
  • States of the South
  • States of the Northeast

Question 3

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North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio
Answer
  • States of the Midwest
  • States of the West
  • States of the South
  • States of the Northeast

Question 4

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Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
Answer
  • States of the South
  • States of the Northeast
  • States of the Midwest
  • States of the West

Question 5

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Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Answer
  • States of the Northeast
  • States of the West
  • States of the South
  • States of the Midwest

Question 6

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Ohio River, Missouri River, Arkansas River
Answer
  • Tributaries of the Mississippi River
  • Cities under Spanish Rule
  • Great Lakes
  • Humid Subtropical Cities

Question 7

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Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles
Answer
  • Cities under Spanish Rule
  • Tributaries of the Mississippi River
  • Great Lakes
  • Humid Subtropical Cities

Question 8

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Ontario, Superior, Huron, Eerie and Michigan
Answer
  • Great Lakes
  • Humid Subtropical Cities
  • Cities under Spanish rule
  • Tributaries of the Mississippi River

Question 9

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Dallas, St. Louis, Washington D.C., New York
Answer
  • Humid Subtropical Cities
  • Cities under Spanish rule
  • Great Lakes
  • Tributaries of the Mississippi River

Question 10

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The state should own and run some basic industries such as transportation, banking, coal mining, while private enterprise operates other industries.
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  • Socialism
  • Capitalism
  • Communism
  • Traditional Economy

Question 11

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The state owns and operates all major farms, factories, utilities, and stores. Government planners decide what products will be made, how much works will be paid, and how much things will cost.
Answer
  • Communism
  • Socialism
  • Capitalist
  • Traditional economy

Question 12

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Occurs when private individuals and groups decide what and how much will it produced and the prices that will be charged for goods and services
Answer
  • Capitalist
  • Socialism
  • Communism
  • Traditional economy

Question 13

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Subsistence economies, because little surplus is produced, and there is relatively little need for markets where people can buy or sell excess good.
Answer
  • Traditional economy
  • Capitalist
  • Communism
  • Socialism

Question 14

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The government tries to control every part of society – politics, economy, and people’s personal lives
Answer
  • Totalitarianism
  • Unitarian
  • Federation
  • Confederation

Question 15

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Smaller political units keep their sovereignty and give the central government only limited powers, typically in such fields as defense and foreign commerce.
Answer
  • Confederation
  • Federation
  • Totalitarianism
  • Unitarian

Question 16

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Some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments
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  • Federation
  • Confederation
  • Unitarian
  • Totalitarianism

Question 17

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Restriction of culture from outside cultural influence
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  • Cultural Divergence
  • Culture
  • Diffusion
  • Cultural Convergence

Question 18

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The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group of individual to another.
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  • Diffusion
  • Cultural Convergence
  • Cultural Divergence
  • Culture

Question 19

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Occurs when skills, arts, ideas, habits, and institutions of one culture come in contact with those of another country.
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  • Cultural Convergence
  • Diffusion
  • Culture
  • Cultural Divergence

Question 20

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The beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life.
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  • Culture
  • Cultural Divergence
  • Cultural Convergence
  • Diffusion

Question 21

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Lithosphere – layer of soil, land, rock, landforms
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Hydrosphere – layer of air, water, and other substances above the surface
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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Atmosphere – consists of water, oceans, lakes and rivers
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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Biosphere – the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and water
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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Demography – the study of the earth’s physical structure and history
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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Emigrants – people who leave the country to live in other places
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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Immigrants – people who leave the country to live in other places
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Mortality Rate – the number of deaths each year per 1,000 people
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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Birth Rate- the number of live births each year per 1,000 people
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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Characteristics of World Countries
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  • Clearly defined territory
  • Population
  • Gold
  • Government

Question 31

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Chemical [blank_start]weathering[blank_end] is the process in which rock is broken down by changes in its chemical makeup
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  • weathering

Question 32

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[blank_start]Mechanical[blank_end] weathering is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by physical means
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  • Mechanical

Question 33

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Delta is a low lying plain formed at the mouth of a [blank_start]river[blank_end]
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  • river

Question 34

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Sediments are small pieces of [blank_start]rock[blank_end], soil, and other materials
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  • rock

Question 35

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Dictatorship power is concentrated in a small group or even in a single [blank_start]person[blank_end]
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  • person
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