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World Geography Quiz set 1
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
02/09/2009

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according to the lecture what were the three cultural characteristics that set western culture apart from the rest of the world
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What are the three most significant characteristics of culture
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Language, religion, Political Organization pr governments
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what are the two most important elements of climate
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temperature, precipitation
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On what land for do most people live on
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Plateaus
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The land form that most people live is most often prrtrayed as what color on maps
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Green
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who were the first People to study Geography
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Greeks
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What was Magellan's contribution to Geography
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he died, but his men sailed around the world
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after the fall of Rome what civilization continued the study of geography
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Europeans
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Identify the three revolutions that have had a profound impact on human growth
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Agricultural revolution
Industrial revolution
sanitation revolution
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according to the lecture what was the most profound impact on population growth
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according to Aristotle what was the center of the physical universe
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Earth
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what most determined where people lived in the paleolithic age
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resources such as food
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what event/events had the most profound impact on stimulating an renewed interest in geography in Europe after the fall of Rome
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Trade with other countries
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what group represented the largest migration to Canada before the 1900s
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The loyalist
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what were the two distinctive reasons for immigration in America
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Volume, energy
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what determines where industry locates
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Cheap power
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