GED GEOGRAPHY AND THE WORLD EXAM QUESTIONS

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GED GEOGRAPHY AND THE WORLD EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Athens

Answer:

Democracy, Golden Age, and thinkers; Investors of the arts

Question 2: Reformation

Answer:

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

Question 3: Rome

Answer:

Republic/laws

Question 4: Pull Factor

Answer:

Reason for immigrating; Move in

Question 5: Unauthorized Immigrants

Answer:

Illegal immigrant with no paperwork

Question 6: Step Migration

Answer:

A series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a persons place of origin to final destination

Question 7: Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia

Answer:

A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Question 8: Charlemagne

Answer:

800 AD - crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy. Died in 814

Question 9: "Pax Romana"

Answer:

Roman Golden Age characterized but political stability, territorial expansion, and rapid cultural/intellectual growth

Question 10: Migration

Answer:

Permanent or semi-permanent move to a new location;

Question 11: Impelled Migration (Reluctant or Imposed Migration)

Answer:

Individuals aren't forced out of their country, but leave because of unfavorable situation such as warfare, political problems, or religious persecution

Question 12: Physical Boundaries

Answer:

Natural features such as rivers or mountains

Question 13: Push Factor

Answer:

Reason for emigrating; Move out

Question 14: Greece

Answer:

Democracy

Question 15: Prime Meridian

Answer:

O degrees of longitude

Question 16: Nile River

Answer:

A river in East Africa, the longest in the world, flowing from north Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean

Question 17: Sparta

Answer:

Militant Greek city-state valuing strength and discipline among all its people; War, army/military

Question 18: Quotas

Answer:

Limits number of immigrants allowed per year

Question 19: Longitude

Answer:

Imaginary lines that run North to South, but measure East to West; Also called meridians

Question 20: Migration Fields R

Answer:

The clustering of people from a specific region into certain neighborhoods or small towns

Question 21: Migration Transition

Answer:

Changes in a society compared to demographic transition

Question 22: Human Changes To the Environment

Answer:

Human beings have significantly altered every natural environment in which they have settled. They may fell whole forests in order to clean land for farming or building. They build bridges, roads, and cities; Walls and fences to mark property borders, as well factories, mines and railroads

Question 23: Parliament

Answer:

The British body that makes their laws

Question 24: Migration Between U.S. Regions

Answer:

1790 - Hugging the coast 1800-1840 - Crossing the Appalachians 1850-1890 - Rushing to the gold 1900-1940 - Filing in the Great Plains 1950-2010 - Moving South

Question 25: Migration Streams

Answer:

A group of migration from a particular country, region, or city to a certain destination

Question 26: Sumerian

Answer:

A group of people who were the first to settle in Mesopotamia. They were the first people to invent the wheel and plow (a tool used for farming). They may have been the first people to discover agriculture and create the irrigation system

Question 27: Equator

Answer:

• degrees of latitude

Question 28: Hellenism

Answer:

Blend of Greek, Indian, and Persian cultures as a result of contact between civilizations within Alexander the Great's vast empire