GEA1000 QUIZ 2 NORTH AMERICA MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA Mendota a town in California s Central Valley is known for mining Drug abuse family violence and malnutrition are often the result of unemployment The term that the text uses to refer to all Spanish speaking people from middle and South America is Hispanic The Rocky Mountains range dominates western North America The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet in Cairo Illinois A climate that is dry and warm in summer cool and moist in winter is Mediterranean European colonization of North America began around 1500 A strong threat to the North American environment comes from the mining of natural has in the remote interior All of the following are threats to habitat for people and animals in North America o Logging o Urban sprawl o Mining The introduction of corn squash and beans allowed Native Americans to begin building cities by freeing up community members to engage in activities other than agriculture hunting and gathering Coffee is not thought to be closely linked to early settled life and population growth in North America Atlanta is not a port city Walmart is one of the top two employers in the U S A country runs a trade deficit when it imports more than it exports Restaurants per capita is not a factor used to measure the inability of a city Southeast Asia is the world region that receives the most rainfall Increased colonization and migration from abroad did not play a role in Middle South America s population explosion in the 20th century The largest sector of the Mexican economy today is services The process of Urban development in Brazil neglected transportation infrastructure The northern two thirds of Brazil is covered by the Amazon Basin Short Answer 1 The Appalachians mountains stretch along the eastern edge of North America 2 Clear cutting is a method by which all trees on a given plot of land are cut down regardless of age health or species 3 Smog is the yellow brown haze of industrial emissions and car exhaust that 4 Acid rain occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide fall to earth as 5 The Civil War took place in the 19th century and resulted in the decline of hovers over many cities precipitation the plantation economy 6 Urban Sprawl is the encroachment of suburbs on agricultural land 7 Brownfields are an abandoned degraded industrial site that poses an obstacle to development 8 SAP s were based on the concept of Privatization or the selling of government owned industries to private owners 9 Assimilation refers to the loss of old ways and the adoption of new ones by immigrants 10 Brazil is the most developed country in South America True False 1 False North America is synonymous with the U S 2 True What is today s southwestern U S was originally colonized by the Spanish with Europe 3 True Today the west coast of north America trades more with Asia than 4 True Canada and the U S have comparable democratic political traditions 5 True Most North American airports are located near highways 6 False IT industries tend to locate in rural areas with low populations 7 True The gap between rich and poor is much wider in middle south America than in North America 8 False Enforcement of environmental laws is quite strong in most of the countries of Middle and South Africa 9 True The Brazilian economy is the largest in Middle and South America 10 False Brazil s industrial growth has received little help from the national government
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