JEOPARDY: FINAL REVIEWPART 4 – LATIN AMERICA, N. AMERICA, OCEANIA

STUDY GUIDE #76-106

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Category 1 : 1 Question:

What is the name for the point at which rivers flow eastward or westward in America? It’s found in the Rocky Mountains.

Answer:Continental Divide

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Category 1 : 2 Question:

A __________ economy is one that no longer relies on manufacturing for its income.

Answer:postindustrial

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Category 1 : 3 Question:

What kind of government is it when the people elect others to represent them in government?

Answer:representative

democracy

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Category 1 : 4 Question:

Information processing, finance, medicine, and education are all examples of the _____ industry in America.

Answer:service

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Category 1 : 5 Question:

What is the name for corporations involved in business worldwide?

Answer:multinationals

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Category 2 : 1 Question:

What group of people attempt to gain territory or change government policies through force and scare tactics?

Answer:terrorists

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Category 2 : 2 Question:

The Treaty of Tordesillas was between what two countries?

Answer:Spain and Portugal

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Category 2 : 3 Question:

What is the name for communities where people live and work in the same area?

Answer:sustainable

communities

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Category 2 : 4 Question:

What term refers to a wide range of plants, insects, and wildlife?

Answer:biodiversity

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Category 2 : 5 Question:

What term describes a region that includes several large cities, their suburbs, and nearby towns?

Answer:megalopolis

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Category 3 : 1 Question:

What landform in America has a tropical wet and dry climate, over 4000 miles of swampland?

Answer:Everglades

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Category 3 : 2 Question:

What kind of weapons carry disease causing bacteria?

Answer:biological

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Category 3 : 3 Question:

How are boats able to travel through the St. Lawrence Seaway?

Answer:a system of locks

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Category 3 : 4 Question:

The ______ _______ system of economics is in place if the government exerts little control over businesses, resources, and technology that is operated for profit by private individuals.

Answer:free enterprise

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Category 3 : 5 Question:

What was the original purpose for colonizing Sydney, Australia?

Answer:to set up a penal

colony for Great Britain

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Category 4 : 1 Question:

What is the program known as that exchanges protection of parts of the rain forest for payment of a nation’s debt?

Answer:debt for nature swap

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Category 4 : 2 Question:

What type of climate does Antarctica have?

Answer:Icecap

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Category 4 : 3 Question:

Why are the Appalachian Mountains smaller than the Rocky Mountains?

Answer:The Appalachians are

much older

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Category 4 : 4 Question:

What is the term for the condition that exists when development increases without planned growth?

Answer:urban sprawl

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Category 4 : 5 Question:

What kind of government divides power between national, state, and local governments?

Answer:federal republic

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Category 5 : 1 Question:

What is the name for the huge group of Pacific Islands that consist of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia?

Answer:Oceania

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Category 5 : 2 Question:

What are Quebec and Ontario the core provinces of Canada?

Answer:They comprise the

areas of greatest population and land mass.

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Category 5 : 3 Question:

What term refers to the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an increase in temperatures, and climate changes?

Answer:global warming

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Category 5 : 4 Question:

What is the smallest and flattest continent in the world?

Answer:Australia

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Category 5 : 5 Question:

What place still can’t be lived in because of the nuclear contamination caused by atomic testing by the US?

Answer:Bikini Atoll

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Category 6 : 1 Question:

What term refers to the Aboriginal children whom the government placed with white families?

Answer:Stolen Generation

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Category 6 : 2 Question:

What is the name for the original inhabitants of Australia?

Answer:Aborigines

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Category 6 : 3 Question:

Chemicals found in CFCs are believed to have caused what to happen to the environment?

Answer:the hole in the ozone

layer over Antarctica

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Category 6 : 4 Question:

What is the name for the original inhabitants of New Zealand?

Answer:Maori

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Category 6 : 5 Question:

Most oceanic economies are based on what kind of activities?

Answer:subsistence

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