Geography Exam 2

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Countries part of the Oceania

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Austrailia
New Zealand
South Pacific
Pacific Islands

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Major Pacific Islands?

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Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia

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- old folded mountains
- Steel escarpement, NZ broke away
- high snowy mountains

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Eastern highlands - Australia

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- hot and dry
- Great Artesian Basin
- abriculture and farming

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Interior lowlands - Australia

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an aquifer called...?

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Great Artesian Basin

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- Very dry
- Flat desert
- poor farming
- erosion and weathering; resistant landforms
*Ayers Rock *Uluru

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Western Plateau

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a big tourist destination; land eroded around it

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Ayers Rock

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Part of New Zealand where:
- permanent snow fields
- further from equator
- alpine scenery (conifer trees)

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South Island

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Part of New Zealand where:
- rolling hills
- productive agriculture
- Warmer
- volcanic activity

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North Island

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has lowlands and coconuts
-global warming

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Atoll

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Land use of aborigines?

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hunter and gatherers, made fires, little change

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Maori land use?

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-new zealand
-more change: intensive hunting and agriculture

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European changes?

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-livestock
-intensive agriculture
-mining; metals and minerals

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Atomic bomb testing in?

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Bikini Atoll

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The pollution from the atomic testing brought it to...

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Renegelap islands

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irish activists are what religion?

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Catholics

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A pact with Maori to keep land and rights.

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Treaty of Waitangi

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Most common religion in Australia

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Christianity

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Land owned by no one

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Terra Nullius

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"people of the land"
New Zealand

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Tangeta Whenua

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Australia's immigration policy sought to maintain a European look; it restricted immigration to ppl from N. Europe.

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White Australia Policy

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- Canadian shield
- interior lowlands
- great plains
- agriculture

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Central Lowland

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- Major eastern landform
- high crests(lower than the west)

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Appalachian Mountains

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- Mountains (Sierra, Cascade, Rocky)
- old rocky mountains; round and eroded
- Intermontane Basin
- Colorado Plateau

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West Mountain Ranges

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- long growing season
- temperate forest
- more chance to do agriculture

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South Great Lakes

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- Coniferous trees
- permafrost (tundra)
- Alaskan glaciers - calving

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North Great Lakes

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- Seasonal range in temperature
- Not near the ocean

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Continental Climate - Midwest

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Europeans fighting each other in colonized areas throughout the world

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7 yrs war

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North America phase (France vs Britain)

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French and Indian War

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- Gained independence from Britain

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American Revolution

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Natural resources unprocessed and are exported to areas where they are manufactured into end products

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Canadian's Staple Economy

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Countries part of the southern cone

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Paraguay
Argentina
Chile
Uruguay

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Raised areas between mountains
- flat, cool, and wet (Good for agriculture)
- floating villages

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Altiplano

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Tallest waterfall

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Angel Falls

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Area where 2 tetonic plates meet and move towards one another; slides under another and form volcanoes
- folded mountains

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Subduction

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Kills original tree and becomes it's own structure

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Matapalo

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Low, tropical agriculture, bananas

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Tierra Caliente

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Cooler, coffee, banana plants

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Tierra Templada

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Colder, potatoes, tubers

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Tierra Fria

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"Ice cream" zone, llamas, alpaca

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Tierra Helada

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Explorer that landed in Mexico; Conquered Aztec Empire

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Henan Cortez

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Inca Ruins; "Face of the Inca"

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Macho Picho

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Division between East(Portugal) and West(Spain); Pope drew a demarcation line through Latin American

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Tikal, Guatemala

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Lots of rainforests

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Native american language of South America

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Quechua

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Maya people

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Lacandon

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Blanco

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Spanish Descent

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Indigenous

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Native American

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Afro-Latin American

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African ancestry

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Mestizo

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mixture of European and indigenous

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Mulatto

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African and European ancestry

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Zambo

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African and Indian descent

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Most common languages in South America

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Spanish and Poruguese, and Quechua in Aymara and Chapalache

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Most common religion in South America

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Catholic

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Hacienda

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Plantation and mines

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Explorer that found the Incan Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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African and Catholic Religions

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Candomble