World Geography First Semester Exam

Front

What is based on a global network of satellites that transmit radio signals from medium earth orbit?

Back

A global positioning system (GPS)

Front

What allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts?

Back

A geographic information system (GIS)

Front

Google maps is an example of a GIS.

Back

True

Front

What does GPS stand for?

Back

Global positioning system

Front

What does GIS stand for?

Back

Geographic information system

Front

The global trading of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas begun after Columbus's first voyage is known as __________________.

Back

The Columbian Exchange

Front

Europeans were not as affected by the diseases they brought to the Americas because they had _________________ .

Back

immunity

Front

The introduction of new crops from the Americas caused populations to _____________ in the Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Back

increase

Front

As native populations decreased in the Americas from sickness and overwork, Europeans looked for new sources of labor by enslaving the ____________.

Back

Africans

Front

The Columbian Exchange was a movement of _______ between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

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all of the above