World Geography First Semester Exam

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

• A global positioning system (GPS)

• A geographic information system (GIS)

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?

• A global positioning system (GPS)

• A geographic information system (GIS)

Google maps is an example of a GIS.

• True

• False

What does GPS stand for?

• Geographical positioning system

• Global positioning system

• Geographical point system

• Global point system

What does GIS stand for?

• Geographic information system

• Ground information system

• Geographic infrared satellite

• Global information satellite

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

• The Great Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange

• The New World Exchange

• The American Exchange

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

• mercantilism

• epidemiology

• immunity

• colonization

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

• increase

• decrease

• the stay the same

• none of the above

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

• Africans
• Spanish
• Portuguese

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

• people/cultures 
• disease
• animals/plants
• all of the above