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Global Geography 12
Mid Term Exam:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 1:00 pm.
Duration:
2 hours, but you may have more time (up to 3 hours)
What to Bring:
pencils and pens, ruler
Do NOT bring:
cell phones, music players, electronic toys
Chapter 1-2
1. Vocabulary (define, give examples, match terms to definitions)
MDC (More developed country), LDC (less developed country), development,
Fair Trade, sustainability, global village, North-South Gap
2. LIST, EXPLAIN or DESCRIBE:
a. Five ways of “knowing a place”
b. Benefits of studying geography
c. Six concepts of geography
3. Using a graph of economic sectors, identify MDC, LCD, LLDC
4. Read an article and identify facts that connect to any of the six concepts (I will give
the six concepts)
Chapter 3
1. Vocabulary (define, give examples, match terms to definitions)
Catastrophism, Eutrophication, global warming, Greenhouse effect, ground
water, igneous, metamorphic, ozone, Pangea, sedimentary, Uniformity Theory
2. LIST, EXPLAIN or DESCRIBE:
a. Four conditions that make life possible on Earth
b. Carbon cycle
c. Oxygen Cycle
d. Water Cycle
e. Nitrogen Cycle
f. Three types of rocks
g. Plate tectonics
h. Gaia Hypothesis
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Chapter 4
1. Vocabulary (define, give examples, match terms to definitions)
Natural Hazard, natural disaster, Frequency, Duration, Extent, Speed of Onset,
Spatial Dispersion, Temporal Spacing, flooding, front storm, earthquake, famine,
drought, infectious disease, landslide, tsunami, tornado, tropical storm, volcano
2. LIST, EXPLAIN or DESCRIBE:
a. Natural hazard vs. natural disaster
b. 3 categories of natural disasters
c. causes and effects of each type of natural disaster
d. two ways tropical storms cause damage
e. Areas affected by 1998 ice storm
f. disaster planning in LDCs and MDCs
g. ways that humans contribute to natural disasters
Chapter 5-6
1. Vocabulary (define, give examples, match terms to definitions)
Carbon Dioxide, Carbon monoxide, Chlorofluorocarbon, Hydrocarbon, methane,
Nitrogen oxides, nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Primary pollutant, Secondary pollutant,
Smog, Sulfur dioxide, particulates, Kyoto Protocol (Agreement), Montreal Protocol
2. LIST, EXPLAIN or DESCRIBE:
a. global warming
b. ozone depletion
c. causes and effects of smog
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