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1)The people who inhabited Mexico first were the … Amerindians Aztecs and the Ma

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1)The people who inhabited Mexico first were the …

Amerindians

Aztecs and the Mayans

the Spanish and the Americans

there were a number of pre-Colombian civilizations

2) The major contribution to ocean seal level rise at present is which of the following?

Melting ice in Greenland

Melting ice in the Antarctic

Melting ice in the Arctic

The expansion of water because of warmer surface temperatures

3) The extensions of fertile areas for the cultivation of food in Mesoamerica, what Europeans mistook for being “floating islands,” were called what?

Barrios

Chinampas

Favelas

Latifundias

4) The principle parts of a tropical cyclone that are of greatest concern in understanding its strength is (are) the ...

Eye

Eyewall

Inner rainbands

Outer rainbands

B and C

5) Which country has the largest population with 184 million in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Angola

Cameroon

Ethiopia

Nigeria

South Africa

6) What is the most appropriate term for the tidal mouth of a river that opens out to the ocean?

Delta

Estuary

Lagoon

Wetland

7) Tierra Helada, the elevation of 2800 to 4000 meters, is a good production zone for …

coffee, maize, beans, citrus, squash and alegría.

pygmy trees, grasses and mosses.

sweet potatoes, papaya, breadnut and cacao.

8) Most slaves in the global African Diaspora went to …

Brazil

Caribbean

North Africa

United States

9) According to your instructor, the Monroe Doctrine applied to more than westward expansion across the United States. It included US influence over …

Central America

South America

the Caribbean

All the above

Only A and C

10) The commonality that tropical cyclones and thunder showers have in common is both …

are organized convection

are synoptic scale low-pressure systems

possess cyclonic surface wind circulation

11) The name for the meteorological storm with winds of 74 miles (60 – 120 km) per hour or more and taking place in the North Indian and Northwest Pacific Oceans is called a …

Cyclone

Monsoon

Typhoon

12) The creation of the Isthmus of Panama allowed biota of the Nearctic and Neotropic Ecozones to mix. This is known as the …

Colombian Exchange

Colonial Exchange

Great American Interchange

13) The generic name for the meteorological storm with winds of 74 miles (60 – 120 km) per hour or more and taking place in the South Indian and Pacific Oceans is called a …

Cyclone

Monsoon

Typhoon

14) A point or area on the Earth’s surface is called what?

Place

Region

15) The subnational Haitian paramilitary organization used in the 1950s through the 1980s to keep order was called the …

Je me souviens

Jeux d’enfants

Tonton macoute

16) The formation of the Isthmus of Panama occurred when?

50 to 65 million years ago

2 to 3 million years ago

17) Half the world’s population lives in which of the following triangular block of countries?

Brazil-Canada-Japan

Indonesia- Japan-Turkey

New Zealand-South Africa-Thailand

Pakistan-Saudi Arabia-Turkey

18) The name for the meteorological storm with winds of 74 miles (60 – 120 km) per hour or more and taking place in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific Oceans is called a …

Cyclone

Hurricane

Monsoon

19) The increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging economic, political, and cultural activities is called what?

Areal differentiation

Diversity

Globalization

20) Paul Allen’s yacht, the Tatoosh, damaged how much coral of one of the Cayman Islands in January 2016?

1067 meters squared, what was 20%

3200 meters squared, what was 60%

4267 meters squared, what was 80%

Explanation / Answer

1. Aztecs and the Mayans:

Before the precolumbian era this region was inhabited by peoples of Aztecs and Mayans in this part of North America.

2. The expansion of water because of warmer surface temperatures:

Rising temperatures are warming ocean waters, which expand as the temperature increases. This thermal expansion was the main driver of global sea level rise for 75 - 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, though its relative contribution has declined as the shrinking of land ice has accelerated.

3.

4.Last option is correct in order to understanding the strength of tropical cyclone i.e, Eyewall and Inner rainbands.

5.Nigeria largest population with 184 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, DRC, Niger, Zambia, and Uganda will contribute millions of people to the world total.By 2050, Nigeria is projected to outpace the population of the United States by about 30 million people