GEOG 1300 - Exam 2 questions and complete solutions to pass

GEOG 1300 - Exam 2 questions and
complete solutions to pass

Colonialism - correct answer ✔✔The practice of a more developed country exercising control
(political and/or economic) over a less developed country

- Creates unequal economic, political, & cultural relationships

- European colonialism (1700s - mid 1900s)



Examples of European Global Power - correct answer ✔✔- Language

- Economy

- Politics

- Cultural/ Social

- Intellectual

- Military

- Athletic

- Transportation

- Locational



Reasons for European Global Power - correct answer ✔✔- "Guns, Germs, & Steel"

- "Geographic luck"

- Mild Climate

- Site

- Situation



"Geographic luck" - correct answer ✔✔europeans started w/ favorable conditions

, Mild Climate - correct answer ✔✔impacted the distribution of staple crops & domesticated
animals



European Climates - correct answer ✔✔westerly winds & warm ocean current (North Atlantic
Drift) moderate temperatures



Site - correct answer ✔✔few barriers to trade w/ in continent



Situation - correct answer ✔✔good location relative to other continents



Centrifugal Forces - correct answer ✔✔forces that tend to tear places apart

- war

- Balkinization

- Immigration



Centripetal Forces - correct answer ✔✔forces that tend to bring places together

- Supranationalism



Cold War Alliances - correct answer ✔✔Warsaw Pact vs. Nato



North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - correct answer ✔✔United States & 11 other nations



Warsaw Pact - correct answer ✔✔rival military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its
affiliated communist nations



Cold War - correct answer ✔✔- 1950-1991