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GEOG 200 Walker JMUExam 1 with 100%
correct answers 2025
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Top 5 Populations
1. China
2. India
3. USA
4. Indonesia
5. Brazil
Where are the most important baseball players?
Dominican Republic
(most players in the MLB)
Brainpower
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Baseball is a way out of ___________ in the Caribbean
poverty
Venezuelan baseball is the ________ most dominant
2nd
Cricket is also huge in the _________________
Caribbean
The cricket stadia was built/funded by __________________ in exchange for
______________ ____________________
Taiwan; political recognition
(also, PRC (china) funded cricket stadia)
Geopolitics of cricket in the caribbean
political battle over territory; looking for investment
, What is a subduction zone?
The process of one tectonic plate sliding under another, resulting in
tensions and faulting in the earth's crust, with earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions (heavier plate sinks underneath another plate)
What is Puerto Rico known as?
a commonwealth of the USA, therefore they are americans
Where can Puerto Ricans most likely be found in the USA
NYC, Florida, Philly, New Jersey, Boston, and Chicago
What is the International Monetary Fund?
It helps countries when they are financially in trouble (provides
emergency loans to countries in financial trouble; sets conditions for its
loans that emphasize privatization, limited restrictions on imports, etc.)
North American Free Trade Agreement
No limits of trade between 3 countries
(USA, Canada and Mexico)
Microclimate
special climate within a climate
ex. rain shadow --> rain on side of mountain
Diaspora
spatial dispersion of a previous homogenous group
(a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic
locale)
Diaspora can also refer to...
the movement of the population from its original homeland.
→ ex. Puerto Rico
El nino
Migration of warm water to cool water cause seasons of lots of rain
Altitudinal zonation
at equator but as you go up higher and higher it gets cooler
Maquiladoras
foreign owned factories/firms, produce for american market
Colonization/Columbian Exchange
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