WGU C255 PA Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions

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WGU C255 PA Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions What are the five themes of geography? ✔✔Location, Place, Human/environmental interaction, Regions, Movement Which of the following is the science of mapmaking? ✔✔Cartography What does longitude measure? ✔✔The angles east and west of the prime meridian What is population density? ✔✔Number of people per unit area A country has 100 square miles of land and a population of 1 million people. What is the population density per square mile of the country? ✔✔10,000 people What is the purpose of the prime meridian? ✔✔Establishes the point of measure for longitude What does the international date line separate? ✔✔Two consecutive calendar days What geographic feature is the peninsula in Yellow Sea near Japan? ✔✔Korea What geographic feature is the body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan? ✔✔Aral Sea What geographic feature is the part of the border between China and Russia? ✔✔Amur River What geographic feature is the islands in the Barents Sea off the Arctic Ocean? ✔✔Svalbard What geographic feature passes through Salekhard? ✔✔Ob River What is the absolute location of the city of Odessa? ✔✔46N 30E What is the relative location of the city of Yalta? ✔✔The southern shore of the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea In the 1800s the British attempted to colonize West Africa. Tropical diseases caused heavy losses of men and horses as they attempted to travel up the Niger River. Their attempts to colonize the area initially failed. Which of the following explains how geography affected the British attempts at colonization in West Africa? ✔✔The tropical environment is home to disease-causing parasites. The fresh water sources in the tropics house parasites that cause dysentery. What world region has been plagued by civil wars over their rich natural resources? ✔✔SubSaharan Africa What world region is divided along religious lines as the result of decolonization? ✔✔South Asia What world region uses Slash-and-burn agriculture leading to the loss of rainforest? ✔✔Latin America What world region has seen a decade-long civil war over the Panguna copper mine? ✔✔Oceania What world region is characterized by balkanization along national lines? ✔✔Eastern Europe What world region is unified by aridity? ✔✔Middle East What world region has the Canadian Shield and the Great Plains as two major physiographic components? ✔✔North America What world region is very geologically active with many earthquakes and volcanoes? ✔✔Southeast Asia What world region contains tropical rain forests and has one of the world's most extensive freshwater basins? ✔✔Latin America What world region originated Hinduism and Buddhism? ✔✔South Asia What world region had its farming culture destroyed by collectivization beginning in the 1920s? ✔✔Former Soviet Union What world region contains the Zulu culture? ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa What world region is the original home of the Berber culture? ✔✔North Africa What world region was influenc

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