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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe word "geography" literally meansthe study of space.Earth study.people and nature.Earth writing.human ground
- 2. Multiple ChoiceNew York City is divided into five _______________ in order to better organize social services for millions of people.countiesvoting precinctstown councilsschool districtsboroughs
- 3. Multiple ChoiceIn which of the following countries would you expect to find the highest rate of population growth?CanadaNamibiaSwedenChileUnited States
- 4. Multiple ChoiceIn distance-decay models, the slope of decay function illustratesthe type of interactionthe nature of networkthe influence of "friction of distance"topographynet dispersion
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following projections places the North or South pole at the center of the view?jAzimuthualChoroplethPole viewFuller'sMercator
- 6. Multiple ChoiceRap music first appeared in New York in the 970s. Later, it spread to large cities with vibrant African-American populations--such as Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, and Detriot-- without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in between. This type of spatial diffusion is calledrelocation diffusionhierarchical diffusioncontagious diffusioncultural diffusionindeterminant diffusion
- 7. Multiple ChoiceCatrography is the art and science ofdemographicsmapmakingspatial orientationcognitive imageryspatial decision-making.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceSlash-and-burn agriculture meets all of the following conditions EXCEPTit occurs mainly in tropical environments.It is associated with deforestation in Brazilit is part of the Green RevolutionIt was practiced sustainably by indigenous peoples.it is uncommon in the temperate latitudes
- 9. Multiple ChoiceIf a country with a rapidly growing population were to implement a strict policy of only one child per couple, how would its population pyramid change from the time of implementation to twenty years after?The pyramid would change from a true pyramid shape (triangle) to a columnar-shape pyrramid as the number of young children dramatically decreasesThe pyramid would not change; it would be columnar in shape for both time periods.The pyramid would still have a wide base tweny years later because of demographic momentumThe pyramid after twenty years would actually show decline at the base because of low replacement-level fertilityThe pyramid would be wide at the top twenty years later as the population policy would lead to a problematic dependency ratio.
- 10. Multiple ChoiceHow does a country's level of urbanization relate to its labor-force composition?The more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in services.The more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in agricultureThe more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in IndustryLess-urbanized countries tend to have mixed labor forces (some in agriculture, some in industry)There is no relationship between urbanization and labor force composition.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIn an address to the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development, India argued that, although population growth has placed pressure on the world's natural resources, _________ by industrialized nations has also had extreme consequences for environmental quality.fiscal policymaterial consumptiontourisminternational aidracism
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe Pan-Arab reigon of Nothern Africa and Southwest Asia is best classified as which region type?Functional RegionFormal regionAdministrative regionPerceptual regionHierarchical Region
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhen a crafter sells homemade blankets on the Etsy website, what type of industry would it be categorized as?Non-basicPrimaryFootlooseBreak-in-BulFolk
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe demographic accounting equation computes future population as a function of current population:| + births - infant mortality + cohort| + births - deaths x life expectancy| + births - deaths +immigration - emigrationbirths/deaths - immigration +emigration| +immigration - emigration x demographic transition
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Which of the following models of urban geography best descirbes this map?Central Place TheoryRank-Size ruleVon Thunen's concentric ring theorySector Model of Urban developmentMulti-nucleated model of urban development - 16. Multiple ChoiceLongitude isthe angular distance north or south of the prime meridianthe angular distance east or west of Greenwich, Englandthe angular distance north or south of the equatoruseful in determining relative locationuseful in describing a place's situation
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe idea that our impressions and experiences of the world around us are filtered through the lens of our culture and our individual eperiences, which critiques the sort of scientific, universalist grand theories offered by modernists is calledpostmoderismecofeminismconsumptionismreduCtionismpossItivism
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe religious practices of some Native American groups combine elements borh from their traditional religion and from Christianity. This is an example ofA cultural complexa cultural confluencea counter culturea diametric culturea cultural syncretism
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe demographic transition model posits thatadvanced industrialized countries will have rapid populationh growthpre-industrial states will have both low birth and death ratescountries with high levels of economic production will have both low birth and death ratesunderdeveloped countries cannot become developedtime is the dominant force behind population change
- 20. Multiple ChoiceOne important consequence of cultural extinction isdecreasing populationincreased poverty in peripheral regionsloss of genetic diversityloss of indigenous knowledge about ecosystemsincreasing population
- 21. Multiple Choice_____ maps work well for locating and navigating between places, while ______- maps display one or more variables across a specific space.Reference…..ThematicThematic….ReferenceSpatial…CartographicCartographic….SpatialTopologic….choropleth.
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following religions orgininated in Northern India and then spread across central and Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Japan?HinduismBuddhismIslamTaoismJudaism
- 23. Multiple ChoiceStates with federal forms of government must also haveterritorial organizationfascist regimessocial-democraciesproportional representationcongressional oversight.
- 24. Multiple ChoiceIn the world-systems model, the core nation of the world aresituated in present-day Middle Eastlocated in the prosperous southern continentslocated mainly in Europe and North Americalocated in the former Soviet republicslocated in the heartland, not the rimland.
- 25. Multiple ChoiceThe study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is calledcultural ecologysemioticscognitive sciencelinguisticssciobiology
- 26. Multiple ChoiceBalkanization may result from all the following factors EXCEPTethnic divisionsvarying levels of economic development within a countryexternal pressurescentrifugal forcesa strong central government
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- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is true about language extinctions?They happen suddenly and without warning.They are usually the result of genocideThere could be several thousand over the next century.They are increasingly rare.They are unrelated to culture imperialism.
- 29. Multiple Choice__________ involves the economic and political domination of one state by another, while ___________ includes official, instituationalized government rule.Regionalism…..sectionalismSectionalism…regionalismImperialism….colonialismColonialism…imperialismNationalism…isolationism
- 30. Multiple ChoiceSources of forced migration includecomplementarily and individual choice.economic opportunities and religious freedompolitical unrest and ecological degrdationthe draw of pleasant climatefamilial ties in another country
- 31. Multiple ChoiceIn a 1995 plebiscite, the Canadian province of Quebec sought which of the following?Electoral reappointmentecnonmic freedomunitary standingself-determinationmembership in the united states.
- 32. Multiple ChoiceThe disproportionate siting of power plants and waste disposal facilities in African-American and Latino neighborhoods--independent of other economic and historical factors-- is an example ofpostmaterialismenvironmental racismDeindustrializationenvironmental justiceecological inferiority
- 33. Multiple ChoiceAdvanced economic countries, like the US, may produce more pollution than less economically advanced countries becausethey consume more resourcesthey are less concerned about the environmentthey desire global dominationthey have more resources to work withthey lack waste management technology
- 34. Multiple ChoiceIf a government seeks to establish a virtually non-emitting energy regime, it should look into all of the following excepthydropowerwindsolartidalbiofuels
- 35. Multiple ChoicePrimary economic activities involvethe transformation and assumebly of raw materialsthe sale and exchange of goods and servicesthe handling and processing of informationresearch and developmentthe direct extraction or harvest of natural resources
- 36. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Thmas Malthus, _______ grows arithmetically, but ____________ grows geometrically.population… food productionpassion between the sexes… willingness to have sexfood production….productiontechnology…environmental impactpopulation..technology
- 37. Multiple ChoiceSince 1960, the difference between per-capita Gross National Products of the world's wealthiest countries and the world's poorest countries hasremained about the samedecreased somewhatdecreased dramaticallyincreased dramaticallyincreased slightly
- 38. Multiple ChoiceIn the gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distanceare inversely relatedare directly relatedeach have multiple measuresdo not affect the final solutionvary significantly
- 39. Multiple ChoiceCore-periphery patterns exist within countries as well as among them. In the United States, economic peripheries includeNew England and the Great BasinSouthern Appalachia and the lower Mississippi Valleythe northern rockies and pacific northwestthe Desert Southwest and Great LakesThe rust belt
- 40. Multiple ChoiceAgricultural Techniques developed in the temperate latitudes are frequently inappropriate for wet tropical climates because rainforst soils tend to bepoorly drainednutrient-richnutrient-poorsalinatedsandy
- 41. Multiple ChoiceAll choropleth maps useshading and coloringisolinesdotsgraphs and chartsThe Mercator projection
- 42. Multiple ChoiceHearths of early Eurasian agriculture were generally locatedin Mediterranean Climateson the moist, windward side of mountain rangesin the fertile river valleysalong the coastat high latitudes and altitudes
- 43. Multiple ChoiceThe aggregate measure of economic development that accounts for the depreciation of capital and natural resource sis called theGross National ProductGross Domestic ProductNet National ProductHuman Development IndexGender Empowerment Index
- 44. Multiple ChoiceThe Kurds are an example of an ethnic group thathas a stable and prosperous nationhas recognized an antecedent boundary between Iraq and Jordanhas historical homelands spanning many national bordersdoes not want to live in an independent countryhas disappeared due to cultural extinction
- 45. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is an example of an edge city?Anchorage, AlaskaSeattle, WashingtonBoston, MassachusettesTyson's Corner, VirginiaLas Vegas, Nevada
- 46. Multiple ChoiceHearth regions of early agriculture included present-dayChina, India, Turkey, andMexicoChina, India, Sudan, and MalaysiaIndia, Ethiopia, Greece, and MoroccoAnatolia, Peru, Borneo, and HalaleeCalifornia, Illinois, New Brunswick, and Ireland
- 47. Multiple ChoiceVon Thunen's Model of rural land use is based on which of the following premises?Land values decrease further from the urban centerLand values increase further from the urban centerperishable goods are least valuablerailraods provide fixed transportation costsVegtarianism is socially beneficial
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