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1
The overgrazing of pasture areas in arid climates has caused which problem
Desertification
Mass Starvation
Aridnizer
Too many gingers
2
Which of the following states is the best example of an enclave
Papua New Guinea
Gambia
Lesotho
Brazil
3
At what degree of latitude is the North Pole?
0 Degrees West
780 Degrees East
90 Degrees North
45 Degrees South
4
Which is a form of expansion diffusion?
Stimulus
Relocation
Hierarchical
Contagious
5
The "Line of Control" represents a dividing line in Kashmir between
India & America
India & Pakistan
India & Russia
Indonesia & Pakistan
6
World population tends to be concentrated
At higher elevasions
On continental interiors
in the ginger land
On continental margins
7
A principal factor in the population shift westward in the 1850s was
The Erie Canal
A Ginger invasion
a war with Mexico
a gold rush
8
A population pyramid looks like an upside-down triangle, indicating that the area has a many
Women
Youth
Immigrants
Elderly People
9
Which of the following is Not a form of commercial gardening?
Mediterranean Agriculture
Livestock Ranching
Fruit Farming
Slash-and-burn Farming
10
What are maps called that keep shapes intact but distort area?
Conformal
Azimuthal
Relative
Molleweide
11
To increase crop yields, farmers in South China commonly practice
Shifting Cultivation
Threshing
Double Cropping
Pastoral Nomadism
12
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
Balkanization
Genocide
Migration
Deep Fried
13
The conflict in Rwanda and Uganda in the mid-1990sis an example of
An ethnic enclave
An ethnic conflict
A religious conflict
Border conflict
14
Thailand is the best example of which type of political shape
Fragmented
Elongated
Prorupted
Perforated
15
A language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer used
Old Dialect
Forgotten Words
Isolated Speech
Extinct Language
16
A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
Hinduism & Buddhism
Judaism & Islam
Islam & Hinduism
Judaism & Buddhism
17
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion
Buddhism
Islam
Baha'i
Judaism
18
When combined for all LDCs, which of the following rates is lower than MDCs combined?
Crude Birth Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
Natural Increase Rate
Crude Death Rate
19
What is the most widespread primary economic activity in the world
Mining
Agriculture
Forestry
Fishing
20
Land suited for agriculture is called
Arable Land
Candy Land
Arid Land
Biome Land
21
Supranationalism has come at the expense of what other geopolitical concept?
Sovereignty
Imperialism
Colonialism
Settlement
22
Which of the following is the best example of folk food
American Pizza
KFC in China
McDonald's fries in Germay
Blowfish in Japan
23
Mexico's maquiladora plants...
must operate far from the U.S.-Mexico border
have grown in number as factories have been closed in China
have an advantage of proximity to U.S. markets
employ only gingers
24
What is the poorest region in the U.S.
Southeast
Weast
Northeast
Mid-West
25
Major sources of FDI in terms of frequency and dollar amount are
Fair Trade Programs
Microfinance
Venture Capitalists
Transnational Corporations
26
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical feature to the way food tastes
Perceptual
Ecumene
Isogloss
Terrior
27
Which country is the only semi peripheral nation-state in Africa
Angola
Kenya
South Africa
Gabon
28
The United Kingdom has established greenbelts around certain cities to prevent what?
The spread of poverty
Pollution
Major Traffic
Urban Sprawl
29
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is
Distribution
Projection
Rendition
Scale
30
In which country does language pose a centrifugal force?
Brazil
Norway
United States
Canada
31
What crop did Norman Borlaug use to initiate the Third Agricultural Revolution in Mexico?
Pissa
Rice
Corn
Wheat
32
Which type of boundary exists between the United States and Canada.
Water
Linguistic
Geometric
Cultural
33
In the Midwest states, farm fields are more likely to be damaged by
drought conditions
too much rain
Roly Poly Invasions
unseasonal snow
34
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican City are all examples of
Theocracies
Ethnic Homelands
Barrios
Gingervilles
35
The S-curve is most often associated with what geographic factor?
The stability of government
World population growth over time
Cultural adaptation
Economic development over time
36
What is the most abundant fossil fuel?
Natural Gas
Coal
Petroleum
Beans
37
What geographical feature usually distinguishes time zones?
5 degrees of longitude
5 degrees of latitude
15 degrees of longitude
15 degrees of latitude
38
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the U.S. is an example of one element
Habit
Folk Culture
Technological innovation
Taboo
39
The language spoken by soldiers stationed throughout the Roman Empire was known as
Danish
Vulgar Latin
Slang Hindi
English
40
The Gobi Desert in Mongolia uses what primary form of agriculture
Greenbelting
Commercial Agriculture
Slash-and-burn farming
Pastoral Nomadism
41
Thomas Malthus predicted that population would soon be in what stage of growth
Stage Redhead
Negative
Exponential
Static
42
Prime agricultural land in the U.S. is being replaced with
urban land uses
nature preserves
military bases
oil drilling
43
In what zone of von Thunen's model would the fruit production method of farming best fit?
Commercial Grain
Dairy
Livestock Ranching
Market Gardening
44
The redrawing of political districts for political gain is termed what?
Red Mushrooms
Reapportionment
Gerrymandering
Electoral regions
45
Just-in-time delivery refers to what?
The process of producing food in time to meet the demand
The process of getting food to the market before it spoils
The process of moving materials to reduce costs
Delivering food to gingers
46
Which country possesses the greatest natural gas reserves
Saudi Arabia
India
Brazil
Russia
47
The near secession of Quebec from Canada in 1995 was based on what cultural factor?
Ethnicity
Religion
Nationality
Language
48
Which religion is polytheistic
Shintoism
Atheism
Islam
Christianity
49
Which world class city is the best example of an entrepot
Dubai
Singapore
Shanghai
Madrid
50
Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model
Stage 1
Stage 3
Stage 2
Stage 4
51
Which term refers to the physical character of a location?
Situation
Geography
Place
Site
52
The largest territory in the world in terms of population is
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Canada
Coasta Rica
53
Who founded Buddhism?
The Dalai Llama
Muhammed
Siddhartha Gautama
Jesus Christ
54
Which distinctive cultural religion in the U.S. has its own food, music, & language near Mexico
Ginger
Creole
Tejano
Cajun
55
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is
1 mile
Meridian
Range
Threshold
56
Southeast Asia from the 1950s to the 1970s was considered a
Theocracy
Portable Toilet
Microstate
Shatterbelt
57
Which language family contains Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian?
Celtic
Germanic
Slavic
Romance
58
The Industrial Revolution began in
Great Britain
Japan
the United States
France
59
The most lethal epidemic in years has been
Malaria
AIDs
Ginger hair
Avian Flu
60
What major factor has lead the Four Asian Tigers to success?
Low Land Costs
Trading Goods
Raw Materials
Gingers
61
The language with the largest number of speakers is
Finnish
English
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
62
A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a
Bulk-gaining industry
Bulk-reducing industry
Russian Spy
Specialized manufacturer
63
The total number of live births per year per 1000 people in a society is the
Natural Increase Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Life Data
64
Which group of people believes that the world is ripe for a population explosion
Neo-Chefs
Neo-Malthusians
Bressnerians
Demographers
65
The percentage by which a population grows in years is called the
Natural Increase Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Net Migration
Ginger Cleansing
66
Special economic zones are most common in which country?
Japan
Brazil
Russia
China
67
Medieval cities in Europe usually had what characteristic in common?
All roads leading to them
Well-developed urban hydrology
Protective Walls
Moats
68
The most significant numbers of organic farmers are found in
Brazil
Canada
Argentina
Australia
69
Which one of the following items is an example of nonmaterial culture?
A dove
Dove candy bar
Dove symbol
Dove soap
70
The science of making maps is
Meteorology
Demography
Cartography
Topography
71
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment
Ethnicity
Nationality
Culture
Religion
72
World Bank assistance goes largely to countries in
Asia
South America
Eastern Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa
73
The study of human characteristics on the landscape
Site
Human Geography
Spatial Interaction
Mental Map
74
A central place is a
range of a good
Market Center
Hinterland
Ginger Town
75
Which religion developed first?
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
76
If you wanted to find the global distribution of coal, you would use a
Topographic map
Reference map
Thematic map
Location map
77
Most Asian migration to the United States is through the process of
Chain Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Brain Drain
Undocumented Immigration
78
What language is known as the lingua franca of Eastern Africa
English
Zulu
Hindi
Swahili
79
The Pentagon in Washington DC is a good example of
a military landscape
a festival landscape
an urban landscape
a symbolic landscape
80
Who first coined the term geography?
Plato
Eratosthenes
Aristotle
Socrates
81
The reuse of unwanted material
Reducing
Re-abusing
Recycling
Reselling
82
English is a part of which branch?
Northern
Indo-European
Austronesian
Germanic
83
Which of these is not one of the Four Asian Tigers
South Korea
Vietnam
Singapore
Taiwan
84
Newspaper delivery areas are an example of which type of region
Vernacular
Statistical
Formal
Functional
85
What accounts for the largest amount of solid waste in the United States?
Beer Bottles
Paper Products
Electronics
Tin Cans
86
Which of the following capital cities is located outside the central core area of the country
Cairo, Egypt
Abuja, Nigeria
Paris, France
Moscow, Russia
87
The spread of something over a given study area is
Density
Concentration
Distribution
Pattern
88
What is the process called of splitting 2 plants and replanting both parts to propogate crops?
Subsistence planting
Vegetative planting
Plantation agriculture
Aquaculture
89
The majority of Kurds are found in which country
Pakistan
Iran
Turkey
India
90
The core of Islamic belief rests on
The Five Pillars
The Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
The 10 Commandments
91
Most people in the world live in what type of settlement?
Primordial
Suburban Towns
Clustered Rural
Urban Settlement
92
Most of the ethanol produced in the U.S. comes from which biodegradable commodity
Plastic
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
93
1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
Metric
Written
Fractional
Graphic
94
What is the seasonal migration of livestock to pasture lands where more food is more plentiful
Sustainability
Natality
Interval Migration
Transhumance
95
Which of the following is a centrifugal force in a country?
Religious differences
A national holiday
An effective national government
An attack on gingers
96
The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by
moving the capital to Brasilia
getting rid of gingers
industrial development on the Atlantic coast
making Rio de Janeiro more attractive
97
What monotheistic religion is based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
98
Taking photos of Earth from space is called
Remote hotagraphy
GIS
GPS
Satellite imagery
99
Which one of the following groups is excluded from the caste system of Hinduism
Untouchables
Warrior-landowners
Servants
Scholar-priests
100
The most populous country to depend on hydroelectric power is
Norway
Austria
Russia
Brazil
101
A hearth is
the perimeter of a regional feature
an area defined by one or more distinctive trends
the modification of a culture through popular culture trends
a region from which a phenomenon originates
102
Geographers define overpopulation as
Too many people in the world
Too many gingers
Too many people in a region
Too many people compared to resources
103
What was the basic industry of Pittsburgh during the early development of the city?
Automobiles
Steel
Copper
Glass
104
The Chernobyl incident in 1986 involved
the misfire of a nuclear missile
a nuclear power accident
an oil spill
a nuclear explosion in the high atmosphere
105
Which religion is universalizing?
Shintoism
Judaism
Islam
Taoism
106
Sawah & Paddy are terms most closely associated with
Wet Rice
Maize Planters
Wheat Winnowing
Coffee Farms
107
What is the major drawback to using wind power to supply energy?
The amount of space needed for each windmill or turbine
The lack of wind in most locations of the world
The lack of power produced from each turbine
The considerable installation costs
108
Human being avoid all but which of these regions
Cold lands
Dry lands
Warm lands
Wet lands
109
The global lingua franca is
French
Mandarin Chinese
English
Hindi
110
The Rhine River is an example of which type of boundary
Relic
Artificial
Geometric
Natural