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