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1
Most people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become commercial farmers.
True
False
2
Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?
opening of a new factory
revolutionary takeover of a government
flooding of a river
civil war
3
Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are
astronomy
animism
cosmogony
astrotheism
4
The "separate but equal" doctrine in the United States was legally established by
the Missouri Compromise
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
individual states
5
A repetitive act performed by an individual is a
popular culture
taboo
habit
custom
6
The oldest president still alive is
Jimmy Carter
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
7
Diet Coke was invented in
1947
1982
1923
1867
8
Which of the following is not an Abrahamic religion?
Shintoism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
9
Who was the last person to join the Beatles?
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
10
Basque is a good example of a(n)
isolated language
globalizing language
pidgin language
lingua franca
11
British cities are surrounded by open space known as
sprawl
suburbs
greenbelts
squatter settlements
12
An example of a primary sector activity is
education
manufacturing
banking
mining
13
Odontophobia is the fear of
Open doors
Teeth
Dirty floors
Dinasaurs
14
Greenwich Mean Time is measured from
180 degrees longitude
0 degrees longitude
0 degrees latitude
90 degrees latitude
15
The TV show Friends first debuted in
1997
2000
1991
1994
16
The first movie to feature sound was
Nosferatu (1922)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Dracula (1931)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
17
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and
heterogeneous groups
homogeneous groups
groups of specialists
groups living in isolated rural areas
18
Prince's real name was
Harold
Prince
Eugene
Laurence
19
A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is considered
clustered rural
linear rural
dispersed rural
primordial
20
Which shape fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state?
elongated
fragmented
compact
prorupted
21
How many books are in the Harry Potter series?
5
8
6
7
22
A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data is
topographic analysis
GIS
remote sensing
GPS
23
Englishis part of which language branch?
Germanic
Northern
Indo-European
Austronesian
24
The U.S. center of population has moved steadily to the
east
west
north
south
25
Which type of agriculture is found primarily in less developed countries?
commercial gardening
truck farming
plantation
Mediterranean
26
The term “megalopolis” refers to
adjacent, overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas
central cities plus urbanized areas
consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas and their CBDs
centralcities
27
Folk cultures are spread primarily by
stimulusdiffusion
hierarchicaldiffusion
contagiousdiffusion
relocationdiffusion
28
What movie did Matt Damon write as a student at Harvard?
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Dogma
The Martian
29
The art and science of making maps is
topography
geography
cartography
cardemography
30
Which factor most often causes voluntary migration?
international
economic
environmental
political
31
The most widespread language in the world is
Cantonese
Hindi
English
Mandarin
32
The world's largest state is
India
China
Russia
Antarctica
33
Almost every map suffers from the same problem:
bias
misinformation
distortion
lack of research
34
Which is likely to cause virtually all population growth in the US in the next few decades?
urban expansions
NIR
crude birth rate
net in-migration
35
What type of map uses shading to indicate different levels of a variable?
cartogram
isoline
flow line
choropleth
36
Which of the following is not a primary industrial area today?
North America
Europe
East Asia
South Asia
37
“1 in equals 2,500 statute mi” is an example of what kind of scale?
a graphic scale
a bar line
a written scale
a metric scale
38
Which of the following is not a member of the UN Security Council?
Russia
France
India
China
39
The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the
range
hinterland
threshold
median
40
Balkanization refers to
the creation of nation-states in southeastern Europe
a small area that is successfully organized into states
the breakdown of state due to conflicts among nationalities
ethnic cleansing
41
The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in stage __ of the demographic transition.
Stage 4
Stage 1
Stage 3
Stage 2
42
The world's largest universalizing religion is
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
43
Over very long distances the lowest-cost form of transporting goods is by
plane
train
ship
truck
44
Political unity in the ancient Mediterranean world reached its height in
Rome
Mesopotamia
Egypt
the Fertile Crescent
45
People are more productive in more developed countries because they
have access to more technology
have a low amount of value added per person
work harder
are consistently better educated
46
Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as
suburbs
transition zones
publichousing
squatter settlements
47
The adoption of a popular custom often depends on a person's amount of disposable income.
True
False
48
This car company created the modern day seatbelt
Mazda
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Volvo
49
A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through
blockbusting
busing
redlining
zoning ordinances
50
Which is not a form of subsistence agriculture?
pastoral nomadism
shifting cultivation
Mediterranean
intensive
51
An area organized into an subordinate political unit is a
state
nation
country
colony
52
Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
both have low growth rates
both have low death rates
both have low life expectancies
both have high dependency ratios
53
Loyalty and devotion to a state that represents a particular group's culture is
multiculturalism
nationalism
racism
sectarianism
54
Geographers call the area of permanent human settlement on the Earth the
geophenom
civilized world
ecumene
terroir
55
The cottage industry system involved manufacturing
of hand-made luxury goods
in the home
cheeses and pastries
of steam engines and other cottage-sized machines
56
The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called
war
ethnic cleansing
race riots
a push factor
57
Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity?
steel mill
gas station
travel agency
grocery store
58
To geographers, the spread of McDonald's around the world represents
a unique taste in nearly every location
economic globalization but not cultural globalization
economic and cultural globalization
economic proliferation
59
The Chernobyl incident in 1986 involved
an explosion and fire at a natural gas field
a nuclear power accident
a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere
a nuclear missile that misfired and exploded
60
Steven Spielberg's original choice for the character of Indiana Jones was
Harrison Ford
Sylvester Stallone
Mark Hamill
Tom Selleck
61
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures is
transhumance
transnomadism
livestock ranching
pastoral nomadism
62
The Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run in less than
12 parsecs
14 parsecs
10 parsecs
15 parsecs
63
Parallels converge at the North and South Poles.
True
False
64
A central place is a
hexagonal settlement
market center
hinterland
range of a good
65
An example of a stage one epidemiological transition disease is
heart disease
skin cancer
diabetes
bubonic plague
66
Who is the host of Jeopardy?
Jimmy Kimmel
Alex Trebek
Steve Harvey
Pat Sajak
67
A form of a language spoken in a local area is a
branch
group
family
dialect
68
Population density was traditionally low in North Africa because of
Dutch colonial activity
its dry climate
its high arithmetic density
its low fertility rates
69
An ethnic religion is
based on only one language
younger than a universalizing religion
appealing mostly to one group of people in one place
more peaceful than a universalizing religion
70
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the varieties of _________ the company once had.
Ingredients
Flavors
Employees
Pickles