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Question 1

Outsourced industrial prod in less developed countries relies on female labor because

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wage rates for women are much lower than for men

Question 2

Making of agri products destined primarily for dir consumption by producer rather than market

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subsistence agri

Question 3

Since 1970s, changes in women's lives in Eur/Can/U.S. have afffected overall pop through which

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decreased total fertility rates

Question 4

Relative to lines of latitude near the equator, lines of latitude near the poles are

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shorter

Question 5

Which region of the U.S. is currently experiencing upward transition

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Sunbelt

Question 6

All of the following are pull factors for immigration EXCEPT

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the high cost of land

Question 7

The process where voting districts are spatially altered to favor 1 pol party over another is

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gerrymandering

Question 8

Offshore financial centers allow companies & individuals to

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avoid high taxes where they conduct business

Question 9

According to rank-size rule, if largest city has pop of 900K, then the 3rd largest city....

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will have 300,000

Question 10

Electoral geographers study how people in an area are likely to vote, which is linked to

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physical landscape of area

Question 11

A dialect is best classified as which of the following

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cultural trait

Question 12

Which is an example of supranational org w/main mission of increasing economic integration

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European Union

Question 13

In cottage industries, manufacturing takes place

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in homes

Question 14

Which originated in S. Asia and spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?

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Buddhism

Question 15

Free trade zones such as NAFTA are established to increase ease & volume of int'l trade by

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eliiminate tariffs on goods that cross borders of members

Question 16

Food availability, which can control population size, is an example of a

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limiting factor

Question 17

Which best describes the process of gentrification in U.S. and Canadian cities

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privately funded redevelopment of existing commercial/res bl

Question 18

Mexico's system of maquiladoras is located

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along Mexico-US border

Question 19

The process in which wealthy families & individuals move into formerly poor neighborhoods

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gentrification

Question 20

Transhumanance can best be described as

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the seasonal movementof people & lifestock short distances

Question 21

When compared to fossil fuels, alternative energy sources generally

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are more expensive

Question 22

Arabic, which spread westward w/the diffusion of Islam, is part of which

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Afro-Asiatic

Question 23

Which of the following countries consumes the most fossil fuels per capita?

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The United States

Question 24

Indonesia is an example of which of the following types of states?

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fragmented

Question 25

In which of the following regions is life expectancy the lowest?

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 26

The spread of specialty coffee shops across the U.S. in 1990s is an example of

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hierarchical diffusion

Question 27

Rostow's modernization model is concerened with which of the following concepts?

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economic development

Question 28

All of the following belong to the Indo-European language family EXCEPT

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Mandarin

Question 29

Compared with MDCs, which of the following statements is true of less developed countries?

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A higher % of the labor force is engaged in food production

Question 30

A Hindu temple located in Texas is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion

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relcation

Question 31

Which of the following regiions has little dairying in its traditional agriculture?

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East Asia

Question 32

Which of the following cities is an example of urban primacy?

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Buenos Aires

Question 33

Chronic diseases are more common today than in the past in developed countries due to

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longer life expectancy

Question 34

The Human Development Index is a measure of both economic production and

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social indicators

Question 35

Environ laws, labor availability, & access to markets are major factors affecting....

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manufacturing locations

Question 36

Baby booms are generally associated with

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periods of economic prosperity

Question 37

Which of the following countries consumes the most fossil fuels per capita?

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The U.S.

Question 38

A formal region defines an area in which

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there is uniformity in 1 or more phys/human characteristics

Question 39

Which of the following is a sacred place in the Hindu religion

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Ganges River

Question 40

Factors that prevent a species from reproducing at its maximum are known as environmental

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resistance

Question 41

All of the following are traits common to Muslim regions of the world EXCEPT

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polytheism

Question 42

Influenza is an example of which type of disease diffusion

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contagious

Question 43

A high dependency ratio suggests that a large percentage of the population

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under 14 & over 65 yrs old

Question 44

According to Central Place Theory, the threshold is defined as the

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gross value of the produce minus the costs of production

Question 45

Which of the following is a subsistence crop?

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corn

Question 46

Which of the following can be an example of a centrifugal political force?

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variation of language w/in the country

Question 47

It is generally agreed that the current trend in climate change is caused by

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increased use of fossil fuels

Question 48

Malaria, which is present in many pop. living in tropical or subtropical regions

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endemic

Question 49

Of the following countries, which has the fewest people per unit of arable land?

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Argentina

Question 50

The act of migrants sending money to family in their home country

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remittance

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