Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their

intensive agriculture based on irrigation

Which best explains why New England region located in the northeastern US, would specialize in market gardening

large cities on the East Coast provide a growing market +shorter distances

Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?

Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East

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

Variation of language within the country

Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced

in the dry regions of Africa and Asia

what is the most likely outcome of the possible establishment of an independent Kurdistan for the Kurdish

Kurdish people seeking a state of their own with a majority Kurdish pop.

Based on the data in the table, which of the following is a possible impact of ethnic and religious diversity in Iraq?

Ethnicity and religion lead to devolutionary pressures in the country

Which of the following describes a unitary form of governance?

A state has a strong central government with no power given to regions.

Based on the map, which of the following can be identified as a true statement about Northern Ireland?

physically separate from rest of the United Kingdom, a multinational state.

Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions?

The wheat belt will shift northward.

Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?

Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city

Which of the following describes typical characteristics of federal states?

A large land area and multiple ethnic groups

Which of the following best explains the governance of the shaded areas shown on the map?

show where indigenous peoples have a limited amount of self-government

Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they

were engaged in collecting plant resources

Which of the following describes a federal form of governance?

substates w/ control +are unified to pursue common goals nationally

Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?

Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping

Which of the following explains why Korea and Vietnam were viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War?

Korea +Vietnam experienced conflict due to a dispute between global powers

Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by

European colonial powers in the late-nineteenth century

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1
Which is an example of a supranational organization with the main mission of increasing economic integration?
The European Union
The United Nations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
2
Production of ag products destined primarily for direct consumption by producer rather than market is called
plantation farming
hunting and gathering
sedentary cultivation
subsistence agriculture
3
Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and the Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their
intensive agriculture based on irrigation
in-migration from neighboring arid areas
tropical climate
heavy industrialization
4
Which best explains why New England region located in the northeastern US, would specialize in market gardening
large cities on the East Coast provide a growing market +shorter distances
Marketgardeningproducts can be transported to primary market of California
Wheat farming would require more machinery
Farmers can specialize in market gardening products because of rocky soil
5
Corn (maize) was first domesticated in
the Tibetan plateau
Northern Argentina
Central Mexico
the Canadian prairie
6
shows the countries in Africa where private investors+foreign governments have leased farmland for largescale commercial
Imperialism
Decolonization
Pan-Africanism
Neocolonialism
7
Which of the following includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication?
Australia, New Zealand, China
Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa
Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East
British Isles, Scandinavia, United States
8
Which of the following can be an example of a centrifugal political force?
Homogeneous ethnic population
Strong central government
Variation of language within the country
Shift to tertiary economy
9
Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced
in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia
by Native American buffalo hunters
in the hinterlands of Australia
in the dry regions of Africa and Asia
10
what is the most likely outcome of the possible establishment of an independent Kurdistan for the Kurdish
Kurdish people seeking a state of their own with a majority Kurdish pop.
Turkey, seeking to connect areas with a substantial Kurdish population
Kurdish people are politically active among Turks,
The Kurdish would have to migrate into single country
11
Which of the following is South Africa’s former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races?
Redlining
Apartheid
Secularism
Gerrymandering
12
Based on the data in the table, which of the following is a possible impact of ethnic and religious diversity in Iraq?
Ethnicity and religion promote economic development in the country
Ethnicity and religion lead to devolutionary pressures in the country
Ethnicity and religion act as centripetal forces
Ethnicity and religion facilitate democratization in the country
13
According to theory of environmental determinism which of the following areas would have most productive settlements?
Arctic regions
Mountainous regions
Temperate regions
Tropical regions
14
Which of the following describes a unitary form of governance?
Stronger states and transnational corporations control weaker states.
A state’s more powerful central government shares power with its regions.
A collection of independent communities shares government services.
A state has a strong central government with no power given to regions.
15
Based on the map, which of the following can be identified as a true statement about Northern Ireland?
physically separate from rest of the United Kingdom, a multinational state.
It is united with the rest of the island to form a sovereign nation-state.
forms own sovereign nationstate predominately made up of Irish ethnic group
frontier not formally part of a state but the UK claims the area
16
Which of the following best illustrates the geographical concept of the nation-state?
Iceland
Belgium
Russia
Canada
17
Which is the name for political redistricting that produces unusually shaped districts to create political advantage?
Redlining
Politicization
Zoning
Gerrymandering
18
Which of the following best explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions?
Polar regions will dry out, making cultivation impossible.
Nomadic herding will end as conditions become too harsh.
The wheat belt will shift northward.
Mediterranean agriculture will expand southward.
19
which of the following borders requires few if any formalities and thus encourages the free flow of people and products?
India-Pakistan
Romania-Ukraine
United States-Canada
Netherlands-Belgium
20
A good example of a centripetal force in political geography is
rugged topography
a primate city
the existence of different language regions
religious diversity and conflict
21
Which of the following is a subsistence crop?
Cocoa
Cotton
Corn
Rubber
22
Boundaries based on the median-line principle are generally associated with
major highways
unsettled frontier zones
bodies of water
converging ethnic territories
23
Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?
Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city
Linearsettlements located along major road in densely forest area of Brazil
Dispersed settlement throughout a large mountainous area of Switzerland
Ruraltourban migration increasing the population density to eastern China’
24
Which of the following describes typical characteristics of federal states?
A large land area and multiple ethnic groups
A fragmented land area and a single ethnic group
A centralized government and strong centripetal forces
A small land area and high population density
25
The former international border between East Germany and West Germany is best described as
an open border
a relict boundary
an antecedent boundary
a demilitarized zone
26
Which of the following best explains the governance of the shaded areas shown on the map?
show territory controlled by indigenous peoples as a single multistate
show territory occupied by indigenous peoples as stateless nations
show where indigenous peoples have a limited amount of self-government
established as nation-states for indigenous peoples at the local scale
27
Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they
were agile climbers on the hillsides of the Fertile Crescent
were engaged in collecting plant resources
were interested in varying the diets of their families
knew how to achieve control over their environment
28
Which of the following describes a federal form of governance?
Laws are enacted in a single language to promote cultural unity.
Federal states encourage devolutionary movements and break apart quickly.
substates w/ control +are unified to pursue common goals nationally
Autonomous regions act outside the authority of a central government.
29
Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?
Limited farmland encourages extensive farming with monocropping
Unlimited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping
Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping
Limited farmland encourages intensive farming and monocropping
30
Which of the following explains why Korea and Vietnam were viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War?
Korea and Vietnam fragmented into new states due to internal tensions.
Korea +Vietnam experienced conflict due to a dispute between global powers
Korea and Vietnam were politically controlled by regional powers.
Korea and Vietnam tried to control land and sea areas around their states.
31
of the following countries became divided into two political entities as a result of conflict
Germany
Vietnam
Japan
Korea
32
Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by
the Bandung Conference of 1955
seventeenth-century European explorers
European colonial powers in the late-nineteenth century
decolonization movements of the 1950s and 1960s

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