Geography Final Exam Brockhaus

Question 1

Which of the following factors (2) contributes to the spread of disease?

Accepted Answer

Overcrowding in cities, Warm, humid climates

Question 2

Who would try to travel the world but end up in Brazilian prison?

Accepted Answer

John

Question 3

Who will be the next Bollywood Chuck Norris?

Accepted Answer

Hang

Question 4

What is the purpose of Special Economic Zones in Southern China?

Accepted Answer

attract foreign companies and investment

Question 5

What made the Arab Spring possible as well helped organize and inform protesters.

Accepted Answer

Social media

Question 6

Which of the following is true of the settlement of Australia?

Accepted Answer

Aborigines sett. before Brits arrived & made it a penal col.

Question 7

Muslims are expected to make at least one pilgrimage to their holy city of

Accepted Answer

Mecca

Question 8

41.What is the single biggest problem facing India today?

Accepted Answer

Overpopulation

Question 9

Data in a triangular population pyramid most likely represent a country with

Accepted Answer

low economic development.

Question 10

Who would most likely choose to move to Russia rather than the Bahamas

Accepted Answer

Maria

Question 11

A characteristic of a developed country is a

Accepted Answer

High GDP

Question 12

Choose the list of countries in order of largest to smallest

Accepted Answer

Russia, Canada, USA, China

Question 13

Who is most likely to call raviolis miniature poptarts?

Accepted Answer

Fallon

Question 14

Historical trauma has caused ___________ in many Latin American countries.

Accepted Answer

wealth inequality

Question 15

Who will mostly likely try to fight everyone at Bonne Ecole Elementary?

Accepted Answer

Sebastian

Question 16

Which of the following is an example of Juche (the major philosophy of North Korea)

Accepted Answer

Maria teaching herself tennis and not relying on anyone

Question 17

T/F: Government corruption and the lack of infrastructure has exacerbated the spread of Ebola.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What season is it New Zealand right now?

Accepted Answer

Fall

Question 19

A movement that calls for a Jewish homeland in Palestine is

Accepted Answer

Zionism

Question 20

T or F: Japan’s large plains have made wheat a growingprimary industry.

Accepted Answer

F

Question 21

British government divided India into two; what are they, and what was the division called?

Accepted Answer

India and Pakistan; partition

Question 22

T or F: Some African nations exploit their resources to fuel economic regional armed conflicts.

Accepted Answer

T

Question 23

Who were the first settlers in the India area and why did they settle there?

Accepted Answer

Aryans, the rivers provided water

Question 24

Who would most likely end up dictator of an obscure small country no one's ever heard of?

Accepted Answer

Fritz

Question 25

Tsetse fly is responsible for many African deaths. What is one reason AGAINST eradication?

Accepted Answer

It sustains endangered wildlife populations.

Question 26

Which of the following castes was considered contaminated and was ruthlessly suppressed?

Accepted Answer

Untouchables

Question 27

T or F: The lack of natural resources has ledJapan to depend on trade with other nations.

Accepted Answer

T

Question 28

Which is the GREATEST threat to coral bleaching. GBR?

Accepted Answer

Rising Sea Levels

Question 29

What geographic factors helped a large number of languages to develop in the Pacific?

Accepted Answer

The many islands caused different groups to remain isolated.

Question 30

What indigenous group was displaced by British colonization?

Accepted Answer

Aborigines

Question 31

Economic polis of China that leaned more towards capitalism than commun. (Deng Xiaoping) led to

Accepted Answer

increase in trade with the west.

Question 32

Who is most likely to try to file their cats as dependents on their tax forms one day?

Accepted Answer

Maria

Question 33

T/F: Britain exposed India to other countries; railroads, roads, and ports, and English educ.

Accepted Answer

T

Question 34

Lack of human activity around the DMZ has created an unintentional _____________.

Accepted Answer

Habitat filled with endangered species

Question 35

What are the main economic activities of the Persian Gulf and interior?

Accepted Answer

Oil and Gas

Question 36

In a rap battle, who would win?

Accepted Answer

Grace

Question 37

which of has been a unique and social side effect of controlling the number of babies born(Asia)?

Accepted Answer

Female Infanticide

Question 38

Do you know how to find locations based on latitude and longitude?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 39

T/F The Great Barrier Reef is the number one reason tourists travel to Australia.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

For what reason are the Maldives disappearing

Accepted Answer

Rising Sea Levels

Question 41

Which of the following is a quote that you would NOT have heard Gandhi say?

Accepted Answer

Any ally whose intention is not to wage war is useless.

Question 42

Why would the United States use a chemical like Agent Orange as a weapon during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

As an herbicide to reduce the amount of jungle

Question 43

Conflicts such apartheid, Rwandan genocide, and the Israelis/ Palestinians conflict rooted in...

Accepted Answer

Historical Trauma

Question 44

The longer a nation has been industrialized…

Accepted Answer

The lower its birth rate

Question 45

Name of Mao's collective agriculture program that resulted in the worst famine in history?

Accepted Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 46

How did environmental conditions in Australia influenced where British colonists settled?

Accepted Answer

settled on the coast because the land was more arable

Question 47

How can latitude affect climate?

Accepted Answer

The lower the latitude the warmer the climate.

Question 48

What is the purpose of the Three Gorges Dam in China

Accepted Answer

Hydroelectricity

Question 49

Why is the Earth’s climate colder at the poles?

Accepted Answer

The sun’s rays hit the poles at an angle.

Question 50

T/F: The Robinson Projection has no distortions when it comes to land size and distancing.

Accepted Answer

F

Question 51

T or F: Many African nations were exploited by col.rule that exp. resources back to Europe.

Accepted Answer

T

Question 52

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries controls

Accepted Answer

Global prices of oil

Question 53

what has the greatest impact on The Democratic Republic of the Congo's people?

Accepted Answer

Tropical Climate

Question 54

Which is an example of the atmosphere impacting the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

Wind eroding a rock face

Question 55

What is the Demilitarized Zone, and what line of latitude is it on?

Accepted Answer

Border between North and South Korea—38th parallel

Question 56

Nuclear energy could free us from our dependency on what?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 57

What did Australia start off as regarding British colonization

Accepted Answer

Penal Colony

Question 58

The two rivers responsible for the birth of Mesopotamia are

Accepted Answer

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 59

Subsistence farming is widespread in Africa. The MOST LIKELY reason for this is:

Accepted Answer

Many countries have low levels of development.

Question 60

The ocean currents carry a lot of the Pacific Garbage patch waste to what country?

Accepted Answer

Philippines

Question 61

If you decide you want to go swim off the COAST of South Africa, what will happen to you first

Accepted Answer

You will fall off an escarpment

Question 62

Which of the following landforms were created by tectonic forces in East Africa?

Accepted Answer

Rift Valleys

Question 63

This body of water is hypersaline which allows you to float and only bacteria can survive in it

Accepted Answer

Dead sea

Question 64

Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, killed millions who were educated. Why did they enforce this genocide?

Accepted Answer

wanted a completely agrarian society.

Geography Final Exam Brockhaus

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Geography Final Exam Brockhaus

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