Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, Indus Valley, and East Asia are all

cultural hearths located in river valleys

What is the key difference between global diffusion of TV vs. internet?

Internet followed the same as TV bu spread more quickly

HDI is determined by:

life expectancy, education rates, & income

Which of the following pairs occupy the largest % of the world's total land area?

Shifting cultivation and nomadic pastoralism

According to geographers, which of the following are true universalizing religions?

Laws of God take priority over the laws of nature

Just-in-time production

All of these can apply to just-in-time

Increasing wealth by the International Trade Model involves:

identifying a distinctive resource or service & selling it

The basic premise of sustainable development is that:

people today not impair the ability of future generations

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1
Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, Indus Valley, and East Asia are all
political hearths
cultural hearths located in river valleys
all considered MDCs
cultural hearths for major religions
2
According to Von Thunen which activity is most likely to occur in Ring 4?
Horticulture
Dairying
Livestock Herding
Grain Production
3
What is shown?
Holy site for Muslims
Holy site for Christians
Holy site for Buddhists
Holy site for people of the Jewish faith
4
A unifying force that tends to unite people and enhance support for a state is
Lateral
Centrifugal
Pull
Centripetal
5
Which of the following is a characteristic associated with groups that practice folk culture?
Urban
Large
Isolated
Heterogeneous
6
What Stage of the DTM is represented by the pyramid below?
Stage 4
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 1
7
Which of the following depict a random pattern?
None
Image B
Image A
Image C
8
All of the following are good indicators of development EXCEPT:
Life Expectancy
Death Rate
Birth Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
9
Folk culture is typically transmitted through
Contagious diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
10
What group is represented by Letter Z?
Methodist
Christian
Baptist
Lutheran
11
What is the key difference between global diffusion of TV vs. internet?
Internet followed same as TV but spread more slowly
none of these apply
Internet followed the same as TV bu spread more quickly
TV from Europe to the US then to LCD's Internet from US
12
When discussing the political geoggraphic concept, a "state" can best be described as
A sub-unit of a federal system such as in the US & Brazil
A population with a single culture
A sovereign political unit
The same thing as a "nation"
13
Which of the following is not a member or the United Nations?
China
North Korea
Switzerland
Taiwan
14
The map shown best represents the distribution of which ethnic group within the US?
Hispanic
Native Americans
Asian American
African American
15
What religious group is represented by Y?
Cahtolic
Lutheran
Baptist
Christian
16
What can push a country from Stage 3 to Stage 4 of the DTM?
Negative Population Growth
Decline in Death Rates
Zero Population Growth
Medical Revolution
17
Which of the following is the fastest growing manufacturing area in Europe today?
Central Volga
Northeastern Spain
Mid-Rhine
Po Basin
18
What is consistent in the diagrams?
Nothing
Concentration
Density
Pattern
19
By early 20th century, European migrants were mainly coming from
Italy, Russia, & Poland
France, Sweden, & Denmark
Sweden, Hungary, & England
Asia, and Latin America
20
Which of the following is considered an important type of farming region in LDCs?
Mixed Crop & Livestock
Plantation
Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming
Mediterranean Agrculture
21
The map best represents the distribution of
Asian American
Native American
African American
Hispanic
22
Latitude & longitude may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of a place
Its situtation
elevation
relative location
absolute location
23
Process of global warming will have all of the following effects as temp start to rise EXCEPT
a rise in global sea levels
thinning of ozone layer
melting of polar ice caps
shifts in global precipitation patterns
24
What is NRI?
Natural Rage Index
Natural Rate Index
Natural Recession Index
Natural Rate Increase
25
Migration is an example of which of the following modes of diffusion?
hierarchial
relocation
functional
stimuls
26
What does HDI stand for?
High Definition Index
Human Development Integration
Happy Development Indicies
Human Development Index
27
What two questions do human geographers most commonly ask about the subjects they study?
How & Why
Where & Who
What & How
Where & Why
28
HDI is determined by:
birth rates, death rates, & NRI
education rates, gender inequality, and PPP
life expectancy, education rates, & income
life expectancy, mortality, & dependency
29
Indonesia is an example of which type of state?
Compact
Fragmented
Prorupted
Perforated
30
At what point in history was the world's NRI the highest ever recorded?
1960's
1840's
1900's
1750's
31
Which of the following pairs occupy the largest % of the world's total land area?
Shifting cultivation and nomadic pastoralism
Wet rice cultivation & dairy farming
Cattle ranching & Mediterranean Agriculture
Plantation and horituclture
32
According to geographers, which of the following are true universalizing religions?
There are no clearly defined origins
Laws of God take priority over the laws of nature
There is little to no diffusion
Holy dates related to natural events
33
Just-in-time production
Is manufacturing close to market
The coordinated assembly of products on a daily basis
All of these can apply to just-in-time
Reduces production costs and decreases inventory space
34
Which sector of the economy triggered the severe economic recession in 2008?
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
Quaternary
35
Which of the following depicts a centralized pattern?
Diagram C
None
Diagram A
Diagram B
36
What type of boundary is pictured? It has been drawn based on the use of pop for soft drink
Isogloss
Topographical
Space-time prism
Symbolic landscape
37
What type of American folk housing style is shown?
Tidewater
Two-Chimney
Front Gable & Wing
Saltbox
38
What hearth is represented by purple?
Christian
Buddhist
Islam
Hindu
39
Since the 1950's there has been a worldwide trend towards which type of government?
Oligarchy
Anarchy
Autocracy
Democracy
40
Which of the following is NOT a branch of the Indo-European language family?
Germanic
Balto-Slavic
Uralic
Celtic
41
Increasing wealth by the International Trade Model involves:
placing high quotas on imports
identifying a distinctive resource or service & selling it
placing high taxes on imports
limiting exports
42
Which of the following has NOT seen acts of ethnic cleansing or genocide w/i its boundaries?
Iraq
Kosovo
Rwanda
All of these have
43
Spanglish and Franglais are examples of
Creolized Language
Pidgin Language
Revived Langugae
Lingua Franca
44
Meat products supply approximately what % of the average person's dietary protein intake in LDC
5/6
1/10
1/2
1/3
45
What stage is shown on the population pyramid?
Stage 2
Stage 1
Stage 4
Stage 3
46
Most important factor for modern factories when deciding between rural or urban areas
land costs
transportation costs
agglomeration
labor costs
47
What type of map is shown?
Cartogram
Cylindrical Projection
Planar or Azimuthal
Choropleth
48
The term "terroir" is MOST likely to be applied to which of the following?
Cheese
Junk Foods
Olive Oil
Wine
49
With the advent of the IR how did the economies of industrialized countries change?
Secondary sector shrunk
Quaternary sector grew
Primary sector shrunk
Primary sector grew
50
What hearth is represented by orange?
Sikhism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
51
The basic premise of sustainable development is that:
ill effects of global warming must be contained
more reserves and fossil fuels must be found and extracted
people today not impair the ability of future generations
deindustrialization & deglomeration are needed for rural de
52
Which of the following industries will MOST likely locate closest to its markets?
steel production
copper production
soft drink bottling
computer parts
53
Which of the following is most likely to have the largest activity space?
a school-age child
a farmer
a middle-age suburban male
suburban teenager
54
A formal region differs from other regions in that it....
Has a focal point or node
Has a selected feature or internal uniformity
Is one that people believe exists
Applies only to linguistic and religion regions
55
Movement of national economy from manufacturing to production dominated by service & high tech
market capitalism
Fordism
Post-Fordism
deindustrialization
56
NAFTA is considered a free-trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico because
adoption of $ as the common currency
free move of labor across international borders w/o visas
elimination of border control stations & customs
eliminating tariffs on goods & services traded across border
57
Redlining, steering& blockbusting were practices that impacted settlement patterns in US cities
reinforcing racial segregation patterns
encouraging the wealthy to move closer to the city center
separating business & manufacturing areas from residential
58
What religious hearth is shown?
Islam
Christian
Buddhist
Judaism
59
Which of the following can be categorized as a secondary economic activity?
Residential construction
Coal Mining
deep sea fishing
retailing and wholesaling
60
The Commonwealth is an example of
nationalism
a unitary state
Supranationalism
a nation-state
61
The first group to integrate seed agriculture with domestication of herd animals was probably
in SW Asia
in western India
in northern China
in South America
62
What type of American folk housing is shown?
Saltbox
Capecodder
I-house
Front Gable & Wing
63
The map best represents the distribution of
African American
Native American
Hispanic
Asian American
64
What is shown?
Holy site for Muslims
Holy site for Christians
Holy site for people of the Jewish faith
Holy site for Buddhists
65
When talking about industrial location, what is the most imp SITE factor at global scale?
labor
land
capital
raw materials
66
What religious group is represented by X?
Lutheran
Mormon
Christian
Baptist
67
Popular culture is typically spread through
Stimulus diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Contagious diffusion
68
Which of the following is not one of the top 5 most spoken languages in the world?
French
English
Hindi
Arabic
69
All of the following are ferrous metals EXCEPT?
Iron
Tin
Aluminum
Bronze
70
Describes a group of people w/ a common ethnic identity spread over a large geographic area
caste
sect
denomination
disapora
71
A place where goods are transferred from one mode of transportation, subdivided, & sent on
break of bulk point
export processing zone
resource node
transport node
72
According to Malthus, famine is inescapable as a pop check because:
pop grows at an arithmetic rate and food geometrically
pop increases geometrically and food arithmetic rate
food isn't shared across the world
people waste food
73
Which of the following is an example of creolized language?
French
Basque
Afrikaans
Latin
74
Which of the following is true of subsistence agriculture?
Employs large % of a country's labor force
Large farm size is required for efficiency
Involves the sale of cash crops
Coincided with the Green Revolution
75
Money sent by immigrants to family members living in native countries is known as
Forward Capital
Remittances
Foreign Direct Invesment
Expatriation
76
All of the following are among the top 5 largest countries in terms of total landmass EXCEPT:
China
Brazil
India
Canada

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