Geography



Question 101 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

>>E. Orange River, Kenya

Question 102 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a ____ market.

>>D. periodic

Question 103 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Quebec has:

>>E. all of the above are true.

Question 104 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The geopolitical theory that indicates that the rimland is the key to control of the world was forwarded by:

>>C. Spykman

Question 105 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Central America, as defined by geographers, is:

>> A. a region within Middle America between Mexico and Colombia

Question 106 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which city contains the United States' largest cluster of Asian ethnics?

>>A. Los Angeles

Question 109 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following statements about Russia and North America is false?

>>B. The Russians established forts and villages along the entire California coast.

Question 110 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Brazil's Northeast:

>>A. was Brazil's source area: its early plantation economy developed here first

Question 111 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Your textbook identifies Eastern Europe as a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing, called a:

>>C. shatter belt

Question 112 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Volta Redonda is most closely identified with Brazil's:

>>A. iron and steel manufacturing activities

Question 113 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is not a major cause of tropical deforestation in Central America?

>>E. all of the above are major causes

Question 115 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Slovakia has a large _______ minority.

>>B. Hungarian

Question 116 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

From the end of World War II until the 1990s, Eastern Europe was dominated by the:

>>D. Soviet Union

Question 117 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:

>>a. Kikuyu

Question 118 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The Peru (Humboldt) Current is:

>>A. a cool offshore ocean current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline

Question 119 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which country has no dominant ethnic groups?

>>D. The Congo **

Question 120 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The two European powers that fought over control of the area that became Canada were the:

>>A. French and British

Question 121 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Japanese investment in Russia's Far East has been held up by a dispute over:

>>B. Kurile Islands

Question 122 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following states is unilingual in that it possesses a single language spoken throughout its territory?

>>C. Yugoslavia

Question 123 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

As a result of U.S. interest in a Panama Canal during the early 20th century:

>>C. Panama became independent from Colombia**

Question 124 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

_________ is the city with the most Asians in North America.

>>. Vancouver

Question 125 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which South American "culture sphere" resembles the Middle American "Rimland?"

>>B. The Tropical-Plantation sphere

Question 126

The Switzerland of Central America, the region's oldest democratic republic is:

>>E. Costa Rica

Question 127 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is landlocked?

>>A. Paraguay

Question 128 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is one of the world's most productive post-industrial complexes?

>>E. Charlotte, Atlanta, and Charleston**

Question 129 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

An industry identified in your textbook as one with mixed blessing for Middle America is:

>>D. tourism

Question 131 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

This former Soviet Republic contains the oil city of Baki (Baku) and its people have ethnic affinities with Iran. Recently, the Armenian population of this area became refugees.

>>A. Azerbaijan

Question 132 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:

>>E. the Alpine chain**

Question 133 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false?

>>E. A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000.

Question 134 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

_______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically.

>>A. France

Question 135 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is not contained within the European realm?

>>D. the old Russian portion of the Soviet Union**

Question 136 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

In the Russian revolution of 1917:

>>C. the Bolsheviks defeated the Mensheviks

Question 137 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Inside the Russian Federation there are about _____ separate entities.

>>E. no separate republics are found in the Russian Federation

Question 138 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The term that is used to indicate decreasing levels of spatial interactions with increasing distances is:

>>E. distance decay

Question 140 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n):

>>B. isthmus

Question 141 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people called:

>>B. Yoruba

Question 142 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

In Ecuador, a regional split has occurred between:

>>C. Guayaquil and Quito**

Question 143 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The population of Russia is:

>>A. shrinking by about half a million per year**

Question 144 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?

>>E. North (Amazonian)

Question 145 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The term ________ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.

>>C. continentality

Question 146 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

In South America, the richest 20% of the population control _____ of the wealth.

>>B. 70%

Question 147 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The large cluster of population in the northeastern United States is known as:

>>B. Megalopolis

Question 148 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

An industrial area east of the Kuzbas is centered around:

>>E. Siberia

Question 149 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

>>B. More than one-fourth of the world's population presently resides in India.

Question 150 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

. The major conurbation of London lies within which of the following regions?

>> E. London lies on the border between the North and the South

Question 151 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is:

>>D. Nagorno-Karabakh

Question 152 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is not an important manufacturing region of the Soviet Union?

>>E. the Muslim region of central Asia

Question 153 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper middle income economy is:

>>E. Equatorial Guinea

Question 154 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following statements is false?

>>A. Germany is larger territorially than France.

Question 155 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The North Slope of Alaska contains large fields of:

>>e. coal

(I think the closest answer is oil fields but not in the choice)

Question 156 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the:

>>C. pampas

Question 157 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

What percentage of the Caribbean population lives in cities:

>>A. 67%**

Question 158 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as:

>>E. local functional specialization

Question 159 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The once most important crop of Cuba, which has been losing its position as the mainstay of the Cuban economy is:

>>C. sugar (sugarcane)

Question 160 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

This African country is a former French colony, built a Roman Catholic basilica to rival St. Peter's in Rome, and has recently seen a slowing of the economy.

>>A. Ivory Coast

Question 161 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is not an example of globalization?

>>E. tariffs imposed on automobiles

Question 162 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:

>>E. Equatorial Guinea

Question 163 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?

>>C. Mauritania

Question 164 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following jobs belongs to the tertiary sector of the American economy?

>>C. auto assembly line welder

Question 165 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Canada's large cluster of Francophones in New Brunswick are known as:

>>A. Acadians

Question 166 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The major river in Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the:

>>A. Rhine

Question 167 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

As one travels north leaving South America, the first country on the Central American isthmus is ________.

>>B. Panama **

Question 168 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The Kuzbas region:

>>E. all of the above

Question 169 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following cities is an oil center in the Azerbaijan?

>>C. Baki (Baku)

Question 170 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The final stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of: (????)consolidation

>>B. contention

C. counteroffensive

Question 171 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following is a natural gas producing state?

>>D. Texas

Question 172 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

>>B. The Aztec civilization was founded on the higher plateaus of present-day Mexico.

Question 173 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The Transcaucasian area includes all of the following except:

>> E. Kirghizstan

Question 174 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The North American region which is most dependent upon the extraction of raw materials is the: (confused)

A. Northern Frontier

>>B. Continental Interior ???

Question 176 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which >>E. Gibraltar

Question 177 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

In Rwanda and Burundi:

>>E. all of the above are true

Question 178 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The fastest growing metropolitan area in the US is:

>>B. Las Vegas

Question 179 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

A large scale map shows:

>>A. a small area

Question 180 (Multiple Choice Worth 0.55 points)

The Brazilian subregion with the most diversity in its European population is the:

>>C. state of Sao Paulo (southeast is the closest answer but not in the choices)

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