GEOG 102 midterm #1 Fall2018

) Desertification in Subsaharan Africa would MOST likely be enhanced by winds blowing from the: A. East B. Southeast C. South D. Northwest E. Southwest

Northeast

This realm is considered one of the top three population clusters but is NOT considered part of the global core according to Figure G-12: a) Europe b) North America c) East Asia d) South Asia e) Austral

Russia

) Prior to independence, New Guinea was under the administration of __________________. a) Australia b) the United Kingdom c) the Netherlands d) Indonesia e) Japan

a) Australia

Which country temporarily withdrew from UNCLOS as an indirect result of the independence of East Timor? a) Australia b) Indonesia c) New Guinea d) East Timor e) New Zealand

a) Australia

The capital of Australia is _________________. a) Canberra b) Sydney c) Melbourne d) Hobart e) Wellington

a) Canberra

Australia's top customer for its goods is ____________. a) China b) New Zealand c) the United States d) Indonesia e) Japan

a) China

According to Figure 12-4, the body of water that separates Argentina from the Antarctic Peninsula is________________. a) Drake Passage b) Weddell Sea c) Bellingshausen Sea d) Amundsen Sea e) Antarctic Sea

a) Drake Passage

Figure G-8 shows that the English language belongs to this language family: a) Indo-European b) Altaic c) Dravidian d) Amerindian e) Uralic

a) Indo-European

The island of New Guinea is part of the Pacific region known as: _________________. a) Melanesia b) Micronesia c) Polynesia d) Insular Southeast Asia e) Indonesia

a) Melanesia

Which of the following major rivers is NOT associated with one of the world's great population clusters? a) Mississippi b) Huang (Yellow) c) Rhine d) Ganges e) Chang Jiang (Yangzi)

a) Mississippi

Which of the following statements about the physical environment of the Austral Realm is INCORRECT? a) New Zealand has earthquakes and volcanoes; Australia has only volcanoes. b) Australia's rocks are older than those of New Zealand. c) Australia's highest mountains are the Great Dividing Range, while New Zealand has a spine of much higher mountains called the Southern Alps. d) New Zealand has a moderate, moist climate, whereas Australia's climates vary from tropical to Mediterranean to desert. e) New Zealand has a highland interior, whereas Australia's interior exhibits mainly low relief.

a) New Zealand has earthquakes and volcanoes; Australia has only volcanoes.

The largest cluster of population in Melanesia is found in _________________. a) Papua New Guinea b) Fiji c) Vanuatu d) Samoa e) New Caledonia

a) Papua New Guinea

The Pacific region named ___________ takes its name from the word for many, and is contained within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand, Easter Island, and the Hawaiian Islands. a) Polynesia b) Amnesia c) Micronesia d) Melanesia e) Oceania

a) Polynesia

According to Figure G-5, which U.S. city was NOT covered by glaciers during the Pleistocene? a) Seattle b) Omaha c) Cincinnati d) Denver e) New York City

a) Seattle

The historic 1840 agreement between the Maori and Europeans in New Zealand is known as the Treaty of _______________. a) Waitangi b) Canterbury c) Wellington d) the South Pacific e) North Island

a) Waitangi

A large-scale map shows _______________. a) a small area b) a large area c) no relationship between the scale on a map and the size of the area shown d) an unbalanced area e) the entire world

a) a small area

A territorial sea is ______________. a) an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail b) a body of water completely surrounded by a state c) a small body of water that connects to larger bodies of water d) identical to the term high seas e) an area where a state has no rights to exploit minerals

a) an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail

An index of regional disparity would be useful for examining _________________. a) economic differences between different regions of a country b) political differences between functional and formal regions c) climatic differences between core and periphery d) similarities among African and Asian countries e) differences between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres

a) economic differences between different regions of a country

The governmental structure of Australia is that of a(n) ______________. a) federal state b) unitary state c) British colony d) monarchy e) indigenous society

a) federal state

The agricultural activity most closely associated with Australia's moistest environment is ______________. a) growing sugar cane b) sheep raising c) wheat farming d) mixed horticulture e) growing grapes for wine

a) growing sugar cane

The better-watered volcanic islands, where the economy is based on agriculture, are known as ____________________, a) high islands b) low islands c) Melanesian islands d) Micronesian islands e) Polynesian islands

a) high islands

States first began to develop _____________________. a) in areas where cities could begin to command their hinterlands b) in open areas between empires c) in nineteenth-century Europe d) in areas where boundaries had already been drawn by royal decree e) They have always existed.

a) in areas where cities could begin to command their hinterlands

In regional geography, relative location _______________. a) is more meaningful and practical than absolute location b) refers to the latitude of a place c) refers to the longitudinal position of a place d) can only be found using a GIS e) is a type of transition zone

a) is more meaningful and practical than absolute location

Southeast Asia, compared to the South Asian realm, is ______________. a) less densely populated b) more densely populated than India and possesses a much lower standard of living c) very heavily urbanized, with sparse populations in the rural areas d) entirely a remnant of Britain's East Indies colonial empire e) much less affected by Chinese immigration

a) less densely populated

Figure 11-3 shows that the body of water found near 40° South latitude is ___________. a) the Indian Ocean b) the Pacific Ocean c) the Austral Ocean d) the Southern Ocean e) the Arafura Sea

a) the Indian Ocean

The difference between formal and functional regions is _____________________. a) the nature of the unifying properties: static homogeneity versus functional cohesion b) the area involved: Formal areas are very large, while functional areas are smaller c) the formal region is urban in nature, whereas the functional region is rural d) the age of the regions: The functional region is normally much older than the formal region e) the formal region characterizes the non-Western world, whereas the functional region is typically European or North American

a) the nature of the unifying properties: static homogeneity versus functional cohesion

According to Figure 12-4, all of Antarctica lies south of _________________. a) the Antarctic Circle b) 60° South latitude c) 60° West longitude d) the South Pole e) 0° longitude

b) 60° South latitude

The UNCLOS allows states to claim all resources within a(n) _____________ that extends up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts. a) Special Administrative Region b) Exclusive Economic Zone c) Underwater Protrusion d) Extraterritorial Zone e) Territorial Sea

b) Exclusive Economic Zone

Valid Arctic claims can be made by all but which of the following countries: a) Canada b) Finland c) Norway d) Russia e) the United States

b) Finland

More than half of Southeast Asia's population lives in which two countries? a) Indonesia and Vietnam b) Indonesia and the Philippines c) Vietnam and the Philippines d) Malaysia and Myanmar e) Indonesia and Cambodia

b) Indonesia and the Philippines

Which of the following about New Caledonia is INCORRECT? a) It has significant nickel resources. b) It remains under British rule. c) It is inhabited by less than 300,000 people. d) Its capital is Nouméa. e) It lies within Melanesia.

b) It remains under British rule.

New Zealand's largest ethnic minority group, whose roots are Polynesian, call themselves the ______________. a) Aboriginals b) Maori c) Kiwi d) Austral Indians e) South Islanders

b) Maori

Which of the following is located in Micronesia? a) Hawaiian Islands b) Marshall Islands c) New Caledonia d) the Solomon Islands e) Papua New Guinea

b) Marshall Islands

Which of the following cities is located nearest the Australian capital of Canberra? a) Perth b) Melbourne c) Auckland d) Adelaide e) Brisbane

b) Melbourne

Figure G-10 shows that this is the most dominant religion in the northern part of Africa: a) Shia Islam b) Sunni Islam c) Traditional and Shamanist d) Roman Catholic e) Hinduism

b) Sunni Islam

Which of the following is INCORRECT? a) Indonesia is this realm's "giant" country. b) The Mekong River crosses five Southeast Asian countries. c) Mainland Southeast Asia contains no dominant state among its five countries. d) Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone. e) Southeast Asia can be considered a shatter belt.

b) The Mekong River crosses five Southeast Asian countries.

Which of the following statements is TRUE? a) Desertification occurs only on the Eurasian landmass. b) The climate type of the southwestern United States is similar to that of southwestern Africa. c) The term climate refers to the immediate state of the atmosphere. d) Alfred Wegener derived the theory of climatic regions. e) We are currently in the post-Holocene geologic epoch.

b) The climate type of the southwestern United States is similar to that of southwestern Africa.

Which of the following about Fiji is INCORRECT? a) Nearly a million people live on about 100 islands. b) The vast majority of Fijians are of Melanesian heritage. c) A large number of South Asians arrived during the colonial era to work on the sugar plantations. d) The South Asians have long been political activists. e) The South Asians have dominated the commercial life of the country.

b) The vast majority of Fijians are of Melanesian heritage.

Which of the following is true? a) New Zealand lies less than 100 miles from Australia. b) Whereas much of interior Australia is desert, most of interior New Zealand is mountainous. c) The capital of New Zealand is Auckland. d) New Zealand consists mainly of three large islands. e) Most of New Zealand's population lives in the interior of the North Island.

b) Whereas much of interior Australia is desert, most of interior New Zealand is mountainous.

__________ is the study of fauna in spatial perspective. a) Ecology b) Zoogeography c) Phytogeography d) Botanical geography e) Plant geography

b) Zoogeography

Southeast Asian physiography is dominated by _____________. a) extensive plateaus b) high relief c) extensive flat plains d) rolling hills e) dry-environment landforms

b) high relief

A functional region _______________. a) is defined on the basis of some variable, such as the area where wheat is grown b) is exemplified by a city and its hinterland c) is also known as a formal region d) has a transition zone at its center e) is the same as a uniform region

b) is exemplified by a city and its hinterland

Wallace's Line refers to the __________________. a) fault in Australia where earthquakes are particularly severe b) line separating Australian animal species from non-Australian species c) middle ridge of the Great Dividing Range d) place at which Australian waters are divided from New Zealand waters e) dividing line between the Southern and Pacific oceans

b) line separating Australian animal species from non-Australian species

The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as the ____________. a) map legend b) map scale c) map revolution d) cartographic rule e) purpose of the map

b) map scale

Which country is NOT located within one of the world's three largest population clusters: a) South Korea b) the United States c) Pakistan d) France e) China

b) the United States

When a body of water is less than 24 nautical miles wide, the boundary between the states on each shore is drawn along ____________. a) Wallace's line b) the median line c) the choke point d) the Political Convergence Line e) the deepest channel

b) the median line

Indigenous Australians are known as ______________. a) Maoris b) Cook Islanders c) Aboriginals d) Austral Indians e) marsupials

c) Aboriginals

Which of the following statements about the A climates is INCORRECT? a) They are referred to as humid equatorial climates. b) They are characterized by heavy precipitation and high year-round temperatures. c) In the Af climate, precipitation rates increase suddenly due to the arrival of the wet monsoon. d) The Aw subtype is identified as savanna. e) They include monsoon climates.

c) In the Af climate, precipitation rates increase suddenly due to the arrival of the wet monsoon.

Which country-river association is INCORRECT? a) Myanmar—Irrawaddy b) Thailand—Chao Phraya c) Laos—Yellow d) southern Vietnam—Mekong e) northern Vietnam—Red

c) Laos—Yellow

Flowing a distance of 2600 miles, the so-called "Danube of Southeast Asia" is the ________ River. a) Chao Phraya b) Irrawaddy c) Mekong d) Red e) Yangzi

c) Mekong

In territorial size, the largest country in Melanesia is:___________________. a) the Solomon Islands b) Fiji c) Papua New Guinea d) Hawai'i e) Easter Island

c) Papua New Guinea

Regionally, the Hawaiian Islands are part of ________________. a) Melanesia b) Micronesia c) Polynesia d) the Pacific Rim e) North America

c) Polynesia

According to Figure 11-5, which city is closest to Australia's largest mountain range? a) Perth b) Adelaide c) Sydney d) Alice Springs e) Darwin

c) Sydney

The island lying across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is named ____________. a) New Zealand b) Canberra c) Tasmania d) South Island e) East Timor

c) Tasmania

The United States conducted nuclear weapons tests after World War II in___________ a) Hawai'i b) Fiji c) The Marshall Islands d) The Solomon Islands e) Kiribati

c) The Marshall Islands

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? a) The Southeast Asian realm exhibits shatter belt characteristics. b) Compared to neighboring realms, Southeast Asia has a comparatively low population density. c) The major river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia are sparsely populated. d) Southeast Asia is culturally fragmented. e) All of the above are correct.

c) The major river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia are sparsely populated.

Which of the following is located in Melanesia? a) Guam b) Tahiti c) Vanuatu d) Samoa e) Hawai'i

c) Vanuatu

The dominant economic activity associated with high-island cultures is ______________. a) tourism b) fishing c) agriculture d) mining e) manufacturing

c) agriculture

The hypothesis of ________ involves the breakup of a supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. a) volcanic eruption b) earthquake formation c) continental drift d) tectonic ring firing e) natural hazardification

c) continental drift

Agriculture in Southeast Asia is limited by _____________. a) desert conditions b) alluvial soils c) generally infertile tropical soils d) severe dietary restrictions caused by food taboos e) all of the above

c) generally infertile tropical soils

The area that surrounds and is served by a city is known as its _____________. a) periphery b) formal region c) hinterland d) core e) relative location

c) hinterland

All regions possess all of the following EXCEPT ____________. a) absolute location b) area c) homogeneity d) boundaries e) relative location

c) homogeneity

The prevailing mid-latitude climatic type in the southeastern United States, western Europe, southern Brazil and northern Argentina, and eastern China is the _______________. a) humid cold b) semiarid moderate c) humid temperate d) dry winter tundra e) dry summer savanna

c) humid temperate

The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as _______________. a) eucalyptuses b) Australopods c) marsupials d) Outbacks e) Anzacs

c) marsupials

Which Indonesian island is LEAST likely to experience a volcanic eruption? a) Sumatera b) Jawa c) one of the Lesser Sunda Islands d) Borneo e) Bali

d) Borneo

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? a) Regions marked by internal homogeneity are classified as formal regions. b) Regions conceptualized as "spatial systems" are collectively identified as functional regions. c) A country likely constitutes a formal political region because within its boundaries certain conditions of nationality, law, and political tradition prevail. d) Functional regions are generally more static and immobile than formal regions. e) Functional regions have a core and a periphery.

d) Functional regions are generally more static and immobile than formal regions.

The large cluster of population in South Asia is focused on the ______ River Basin. a) Yellow b) Amazon c) Nile d) Ganges e) Yangzi

d) Ganges

Based on Figure 12-2, which of the following U.S. states would have the largest EEZ? a) New York b) California c) Texas d) Hawai'i e) Washington

d) Hawai'i

) In Figure G-2, which of the maps has the largest scale? a) Map A b) Map B c) Map C d) Map D e) They all have the same scale.

d) Map D

Wegener's supercontinent is known as ____________. a) Tectonica b) Atlantis c) Eurasia d) Pangaea e) Wegneria

d) Pangaea

Which nation does not rank among the five leading trading partners of Australia? a) China b) South Korea c) India d) United States e) Japan

d) United States

The European state model includes all of the following except ______________. a) a population governed from a capital city b) a clearly and legally defined territory c) a representative government d) a high level of urbanization e) a concept developed during the seventeenth century in Europe.

d) a high level of urbanization

Which of the following is a systematic subfield of geography? a) regional geography b) cartography c) Geographic Information Science (GIS) d) cultural geography e) geology

d) cultural geography

Which of the following is the process whereby the sun's radiation is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere. a) desertification b) continental drift c) interglaciation d) greenhouse effect e) There is no such effect.

d) greenhouse effect

Savanna environments belong to the general climate type known as _____________. a) dry b) humid cold c) humid temperate d) humid equatorial e) polar

d) humid equatorial

Which of the following is NOT one of Australia's major problems? a) aboriginal land claims b) environmental degradation c) immigration issues d) land border disputes e) urban issues

d) land border disputes

The World Bank ranks countries within four groups. Which of the following is NOT one of those groups? a) high-income countries b) upper-middle-income countries c) lower-middle-income countries d) middle-income countries e) low-income countries

d) middle-income countries

) Most of the core area of Australia is located in the ___________. a) northwest b) northeast c) southwest d) southeast e) Outback

d) southeast

Which water body is surrounded by the geologically active Ring of Fire? a) the North American Great Lakes b) the Arctic Ocean c) the Atlantic Ocean d) the Pacific Ocean e) the Gulf of Mexico

d) the Pacific Ocean

) New Zealand is approximately ________ miles from the southeast coast of Australia. a) 500 b) 1000 c) 1500 d) 2000 e) 2500

e) 2500

) Approximately ___ percent of Australians live in cities or towns. a) 30 b) 50 c) 60 d) 70 e) 80

e) 80

Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false? a) The fractional scale 1:1,000,000 means one inch on the map represents one million inches on the ground. b) If the linear scale of a map is twice another, its aerial representation is four times larger. c) To represent a large area on a small map, a small scale is used. d) Larger-scale maps allow for greater detail in depicting regions and subregions. e) A map with the fractional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000.

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

According to the figure below, which location has the least amount of volcanic activity? a) the United States b) South America c) Subsaharan Africa d) East Asia e) Australia

e) Australia

Based on Figure 12-3, which of the following is NOT considered part of Polynesia? a) Hawai'i b) Midway Islands c) Easter Island d) Tonga e) Fiji

e) Fiji

The current interglacial period is known as the _____________. a) Wisconsinan b) Wegnerian c) Pleistocene d) Little Ice Age e) Holocene

e) Holocene

The vast interior rural heart of Australia is known as the _________________. a) Australian Capital Territory b) Central Australian State c) Aboriginal Territories d) Empty Quarter e) Outback

e) Outback

The majority of people of New Guinea are ______________. a) ethnic Chinese b) Polynesian c) Indonesian in their ancestry d) of Dutch descent e) Papuans

e) Papuans

Guam is politically affiliated with _________ a) China b) Japan c) France d) The Philippines e) The United States

e) The United States

Which of the following statements about the core areas of the world is INCORRECT? a) They are the most dominant globally. b) They are the most productive on Earth. c) They need peripheries to remain dominant. d) They include the east and west coasts of the United States. e) They avoid utilizing the natural and labor resources of the global periphery.

e) They avoid utilizing the natural and labor resources of the global periphery.

The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing cultural, economic, political and other types of exchanges is known as ______________. a) regional disparity b) regional equalization c) core-periphery widening d) the European trade model e) globalization

e) globalization

Large population clusters in Southeast Asia exist in all but which of the following areas? a) lower valleys of major rivers b) deltas of major rivers c) zones of plantation development in Malaysia d) areas of volcanic soil in the islands e) interior highland regions

e) interior highland regions

Which of the following is NOT an example of globalization? a) McDonald's opening in France b) NAFTA c) the increasingly widespread usage of English d) Japanese cars being made in Thailand e) tariffs imposed on automobiles

e) tariffs imposed on automobiles

Figure 12-5 shows that this country does not have territory bordering the Arctic Ocean. a) Russia b) Norway c) Sweden d) Denmark e) the United States

e) the United States

Which of the following countries has made no claim to territory in Antarctica? a) Chile b) Argentina c) Australia d) the United Kingdom e) the United States

e) the United States

According to Figure 11-6, Tasmania contains all of the following minerals EXCEPT ____________. a) copper b) lead c) gold d) zinc e) uranium

e) uranium

Friction between which two tectonic plates is likely to have caused the earthquake in Nepal in Spring, 2015? A. African and Arabian B. Indian and Eurasian C. South American and Nazca D. Pacific and Australian E. North American and Pacific

B. Indian and Eurasian

Which of these countries is NOT considered a high-income economy, as classified by the World Bank in Figure G-11? a) the United States b) Canada c) Russia d) Japan e) Australia

China