geography exam 1

mitigation is one approach to reduce the unavoidable impacts of climate change in the long term. What is one mitigation strategy?

implement cap and trade

The arrangment where the chinese gain mining concessions in return for building railways, schools, road, and hospitals is called ___.

infastructure-for-mineral-swap

According to lecture, the CIA and British intelligence ochestrated a coup d'etat in 1953 to remove a democratically elected president because of threats to nationalize its country's oil supply. In which country did this coup d'etat occur?

iran

which term refers to a new form of marginalization of local subsistence farmers in which rich countries and individuals buy up land and water resources overseas to protect their future food security and make a profit?

land grabbing

what is the collection of physical and human geographic features on Earth's surface called?

landscape

Lines of longitude may also be called

meridians

Which sector of the African economy has attracted the most investment money than any other sector, and is associated with the spread of HIV/AIDS

mining

Which member of the ecological trilogy are desert dwellers who provide livestock products, including live animals, meat, milk, cheeses, hides, and wool?

pastoral nomad

a "paradox of plenty" or ___, occurs when a country with an abundance of natural and valuable resources often experiences lower economic growth than a country without these resources

resource curse

one pattern of land use by europeans during the industrial revolution was ___, where Europeans sought to create neo-Europes in lands very similar to their own.

settler colonization

in which biome is the highest biodiversity found?

tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest

A map of population density for the Middle East is perhaps best understood in comparison to proximity to water, as settlements have historically developed around access to water in dry environments (t/f)

true

Earthquakes, the emergence of new landforms, and other geological events occur in places where sections of Earth's crust are in contact with each other, also known as plate boundaries. (t/f)

true

One of the persistent problems in Africa's political geography is that many modern national boundaries do not correspond to indigenous political or ethnic boundaries. (t/f)

true

Sub Saharan Africa can be described as a mountainous region, as it has many ranges characterized by undifferentiated highlands (t/f)

true

The Dome of the Rock is a Muslim shrine built on the Noble Sanctuary, or as Jewish people recognize it, the Temple Mount (t/f)

true

globalization moves jobs to where wages are low, and therefore, growth in the LDC middle classes is tied directly to losses in the MDC middle classes (t/f)

true

in spite of having 920 million people, much of the African region is sparsely populated. (t/f)

true

small-scale map portrays a large area in more generalized terms

true

a ____ region is a region that popularly exists in people's minds but has no definitive boundaries.

vernacular

Between 1920 and 1945 following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the end of WWI, an agreement gave administrative mandates to the ___ over Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq and Kuwait and to the _____ over Syrai and Lebanon.

British; French

An agreement by Israel to the return the Sinai to Egypt, and recognition b Egypt of Israel as a sovereign state

Camp David Accords

What is the dominant religion of Sub-Saharan Africa?

Christianity

In 2012, this country had its first democratically elected president who was also part of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt

Which country nationalized the Suez canal, which had previously been controlled by French and British interests?

Egypt

The african slave trade began when European governments needed workers for their colonies. (t/f)

False

What is the name of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Band and Gaza between 1987-1993?

Intifada

the idea that, at some point in the future, humans will be unable to produce enough food to feed the ever-expanding population is called the

Malthusian scenario

The majority of spoken African languages descend from which language family?

Niger-Congo

Boko Haram was founded in which African country?

Nigeria

People from Iran speak which language?

Persian

The globe's most active and deadly realm of tectonic activity is on the rim of the Pacific Ocean is called the...

Ring of Fire

in which country did a civil war lead to the genocide of the Tutsi and "moderate" Hutus?

Rwanda

which persian gulf country has the largest oil reserves in the world?

Saudi Arabia

The Sunni majority of Syria have long resented the rule of which of the following?

Shi'ite Alawites

Al-Qa'ida's affiliate, known as AQAP, has a strong foothold in which country?

Yemen

Which of the following was a movement for the development and protection of a Jewish nation?

Zionism

coordinate systems are used to determine ____ location, which refers to a point on Earth's surface

absolute

Which terrorist group is headquartered in Somalia aims to create a global Islamic caliphate?

al-Shabaab

How is the podcast Rhino Hunter a good representation of geography? It demonstrates how one part of the world and its belief systems can impact others at the local level, contention/conflict over use of natural resources and protection of biodiversity, it brings into relation economics, culture, society, environment, history, and politics to gain a better understanding of place

all of the above

Which of the following accurately describes the geographic issues highlighted in the documentary film Milking the Rhino? competing land uses/human-animal conflict, loos of culture to ecotourism, creation of new environmental problems such as desertification

all of the above

according to the west wing video, what is the impact of mercator maps which are typically used in US classrooms today? top-down thinking, the size of the northern hemisphere projects false sense of power- an association of size with power, association of size with importance, i.e. Mexico appears smaller than alaska but this is inaccurate

all of the above

the protection and conservation of biodiversity involves which of the following: dispossession of land and displacement of indigenous/local communities, stronger environmental regulation, reduction of industrialized monoculture crop production that leads to habitat loss

all of the above

climate change caused by humans is called...

anthropogenic

a system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shape and influence behavior is called

culture

the unnatural and human-induced change that destroys the resilience and biological potential of an arid and semi-arid ecosystem, ant that has been quiet common in the Sahel region for the last several decades is called ____.

desertification

Sometimes the political situation in a country does not meet the requirements for various types of foreign aid, so the country institutes just enough changes to meet the requirements, without producing real reform or human rights of democracy. What is this phenomenon is called?

donor democracy

Free trade areas that offer incentives to attract investments by international companies.

export processing zones

According to the Geneva Conventions and international consensus, Jewish settlements are entirely legal and should continue without Palestinian interface (t/f)

false

Chinese aid to Africa is targeted toward health and social welfare, while the US is concerned more with infrastructure (t/f)

false

Nigeria has Africa's largest economy and is the only country with fewer than half of its citizens living in poverty. (t/f)

false

One major obstacle to peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict is the "right of return," which is the right of Jews to return back to their chosen holy land. (t/f)

false

Residential areas of medinas were differentiated by income level, so that wealthier residents occupied a different area than poorer residents (t/f)

false

Rural villagers who depend on subsistence agriculture, outnumber urbanities in the Middle East and North Africa (t/f)

false

The 1980-1988 war of attrtion between Iraq and Iran was instigated by the installation of Chinese- bought missles on the Strait of Tiran (t/f)

false

consumption overpopulation refers to the problem within LDCs where each person uses a large quantity of natural resources from ecosystems around the world (t/f)

false

linguistically, africa is fairly simple, with only 5-10 major languages spoken across the continent (t/f)

false

the green revolution puts more food on the global table as it increases the diversity of crop varieties that are planted (t/f)

false

Which one the following is NOT one of the five elements of geography as developed by AAG?

gender

A(n) ___ is said to be present in the majority of the Middle East region, as over half the population is under the age of twenty-five

youth bulge