GEOGRAPHY TEST 2 037

Which of the following accurately reflects the predominant dietary laws of the region?

Absence of brewing or distilling in North Africa

Which of the following best describes the topography of the Piedmont region in the United States?

An area of low rolling hills

Which of the following states had the highest rate of population growth between 1980 and 2010 ?

Arizona

Which of the following Latin American countries has the longest tradition of political stability, democracy, and absence of militarism?

Costa Rica

Which of the following best indicates the impact of globalization on workers in manufacturing around the world?

Downward pressure on pay in developed countries

Relative to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), standard time in Georgia along with the rest of the eastern United States, is

GMT minus 5 hours

Which of the following can be used to compare the size of the United States economy with Canada's economy?

Gross domestic product

Religious patterns in the United States often reflect early settlement patterns. The concentration of Scandinavians in the Upper Midwest led to the prevalence of which of the following religions in that area?

Lutheranism

To which of the following United States cities does the multiple nuclei model of urban structure best apply?

Los Angeles

Which of the following crops was domesticated in western Africa and planted in the coastal Low Country of Georgia during colonial times?

Red rice

Which of the following was an effect of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on Atlanta and helped establish Atlanta as a global venue for sporting events?

The 1996 Summer Olympics caused the government of Atlanta and of the surrounding region to upgrade its infrastructure.

Which of the following regions is considered the breadbasket of the United States?

The Upper Midwest

Which of the following was an important result of the discovery of oil in the twentieth century in the Middle East?

The growth of new cities in oil-producing countries as oil revenue supported population growth

Most national soft drink brands produce their products in regional bottling factories rather than in one central plant. Which of the following best explains this trend?

The high cost of transporting liquids makes dispersed factories cheaper to operate.

Which of the following regions of the United States mines the largest amount of coal?

The northern Great Plains, especially Wyoming and Montana

The colonization of Middle America by the Spanish and other European powers brought new forms of agricultural production to the region that continue to influence the organization of agriculture today. The major components of this system were

haciendas and plantations

An increase in a country's dependency ratio—the number of those not in the labor force compared to those in the labor force—can most likely lead to

increased strain on the national and subnational governments

The mechanization of farming, including the use of tractors, transformed agriculture by

increasing the amount of land dedicated to monoculture

Many recent college graduates and young professionals move to large, vibrant cities that offer extensive social, cultural, and economic opportunities. These offerings are examples of

pull factors

he genetic modification of crops has most affected agricultural production in

the United States

Suburban development in the United States after the Second World War was driven in large part by

the development of a system of regional highway networks

The boundary between Georgia's Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions represents

the upstream extent of navigation of several rivers flowing southeast

Within the counties of metropolitan Atlanta, federal environmental protection rules under the Clean Air Act require

the use of vehicle emission checks and ethanol additives in gasoline

Since the 1990s, the increasing Hispanic population in many small towns and rural counties of Georgia is due primarily to

work opportunities in the food processing and wood products industries

Which of the following is a characteristic shared by countries in Latin America that serves to classify it as a region?

A history of colonization by people of southern Europe

The Vidalia® onion is legally protected by trademark as a

A. regional appellation representing a certain product quality

In which of the following physiographic regions of the state of Georgia are the highest density of black bears, pileated woodpeckers, and rainbow trout found?

Blue Ridge

The Andean region in South America consists of which of the following countries?

Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru

According to Thomas Malthus, any surge in the human population caused by an increase in the food supply will eventually be

Checked by disease, war, and limits to the expansion of the food supply

Which level of government is primarily responsible for the protection of the Okefenokee Swamp?

D. The federal government

In which of the following countries do agricultural workers comprise the largest proportion of the total workforce?

Honduras

Which of the following best describes the climate of densely populated central coast China, which includes cities such as Shanghai and Fuzhou?

Humid subtropical

Which of the following is a major change that resulted from the use of shipping containers?

Increased globalization of trade due to lower shipping costs

The country with the largest total number of adherents of Islam is

Indonesia

Which of the following is most important to extensive agricultural production in Saudi Arabia?

Irrigation

Which of the following regions is the LEAST densely populated in terms of both arithmetic and physiologic density?

North America

Which of the following present day states were part of the region of the United States known in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the Northwest Territory?

Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin

Which of the following crops are native to the south-central region of the United States, including Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana?

Pecans

Which of the following is the name of a river that forms the political border between Georgia and South Carolina?

Savannah

In which of the following world regions did Hinduism originate?

South Asia

Which of the following regions is characterized by an arid climate, the cultural influence of Islam, and the wide use of the Arabic language?

Southwest Asia

In which of the following regions are malaria and yellow fever most prevalent?

Sub-Saharan Africa

Which of the following world regions has the lowest per capita income?

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Sahel marks the boundary between which of the following regions?

Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa

Question: Which of the following is most responsible for the dry soil conditions that exist in the western Great Plains of the United States?

The rain shadow effect

Which of the following most closely fits the definition of a world city, or node of globalization?

Tokyo

Which of the following economic phenomena does the principle of comparative advantage attempt to explain?

Trade between regions

When large corporations control food production from farm to supermarket, the resulting economic formation is referred to as

agribusiness

According to the von Thünen model, the spatial distribution of agricultural activities around a central market is most determined by

cost of transporting goods

The decline of textile and carpet production in northern Georgia from the 1970s onward stems from a national economic trend in the United States of

deindustrialization

China adopted a one-child policy in 1979, but the population continued to climb at a high rate for a number of years because of

demographic momentum

Automobile manufacturing at the Kia Motors factory in West Point, Ga., is best described as an economic representation of

foreign investment