GEOG Midterm
A disadvantage of using GDP per capita as a measure of economic development is the fact that GDP per capita:
may hide intense disparities in income.
The values, norms, or other cultural traits found in nearly every culture are known as
Cultural universals
Which of the following terms can be used interchangeably with ethnic group?
Culture group
The term used to describe everything people use to live on Earth that is not directly part of biological inheritance is:
Culture.
Gender equality
Has had positive impact on economic development worldwide Has had a great influence on slowing population growth patterns in developing countries Has had positive impact on reducing infant mortality worldwide All of the above
The Demographic Transition
Demonstrates population change over time through four stages
Which of the following relationships is accounted for in the rate of natural increase?
birth rates and death rates in a given population
The Pangaea hypothesis proposes that:
all continents were once joined in a single content called Pangaea.
In defining a region, geographers might take into account all of the following factors EXCEPT:
literary history
In some of the countries of Central Europe, the population is aging and declining due to:
low birth and death rates.
A country is undergoing a demographic transition. This mean that the country is:
moving from high birth and death rates to much lower birth and death rates.
GDP per capita statistics may underestimate the role of women in the economy because
much of women's work is unpaid or takes place in the informal economy.
A society in which many culture groups live in close association is:
multicultural.
The key players in the global economy today are:
multinational corporations.
Which of the following is not part of the United Nations' calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI)?
percentage of GDP per capita spent on health care
Geography as a discipline links the __________ with the __________.
physical sciences; social sciences
Experts agree that certain factors must be present for democratization to flourish. These factors include all of the following EXCEPT:
political dynasties and inherited wealth
The leading cause of death among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 worldwide is:
pregnancy
What term represents a country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings?
primate city
The key goal of an import quota is to:
protect domestic industries from foreign competition.
Arguments in favor of free trade do NOT include the claim that free trade:
provides job opportunities
Which of the following best describes racism?
the belief that visually apparent genetic factors such as skin color are a primary determinant of cultural traits and abilities
Continentality refers to:
the characteristic of regions that lack the temperature moderating effects of the sea and that exhibit a greater range of minimum and maximum temperature, both daily and annually
Darker skin is an evolutionary adaptation found in regions located close to which of the following?
the equator
All of the following describe the current state of world languages EXCEPT:
there are fewer than 1000 spoken languages left on Earth
All of the following are characteristics of shantytowns, EXCEPT:
they are found at the center of a city
The United Nations believes that
A high literacy rate and life expectancy are as important as a high GDP
Which of the following is NOT an extractive resource?
Automobiles
All of the following are sectors of the economy EXCEPT for:
Consumption
The following country has a primate city but NOT a World City
Mali
In an advanced economy of a country of the Global North
Most of the jobs are in the tertiary sector
One of the effects that comparative advantage has had on the world economic system is that
The countries of the Global South have become dependent on the Global North for industrial products
Structural Transformation is
The movement of workers from the primary sector to the secondary sector
Which of the following is true concerning multinational corporations?
They possess the ability to influence the political affairs in the countries where they operate.
Many countries of the Global South seek out FDI
To encourage structural transformation and to provide jobs to their citizens
The transition toward political systems guided by competitive elections is called:
democratization
Governments seek to protect their industries from foreign competition through all of the following policies EXCEPT:
free trade agreements
What percentage of Earth's population now lives in cities?
50
In 2019, Earth's population was approximately:
7.5 billion
The United Nations Human Development Index is:
A measure of the standard of living of a country
Which of the following organizations is a regional trade bloc?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Which of the following countries is NOT one of the top three greenhouse gas emitters?
Canada (India, China, US)
Favelas are an example of:
Great economic inequalities in Brazil
The effects of the Anthropocene include all the following except
Increased glaciation
Before the world was organized into the Westphalian System of independent states,
Much of the world's populations lived under various very large empires
Through which ocean does the longitude line at 180° run?
Pacific
Cartographers solve the problem of showing the spherical Earth on a flat piece of paper by using:
Projections.
Which is NOT a criticism leveled at structural adjustment programs?
Structural adjustment programs may result in less foreign direct investment
Relocation diffusion refers to:
The spread of a feature or trend through migration of people from one place to another
Theories of development have changed in the last 25 years
To include social and demographic factors
The growth of the outskirts of the cities of Mexico, Brazil, Lima, Luanda and Lagos is an example of
Urbanization without development
The megacities of Delhi, Karachi and Mumbai have 20 million inhabitants each. The literacy rate of women in India is about 65% and in Pakistan, 60%. The growth of these cities may be an example of
Urbanization without development
Examples of industries that are in the primary sector are:
World economic prosperity can be achieved when all countries join the WTO
The new world system has integrated the world's nations into __________.
a global production and distribution system led by transnational corporations
An unintended effect of a society's preference for boys over girls can be:
a shortage of marriageable women
Developing nations are usually characterized by __________ economies, while developed nations are usually characterized by the presence of __________ industries.
agrucultural; service
Race is all of the following EXCEPT:
based on true biological differences in skill and aptitude
Which of the following is not part of the United Nations' calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI)?
percentage of GDP per capita spent on cable television
Which world region ranks overall lowest in GNI per capita?
sub-Saharan Africa
The efforts to improve present living standards in ways that will not jeopardize future generations fall under the general heading of:
sustainable development.
What mechanisms have national governments used to protect their economies and industries from foreign competition?
tariffs and import quotas
Entangling alliances are an ultimately expected outcome of
the Realist system of balancing and bandwagoning
The Anthropocene is
A proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change
The center of Pangaea is thought to have been modern-day:
Africa
Adam Smith challenged the dominant thinking of his time
By demonstrating that free trade created more wealth than the hoarding of gold and silver as Spain had done for centuries
Which of the following terms refers to the making of maps?
Cartography
The highest average temperatures on Earth fall within a band 30° north and south of the:
Equator
In which sector of the economy is agriculture?
Extraction
Which of the following activities is most likely to occur in the informal economy?
Housework
Earthquakes in the Caribbean are mainly caused by
Plate tectonics involving the Caribbean Plate
Which of the following refers to the relationship between the distances shown on the map and the actual distances on Earth's surface?
Scale
Which sector of a nation's economy is associated with the transformation of raw materials into finished products?
Secondary
A state with control over its internal affairs has
Sovereignty
On a planetary scale, a major difference between January and July circulation patterns is that
Subtropical highs are stronger in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere
C + I + G + X is a formula
That is used to gauge the economic development of a country
Peaceful cooperation and world economic stability over the last 70 years has been generally credited to the
The Liberal system of lengthening the shadow of the future\
World Systems Theory (global economic core and global economic peripheries) explains that
The countries of the Global South will never truly develop
__________ refers to short-term changes in temperature and other factors, while __________ is a long-term balance of temperature and precipitation.
Weather; climate
Which of the following make loans to countries that need money to pay for economic development projects?
World Bank
The Four Traditions of Geography are
Earth Science, Regional Geography, Spatial, Human-Environment Interaction
The term __________ refers to the unrestricted international exchange of goods, services, and capital.
Free trade
The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through
Greenwich, England
The Pacific Ring of Fire
Is a seismically active zone along the eastern and western edges of the Pacific Ocean
The theory that Earth's surface is composed of large plates that float on an underlying layer of molten rock is the theory of:
Plate tectonics
Development may decrease human well-being by:
having negative effects on the environment.
The amount that a local currency equivalent of U.S.$1 will purchase in a given country is a measure of:
purchasing power parity
As one moves away from the equator, average temperatures drop because:
the sunlight strikes Earth's surface at an angle and is therefore less intense.
The Pacific Ring of Fire excludes:
India
Which of the following is NOT among the problems that arise from the use of gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of societal and human well-being?
It overemphasizes social aspects of well-being at the expense of economic aspects.
Which of the following best describes the grandmother hypothesis?
Midlife menopause provides an evolutionary advantage by giving women no longer able to bear children time and energy to help succeeding generations thrive
Which is the only entity that can legitimately authorize the use of violence within a country?
The state
The most effective contraceptive in history is
The education of girls
Fair Trade is best exemplified when
A consumer buys coffee from a cooperative of farmers that shortens the supply chain to the consumer
The economic structure of a country with a NARROW base may best represent
A country that is highly urbanized
Fair Trade is
A kind of free trade approach where the consumer willingly pays more for a product from a developing country so that more monies go to the farmers and producers
A megacity differs from a world city in that:
A megacity has 10 million or more people and a world city is economically vital to the world economy
The idea of racial superiority is
A myth
Which of the following is NOT an example of a geographic inquiry?
All of the above are examples of geographical inquiry. How did a group of people come to occupy a particular place? How have people contributed to a particular environmental problem? How have people modified the physical aspects of a place to suit their needs?
Of the four options below, please choose the country with the population pyramid with the widest base.
Bangladesh
The idea that there is a limit to is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment is called
Carrying capacity
Several African countries are experiencing sharply lowered life expectancies due to:
HIV-AIDS.
The largest concentration of humans on the planet is in
East Asia
Of the four options below, please choose the country with the highest agricultural density.
Egypt
The most important language of trade today is:
English
What are some differences between ethnicity and race?
Ethnicity is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth, while the definition of race involves genetically transmitted traits.
Which of the following statements reflects an impact of colonization on the global pattern of languages?
European languages replaced many local languages.
A low-pressure system encircling the earth near the equator that develops into a cloud belt and is responsible for the monsoons in India and southern China is known as the
ITCZ
Ethnic groups tend to share all of the following EXCEPT:
a specific life expectancy.
Which sub-Saharan country will likely show a population pyramid with a WIDE base?
Mali
Lines of longitude are also known as:
Meridians
Which of the following is reflected in a population pyramid that narrows toward the top?
Most people in that population die before they reach old age.
A term for rules of behavior is
Norms
Accepted patterns of behavior based on values are called:
Norms.
The study of the growth and decline of the numbers of people on Earth, their distribution across Earth's surface, age and sex distributions, and migration patterns is the study of:
Population
All of the following are important languages of international trade EXCEPT:
Portuguese.
The term "democracy" literally means
Power of the people
The Namib Desert is influenced by
Primarily by the Benguela Current
The goal of the trade barriers set up in countries promoting import substitution was to
Protect infant industries
According to the textbook, which of the following is true about racial differences among humans?
Race has been used as justification for exploitation in many different regions of the world.
Which of the following terms refers to the unit of Earth's surface that contains distinct patterns of physical features or of human activities?
Region
Between 1945 and 2011, Earth's population:
Roughly tripled
Which of the following is NOT an example of a human resource?
Steel
Two of the major determinants to creating climate is
The subsolar point and latitude
The reasons for differences in behavior between cultures are complex but usually related to __________.
Values
Most of the world's volcanoes can be found
Where an oceanic plate meets a continental crust
Which of the following typically occurs with urbanization?
Young children become an economic liability to the family.
Which of the following is an example of a transaction taking place in the informal economy?
a housekeeper who is paid in cash and does not report her income
The mission of the World Trade Organization is to:
establish ground rules for international trade and lower trade barriers
Comparative advantage is most associated with
exports
The 27-member European Union
has removed most barriers to trade within its borders is governed by an elected European Parliament provides subsidies to its poorest member states All of these are true.
T and O maps help explain
how the outdated classification of racial categories emerged
Death rates remained high for most of human history for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
hygienic waste and sewage systems.
Physiological density differs from arithmetic density in that it
understands that not all land is arable which means some countries have more challenges in feeding their populations
Subsistence farming is:
usually performed by a family for their own consumption
Which of the following does NOT describe religion?
usually rejects the idea of a higher power
Biologists believe that variations in skin color evolved to help human beings in different regions absorb the proper amount of:
vitamin D.
The "double day" refers to a situation in which:
women work a day job but retain their household duties
