Geography Chapter 1

Which of the following statements about the United Nations is true?

Its rulings pertaining to nation-states are not legally binding

The highest level of greenhouse emissions per capita is produced by:

Jamaica

Which of the following statements is NOT true about urban Kurds living abroad?

The larger society does not view urban Kurds living abroad as Kurdish.

The Pangaea hypothesis proposes that:

all continents were once joined in a single content called Pangaea.

Arguments against free trade include all of the following EXCEPT free trade:

causes greater migration from wealthy countries to developing countries

In which sector of the economy is agriculture?

extraction

Which of the following events is NOT directly associated with plate tectonics?

fluvial deposition

Massive, sometimes catastrophic, rainfalls are called:

monsoons

A society in which many culture groups live in close association is:

multicultural

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

The leading cause of death among girls between the ages of 15-19 worldwide is:

pregnancy

The push/pull phenomenon of urbanization pushes people out of __________ and pulls them into _______________.

rural areas; cities

______ refers to the biological category of male or female, while ____ refers to the differences between the sexes as defined by a particular social group.

sex; gender

The 2007 spike in world corn prices was brought about by:

speculation in alternative energy sources

What mechanisms have national governments used to protect their economies and industries from foreign competition?

tariffs and import quotas

Which of the following conveys the meaning of the term sustainable development?

the effort to improve present standards of living without jeopardizing those of future generations

All of the following describe the current state of world languages EXCEPT:

there are fewer than 1000 spoken languages left on Earth.

Which of the following does NOT describe religion?

usually rejects the idea of a higher power

According to the theory of plate tectonics, continental drift is caused by:

molten rock flowing from hot regions deep inside Earth to cooler surface regions and back

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

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 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

Cartographers solve the problem of showing the spherical Earth on a flat piece of paper by using:

projections

The key goal of an import quota is to:

protect domestic industries from foreign competition

Areas to the north and south of the equatorial rain belt receive some of the rain belt's moisture as a result of:

seasonally shifting winds.

Which of the following does NOT impact a place's vulnerability to climate change?

size

Which of the following terms refers to the study of how people, objects, or ideas are, or are not, related to one another across space?

spatial analysis

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 number of people a given place can support sustainably is its:

carrying capacity

Where rivers meet the sea, floodplains often fan out roughly in the shape of a triangle, creating a:

delta

Which of the following activities is most likely to occur in the informal economy?

housework

All of the following are synonyms for shantytowns EXCEPT:

peripheries

Greenhouse gases include all of the following, EXCEPT:

sodium chloride

How much water does the average human require daily to meet basic domestic needs?

20-50 liters

Most of Earth's population lives between ___ latitude and ___ latitude.

20°N; 60°N

In 2007, the developing countries were responsible for about percent of total greenhouse gases.

30

The loss of trees and forest organisms to deforestation accounts for as much as _____ percent of the world's CO2.

30

Which of the following statements reflects an impact of colonization on the global pattern of languages?

European languages replaced many local languages.

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

In nearly all societies, families prefer boys over girls. This is true for all of the following reasons EXCEPT boys:

are easier to raise and considered more easy-going.

Which of the following relationships is accounted for in the rate of natural increase?

birth rates and death rates in a given population

A common disease caused by polluted water is:

cholera

Human geographers primarily study all of the following EXCEPT:

climate patterns

The best term to describe life in a favela would be:

crowded

The mission of the World Trade Organization is to:

establish ground rules for international trade and lower trade barriers.

Which of the following types of water resource degradation is NOT commonly linked to urbanization?

fertilizer and pesticide runoff

Soil erosion is caused by all of the following factors, EXCEPT:

genetic modification of seeds.

Death rates remained high for most of human history for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

hygienic waste and sewage systems

Which of the following is NOT a result of fair trade policies?

increased investor profits