geography exam study

2020

The most recent census in the U.S. was taken in _____

false

t/f The gap in wealth between rich countries and poor countries is shrinking.

True

t/f: Shifting agriculture is one type of extensive agriculture.

False

Caring for the aged is a population concern only in the industrialized world. (T/F)

7

China has about 19% of the world's population but only about ___% of its arable (farmable) land

False

Compared to all other countries of the world, the U.S. in among the top ten countries in terms of the highest life expectancy. (T/F)

under-5 mortality rate

A child might survive to his first birthday while being breast fed but then not survive early childhood due to diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, infections, etc. For that reason, social scientists and governments often look at the ______ as a better indicator the status of children in a particular country.

False

A small number of countries today still have an RNI over 5% (T/F)

country average caloric intake of <2,200

As presented in class, three of the following must be present for a hunger situation to be called a famine. Which is NOT one of the three criteria?

national level

In Yemen right now, the hunger is at what level?

China

Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute expressed his concerns about the global increase in grain prices as a result of the rapid growth in both the population and individual wealth in what country?

True

Population projections are often educated guesses. (T/F)

True

The population of India is expected to pass China sometime in the near future. (T/F)

True

There are places on Earth where population expansion has already passed the carrying capacity of the land.

Climate, culture, soil, government policy, market forces, history, population density, land rent

What are the main determinants of the type of agriculture practiced in a place, as discussed in the PowerPoint?

Remittances

are the primary source of foreign exchange, equaling nearly a quarter of GDP and more than twice the earnings from exports. This is the money being sent to families back home by Haitians living in other countries.

shortage of males

Four of the following are impacts of China's One Child Policy. Which is NOT an impact as discussed in the Power Point?

food restaurants

Four of the following were discussed in the Power Point as trends fin food production that we are seeing today. Which was NOT discussed? Food restaurants

False

From information in the textbook, you learned that the ten largest cities in the world in 2050 will be in the industrialized countries of the world. (T/F)

megacities

From the reading, you learned that cities with over 5-10 million people are sometimes called: "________"

leapfrogging

Going from no phone to cell phone and no electricity to photovoltaics are examples of what we call "_____".

milkshed

Here in the Shenandoah Valley there are a lot of dairy farms that supply milk to the "Burg and neighboring cities. We can say we live in a __________ the ring around a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling.

beef

Hite/Seitz: "Though most notorious for its _____ production, Brazil claims more than a dozen commodities for which it is one of the world's top ten producer countries."

True

If the CBR is 50/1000 and the CDR is 30/1000, the RNI is 2% (T/F)

False

The dramatic increase in the world's population growth is due to an ever-increasing fertility rate. (T/F)

false

The government of Haiti has not promoted tourism because there is nothing in the country that would draw people from other countries.

Agriculture

is the deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.

false

t/f: Based on our current world food situation, Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich were correct when they said the world's food production would not keep up with population growth.

true

t/f: In a highly interdependent global economy, when one country suffers a major economic crisis, like the U.S. did during the recession of 2008-2009, the rest of the world can be impacted.

false

t/f: In general, the greater the % of the population in agriculture, the greater the level of economic development.

true

t/f: Only wealthier farmers can afford all that is required to obtain the high yields associated with the Green Revolution.

false

t/f: The liberalization of international trade has only benefited rich countries.

False

Today, almost every single country of the world has a population management program of some type (T/F)

African

Today, the country with the highest fertility rate is located on which continent?

raise the status of women by educating women and/or employing

According to material presented in a Power Point in class, you learned that the best way to reduce the fertility rate in a country is to ____.

False

All countries of the world define "urban" as a place with over 50,000 individuals (T/F)

False

All over the world women, on average, are having more children (5 instead of 3) then a few decades ago

Cairo, Egypt in 1994

At the UN conference on population and development held in ______, attendees broke new ground in agreeing that women must be given more control over their lives if population growth was to be controlled.

New International Economic Order

At the first international conference on population that was held in Romania in 1974, some developing countries called for a ________ _______ _______ ________ (NIEO) to support their development.

The RNI for the region is 5.8%

Based on material in the Power Point, three of the following are true of Sub-Saharan Africa. Which is FALSE?

when they wake up and they aren't sick

Based on material presented in class, what is the one thing that makes people on La Gonave, Haiti, the most happy?

Based on the material presented in class, the U.S. is the only country in the world where the average daily caloric consumption is over 3,700.

Based on material presented in the Power Point on average daily caloric consumption, which of the following is INCORRECT?

Saudi Arabia

Based on the U.S. AID map of food security, four of the following are/were expected to require emergency food assistance from July to September in 2021. Which of the following is NOT one of the four?

3

Based on what was stated in class this past week, if all inhabitants of the Earth started living like U.S. Americans, how many Earths would be needed to support them?

False

Because of a decline in their economic growth rate, China is enforcing the One Child Policy more strictly now than in the 1980s. (T/F)

Norman Borlaug

In 1970 a man named _____ _____ a plant geneticist from Minnesota, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in increasing productivity in grain production

an actual pyramid with a wide base

In Haiti, women are still having 4 or more children during their lifetime. With the country's rapid growth, which of the following shapes would best describe their population pyramid?

True

In India in recent decades, sterilization has been the adopted policy to reduce the fertility rate.

Salinization

In dry climates where evaporation can be higher than precipitation, water moves up in the soil carrying minerals to the surface, sometimes leaving a white surface layer. What is the term for this process?

True

In many places on Earth, humans have reduced the carrying capacity of the environment through overfishing, overgrazing, overcutting of forests, etc. (T/F)

Rio Grande

In order to get to Del Rio, Texas, from Mexico, migrants must cross the ____ ____ river.

True

In some countries today, the rate of natural growth (RNI) is negative (T/F)

3rd

In terms of total population, the U.S. ranks ____ in the world.

False

In terms of total population, the U.S. ranks ____ in the world. (T/F)

vertical

In the U.S. a company like Tyson or Perdue controls poultry production from the hatching of the chicks to the packaging/shipping of the processed good. This is called _______ integration.

baby bounce

In was noted in the Power Point that, beginning in 2014, the U.S. was experiencing a ___ which is an increase in births since the end of the global recession.

cuba

In what country were people being forced to start growing food in their backyards because the government was planting foods for export in order to get cash for buying oil?

Overshoot and decline

In which of the carrying capacity graphs in class and discussed in the text do you see an S-Curve that indicates a leveling off population before the carrying capacity is exceeded?

2nd

In which stage of the demographic transition is a country's population beginning to expand rapidly?

What is the ILO?

International Labor Organization

foreign

Japan, a country that traditionally has been culturally insular and that has a shrinking workforce, is managing conflicts about having to rely on ________ workers.

False

Like most industrialized countries, the U.S. is expected to decline in population (to about 300 million by 2050).

immigration

The US is not expected to experience a population decline between now and 2050 because of

La Gonave, Haiti

Malaria, dengue fever, Yellow fever, Chikungunya and Zika are a few of the diseases that can be found on the island of

Ethiopia

Name the country that is the cultural hearth of coffee and that fought Starbucks over a trademark on three of their coffee brands

good governance in a large, landlocked country

Paul Collier in his book "The Bottom Billion" talks about different types of poverty traps. Four of the following were mentioned in class. Which is NOT one of the four?

Ogallala

The _______ Aquifer of the U.S. high plains, it has taken farmers only 300 years to remove water that took 1,000 years to accumulate.

8-10

Social scientists believe that, by around 2100, the population of the Earth will reach ___ billion.

true

T/F: Based on material presented in the Power Point, you learned that some believe that the West is not, in monetary terms, aiding Africa, but that Africa is aiding the West.

False

T/F: If a group of countries is giving economic aid to a singular country (e.g. South Sudan), we say that aid is bilateral aid.

false

T/F: The current president of Haiti is Jovenel Moïse, a business man from northern Haiti.

false

T/F:As a result of French brutality towards African slaves prior to Haiti's independence, there is little in terms of artistic culture in Haiti today.

Human

The ILO is calling for a ______-centered approach to the future of work.

Immigration

The U.S. is not expected to experience a population decline between now and 2050 because of ____.

9-10

The UN projects that the most likely total population of the Earth when it levels off will be around _____ billion.

False

The leaders of the Catholic Church in Mexico appointed the government's efforts in the area of family planning (T/F)

Botswana

The mining of diamonds in this country, located to the north of South Africa and the east of Namibia, has produced a lot of wealth for a few while the majority still live in great poverty.

True

The population of a country increases or decreases in two ways - natural increase/decrease and through immigration/emigration. (T/F)

False

There is a huge migration going on in many of the developing countries of the world, a migration from cities to rural areas (T/F)

True

There is enough food being produced today to feed the over 7.6 billion people on Earth. (T/F)

coltan

This material is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and used in cell phones that are sold in the United States.

False

Thomas Malthus was correct when he said the arithmetic increase in food could never keep up with the exponential increase in people (T/F)

Areas near water

Three of the following tend to have sparse populations. Which tends to be more densely populated?

false

True/false: Africa has benefited more than any other world region from the Green Revolution.

true

True/false: Based on a map in the Power Point, pastoral nomadism occurs primarily in dry and very cold Environments.

true

True/false: In a video clip that you watched, it was stated that the world of work is changing faster than Ever.

false

True/false: In some places on earth, women perform most of the agricultural work while men make the decisions about that work (e.g. how many goats to sell).

false

True/false: Many individuals in the West need to consume fewer calories and waste less food in order to reduce stress on food production in the world.

true

True/false: Seventy percent of all water consumed by humans is used in agriculture.

true

True/false: The domestication of plants and animals marked the first of three agricultural revolutions discussed in class.

true

True/false:In general, the greater the % of the population in agriculture, the lower the level of economic Development

$1.90

Until 2015 the daily income threshold for extreme poverty was less than $1.25/day. Since 2015, less than $________ has been the threshold.

Adam Smith

What 18th-century Scottish political economist is seen as the founder of the market approach?

Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution

What is the term for the widespread adoption of technology supporting industrial-scale agriculture that has drastically increased food production since the 1960s? It requires the use of new seeds, lots of water, fertilizers, pesticides and energy.

Mediterranean agriculture

What type of agriculture discussed in the Power Point is associated with a dry summer and crops that don't require a lot of water will grow, like grapes, dates, and olives?

young men

When looking at different categories of hunger (national, household and individual), the individuals who most often experience hunger are all but which of the following?

World Food Programme

Which of the following organizations recently received the Nobel Peace Prize for its humanitarian work?

poverty

Which of the following topics has been most of interest so far? a. poverty b. hunger c. development d. food production e. climate change

by bus to Pakistan

You learned from a news article that you read in class that dozens of young female soccer players and some of their family members were transported out of Afghanistan this week ____.