Geography X2

Which invention or development most directly affected where Von Thunen's model predicted dairy farms would be located?

Refrigeration

The gain elevator, McCormick reaper, and iron/steel plough were advancements made during the

Second Agricultural Revolution

Based on the date in the map above, which region generally has the greatest degree of income inequality

South America

Which is the most likely explanation for why Southeast Asia has a higher population density than Southern Africa

Southeast Asia has better conditions for agriculture.

Which best explains why the Spanish Language diffused widely in Latin America

Spanish was part of the spread of Spanish control over the region

The above sign, which is in both Welsh and English, represent the effort by people of Wales

to resist forces that could make their traditional language dissappear

Which of the following is not part of the vertical integration in argicultutre

traditional family farms

All of the following were positive consequences of the Green revolution EXECPT

upheld traditional farming methods

Which argument does this map most clearly support?

A lingua franca would be useful in India

Which statement about median ages in countries is most accurate

Countries with low median ages usually have more generd inequality

Which is the most common result of the global, interconnected nature of today's economy

Developments in one part of the world affect workers and investors worldwide

After the fall of Soviet communism in 1991, which regions had the greatest proliferation of newly independent states?

Europe and Central Asia

The nation-state first became a widely desired form of politcal entity in

Europe in the 17th century

Which accurately explains a difference between the HDI composite index and GDP as measures of developement

HDI include life expectancy and educational variables, while GDP focuses on only economic development

Which is NOT a result associated with the proliferation of trading blocs in many regions of the world

Industrial workers in the developed world have had their wages increased

Which best represents the concept of a megacity

Jakarta, Indonesia, has a population of 32 million

What effect does low ridership have on public transportation systems in U.S cities

Low ridership leads to higher fares to cover costs, which lowers ridership futher

Why is a tree the most common symbol for displaying world languages

Major branches of a tree are connected to each other, but each smaller branch continues to grow just ad languages are connected but evolving

According to Ravestein's laws of migration, which statement explains why men are more likely than women to migrate internationally

Men are more likely to find work in the destination country, so women are more reluctant to migrate

Which is a major positive impact that migrants have on their country of origin?

Migrants regularly send remittance to their family

What effect does emigration usually have on the demographics of the county of origin

Population skews to young and old residents as working age people migrate

Why is regionalization sometimes a challenge for geographers

The boundaries of many world regions can be defined in several different ways, producing overlapping area.

The system of aquaculture pictured above often leads to all of the following EXCEPt

The reduction is parasites that live on fish

Based on the data in the chart, what phrase better describes Greece?

a nation-state

The concept of a mental map is most similar to the concept of

a vernacular region

How are filtering and gentrification related

after years of filtering, a neighborhood might be ready for gentrification

A traditional community is characterized by all of the following values EXCEPT

an emphasis on expressing individuality

The clearest example of relocation diffusion is the spread of

an ethnic religion to a new place

In the 1990s, the southeast European country of Yugoslavia became

balkanized into serval countries as a result of centrifugal forces per acre.

One advantage a large multinational corporation has over a small business is that it can

benefit from the economies of scale

The type of farming shown in the photo above is

commercial agriculture

Which describes Uruguay's state morphology type

compact

Which occupation is the best example of a Quaternary sector job?

computer programmer for a large corporation

Which occupation is the best example of a quaternary sector job

computer programmer for a large corporation

The process of dividing voters who share values among several districts so that they cannot elect a representative who reflects their views is knonw as

cracking

The majority of what the photograph shows are the area's

cultural landscape

Which subfield of human geography is illustrated in the map above?

culture

The movement of people out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina demonstrates the concept of

distance decay

The Gulf Cooperation Council, an association of six states on the Persian Gulf that attempts to coordinate trade polices, is an example of

economic supranationlism

Which type of population pyramid is pictured above?

expensive

Which would cause an increase in carrying capacity

farmers use new techniques to increase the wheat production per acre.

Clearly defined gender roles are most closely associated with

folk culture

Why is French often considered a lingua franca, while other languages that are spoken by far more people are not

french is widely used in many of france's former colonies around the world

Which type of boundary exist between the United States and Canada for most of the distance from Minnesota to Washington

geometric

For the past five thousand years, the Nile River Valley has the greatest concentration of population in Egypt because of the region's

high quality agricultural land

The above population is typical of courties

in less developed regions

which often happens to an industrial site after the factory on it closes

in old industrial areas, it often becomes a brownfield site.

In contrast to the projections for the future, between 1916 and 2016 the percentage of workers

in the primary sector significantly decreased

All of the following are economic forces affecting subsistence farmers EXECPT

increased land for local agriculture

The purpose of the location triangle in Weber's model was to show where

industries would decide to locate a factory

Prior to the 19 th century, the totla fertility rate was much hight than today, but popluation frwoth was low primarily because

infant mortality rates were higher in the past

Which is the most accurate term to describe the people who were focused to move away from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005?

internally displaced persons

In 2014, Russia annexed a region of Ukraine where over 75 percent of the people spoke Russia as their native language. The suggest that the annexation was an example of

irredentism

Genetically modified organism have resulted in all of the following characteristic except

less expensive seeds

the best example of a job in the quinary secot of the economy is

minister of finance is a national governement

What agricultural concept is demonstrated by the photo above of fields of a crop called rapeseed being grown in China

monoculture

Which is most likely to decrease as a neighborhood becomes gentrified

number of older buildings

According to the rank size rule , the population of Touba should be

one-third the size of Dakar

The information in the table shows that Dakar cam be classifed as a

primate city

The enclosure movement in Europe did all the following EXCEPT

provide more land for small farmers

A U.S. government agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, regularly dredges the Mississippi River so that large vessels can transport grain and livestock at low cost. This is an example of

providing public assistance to farmers

The diagram shows an example of a

sector model

Which category of modernization or economic development includes Brazil, India and Mexico

semi-periphery

This aerial photograph is useful to geographers as a type if

spatial data

Traditionally, North American cities have been more likely than European cities to have a higher percentage of

tall buildings in the central business district

the photo illustrates what type of landscape modification

terracing

Two of the first industries affected by the Industrial Revolution were

textiles and iron

Which project change is the percentage of workers in each employment sector concerns economic analysts the most

the decline in the secondary sector because these jobs pay high wages and help create other jobs

A map showing where Mormons live in the United States would indicate

the effect of distance-decay from a concentration in Utah

If the trend shown in the graph continues, the most likely consequence is an increase in

the number of jobs in the agricultural sector

Dependency models of economic development suggest that

the world will always include a combination of well developed countries and poorly developed countries

Why does the U.S. constitution require reappointment every decade

to adjust the number of congressional representatives to reflect changes in state population

Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization founded in 1949

to counter the threat of Soviet expansion

How do geographers use cartographic scale

to indicate the relationship between size on the map and in reality