World Regional Geography

A country that can be identified as a classic buffer state is:

Afghanistan

The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located in:

Brussels

Who is the President of the Republic of South Africa?

Jacob Zuma

An area whose control is hotly disputed by India and Pakistan is:

Jammu and Kashmir

What is the dominant language in Malaysia?

Malay

Transculturation is most closely associated with the shaping of cultural traits in:

Mexico

What is the dominant religion in Utah?

Mormon

The capital of Canada is:

Ottawa

The world's population is now more than 3.8 billion in total size, and is expected to surpass 4 billion by the year 2010.

False

Most foreign workers in Germany are of _________origin.

Turkish

Annam is today a part of:

Vietnam

A maquiladora is:

a foreign-owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods

Which number on the map best represents the Atlas Mountains?

16

Which number on the Europe map best represents the location of an area dominated by Muslims?

81

Which of the following cities is not part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?

Brussels

Southeast Asia has traditionally been a zone of contact between ______.

India and China

The rain shadow effect has its greatest influence on the climate of Los Angeles and other Pacific-bordering cities..

False

Regionally, the Hawaiian Islands are part of:

Polynesia

Vancouver is the most Asianized metropolis in North America.

True

A newly developing regional economic disparity in India has opened between:

east and west

The Soviet Union (USSR) had _____ republics (S.S.R.) for most of its history.

15

The Soviet Union (USSR) had _____ republics for most of its history.

15

The Soviet Union consisted of _____________ Soviet Socialist Republics.

15

The "One child per couple" rule was established in _____.

1979

Which number on the South Asia Map best describes the location of the Ganges River?

30

Where are the Andes?

46

Which number on the Europe map best represents the location of the Pyrenees Mountains?

54

By 2100, Japan's current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to about _____ million:

67

Which number on Subsaharan Africa map best describes the location of a former Portuguese colony?

72

Although much of Subsaharan Africa still practices tribal religions, Islam penetrated from the north to confront these faiths as well as Christianity as it advanced southward.

Although much of Subsaharan Africa still practices tribal religions, Islam penetrated from the north to confront these faiths as well as Christianity as it advanced southward.

Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the:

Ancona Line

The choke point known as the ____________ lies between Yemen and Djibouti.

Bab el Mandeb Strait

The archipelago to the north of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the:

Bahamas

The capital of The Congo is:

Brazzaville

Argentina's dominant city is:

Buenos Aires

The Mediterranean climate is classified under which of the following Köppen-Geiger letters?

C

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

Cayman Islands--United States possession

The downtown of an American city, which is usually characterized by a square-grid layout, is called the:

Central business district

Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina?

Chaco

Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?

Chile

Which area was least influenced by the spread of Islam?

China

To which country did Panama belong before its 1903 United States-supported revolution achieved independence?

Colombia

Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia?

Colombia

The core areas of the world:

Constitute the area where the richer countries are clustered

Which Nordic European city serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city?

Copenhagen

Which of the following statements about D climates is incorrect?

D climates are more common in the Southern Hemisphere than the Northern Hemisphere.

Which of the following does not lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?

Dominican Republic

The UNCLOS allows states to claim all resources within a(n) _____________ that extends up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts.

Exclusive Economic Zone

A technopole is an urban area that emphasizes traditional industry.

False

About 75 percent of Taiwan's population live in rural areas.

False

Although they experienced difficulties in getting along with each other in the early years following the communist revolution, China and the former Soviet Union were always close friends and allies from the mid-1960s until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1997.

False

Because of internal bickering, the European Union in 2008 contained fewer member-states than it did when founded in 1957.

False

Deserts are mainly found on the eastern sides of the continents.

False

During the Dark Ages, the Ottoman Turks established an Islamic Empire that included all of Europe south of the Baltic and North Seas.

False

Libya is an oil-poor country.

False

More than 60 percent of the world's population now resides in urban areas.

False

More than three-quarters of the inhabitants of the Caribbean islands live in urban areas.

False

Only Russia is larger in territory than Brazil.

False

Papua New Guinea is located in Polynesia.

False

Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country.

False

Polynesia is the Pacific's most populous region.

False

Sydney, Australia's modern capital, overcame competition from Melbourne to be selected as the national headquarters.

False

The Golden Quadrilateral is a rectangular route followed annually by India's Muslim pilgrims on their way to the holy city of Varanasi.

False

The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara.

False

The city of Paris has great advantages of site, but major disadvantages in its situation.

False

The hacienda form of land tenure was dominant in Middle America's Rimland.

False

The hacienda of the Mainland is basically similar to the plantation of the Rimland.

False

The proportion of Australia's population living in urban areas is presently about half that found in Western Europe.

False

Who is the President of France?

François Hollande

Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?

Ghana

Slovakia contains a large _______ minority.

Hungarian

States first began to develop:

In areas where cities could begin to command their hinterlands

From 1949 until 1967, West Jerusalem was controlled by

Israel

Who is the President of Colombia?

Juan Manuel Santos

Iraq's oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul are located within the area of _____ population.

Kurdish

The poorest state in Indochina is:

Laos

Who is the Prime Minister of India?

Manmohan Singh

The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is:

Nigeria

The Aswan High Dam is located on the:

Nile River

Which of the following provinces of Pakistan received largest groups of refugees from Afghanistan?

North west frontier

German reunification:

Occurred in 1990

Which water body is surrounded by a geologically-active Ring of Fire:

Pacific Ocean

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

Pakistan and Delhi

Wegener's supercontinent is known as:

Pangaea

Special Economic Zones (SEZ) were established in which country during the _______.

People's Republic of China, 1970s

The _______ river extends along the southern border of the US for 1000 miles.

Rio Grande

Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa?

Senegal

From the end of World War II until 1990, Eastern Europe was dominated by the:

Soviet Union

Which colonial power controlled the Philippines during the 1500s through the late 1800s?

Spain

The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is:

Switzerland

Which one of these countries is not part of the European Union (EU) today?

Switzerland

The Brazilian area that is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate is:

São Paulo State

Which of the following is not an example of globalization?

Tariffs imposed on automobiles

The island across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is called:

Tasmania

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.

The now-ended policy of the Indonesian government to induce Jawanese to move to other islands was called:

Transmigration

An entrepôt, such as Copenhagen, is a place where goods are collected, stored, and transshipped.

True

An international agreement allows exclusive 200-nautical-mile (320-kilometer) fishing zones for coastal states.

True

Antecedent boundaries are decided before significant settlement of an area occurs.

True

Australia has had a long-term relationship with Papua New Guinea to assist that country's development.

True

Geography is concerned with providing a spatial perspective on the world.

True

In general, the eastern coasts of continents in tropical and mid-latitude zones receive relatively high precipitation.

True

In the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi and Dubai have most of the oil reserves.

True

In the first stage of the demographic transition both birth rates and death rates are high.

True

In the second stage of the demographic transition, the population explosion begins.

True

India today is the world's second most populous state.

True

Main Street is the conurbation extending from Quebec City to Windsor.

True

Melanesia is the most heavily populated of the three Pacific regions.

True

Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama are all located on the land bridge portion of the Middle American realm.

True

Modern supranationalism in Europe began with the creation of Benelux in 1944.

True

Mongolia is a good example of a buffer state.

True

More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is ocean.

True

Namibia was once called Southwest Africa and was under South African control before independence.

True

Natal Province contains South Africa's largest cluster of Asians.

True

Nepal and Bhutan are landlocked countries.

True

Norden is another name for Northern Europe.

True

People of Chinese descent make up a majority of the population of Singapore.

True

Southeast Asia does not rank among the world's four largest population clusters.

True

Southern India contains the Deccan Plateau.

True

Subsequent boundaries are decided while settlement of an area occurs.

True

Sydney, Australia's largest metropolis, contains more than one-fifth of the country's entire population.

True

The crop grown in a zone extending from the vicinity of Adelaide into the States of Victoria and New South Wales, makes Australia one of the world's leading wheat exporters.

True

The goal of the World Trade Organization is to lower all remaining trade barriers.

True

The island of Jawa became the focus of Dutch colonial administration in Southeast Asia.

True

The northeastern corner of Ireland was a haven for English and Scottish Catholics and remained under British control.

True

The three stages in the development of twentieth-century Canada are the Frontier-Staples Era, the Era of Industrial Capitalism, and the Era of Global Competition.

True

Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places.

True

Yearly temperature ranges are much larger where continentality prevails.

True

Which of the following is not located in China's Northeast:

Xi River

The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was:

a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country

Native Australians are known as:

aborigines

A territorial sea is:

an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail

Cabinda is:

an exclave of Angola

In Saudi Arabia:

annual rainfall is almost everywhere under 10 inches

Aśoka was a strong believer in:

buddhisim

Fazendas are:

coffee plantations

The three principles of spatial interaction are:

complementarity, intervening opportunity, transferability

The Xinjiang region:

contains desert basins near Turkestan

The agricultural activity most closely associated with Australia's moistest environment is:

darying

The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has:

declined

The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as:

devolution

Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?

euphrates

Savanna environments belong to the general climate type known as:

humid equatorial

The North American Free Trade Agreement:

includes only the United States, Canada, and Mexico

The Industrial Revolution in Europe:

initially was focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged

The physiographic region called the Canadian Shield:

is the geologic core of North America

The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as:

marsupials

The large cluster of population in the northeastern United States is known as:

megalopolis

The North Slope of Alaska contains large quantities of:

oil

A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n):

pandemic

Rainfall patterns in humid tropical (A) climates are characterized by all except:

principally nighttime rainfall in rainforest (Af) areas

The dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the:

sertao

The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes:

slum areas known as barrios or favelas

Technological breakthroughs now allow for the major exploitation of which of the following Albertan resources?

tar sands

Which of the following is false?

the Cree in Northern Quebec have launched their own movement aimed at independence from Canada

Bulgarians have felt close to the Russian population because:

the Russians were responsible for driving the Turks from this area

The term Balkanization refers to:

the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of Eastern Europe

In 1900, the geographic form of the American city was most strongly shaped by:

the electric streetcar

The rebellion in Chiapas was designed to occur at the same time as:

the launching of NAFTA

The area of India in which the population exhibits the country's lowest growth rate is:

the southernmost States of the peninsula

The state of Israel:

was created from territory that was formerly administered by the British

Who is the Prime Minister of Japan?

Yoshihiko Noda

The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:

a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way

Paraguay is the most Amerindianized country in South America.

True

Singapore lies on the Strait of Malacca.

True

The first "globalization revolution" was triggered by Europe.

True

The gap between advantaged and disadvantaged states in the world is growing.

True

Which of the following States contains territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiographic province?

Nevada

The lava covered plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the:

Deccan

The Bab el Mandeb Strait is a choke point at the outlet of the Persian Gulf.

False

The largest city in Micronesia is Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

False

A moderating influence on west-central Bolivia's climate is:

Lake Titicaca

The World Bank ranks countries within four groups. Which of the following is not one of those groups?

Middle-income countries

Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the world's great population clusters?

Mississippi

A local or regional outbreak of a disease is known as an epidemic.

True

A small-scale map shows a large area.

True

Australia is a federal political entity consisting of six States and two federal territories.

True

Australia's aboriginal population totals about 450,000.

True

Bulgaria did not appear on the map until 1878.

True

Colonies were places from which European powers obtained raw materials and to which they sold finished products.

True

Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea are all located in Equatorial Africa.

True

Economic globalization is guided by the World Trade Organization.

True

Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but it never had minorities as large as those in Kenya or Uganda.

True

The Antarctic Treaty that presently holds national land claims at abeyance, expired in 1991 and was replaced by the Wellington Agreement.

True

The Islamic Front is most correctly located within the African Transition Zone.

True

The Khmer people form the majority of the population in Cambodia.

True

The Mauryan Empire incorporated the majority of the Indian subcontinent.

True

The Mayan civilization is the only one on the world culture map that arose in a tropical lowland.

True

The North China Plain is one of the world's most densely populated farming areas.

True

The South is Brazil's most "European" region, where European languages other than Portuguese still remain in use.

True

Which of the following is not an example of European supranationalism?

Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape?

Uruguay

Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?

aswan high dam

The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as:

local functional specialization

Which of the following is false concerning the western interior of China?

much of the area is a flat plain

Which of the following is located in Melanesia?

Vanuatu

North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of:

regional complementarity

South Korea's growth has resulted from an economic system described as:

state capitalism

Israel regards which city as its capital?

Jerusalem

In India, a leading centripetal force has been:

Muslim-Sikh relations

Who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

David Cameron

Saigon is today named after the communist leader who founded modern Vietnam, a communist named:

Ho Chi Mihn

The current interglacial period is known as the:

Holocene

Who is the President of the People's Republic of China?

Hu Jintao

Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?

Stephen Harper