Geography Chapter 1 Quiz

The United Nations is composed of:

192 member countries

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

30%

The center of Pangaea is thought to have been modern-day:

Africa

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.

Arguments in favor of free trade include all of the following except free trade:

Benefits developing nations more than developed nations

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

Carrying Capacity

The term __________ refers to the unrestricted international exchange of goods, services, and capital.

Free trade

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of geographical analysis?

Lithography

A country is moving from a subsistence economy to a cash economy. This movement is most likely accompanied by all of the following, EXCEPT:

Lower costs of education

All of the following cities are home to the "new" middle class of educated urban residents, EXCEPT for:

Mexico City, Mexico

Water is now the third most valuable commodity in the world, after

Oil & Electricity

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

Which of the following is NOT an example of a human resource?

Steel

The efforts to improve present living standards in ways that will not jeopardize future generations fall under the general heading of:

Sustainable development

Central to the study of geography are the questions ________ and ________

Where; why

A likely result of polar ice caps melting is:

A higher sea level

The Koppen classification system divides the world into climate regions labeled:

A, B, C, D, E

The most important language of trade today is:

English

Accepted patterns of behavior based on values are called:

Norms

Warm, moist air rises and becomes less able to hold its moisture as it reaches higher altitudes. The result is:

Precipitation