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
