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