Geography Exam 2 Study Guide – Flashcards
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(5) Anything created through natural processes that people use and value is a:
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Natural Resource
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(5) A natural resource is defined by three elements:
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Cultural values, technology and economic system.
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(5) Renewable energy sources include all of the following EXCEPT _____________ power.
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Nuclear
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(5) A group of countries that agree to control the market by limiting production in order to drive up prices is:
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A cartel
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(5) Which of the following would NOT be considered a natural resource?
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Computers
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(5) Which of the following is important in stabilizing resource prices and limiting problems caused by resource scarcity?
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Substitutability.
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(5) For electric generation in the United States, the main energy resource is:
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Coal
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(5) North America and Europe account for nearly three-fourths of the world's:
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Energy consumption.
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(5) The "universal solvent," able to dissolve and transport a wide range of substances is:
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Water.
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(5) Forests do NOT:
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Cover 3% of the world's land surface. (They cover approx. 31%)
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(6) The study of individual populations in terms of specific group characteristics is:
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Demography.
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(6) The agricultural crop that produces the highest number of calories per acre is:
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Rice.
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(6) The West African country of Togo and the European country of France have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this we can conclude that the two countries have the same:
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Number of people per area of land.
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(6) "Physiological density" is a term applied to human populations that means:
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The density of population per unit of arable land.
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(6) Human beings cluster in which of these regions?
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Flat lands.
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(6) Throughout the world, fertility rates are _________________ in urban areas than they are in rural areas.
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Lower.
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(6) Country X has a crude birth rate of 42 and a crude death rate of 17, while Country Y has a crude birth rate of 20 and a crude death rate of 5. Which country has a lower natural increase rate?
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Country Y.
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(6) In the first stage of the demographic transition, crude birth rate is ________________ and crude death rate is ____________.
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High; High.
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(6) Thomas Malthus:
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Predicted a grim view of the future due to overpopulation.
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(6) Brain drain occurs when:
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Highly educated citizens leave a country to move to another country.
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(7) Culture is:
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Learned behavior.
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(7) The process where aspects of culture move from their areas of innovation is called:
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Diffusion.
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(7) Humankind has adapted itself to varying conditions through the evolution of:
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Culture and technology.
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(7) What was Varro's sequence of cultural stages?
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Hunter/gatherers-pastoral nomads-settled agriculture.
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(7) Environmental determinism:
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Is the simplistic belief that human cultures can be explained as a result of the physical environment.
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(7) All of the following statements about the concept of diffusion and about cultural phenomena are true EXCEPT:
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Diffusion explains the distribution of all cultural phenomena.
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(7) Concerning folk and popular culture, which of the following statements is correct?
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In popular culture, tastes must be relatively homogeneous.
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(7) The belief that one _____________ has inherent superiority over another has played a major role in defining human relations over the past 500 years and is known as _____________ .
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Race; racism.
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(7) The entire region throughout which a cultural trait prevails is called a:
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Culture area.
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(7) Voyages of exploration and conquest by ----------------------- connected the world.
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Europeans.
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(8) The predominant world lingua franca is:
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English.
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(8) Lines that are used to show the presence of linguistic features on maps are known as:
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Isoglosses.
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(8) The hearth area for Indo-European languages was probably located in:
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Turkey.
