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Which of the following industries is LEAST likely to locate near the market for its finished products?

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plywood mill

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Which one of the following characteristics is most unique to intensive subsistence agriculture?

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large input of labor on small plots of land

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Which religion was spread largely through dispersions and persecutions?

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Judaism

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Which statement about world grain production is TRUE?

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Since the 1970s, production has outpaced population growth

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Three categories of economic activities included in the quaternary sector of the economy include

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information, research, and management

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Which of the following statements about purchasing power parity is NOT true?

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By this measure, the difference between rich and poor countries is more pronounced

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Which of the following languages belongs in the Romance language subfamily with French?

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Spanish

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The most distinctive contrast between folk and popular culture is that

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folk culture reflects the traditional way of life of groups isolated from and resistant to outside influences; popular culture simply implies the general mass of people conforming to ever-changing fads and common modes of behavior

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Three dominating characteristics of market-based economic systems are

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specialization, profit motivation, and interdependence

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The world leader in the value of world trade in services is

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the United States

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_________ is an amalgam of languages, usually a simplified form of one of them, such as English or French, with borrowing from another, perhaps non-European local language

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Pidgin

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The top four languages spoken by the greatest number of people worldwide are

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Mandarin, English, Hindi/Urdu, and Spanish

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Which language is the most dominant in terms of number of speakers who use it as their primary or secondary tongue?

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Mandarin (China)

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The defining characteristic of subsistence agriculture is

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production for immediate household needs

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The smallest distinctive item of culture is called a

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culture trait

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Which one of the following types of farming is classified as extensive commercial?

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livestock ranching

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What is the Koran?

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the sayings of Allah revealed to Mohammed

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The Ganges in India and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) in China are river valleys important for the production of

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rice

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Despite making up less than 10% of the total value of world trade, trade talks have been stymied by lack of agreement over trade in

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agricultural products

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The production of low-value minerals is closely controlled by

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transportation cost from deposit to market

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A primary basis for the partition of the Indian subcontinent following British rule was to

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recognize the existence of distinctive regional religious concentrations and animosities

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Of the following major world religions, the newest is

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Islam

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The Indo-European language family

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is made up of separate languages collectively spoken by about one-half of the world's population

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Which of the following religions did NOT arise in Southwestern Asia?

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Buddhism

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The cultural landscape

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includes house types, cities, agricultural fields, transportation networks, parks, and cemeteries

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The totality of physical facilities and public services existing at a place are known as that locale's

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infrastructure

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A religion that teaches that a person's status in this life is determined by his/her existence in previous lives is

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Hinduism

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Which one of the following groups of areas was among the world's earliest centers of plant and animal domestication?

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Southwest Asia, West Africa, Andean South America

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A maquiladora is a Mexican

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border industry

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A group of languages thought to have shared the same origin is

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Hindi, Russian, and Spanish

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A principal land use over large areas of Asia and Africa where the climate is too dry to produce crops is

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nomadic herding

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When a social group does not adopt a useful innovation, it is said to display

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cultural lag

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In Weber's least-cost theory of industrial location, the major factor in the location of industry is

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transportation costs

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The political movement devoted to the creation of a Jewish state is

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Zionism

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Which one of the following is an example of an ethnic group?

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Mexican-Americans

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It is estimated that about 10% of the cultural items in a society are attributable to _____ by its members and 90% to __________

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innovation; spatial diffusion

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Most of the commercial marine fishing is concentrated

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in the northern waters where warm and cool currents join and mix

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The term referring to socially created distinctions between masculine and feminine roles in society is

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gender

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The spread of culture traits from one area to other areas is called

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diffusion

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New advances in information technology and data transmission have

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enhanced the comparative advantage of developing countries in labor-intensive services

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All of the following statements about intensive subsistence agriculture are true EXCEPT that it

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involves total concentration upon a single, intensively produced crop

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A leading country to which services have been outsourced is

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India

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Of the following, the state with the highest concentration of high-technology industry is

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California

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Which of the following is NOT considered a "universalizing" religion?

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Judaism

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Pidgin and creole languages are distinguished from one another by the fact that pidgin

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is always a second language for all its speakers; creole has become a distinctive first language of a society

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The rejected theory that cultures are controlled by the physical geography of their surroundings was

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environmental determinism

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The Ganges in India and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) in China are river valleys with concentrations of

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intensive subsistence agriculture

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Economies of agglomeration refer to

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clustering of firms to take advantage of shared infrastructure, services and skilled workers

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The spread of English as a worldwide language was the result of

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the establishment of overseas colonies and former English dominance in world trade

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Shiites and Sunnis are two major religious sects of _______

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Islam

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The Green Revolution

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increases output through use of high-yielding crop varieties and altered management practices

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The production of metallic minerals in market economies is strongly influenced by the

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quantity of ore available, richness of the ore, and distance to market

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The term Green Revolution refers to

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seed and management techniques that lead to greater farmland productivity

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Which is not one of the three primary expenses to be minimized in Weber's least-cost theory for industrial location decisions?

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advertising costs

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Acculturation is the term applied to

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the process by which one culture group adopts the characteristics of another dominant group

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Which of the following religions has remained dominant in its area of origin?

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Islam

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Examples of the worldwide diffusion of English include all of the following EXCEPT

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it is the official language of 60 countries, including the United States

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Which one of the following languages belongs to the same language subfamily with English?

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German

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__________ is the breeding of fish in freshwater ponds, lakes, and canals or in fenced-off coastal bays and estuaries or enclosures

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Aquaculture

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Secondary activities differ from tertiary activity in that

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secondary activity is raw material oriented; tertiary industry is footloose

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All of the following statements about nomadic herding are true EXCEPT that it

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is increasing in importance as the population dependent on it increases

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Which of the following statements about shifting or swidden cultivation is true?

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to maintain soil fertility, farmers rotate fields

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The chief centers for plant and animal domestication include all of the following EXCEPT

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North America

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Ethnic communities are composed of populations with distinguishing

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cultural heritages

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Intensive subsistence agriculture is characterized by

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high yields per unit of cultivated land

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The one way in which culture is NOT transmitted to younger generations is by

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mutation

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For the world as a whole at the end of the 20th century, "services"

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represented over 60% of gross global product

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Which one of the following items is an example of a cultural trait?

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technology

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Manufacturing industries engaged in bulk or weight reduction operations are

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raw material oriented

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Footloose industries

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are not affected by transportation costs

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The supply curve indicates that as the price of a good increases,

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more of it will be offered for sale

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According to the von Thünen model, the most important determinant of the pattern of agricultural production is the

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distance between the market and the production site

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Religions are important keys to human geographic understanding because

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religious beliefs intimately affect all facets of a culture

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Which one of the following religions is not monotheistic?

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Hinduism

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