Introduction to Georgaphy – Flashcards

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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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