Test 2-Geography – Flashcards
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All of the following statements about wind power are true except
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florida contains most of the installed U.S. wind power generating capacity
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Which of the following is the most common incentive for migration
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economics
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A total fertility rate of 1.7 is necessary just to replace present population
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false
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Rapid increases in life expectancy are characteristic of the ___ stage of the demographic cycle
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second
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Energy is
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the ability to do work
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which of the following statements about mental maps is true
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the suggest that the more familiar we are with a locale, the better our mental map becomes
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Russia was the second largest producer of oil in the world in 2006
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true
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the continent with the lowest total fertility rates overall is
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Europe
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of the following major world religions, the newest is
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Islam
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The region of the united states that relies most heavily upon hydropower is
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Pacific Northwest
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the part of a mineral reserve that can be profitably exploited is called the
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proved reserves
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English is the official United States language
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false
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The more resources a country has, the higher its level of technology and quality of life
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false
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The hindu caste system has been outlawed in India since 1947
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true
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An expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural land is
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physiological density
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Innovation, the generation of new ideas and methods, occurs most often in
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densely populated urban centers
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the job of laundryman is the highest level of work within the "untouchable" caste
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false
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of the following fossil fuels, the one with the least adverse impact on the enviroment is
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natural gas
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what term refers to migration movements within countries
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interregional
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the rate of world population icrease slowed notably after world war II
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false
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a commodity is a resource only when a culture recongnizes it as such
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true
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what type of migration refers to moving in a series of transitional relocation stages
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step migration
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In 2008, the total population of the world was estimated to be about
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6.7 billion
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Which one of the following continents has the higest birth rate
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Africa
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Solar energy availability is a variable controlled by climate and latitude
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true
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of all types of trips taken by urban residents the most frequently occuring are
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job-related trips
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the three subsystems of a culture are
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technological, sociological, and ideological
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when the average total fertility rate of a population drops to the replacement level,
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population continues to grow for a generation or more
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Because of its mild climate and fertile soils, western europe has always had low birth and death rates
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false
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Even with a total fertility rate of 2.1, some countries may experience continued increase in the number of people due to
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population or demographic momentum
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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 of the following is an example of a perpeutal renewable resource
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fish
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Pidgin and creole languages are distinguished from one to 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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a group of languages thought to have a shared the same origin is
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Hindi, Russian, and Spanish
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Most of the people in the middle east speak
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Arabic
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Carrying capacity is
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the maximum number of people that can be supported by available resources and technology
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The systematic study of human population is
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demography
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the continent witht he highest total fertility rates overall is
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Africa
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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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Canada is officially a bilingual country
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True
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Brazil is a world leader in producing ethanol from sugarcane for blending with gasoline as an automobile fuel
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true
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The stage in the demographic transition model in which the death rate and the birth rate remain at low levels is
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stage 4
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All the following statments about hydropower are true EXCEPT
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the cost of transmitting hydroelectricty is negligible
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a majority of the world's population lives in countries with reliable system for recording births and deaths
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false
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a cohort is a population group unified by an identifying characteristic
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true
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the portions of the earth's surface permanently inhabited by humans make up the
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ecumene
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which of the following is not one of the world's four major population clusters
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mexico and central america
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both chrisianity and islam have their orgins in Judaism
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true
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Electricity generated from heat energy beneath the earth's surface is called
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geothermal power
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The malthusian theory is based on which of the following assumptions
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population tends to increase more rapidly than do the food supplies to support that population
