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A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n):

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pandemic

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Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:

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Belgium

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Almost ____ percent of South Americans live in urban areas.

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80

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Which of the following is true?

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Climate refers to long term average conditions

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The rebellion in Chiapas was designed to occur as the same time as:

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the launching of NAFTA

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Transculturation is most closely associated with the shaping of cultural traits in:

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Mexico

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The area of the U.S. with the greatest recent growth in high technology industry is

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Virginia's suburbs

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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Trinidad is one of the Greater Antilles.

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The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the:

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Urals

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The largest country in terms of landmass in South America is:

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Brazil

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The Continental Core region of the United States is also known as the:

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American Manufacturing Belt

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The Danube River empties into which sea?

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Black

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Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is located:

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in an Andean Basin

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Persistently frozen ground is known as:

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permafrost

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The country located on the Jutland Peninsula and the smallest state (in area) in Norden is:

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Denmark

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Which of the following is a lingua franca?

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Swahili

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An altiplano is a(n):

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plain high in the Andes

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The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichen, and sparse grasses) is known as:

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tundra

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The majority of Russia falls within the humid cold climate region. In the Köppen-Geiger classification scheme, this is signified by the letter:

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D

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From the end of World War 11 until 1990, Eastern Europe was dominated by the:

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Soviet Union

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Which of the following countries is not a member of the Mercosur trading bloc?

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Colombia

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Africa is one of the only two continents containing a cluster of:

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Great Lakes

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This country fought a civil war from 1980-1992 in which 75,000 persons died. The United States supported the government, while Nicaragua supported the Marxist rebels:

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El Salvador

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Nunuvat has over 80%

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Inuit

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Which statement best defines the North American Core?

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it encompasses a great rectangle from Boston to Washington to St. Louis to Milwaukee and includes southernmost Ontario.

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A continental climate is most likely to be found in:

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Kansas

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A unique aspect of Madagascar is that:

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the population is of Malay-Polynesian origin

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Russia's railroad network radiates outward from Moscow, thereby providing the city with a high degree of:

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centrality

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Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?

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Pangaea

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The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?

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Pyrenees

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The Central American country where English is spoken, but where Spanish will eventually become the predominant language is:

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Belize

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The Southwest is a tricultural region comprised of:

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Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos

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The Soviet Union consisted of _____ Soviet Socialist Republics.

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15

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The peoples called Native Americans in the U.S. are called _____ in Canada.

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First Nations

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The richest 20% of the South American population control _____ of the realm's wealth.

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70%

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Which of the following Soviet programs was the most successful?

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Industrialization

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One of the conditions of the entry of British Columbia into Canada was:

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the building of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway

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Which of the following statements is false?

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South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves.

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Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans in bondage?

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Brazil

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Colombia's coffee growing areas are most often associated with the:

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tierra templada climate zone

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The leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland is located in:

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Silesia

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Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the:

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North Sea

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Which of the following is false?

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The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.

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Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?

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Ghana

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The great river of Southern Africa is the:

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Zambezi

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_____ has more in common with Finland than its other neighboring states and is therefore included as part of Northern Europe

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Estonia

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The current population of Mexico is _____ million.

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111

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Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?

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Chile

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The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes:

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slum areas known as barrios or favelas

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Which of the following States contains territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiographic province?

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Nevada

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The North American Free Trade Agreement:

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includes only the United States, Canada, and Mexico

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As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico constitute:

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the Greater Antilles

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Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population is:

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Mexico

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Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?

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Nicaragua

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The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:

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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

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Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence?

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Ethiopia

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Which of the following is the smallest Central American country in terms of population?

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Belize

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Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?

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Guatemala

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The Great Lakes' main outlet to the sea is the:

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St. Lawrence River

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The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by:

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the Kalahari Desert

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West Africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between:

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the peoples of the tropical forest and the people of the dry interior

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The Boer War took place in:

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South Africa

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The movement of the headquarters of the Russian Empire to St. Petersburg allowed that city to become a(n):

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forward capital

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Northern New England is tied culturally and economically to:

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Atlantic Canada

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Which of the following statements is false?

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South America's population remains concentrated in its interior, although many peripheral locations are growing rapidly.

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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One of Moscow's chief locational attributes is its coastal site on an arm of the Baltic Sea.

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Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land?

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Zimbabwe

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When a state seeks to acquire the neighboring territory that is home to ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its international border by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed:

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irredentism

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Which of the following statements about Russia and North America is false?

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The Russians established forts and villages along the entire California coast.

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The term Balkanization refers to:

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the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of Eastern Europe

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Eastern Europe is a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing known as a (an):

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shatter belt

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The physiographic region called the Canadian Shield:

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is the geologic core of North America

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The largest ethnic minority in Ukraine are the:

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Russians

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The term _____ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.

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continentiality

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A maquiladora is:

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a foreign-owned factory in northern and southern Mexico and Central America that assembles duty-free goods

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The term _____ refers to a huge state farm and literally means "a grain and meat factory" in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak.

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sovkhoz

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The informal sector of the economy includes:

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unlicensed sellers of homemade goods

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The coniferous forest vegetation on the equatorward side of the tundra is known as:

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taiga

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Czarina Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition thrust was aimed at:

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the warm-water Black Sea

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Which of the following is one of Canada's Prairie provinces?

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Manitoba

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The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus?

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Greek Cypriot

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The transformation of raw materials into finished products is associated with the _____ sector of a nation's economy.

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secondary

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The capital and primate city of Greece is:

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Athens

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The population of Northern Ireland:

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is politically dominated by Protestants

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The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is:

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Switzerland

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.

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Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:

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the Po River Valley

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The Core Region metropolis that has gained the most from post industrialization is:

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Washington, D.C.

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Most of the population of Russia is found in the:

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western part of the country

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The control center of the Incan Empire was:

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Cuzco

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Which of the following countries was formerly known as British Honduras?

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Belize

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The Soviet planners called their system a _____.

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Federation

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The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is:

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part of the Rimland

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Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory:

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Gibraltar

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In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the:

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commercial/industrial spine

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Which of the following is not part of North America's leading Francophone area?

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western New York State

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The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of _____.

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Spain and Portugal

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Land tenure refers to:

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the way people own, occupy, and use land

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The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:

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coffee farming

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The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as:

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Catalonia

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Which of the following is a secondary economic activity?

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beer brewing

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A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n):

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isthmus

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Which of the following statements is false?

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The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still exist it were not for overriding ethnic differences.

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The country located directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain is:

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Morocco

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Russian imperialism in the nineteenth century was aimed chiefly at:

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Central Asia

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Which of the following does not lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?

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Dominican Republic

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The major river of Venezuela's iron-rich eastern region is the:

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Orinoco

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Quebec has:

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all of the above are true.

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To which country did Panama belong before its 1903 United States-supported revolution achieved independence?

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Colombia

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Which of the following states of the USA is the likeliest place for the further development of ethanol and other biofuel production?

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Iowa

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Mestizos are persons who are of mixed _____ heritage.

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European and Amerindian

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A country's core area:

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displays all of the characteristics listed above

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Which of the following is one of Canada's Atlantic provinces?

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New Brunswick

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The Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is:

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Cyprus

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The last country to give up its African colonies was:

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South Africa

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Which of the following is false?

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the Cree in the Northern Quebec have launched their own movement aimed at independence from Canada

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.

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People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called:

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Afrikaaners

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Russia's core area:

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incorporates the Central Industrial Region, at the heart of which lies the city of Moscow

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The slums of South America's large cities are known as:

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favelas or barrios

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