Exam 1: Geography: an Exploration of Connections

The rate of natural increase measures the growth of a population including in-migration and out-migration figures.

According to the theory of plate tectonics, continental drift is caused by:

What is the central proposition of the Pangaea hypothesis that is accepted by many scientists?

Mountain ranges are formed when:

All of the following are examples of religious beliefs reflected in the landscape EXCEPT:

The climate of an area in a rain shadow is dry.

As education rates for women increase, total fertility rates also tend to increase.

Lines of longitude (also called meridians) run from pole to pole; lines of latitude (also called parallels) run parallel to the equator.

Physical geography is the study of various aspects of human life that create the distinctive landscapes and regions of the world.

The splicing together of genes from widely divergent crops to achieve particular characteristics like drought resistance of high fruit yields is called _________________________________.

Greenhouse gases include all of the following, EXCEPT:

European colonization prevented the spread of Roman Catholicism.

In a country with traditional gender roles, men are more likely to serve as ____________ while women serve as ________________.

GDP per capita statistics take "off the books" and unpaid labor into account.

Subsistence economies are more likely to have good health care than cash economies.

The processes of plate tectonics are external processes that form landscapes, whereas the process of weathering and erosion are internal processes that further shape landforms and landscapes.

The making of maps is called:

In which sector of the economy is agriculture?

The normal ratio worldwide is about 95 females born for every 100 males.

Production that occurs in the informal sector does not contribute to the tax revenues of governments.