Deck 2: Concepts in World Regional Geography

Question 1

Which of the following would be part of the informal economy?

A) a teacher
B) a mother
C) a street vendor selling small crafts
D) a worker in a Nike factory

Answer 1

a street vendor selling small crafts

Question 2

The Human Development Index includes measures of vulnerability to

A) malnutrition
B) pornography on TV
C) sexual harassment
D) snowstorms

Answer 2

malnutrition

Question 3

The concept of human rights emerged in

A) The United States
B) Europe
C) Asia
D) The United States and Europe

Answer 3

The United States and Europe

Question 4

About what percentage of Earth's surface is land?

A) 75 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 18 percent
D) 29 percent

Question 5

In stage 1 of the demographic transition

A) both birth and death rates were high
B) birth rates were high but death rates were low
C) both birth and death rates were low
D) death rates were high but birth rates were low

Question 6

In a centrally planned economy, economic decisions are made by

A) government ministries
B) the educated elite
C) corporations
D) the United Nations

Question 7

Which of the following would probably not be involved in a structural adjustment plan?

A) more efficient government
B) import substitution
C) privatization
D) reduced government involvement in the economy

Question 8

Doubling time is

A) the time it takes for a woman to bear two children
B) the number of years it will take for a population to double in size
C) the time before the birth rate will fall
D) the number of years a person is expected to live

Question 9

Which of the following is not one of the clusters of the world's highest population density?

A) Europe
B) South Asia
C) East Asia
D) South Africa

Question 10

At present, what percentage of the world's people live in cities?

A) 10
B) 25
C) 50
D) 75

Question 11

The total fertility rate is

A) the sum of the world's birth rates
B) the average number of children a woman will bear in her lifetime
C) the total population of women
D) the total value of all crops grown

Question 12

Infant mortality refers to the number of deaths of children born alive before the age of

A) One
B) two
C) five
D) ten

Question 13

According to the demographic transition, death rates first begin to fall in

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4

Question 14

By 2010, how many people lived outside the countries of their birth?

A) 25 million
B) 50 million
C) 100 million
D) 214 million

Question 15

Thomas Malthus

A) predicted the demographic transition
B) warned that population was growing faster than food supplies
C) called for settlement on the moon
D) opposed settlement of Australia

Question 16

In the free-market system, economic decisions are made primarily by

A) the government
B) the United Nations
C) individuals
D) the stars

Question 17

In 1978 China

A) launched the Great Leap Forward
B) landed a man on the moon
C) encouraged investment by private companies from other countries
D) built the Great Wall

Question 18

The role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to

A) prevent war
B) defend against Communism
C) help members protect their industries from competition
D) increase world trade by reducing import and export duties

Question 19

Which of the following is not a part of the United Nations Human Development Index?

A) life expectancy
B) educational attainment
C) health
D) number of television sets

Question 20

Which of the following is a tertiary sector activity?

A) a dairy farm
B) a computer factory
C) your local McDonald's
D) a coal mine

Question 21

Which of the following is not one of the prime global city-regions in all categories?

A) New York
B) London
C) Tokyo
D) Los Angeles

Question 22

Nationalism involves

A) membership in the United Nations
B) the growth of standing armies
C) each country's performance in the Olympics
D) the desire of ethnic groups for self-government

Question 23

Which of the following is a universalizing religion?

A) Hinduism
B) Buddhism
C) Judaism
D) Animism

Question 24

Most of the world's relief features are the result of

A) movement of tectonic plates
B) rainfall
C) piling up of wind-blown debris
D) none of the choices are correct

Question 25

Class distinctions arise from all of the following except

A) wealth
B) education
C) inheritance
D) age

Question 26

Primary production includes everything except

A) minerals
B) fish
C) pharmaceuticals
D) timber

Question 27

The federal government has responsibility for all of the following except

A) defense
B) interstate relations
C) local roads
D) external relations

Question 28

A nation is a group of people that have all of the following except

A) share a common identity
B) share a sense of unity
C) share a desire for self-governance
D) adhere to the same religion

Question 29

Because of economic globalization and secularization, religious influences are diminishing.

Question 30

Sustainable human development involves economic growth that does not deplete renewable resources.

Question 31

During the Cold War, the West and Communist countries emphasized the same rights.

Question 32

Between now and 2050, it is estimated that 35 percent of the world's population growth will be in the United States.

Question 33

The demographic transition is based on the population history of China.

Question 34

A major source of population growth in the United States is immigration.

Question 35

The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 50 percent of the world's oil.

Question 36

Based on exports of books and magazines, the United States is the most culturally globalized country.

Question 37

The human poverty index focuses on deprivations common among the least favored members of society.

Question 38

Economies in wealthier countries are more diversified than those in poor countries.

Question 39

A nation and a country are the same thing.

Question 40

Education and the status of women play large roles in the success of policies to limit population growth rates.

Question 41

All countries agree on what rights are basic human rights.

Question 42

Technological innovations and applications come equally from all world regions.

Question 43

Deserts are defined as areas that receive no rainfall.

Question 44

Governments play no role in the economies of free-market systems.

Question 45

Centrally planned systems turned out to be the best systems because government ministries know what is best for everyone everywhere.

Question 46

Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure that takes into account different costs of living in different countries.

Question 47

Multinational corporations have headquarters in more than one country.

Question 48

Multinational corporations move only manufacturing jobs to foreign countries.

Question 49

Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity are all universalizing religions.

Question 50

Most of the heat you feel on a hot day comes from the sun shining directly on you.

Question 51

Global warming is a concern because it could melt the icecaps and cause flooding.

Question 52

Prehistoric hunters and gatherers had no impact on the physical environment.

Question 53

Of the percent of Earth's surface that is land, much of that is uninhabitable.

Question 54

The crude birth rate minus the crude death rate equals the rate of natural population increase or decrease.

Question 55

Immigration or emigration can change the population of a country despite natural increase.

Question 56

All nations have their own state.

Question 57

In Asia and Africa, illiteracy among women is still much higher than among men.

Question 58

A climate that has hot, dry summers and cool, rainy winters is called _____________.

Question 59

The study of populations is called ___________________.

Question 60

The population of a place compared to the amount of cultivable land is called
_____________ density.

Question 61

The long-term movement of people is called _________________.

Question 62

A graphic device that displays the population by age and sex groups is called a
_________________.

Question 63

_____________ studies the spatial patterns of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Question 64

The total value of goods and services in a country, including foreign transactions, is its
_____________.

Question 65

The dispersal of a population over a widespread area, even world-wide, is called a
__________________.

Question 66

The desire to combine cultural and territorial features and become self-governing is called_______________________.

Question 67

The largest-scale ecosystem is called a ___________________.

Question 68

_______________ is the destruction of the productive capacity of an area of land.

Question 69

This nation is the largest emitter of CO2 _____.

Question 70

__________ is the world's leading industry of the early 2000s and provides one of the most significant connections between globalization and development.

Question 71

The Soviet Union established the _______________ to unite the countries of eastern Europe in the Soviet defense bloc.

Question 72

The __________ addresses specific targets for reducing the primary six greenhouse gases.

Question 73

A _________________ was developed to show how the rich became richer and the poor became poorer.