Deck 15: The Geography of Economic Activity and Agriculture

Question 1

The phrase 'industrial activity' refers to

A)the growing of crops for food.
B)the availability of human labor for making successful irrigation.
C)the use of raw materials to make or fabricate a final product.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Feudalism was a small scale economic endeavor based on

A)self-contained estates.
B)warring local chieftains.
C)global banking.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Perhaps a fairly good success story for a planned/communist country might be

A)North Korea.
B)Romania.
C)Cuba.
D)the Dominican Republic.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is true regarding irrigation?

A)it did not originally involve water
B)it was usually put in place in coastal areas
C)it required that communities work together in a fairly intense way
D)all of the above Scrambling: Locked

Question 5

Two main principles in capitalistic economies are

A)ability and camaraderie.
B)supply and demand.
C)hunting and gathering.
D)mercantilism and trade.

Question 6

The map of the size of the economies (GNP) of the world's countries (a cartogram) shows which country the largest in size?

A)Japan
B)Brazil
C)China
D)United States

Question 7

When we say GNP "per capita", this phrase means

A)per household
B)per person
C)on average
D)the sum value

Question 8

Between AD 900 and AD 1100 capitalistic trade arose in what two places?

A)the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea/North Sea areas of Europe
B)the Black Sea and British Isles areas of Europe
C)the Fertile Crescent/Middle East and northwest Africa
D)western Russia and central Europe, particularly France

Question 9

Subsistence agriculture is

A)based in a global market.
B)based on a regional market mainly in developed countries.
C)agriculture that sustains life at the most basic level.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 10

Which is an example of a large scale economy?

A)hunting and gathering
B)a planned economy
C)primitive seed agriculture
D)feudalism

Question 11

Planned economies mainly promise that

A)material goods will be equitably distributed to all members of society.
B)factories will increase profits and benefits will 'trickle down' to all members of society.
C)seaport merchants will gain from trade in valued goods from many places.
D)valuable services will be provided for a fee.

Question 12

Economic geography studies economic activities, but with a special eye toward

A)money, banking and financial endeavors.
B)agriculture and food production.
C)service industries related to urban life.
D)location, distribution, and spatial interactions.

Question 13

On the globe, hunting and gathering societies

A)exist in almost every country of the world.
B)exist only in China and India.
C)are gaining in importance worldwide.
D)exist in only a few places around the world.

Question 14

Imperial economies may

A)allow long distance trade.
B)allow specialization of trade within their borders.
C)have people interacting across great distances.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 15

Hunting and gathering, primitive agriculture, and feudalism are together referred to as

A)local economic systems.
B)national economic systems.
C)regional economic systems.
D)global economic systems.

Question 16

In terms of GNP on the map, which region of the world virtually disappears?

A)Australia
B)Europe
C)Asia
D)Africa

Question 17

Capitalism mainly entails

A)people working together mainly for the good of the state.
B)working hard for the king or queen.
C)making a profit.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 18

On the map of the economy of the Roman Empire, items coming from Spain included

A)gold, silver, and wine.
B)iron, glass, and marble.
C)honey, linen, and dye.
D)pottery, timber, and emeralds.

Question 19

Which areas are not found within the capitalist regions developing around the Baltic and the Mediterranean in Europe from the late Middle Ages?

A)areas of the Overland Zone
B)most of what is today France
C)northern Spain
D)all of the above Scrambling: Locked

Question 20

The capitalist industrial economic system involved what compared with the capitalist commercial economy?

A)much more attention to raw materials and resources in the manufacturing process
B)much more attention to trade across far flung seaports
C)much more hunting of animals and gathering of food
D)none of the above Scrambling: Locked

Question 21

On the map of agricultural regions of the world, what is the dominant agricultural type in India and China?

A)commercial grain
B)pastoral nomadism
C)forestry
D)intensive subsistence farming

Question 22

The best example of 'pastoral nomadism' would be

A)selling coffee in a market in Cairo.
B)growing flax on a farm in Slovenia.
C)wandering with sheep in southern Idaho.
D)growing wheat for sale to be made into Wonder bread sold at the store.

Question 23

Some theories say that agriculture developed in periods of relative ______________ while others say that agriculture came out of periods of ______________.

A)warfare;peace
B)factory development;communism
C)ease;stress
D)none of the above Scrambling: Locked

Question 24

Applied to the United States, the rural land use model shows what mainly in California?

A)dairying
B)mixed crops
C)vegetables
D)specialty crops

Question 25

With the entry of humans into the Americas some 30,000 years ago

A)animals became more numerous.
B)small animals were able to feed off of the seeds that the humans brought.
C)many large animals were hunted into extinction.
D)there was no significant change in wildlife at this time.

Question 26

Looking at the area of the core of 'vegeculture' in eastern India, in what direction was the main diffusion of agriculture from this region?

A)mainly toward the Middle East/Fertile Crescent
B)mainly northward toward China and central Asia
C)mainly southwestward, filling up India
D)mainly toward Southeast Asia

Question 27

Which would be the best example of commercial agriculture?

A)growing barley in the early Fertile Crescent
B)tomatoes grown in your garden for your own use
C)picking and eating wild mulberries on a nature hike
D)harvesting wheat to be sold to and transported to various cities

Question 28

What is meant by the 'private sector'?

A)individuals and companies working outside government
B)employment in the State of Ohio or State of Indiana
C)roadwork operated by taxes in a local city or municipality
D)the FBI investigating your cross-state banking crimes

Question 29

According to the map of the origins of agriculture, which was NOT an origin or hearth?

A)the Middle East Fertile Crescent
B)northwest Africa
C)the current population core of the northeast U.S.
D)eastern India and Bangladesh

Question 30

What is a crop complex?

A)knowledge revolving around the complexities of seed planting
B)understanding the complexities of vegetative planting
C)the proper combination of different crops which works best for a culture
D)settling on the complexities of crop patterns in a field

Question 31

An area of the latest diffusion of agriculture in Europe was

A)Italy.
B)Greece.
C)Spain.
D)the British Isles.

Question 32

On the map of agricultural regions of the world, intensive subsistence farming is not found much in

A)Africa.
B)Asia.
C)the Americas.
D)Europe.

Question 33

Carrying capacity is

A)how much population a region can support according to its resources.
B)how many people different subway systems can carry in a 24 hour period.
C)the ability of a farm to intensively produce more crops than another farm.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 34

Agriculture land use according to Von Thunen, in the traditional model, consists of

A)vegetables and dairying toward the market.
B)grains farthest away from the market.
C)mixed farming between grains and dairying.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 35

Which is the best example of a tertiary sector economic activity?

A)changing the oil of an automobile
B)the sale of insurance for that automobile
C)mining the iron ore for the engine of that automobile
D)the sale information regarding automobile availability and quality

Question 36

The map of agriculture diffusion in Europe shows agriculture entering around the Aegean Sea (around Greece and Turkey)

A)in the step immediately after Fertile Crescent agriculture.
B)in the last step seen on the map.
C)about the same time as agriculture entered the Italian peninsula.
D)the same time that agriculture entered the British Isles.

Question 37

Which is the best example of a primary sector economic activity?

A)changing the oil of an automobile
B)the sale of insurance for that automobile
C)mining the iron ore for the engine of that automobile
D)the sale of your used automobile

Question 38

Eating cookies with milk is not a natural thing for many cultures since

A)most global cultures do not have bread (the cookies).
B)many cultures cannot easily digest milk as adults.
C)the combination of the two is usually forbidden by most of the world's religions.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 39

Most indications are that modern agriculture in Europe was an extension of agriculture that was originally in

A)the Americas.
B)the central Russian plain.
C)vegetative planting in central Europe.
D)the Fertile Crescent.

Question 40

In the photograph regarding ecotones, what are two ecotones apparent?

A)coastal and desert
B)valley grasses and plants and forest
C)mountain slope and pine forest
D)low grasslands and desert