Economic Geography Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Economic Geography examines the spatial organization of economic activities and the factors influencing the distribution of industries, resources, and wealth across regions and countries. The course explores the relationships between location, globalization, regional development, labor markets, and urbanization. Students analyze how transportation, technology, policy, and cultural factors shape economic landscapes, and consider the implications for both local economies and the global market. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students gain insights into regional disparities, international trade patterns, and the role of geography in shaping economic outcomes.
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Human Geography 1st Edition by Jon Malinowski
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Chapter 1: Major Geographic Concepts
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Q1) Which of the following is not true regarding processes as important to geographers?
A)they want to know how something began and how it ended.
B)they want to know the logical ordering or sequence of events.
C)they want to know why a pattern or order occurred when it did.
D)they want to memorize the capital cities of countries.
Answer: D
Q2) To say a pattern is random is to say
A)that there is usually a circular pattern of points.
B)that points or items are likely to be lined up in rows.
C)that there is no identifiable design or form to the distribution.
D)that the spatial proxies are contained within centrally located cumulative points.
Answer: C
Q3) An individual's activity space around their home can logically be seen as
A)a formal (or uniform) region.
B)a functional region.
C)a perceptual or vernacular region.
D)a nebular region.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Geography Through the Ages
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Q1) Up until only a few years ago most computers
A)could perform about what computers can perform today.
B)could not be operated with complicated algorithms by normal users.
C)were very small and very compact.
D)none of the above.
Answer: B
Q2) Versions of Ptolemy's maps (from about 100 A.D.)
A)were used 1500 years later.
B)showed the Americas as one land mass.
C)portrayed Japan with an accurately detailed coastline.
D)were always in black and white.
Answer: A
Q3) Which would be the best characterization of regional geography?
A)The study of physical, cultural and economic pattern in southern Africa.
B)The analysis of many maps to understand banking patterns in Europe.
C)An in-depth study of banana plantations during the early 1900s.
D)A religious study of Mormons in the inter-mountain west in the U.S.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) Mexico City is one of the largest cities on the planet.Its location is
A)mainly along the eastern coast, linked to the Caribbean Sea.
B)central in a valley in a mountainous region.
C)centered mostly with Acapulco on the western coast.
D)in industrial 'maquiladora' lands bordering the United States.
Answer: B
Q2) In northern Africa, the Nile River
A)shows up as a dark streak of intensely high population density.
B)is important because it is longer than the Amazon.
C)is the center of a broad population area stretching far away from the river itself.
D)is relatively short and devoid of many people.
Answer: A
Q3) A country like the UAE (United Arab Emirates) shows a unique population pyramid
A)in that it is an extreme pyramid.
B)it is a top shape with more elderly as people live longer in the middle east.
C)it is imbalanced with more males coming in to work.
D)it has gashes (indentations) in the male population from war.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Geography of Health and Disease
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Q1) In the 1960s, yellow fever was almost wiped out but
A)it reoccurred through use of infected needles in drug use.
B)it reoccurred when many countries stopped immunizing.
C)it occurred again when many third world countries started consuming more meat.
D)it occurred again as guinea worm syndrome also grew.
Q2) The practice of polygyny in parts of Africa is important because
A)many animals might be affected by the polygyny worm.
B)its association with Love Canal's syndrome is undeniable.
C)HIV/AIDS can be transmitted to women and then to many children.
D)cattle can be readily infected, and so can milk and dairy products.
Q3) In comparing health care provision in the U.S.with the United Kingdom
A)in the U.S.government agencies only provide about 30 percent of care.
B)in the U.K.government agencies provide about 97 percent of care.
C)in the U.K.everyone is guaranteed care.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Dr.John Snow was able to isolate the reason for the diffusion of cholera by
A)watching bats and pigs interact.
B)mapping diseases incidences and clusters.
C)observing how mosquitoes move through the urban environment.
D)seeing how zombies transmit brain stem virus on the streets.
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Chapter 5: Migration Flows
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Q1) Net migration might be more important to know than gross migration because
A)it accounts for disease.
B)it is when people move to port cities for jobs in the fishing industry.
C)it takes into account primitives who migrate.
D)it has to do with the difference between those who arrive and those who leave.
Q2) Which is the best example of rural to urban migration within a country?
A)Farm workers in central Kansas moving to Wichita for factory jobs.
B)African slaves brought to the Caribbean from what is now Nigeria.
C)Portuguese males finding jobs in steel mills in Luxembourg.
D)Bosnians accepted as refugees by Germany.
Q3) If there were less immigration into the United States, then over time
A)the country would gain more area.
B)the country would have more population.
C)the country would gradually lose people to out-migration.
D)the country would cease to exist over a long period of time.
Q4) The gravity model generally demonstrates that
A)two cities that are far apart can have a lot of interaction.
B)one city can have much activity within its own bounds.
C)two large cities interact more than a large city with a small city.
D)the largest cities have little interaction with other places.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Cultural Landscapes
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Q1) Which of the following are notable traits of folk culture?
A)Culture spread throughout a broad national region.
B)Culture traits found in the family and not broadcast widely.
C)Culture traits diffusely spread through satellite TV.
D)Culture traits accessed through an Internet browser.
Q2) The practice of giving employees Sundays off in the United States is
A)Relatively recent.
B)Economically wise.
C)Based in the Christian belief system.
D)Closely related to football.
Q3) The fact that many people in the United States drink Coca-Cola, watch professional basketball, use the Internet, and drive automobiles is representative of
A)cultural diffusion.
B)cultural assimilation.
C)cultural reasoning.
D)cultural convergence.
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Chapter 7: The Geography of Language
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Q1) Though Japanese is a language isolate, Ainu
A)was the native language of Korea that gave rise to early Japanese.
B)is also a language isolate in northern Japan spoken by native peoples of the islands.
C)has been eradicated completely and is no longer spoken.
D)has diffused far greater distances than Japanese ever did.
Q2) Regarding English spoken in the British Isles
A)RP is the only dialect.
B)there are three main varieties in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
C)there are many dialects spread throughout the isles.
D)the English dialect is basically similar in sounds to American English.
Q3) Nearly 7,000 languages exist
A)and over the next couple of decades at least three thousand more will appear.
B)but many have gone extinct over the last few hundred years.
C)but this number includes dialects as well as languages.
D)none of the above
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Chapter 8: The Geography of Religion
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Q1) Judaism is the originator of Christianity and Islam
A)is one of the world's largest religions in total number of believers.
B)is as large as either Christianity or Islam or Hinduism in adherents.
C)is relatively small in total believers with only about 15 million.
D)is about the same size as Buddhism (though unrelated to that faith).
Q2) Which of the following is geographic about Jewish worship in synagogues?
A)Jews usually walk in circumambulation paths around the sacred torah.
B)The arc symbolic of the commandments given to the people lies on the wall facing Jerusalem.
C)The four noble truths are spoken weekly at the Sabbath (Saturday) meetings.
D)Statues of men represent bodies resurrected to live with God (Yahweh) again.
Q3) Most religions follow some kind of sacred writing-or scripture.The Hindu sacred stories are called
A)the Old Testament.
B)the Book of Mormon.
C)the Torah.
D)the Vedas.
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Chapter 9: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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Q1) Regarding membership in an ethnic group
A)the ethnic group itself decides what constitutes membership.
B)culture traits and ethnic traits are nearly the same thing.
C)some ethnic groups are better than others.
D)all of the above.
Q2) In Urumqi in western China, Chinese officials fear that which will be an ethnic problem?
A)that Taiwan will take control of the city
B)that it will become another 'special autonomous region' like Macau or Hong Kong
C)that Islamic fundamentalism will surge
D)that language isolate Basque and Caucasic groups will hold more influence
Q3) Pella, Iowa or Holland, Michigan are towns of traditional ____________ where distinct ethnicity or culture are proudly shown or celebrated.
A)segregations.
B)ethnic neighborhoods.
C)ethnic assimilations.
D)ethnic islands.
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Chapter 10: A World of Nations and States
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Q1) The best example of a stateless nation would be
A)the Bosnians.
B)the North Koreans.
C)the Native Americans (Indians) of the United States.
D)France.
Q2) Which is the best example of a nation?
A)the Kurdish people, who reside in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey
B)the people of Ohio who maintain a distinct ethnicity and culture
C)the people of the United States who are "One Nation Under God"
D)the people of the 25 ethnically diverse states of India
Q3) Irredentist movements are seen when
A)part of one state wants to separate and join another state.
B)one part of a state wants independence.
C)a nation becomes divided.
D)wealthier parts of a country want to secede.
Q4) East Timor is a good example of
A)a large country that was once an empire.
B)a small country able to act on its self-determination, becoming independent.
C)a colony today of Portugal.
D)a chiefdom that still exists in the modern world.
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Chapter 11: Geography of Governance and Representation
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Q1) Which of the following might best typify a totalitarian government's reason for being?
A)an ideology that the people are forced to adhere to
B)a food product that people generally reject throughout the country
C)an economic resource that demands a majority of attention from the government
D)the encouragement of the voting process to select the most desirable candidates as perceived by the people
Q2) Belgium's tripartite political structure was created in
A)the late 1500s.
B)the early 1700s.
C)the late 1900s.
D)the year 2010.
Q3) Kaliningrad is an 'exclave' of Russia because
A)it is totally surrounded by Moscow.
B)it is totally surrounded by East Germany.
C)it is today part of Poland.
D)it is a piece of Russia totally separate from Russia.
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Chapter 12: Environment and Conservation
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Q1) Regarding the Middle East in terms of per capita power use
A)most areas are not remarkable in power use.
B)there are no low power use (per capita) countries.
C)high power use (per capita) is found in the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Areas in the world with great problems with deforestation are found mainly
A)in higher latitudes.
B)in polar regions.
C)in Europe and North America, which are very industrialized.
D)in undeveloped rainforest regions.
Q3) Cancer clusters
A)are generally unexplainable.
B)can be identified as 'unusual' and not random through statistical methods.
C)are normally found applied to respiratory cancers only.
D)are located generally in the western United States where industry thrives.
Q4) The problem with the NIMBY syndrome is that
A)no one wants undesirable industry or trash in their back yards.
B)most hot air balloons do not cause air pollution.
C)all of our back yards have some kind of pollution.
D)his relationship with BOBENDUM is highly questionable.
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Chapter 13: Urbanization and Urban Networks
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Q1) Many early factories developed around places where raw materials were mined like
A)copper in Bingham Canyon, Utah.
B)coal in central Pennsylvania.
C)rivers in Kentucky and Indiana.
D)port cities like Boston or New Orleans.
Q2) Areas of urban development later, around the year AD 0 would have been in
A)what is today the Middle East.
B)what is today China.
C)what is today Central and northern South America.
D)what is today Southeast Asia.
Q3) The first area to develop cities was
A)the Indus River Valley.
B)China.
C)the Fertile Crescent region, or Sumeria.
D)the Aztec region of Central America.
Q4) Which of the following applies to the definition of urbanization?
A)the access to cities of rural farmer's goods
B)the developments of ports in polar regions
C)increasing percentages of people living in cities
D)the dwindling occupation of cities due to diseases like the bubonic plague
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Chapter 14: The Changing Structure of the City
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Q1) Generally, skyscrapers are not built toward the edges of traditional North American cities because
A)they are unsightly and people don't want to view them.
B)farmers do not want to give up valuable land for their development.
C)low agricultural land values do not merit their appearance.
D)none of the above.
Q2) At the urban center of a modern city in the United States one might find as a main marker
A)the cathedral.
B)the skyscraper.
C)the temple.
D)the market.
Q3) Uruk, in ancient Sumeria, had which as notable elements of its structure?
A)a wall, an elite compound, and segregated occupants
B)canals, shipping port facilities, and mercantile facilities
C)train tunnels, trestles, and railyards
D)automobiles, paved and cement roads, and a limited access motorway
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Chapter 15: The Geography of Economic Activity and Agriculture
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Q1) 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.
Q2) When we say GNP "per capita", this phrase means
A)per household
B)per person
C)on average
D)the sum value
Q3) Two main principles in capitalistic economies are
A)ability and camaraderie.
B)supply and demand.
C)hunting and gathering.
D)mercantilism and trade.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 16: Geographies of Production and Consumption
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Q1) As a diversified multi-national corporation, German Bayer
A)has most of its production facilities in Germany and the U.S.
B)has factories spread mainly through Europe.
C)has facilities on every continent.
D)has offices and labs mainly only in New York City.
Q2) Just about the only country without a consumption oriented tourism industry is A)Russia.
B)North Korea.
C)Indonesia.
D)South Africa.
Q3) The example of Nike shoes shows
A)whole advertising worlds developed in order to enhance consumption.
B)a production system without heed to demand.
C)supply driven without the need of advertising.
D)none of the above.
Q4) By about 1900 the Anglo American manufacturing belt extended
A)from Boston to Washington, D.C.on the eastern seaboard.
B)from San Diego to San Francisco in central and southern California.
C)from Atlanta to Jacksonville in Georgia and Florida.
D)from the eastern seaboard through the Great Lakes.
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Chapter 17: Distribution and Transportation
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Q1) In transportation, a network is
A)usually applied only to computer Internet connections.
B)is a political composite of party supporters.
C)the total combination of nodes and links.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Which is the best example of an autarky?
A)Japan which often still is leery of the U.S.
B)Russia which has plenty of oil and natural gas
C)North Korea which trades very little with the outside world
D)China which is increasingly trading more and more internationally
Q3) Albert Gallatin
A)was the first U.S.politician to develop protectionist transport policies.
B)planned some of the first transport routes into the U.S.interior.
C)personally built major roads from California eastward.
D)all of the above.
Q4) In the National Highway system
A)on ramps and off ramps led to a limited access type of highway.
B)lower numbered highways were in the east while higher numbers in the west.
C)large bypass 'loops' were created often completely encircling urban centers.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 18: Development and Geography
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Q1) The region of the world that appears to have the highest rates of GDP growth is A)Europe.
B)North America.
C)Africa.
D)East Asia.
Q2) Third world countries are sometimes also called A)poor countries.
B)developing countries.
C)retailing countries.
D)less healthy countries.
Q3) Singapore, arguably Asia's newest 'tiger' is A)basically a city-state.
B)an example of a city developed from early port advantages.
C)a great example of taking relative location and moving into banking and finance.
D)all of the above.
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