Geography of the World Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
Geography of the World explores the physical and human landscapes that define our planet, examining the interaction between natural environments and human societies across continents and regions. The course covers key topics such as climate zones, landforms, population distribution, cultural diversity, economic systems, and global issues like migration and environmental change. Students will develop spatial thinking skills by analyzing maps, case studies, and global patterns, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the worlds geographical diversity and the interdependence of regions in an increasingly interconnected world.
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The World Today Concepts and Regions in Geography 7th Edition by Jan Nijman
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Topical and systematic geography are synonymous.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A) China now has more people living in cities than in rural areas.
B) East Asia's population is projected to remain larger than South Asia's for the rest of this century.
C) The eastern North American population cluster is only about one-fourth the size of Europe's.
D) The world's three largest population clusters are all located on the Eurasian landmass. E) Europe's population is predominantly urban.
Answer: B
Q3) Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the Earth's surface.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The North American Realm
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Q1) Since the 1960s,the advent of widespread ___ __________ helped speed the population boom of the Sunbelt States of the U.S.southern tier.
Answer: air-conditioning
Q2) Since the 1970s the population center of gravity in the United States has not changed.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Which U.S.State contains the largest number of Asian Americans?
A) Texas
B) New York
C) Illinois
D) Alaska
E) California Answer: E
Q4) Alaska is located in the Western Frontier region.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Middle American Realm
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Q1) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses is called an isthmus.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Yucatán Peninsula protrudes into the Pacific Ocean.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Central American country that was a British colony until 1981,but where Spanish is becoming the predominant language,is ______________.
A) Jamaica
B) Guatemala
C) Nicaragua
D) Trinidad
E) Belize
Answer: E
Q4) The island of Hispaniola contains both Haiti and Dominica.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The South American Realm
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Q1) Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital,Santiago.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Middle Chile is a rugged,fjorded region characterized by extreme aridity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A moderating influence on the Altiplano's climate is _______________.
A) Lake Titicaca
B) the Atlantic Ocean
C) the Pacific Ocean
D) the Peru Current
E) winds blowing across the Andes from the Amazon Basin
Q4) As in the Netherlands,Bolivia's capital city functions are divided between two administrative headquarters.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The sertão is located in Brazil's Northeast subregion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The European Realm
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Q1) __________ forces divide a nation.
A) Situational
B) Centripetal
C) Centrifugal
D) Charismatic
E) Infrastructural
Q2) Which of the following cities is NOT part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
A) Brussels
B) Milan
C) Stuttgart
D) Barcelona
E) Lyon
Q3) Northern England,well endowed with major industrial areas,is the United Kingdom's most affluent subregion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Regionally,Iceland is a part of Northern Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q5) is Russia's exclave in Europe.
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Chapter 6: The Russia-Central Asia Realm
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Q1) Russia's core area ____________.
A) includes the great cities of the Far East
B) centers on St. Petersburg and includes such urban places as Vladivostok and Kiev
C) incorporates the Central Industrial Region, at the heart of which lies the city of Moscow
D) has now shifted eastward into Siberia beyond the Urals
E) extends into recently absorbed Eastern Europe and now includes Poland and Hungary
Q2) The USSR disintegrated in the year ___.
Q3) The Transcaucasian Transition Zone includes all of the following except
A) Georgia
B) Armenia
C) Azerbaijan
D) Nagorno-Karabakh
E) Kyrgyzstan
Q4) Chechnya is not a sovereign nation but an ethnic republic of Russia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The North African-Southwest Asian Realm
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Q1) The largest oil reserves in the NASWA realm underlie _______________.
A) Israel
B) Libya
C) Kuwait
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Egypt
Q2) The ancient capital of Turkey was Ankara.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The wealth from oil income has been distributed evenly among the different subregions of the Middle East.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Kemal Atatürk was chiefly responsible for moving Turkey's capital from the interior Anatolian Plateau to the southern Mediterranean coast.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "choke point" of the southern Persian Gulf is the Strait of _________.
Q6) Islam's holiest city,to which a Muslim must make at least one pilgrimage,is ___.
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Chapter 8: The Subsaharan African Realm
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Q1) Land tenure refers to _______________.
A) the balance between population and land resources
B) the sustainable development level of a tract of land
C) the way people own, occupy, and use land
D) the time period farmers contractually own land
E) a form of subsistence farming
Q2) 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?
A) Botswana
B) Cameroon
C) Zimbabwe
D) Zambia
E) Tanzania
Q3) The core area of Zimbabwe is the mineral-rich Great Dyke.
A)True
B)False
Q4) South Africa's Zulu nation is clustered in the Western Cape Province.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Nigeria's dominant export commodity is ___.
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Chapter 9: The South Asian Realm
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Q1) Dominant crops in India's agricultural system include all but which of the following?
A) wheat
B) soybeans
C) rice
D) millet
E) chickpeas
Q2) Ethnically,the majority of Sri Lanka's people are Hindus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the second stage of the demographic transition,the overall population expands.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The two countries of South Asia's Mountainous North are ___________.
A) Sri Lanka and Ceylon
B) Pakistan and Bangladesh
C) Nepal and Bhutan
D) Asom and Punjab
E) Jammu and Kashmir
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Chapter 10: The East Asian Realm
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Q1) The Huang He _______________.
A) drains the Xi/Pearl River Basin
B) flows into the South China Sea
C) almost encircles the Ordos Desert
D) flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward its mouth at Shanghai
E) originates in the Sichuan Basin
Q2) The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was _______________.
A) the defeat of North Korea, which was returned to the control of Japan
B) victory for the South, which soon became communist
C) a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country
D) a short pause, followed by renewed war that still drags on to this day
E) the unification of the two Koreas
Q3) Guangdong Province faces the _________________.
A) Yellow Sea
B) Indian Ocean
C) Bohai Gulf
D) East Sea (Sea of Japan)
E) South China Sea
Q4) The leader named________________guided China into a new economic era following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
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Chapter 11: The Southeast Asian Realm
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Q1) The small oil-rich Islamic country of Insular Southeast Asia is ______________
A) Kalimantan
B) Papua
C) Brunei
D) Sulawesi
E) East Timor
Q2) The now-ended policy of the Indonesian government to induce Jawanese to migrate to other islands was called: ___________________.
A) diversity-in-unity development
B) transmigration
C) transculturation
D) Jawanization
E) ethnic cleansing
Q3) Which country does NOT border Vietnam?
A) Laos
B) Thailand
C) Cambodia
D) the People's Republic of China
E) None of the above
Q4) The world's most populous Islamic country is ___.
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Chapter 12: The Austral Realm
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Q1) New Zealand is located about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Australia's plants and animals are closely related to those of Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The northern boundary of the Southern Ocean is called the ___ Convergence.
Q4) New Zealand's largest ethnic minority group,whose roots are Polynesian,call themselves the ______________.
A) Aboriginals
B) Maori
C) Kiwi
D) Austral Indians
E) South Islanders
Q5) The term Austral means ___.
Q6) Australia's Aboriginal population totals about 2 percent of its total population.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The largest urban area in New Zealand is centered on the city of ___________
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Chapter 13: Pacific Realm and Polar Futures
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Q1) Pie-shaped best describes the cartographic form of national territorial claims that have been made in Antarctica.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Exclusive Economic Zones are always less extensive than territorial seas.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which country temporarily withdrew from UNCLOS as an indirect result of the independence of East Timor?
A) Australia
B) Indonesia
C) New Guinea
D) East Timor
E) New Zealand
Q4) Establishment of EEZs greatly diminished the overall extent of the so-called "high seas".
A)True
B)False
Q5) The capital of Papua New Guinea is ____________
Q6) The U.S.state that is located in the Pacific Realm is ___.
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