World Regional Geography Practice Exam
Course Introduction
World Regional Geography explores the diverse physical environments, cultural landscapes, and economic systems of major world regions. Students will examine how natural resources, climate, political boundaries, and social factors shape the development and interactions of regions across the globe. The course emphasizes spatial thinking and the use of maps to analyze patterns of human and environmental change, global interdependence, and regional challenges in a rapidly changing world.
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Contemporary Human Geography 2nd Edition by James M. Rubenstein
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Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically
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Q1) If there were no maps,could geography exist as a discipline? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes, geography could still exist as a discipline even without maps. While maps are a valuable tool for visualizing and understanding spatial relationships, geography is ultimately about the study of the Earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. Geography encompasses a wide range of topics including physical geography, human geography, environmental geography, and more. These topics can be studied and understood through various methods such as fieldwork, remote sensing, and geographic information systems (GIS), in addition to maps. Therefore, while maps are a useful tool for geography, the discipline could still exist and thrive without them.
Q2) The emergency response to Hurricane Katrina may have been incompetent and slow because
A) no one was aware of the scale of the disaster until months later.
B) other disasters occurred at the same time.
C) the victims lacked political and economic power.
D) the Netherlands was not prepared for the level of devastation created by the hurricane.
E) hurricanes had never created damage before.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Population
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Q1) The world's most populous country is
A) China.
B) India.
C) the United States.
D) Russia.
E) Europe.
Answer: A
Q2) To calculate a country's dependency ratio,one needs to know the country's population and
A) the number of children still receiving financial support from their parents.
B) the number of people who are actively looking for work but are unable to find it.
C) all of a country's population younger than age 15 or older than age 64.
D) the number younger than age 15.
E) the number older than age 64.
Answer: C
Q3) Most population growth is presently concentrated in more developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Migration
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Q1) Russia and Indonesia have both adopted policies to encourage migration to less-populated areas of each country.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted
A) women are more likely to migrate than men.
B) long migration distances are more likely than short.
C) migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.
D) intraregional migration is more important than interregional.
E) migrants move most frequently for economic reasons.
Answer: C
Q3) Opposition to immigration in the United States coincided with A) the majority of immigrants no longer arriving from Europe.
B) increased tensions over the Vietnam war.
C) decreased legal migration.
D) the economic boom of the 1990s.
E) large numbers of refugees moving into the country.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture
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Q1) A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
A) Judaism and Islam.
B) Judaism and Buddhism.
C) Christianity and Buddhism.
D) Christianity and Hinduism.
E) Islam and Hinduism.
Q2) Adoption of Western popular culture seldom results in the elimination of traditional folk culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a A) folk culture.
B) habit.
C) popular culture.
D) taboo.
E) tariff.
Q4) Although folk cultures have the same process of origin as popular culture,they have a more limited process of diffusion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Language
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Q1) Germanic invaders of England included which tribe?
A) Angles
B) Saxons
C) Jutes
D) Normans
E) All of these groups except Normans.
Q2) The Flemings and Walloons speak languages belonging to different
A) dialects.
B) language branches.
C) language families.
D) language groups.
E) language sects.
Q3) Russian is part of what language branch?
A) Balto-Slavic
B) Germanic
C) Indo-Iranian
D) Romance
E) Altaic
Q4) How may have people from Anatolia been important to the geography of language?
Q5) How do we know that all Indo-European languages have a common ancestor?
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Chapter 6: Religion
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Q1) Christianity has the most widespread geographic distribution of any religion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The largest concentration of Eastern Orthodox Christians is in Eastern Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The conflict in Northern Ireland is geographically represented by
A) spatial segregation of religious groups in the capital.
B) the physical landscape creating a division from southern Ireland.
C) long barriers and police checkpoints.
D) street signs in two languages, depending on the dominance of each language.
E) the creation of a demilitarized zone along the border.
Q4) Mahayana is one of the largest branches of Buddhism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare the impact of Christianity and Islam on the landscape,especially their holy sites.
Q6) Holy sites in Buddhism are associated with important events in Buddha's life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Ethnicity
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Q1) Which of the following ethnic groups does not share the nationality of the others?
A) English
B) Normans
C) Welsh
D) Scots
E) Northern Irish
Q2) Examining this map of Bosnia & Herzegovina reveals
A) Bosnia & Herzegovina today is a very unstable country.
B) Croats face daily discrimination.
C) ethnic cleansing removed many Bosnian Muslims.
D) Bosnians and Croats united against Serbs.
E) the greatest conflict was over Kosovo, which is now independent.
Q3) Balkanization refers to
A) the creation of nation-states in southeastern Europe.
B) the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities.
C) a small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into states.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) religions splintering into opposing groups.
Q4) How is ethnicity different from nationality?
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Chapter 8: Political Geography
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Q1) South Africa is a good example of a landlocked state.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Korea is a good example of a(n)
A) sovereign state.
B) nation-state.
C) ethnicity divided between more than one state.
D) colony.
E) patron-state.
Q3) The world is becoming more democratic through
A) the replacement of monarchies with elected governments.
B) increased participation from universal rights to vote and serve in government.
C) the diffusion of democratic governance from democracies in Europe and North America.
D) All of these are reasons the world is becoming more democratic.
E) None of these are reasons the world is becoming more democratic.
Q4) Taiwan is a member of the United Nations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Development
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Q1) What is fair trade and what does it hope to achieve?
Q2) To promote the international trade development model,most countries have joined the ________.
A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B) The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
C) World Trade Organization (WTO).
D) The United Nations (UN)
E) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
Q3) Which of the following regions spends more money on health care per capita?
A) Sub-Saharan Africa
B) South Asia
C) Southeast Asia
D) Southwest Asia
E) Latin America
Q4) Which of the following is one of the main criticisms against the WTO?
A) that it infringes on the sovereignty of countries
B) that it is too big
C) that it favors the East over the West
D) that it gives too much power to small countries
E) that decisions take too long to be delivered
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Chapter 10: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) Hunters and gatherers probably began practicing agriculture because of A) environmental factors.
B) cultural factors.
C) the Industrial Revolution.
D) crop hearths were discovered.
E) a combination of environmental and cultural factors.
Q2) Given that the world's fisheries are fully exploited or overfished,explain why fish remains a relatively small part of the human diet.
Q3) The largest use of land near the Equator is
A) intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant agriculture.
B) intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant agriculture.
C) pastoral nomadism.
D) plantation agriculture.
E) shifting cultivation.
Q4) Prior to the invention of agriculture,how did most people obtain their food?
Q5) Although plantation agriculture is found in developing countries,it is not a form of subsistence agriculture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Industry
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Q1) A ________ is one in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a high percentage of expenses.
A) labor-friendly workplace
B) labor-intensive industry
C) profit-sharing industry
D) working-class industry
E) well-run industry
Q2) The average annual wage paid to male workers exceeds ________ in most developed countries,compared to less than ________ in most African countries.
A) $75,000;$10,000
B) $10,000;$5,000
C) $30,000;$5,000
D) $5,000;$2,000
E) $5,000;$550
Q3) Carmakers' assembly plants account for only around 30 percent of the value of the vehicles that bear their names.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How has the production of cars changed in the last 50 years?
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Chapter 12: Services and Settlements
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Q1) Which of the following is most relevant to the concept of threshold?
A) A department store has more than 50 employees.
B) A survey reveals that people are prepared to drive a 30 minutes to get to a department store.
C) A department store typically needs roughly 25,000 people living within a 15-minute radius.
D) A department store only carries female products.
E) A drugstore has a loyalty card that is extremely generous.
Q2) What is the market area of a service and why is that important?
Q3) According to Demographia,how many cities in the world today have a population of at least 20 million?
A) 4
B) 8
C) 10
D) 15
E) 20
Q4) The clustered linear rural settlement consists of a central open space surrounded by structures.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Urban Patterns
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Q1) Before the advent of streetcars,commuter trains,and subways,the growth of suburbs was ________.
A) constrained by poor transportation
B) accelerated by excellent transportation
C) not affected by the lack of transportation
D) limited by the laws governing building new side streets
E) accelerated by the lack of rules involving the construction of side roads
Q2) Which of the following is most likely to be found in the second ring of a city in the concentric model?
A) poor-quality housing
B) affluent neighborhoods
C) city hall
D) universities
E) none of the above
Q3) In the United States,inner rings are more likely to contain owner-occupied detached houses for families,whereas the outer rings are more likely to contain rented apartments for individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare colonial and post-colonial Latin American cities.
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Chapter 14: Resource Issues
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Q1) The United Nations concept of sustainable development links what three goals?
Q2) Pollution occurs if
A) there is more waste than a resource can tolerate.
B) there is less waste than environmental capacity.
C) recycling occurs.
D) waste is thrown away.
E) a regulation is passed.
Q3) The power source with the lowest environmental impact is A) hydroelectric.
B) nuclear.
C) solar.
D) wind.
Q4) What is the difference between a proven reserve and a potential reserve?
Q5) Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere 1,000 years ago were higher than they are now.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Americans recycle more solid waste than they throw away.
A)True
B)False
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