GEOG 101 Week 4 Midterm Exam Answers
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The term that is used to indicate decreasing levels of spatial interactions with increasing distances is:
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Central America, as defined by geographers, is:
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The rebellion in Chiapas was designed to occur at the same time as:
B. Christmas
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The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is:
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The leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland is located in:
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The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:
D. there is no difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease
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A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a ____ market.
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Which of the following is landlocked?
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Which of the following is not a state created by the devolution of former Yugoslavia?
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Italy’s economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:
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Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
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Which of the following statements is false?
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The Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with:
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These two cities act as Russian ports facing the Barents Sea in the north.
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The Kuzbas region:
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Which of the following cities is an oil center in the Azerbaijan?
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In South America, the richest 20% of the population control _____ of the wealth.
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Question 18 (Worth 1 points)
The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper middle income economy is:
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Question 19 (Worth 1 points)
The Brazilian subregion with the most diversity in its European population is the:
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The __________ form(s) the eastern limit of the Russian Core:
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Question 21 (Worth 1 points)
In which of the following countries did the Communist Chinese build the Tan-Zam Railway?
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The North American region which is the largest and the least densely settled is the:
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Which of the following is one of the world’s most productive post-industrial complexes?
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From the end of World War II until the 1990s, Eastern Europe was dominated by the:
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The island contested between Greece and Turkey is:
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Which of the following is the smallest Central American country in terms of population?
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Which of the following is a natural gas producing state?
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Question 28 (Worth 1 points)
Civil war in which of the following led to the change in the government of The Congo?
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Question 29 (Worth 1 points)
The vegetation of coniferous forest at the southern end of the treeless plains is known as:
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Question 30 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following countries is not in The African Transition Zone?
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The North American region which has undergone the most change in recent years is:
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A growth pole is:
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Question 33 (Worth 1 points)
The territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is:
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Question 34 (Worth 1 points)
Slovakia has a large _______ minority.
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The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is:
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Question 36 (Worth 1 points)
The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:
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Question 37 (Worth 1 points)
Quebec has:
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Question 38 (Worth 1 points)
In which country did a major slave rebellion take place?
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Question 39 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is not one of the four Motors of Europe?
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Question 40 (Worth 1 points)
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n):
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Question 41 (Worth 1 points)
As a result of U.S. interest in a Panama Canal during the early 20th century:
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The capital of the Chechen Republic is:
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The geopolitical theory that indicates that the rimland is the key to control of the world was forwarded by:
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Identify the incorrect association.
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_________ is the city with the most Asians in North America.
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The Peru (Humboldt) Current is:
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Which former Soviet Republic, with its capital at Mensk, is also called White Russia, and is still strongly linked to Moscow?
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The Transcaucasian area includes all of the following except:
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Question 49 (Worth 1 points)
The term _________ refers to a huge state farm and literally means “a grain and meat factory” in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak.
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Question 50 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following cities is located in Italy’s core area?
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The Central American country where English is spoken, but where Spanish will eventually become the predominant language is:
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Question 52 (Worth 1 points)
Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?
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Question 53 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following jobs belongs to the tertiary sector of the American economy?
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The rings of slums surrounding South America’s large cities are known as:
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Question 55 (Worth 1 points)
This former Soviet Republic contains the oil city of Baki (Baku) and its people have ethnic affinities with Iran. Recently, the Armenian population of this area became refugees.
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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Question 57 (Worth 1 points)
An interesting aspect of Madagascar is that:
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The now-independent political entity that was called South West Africa is today renamed:
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Japanese investment in Russia’s Far East has been held up by a dispute over:
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The two major language groups in Canada are:
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The North Slope of Alaska contains large fields of:
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Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence?
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This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait leading into the Red Sea
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The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:
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Which of the following states has most of its territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiographic province?
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Which of the following is not an important manufacturing region of the Soviet Union?
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Question 67 (Worth 1 points)
Your textbook identifies Eastern Europe as a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing, called a:
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Question 68 (Worth 1 points)
When a state seeks to acquire the ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its boundary by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed:
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Question 69 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following associations is incorrect?
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Question 70 (Worth 1 points)
_______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically.
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Central America’s poorest country is:
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The three-pronged foundation of the Southwest is:
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The Autonomous Community in eastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as:
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The Soviet Union consisted of _____________ Soviet Socialist Republics.
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An industry identified in your textbook as one with mixed blessing for Middle America is:
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Which republic has Serb, Croat and Muslim populations that were finally brought together in 1995 at a US-run peace conference?
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The Panama Canal was opened in ________.
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In 1982, Argentina fought a war with Britain over the:
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Canada’s large cluster of Francophones in New Brunswick are known as:
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Which country has no dominant ethnic groups?
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Which city contains the United States’ largest cluster of Asian ethnics?
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The largest ethnic minority in Ukraine is:
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The archipelago to the north of Cuba that is a leading tourist destination is:
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Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where many whites have remained even after the white minority government was replaced?
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Which South American “culture sphere” resembles the Middle American “Rimland?”
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Which of the following Soviet programs was most successful?
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The country of Guyana:
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This Russian republic contains 30 distinct nationalities, is located near the Chechen Republic, and is dominated by agriculture and oil:
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Brazil’s Northeast:
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An industrial area east of the Kuzbas is centered around:
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Which two colonial powers were principally involved in West Africa?
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Bulgarians have felt close to the Russian population because:
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In the Russian revolution of 1917:
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Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory:
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The name Peron is associated with which country?
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The final stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of:
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Question 97 (Worth 1 points)
According to Japanese economist Ohmae, a regional state is:
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Question 98 (Worth 1 points)
Northern New England is tied culturally and economically to:
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Question 99 (Worth 1 points)
The majority of Russia falls within the humid cold climate region. In the Köppen-Geiger classification scheme, this is signified by the letter:
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Question 100 (Worth 1 points)
Which city is not located within the American Manufacturing Belt (the Continental Core)?
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