geography T/F questions
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Migration | process of relocation, forced usually by push/pull factors - economics, war, famine, environment
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By the middle of the 21st century, India is projected to have a larger population than China | TRUE
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Most of North America's population lies outside of the east coast urban area | TRUE
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The demographic transition model is most applicable to the presently developed nations | FALSE - is occurring in developing countries (high population growth rate)
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Population distributions are more greatly affected by topography than by climate | FALSE
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The clearest relationship between population distribution and environmental factors is that populations are generally low in the worlds cold and dry areas | TRUE
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Many countries with high populations have large uninhabited areas which they could move people to in order to reduce their population problems | FALSE - no one would live in the Gobi Desert
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Australopithecus was discovered in Australia so how it got to Africa is a big mystery | FALSE - originated in Africa
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Only since the start of the Holocene period/ humanity's technology | TRUE
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The Neolithic revolution started in Mesopotamia | TRUE
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The least important development in the Neolithic was the dramatic increase in the human population | FALSE - dramatic increase occurred during the Industrial revolution
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Warming/cooling periods of the Earth question | TRUE
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The distribution of a country's population isn't important to geographers because it doesn't tell us much about the population | FALSE - duh
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The next stage of development after the Neolithic was the centralization of power into states as it occurred in Mesopotamia | TRUE
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The domestication of stuff marks the start of the Neolithic revolution | TRUE
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Homo habilis is a more recent ancestor than Australopithecus and could speak and use tools | TRUE
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The location of Chicago on the shore of the Great Lakes has little to do with its relative location | FALSE - duh
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It is often possible to study a particular place on earth without having to deal with the natural environment in which it exists | FALSE - duh
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The present geological period is called the Holocene | TRUE
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Humanity has had little impact on the environment until a few hundred years ago | FALSE - duh
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All of the near east has been semi desert | FALSE
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There are several properties to regions and area is one of them | TRUE
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There are 2 types of regions - formal and functional | TRUE
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The geographers concept of a region is similar to a historians concept of a period | TRUE?
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All regions are to some extent in abstraction | TRUE
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The earth has changed very little since it was first formed about 4.5 billion years ago | FALSE - duh
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About 10% of the earth's land surface today is covered with ice | TRUE
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Geographers all not very interested in how places and things on earth are related spatially | FALSE - duh
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A map is a geographic representation of any area on which only selected data are shown | TRUE
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The fact that city of Chicago has great centrality has little to do with growth | FALSE
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The absolute location of a place on earth tells us little about its climate by itself | TRUE
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An important facet of a place is its relative location | TRUE
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Iso-lines are lines connecting areas of equal value | TRUE
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The distribution, location and pattern of places and things on the earth are of little interest to the discipline of geography | FALSE - duh
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All maps are to some degree and varying degree in error | TRUE
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DIS is an old system of storing geographical information that was helpful to Columbus | FALSE - duh
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A large scale map portrays only a small portion of the earth but in considerable detail | TRUE
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During the last 600,000 years warm periods have predominated the earth's climate | FALSE - long cold periods and short warm
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There are 2 kinds of change that can infringe on the environment - natural and anthropogenic | TRUE
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The earth's environment almost never changes in cycles | FALSE - duh
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There is some evidence that past climate changes have at least in part been associated with periods of crustal movement | TRUE
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Human beings first migrated into the Americas when the continents of Africa and North America were touching each other | FALSE
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All living things have habitation niches | TRUE
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The climate of Africa was untouched by the cooling which brought on the great ice sheets of Eurasia and North America | FALSE
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