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midterm -2
Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Europe’s relative location: | is one of centrality within the land hemisphere |
| The North European Lowland: | is the most densley populated of europes landscapes regions |
| The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as: | local functional specialization |
| Von Thünen in his “Isolated State” argued that four rings of human activity would develop around the central town or city. The ____ [first, second, third, fourth] of these is: | a zone of intensive agriculture and dairying |
| The Industrial Revolution in Europe: | |
| Europe’s political revolution: | ended with the formation of the german state in the 1870's |
| Which of the following is the strongest example of a European nation-state? | poland |
| The three principles of spatial interaction are: | complementary, intervening opportunity, transferbility |
| A country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is known as the country’s ____ | primate city |
| Which of the following is not an example of European supranationalism? | the solidarity labor movement |
| Only the southern portion of which of the following islands was recently granted admission to the EU? | cyprus |
| The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as: | devolution |
| Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries? | muslims |
| Most foreign workers in Germany are of _________origin. | turkish |
| The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the: | the rhine |
| German reunification: | All of the above? |
| The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is: | france |
| The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located in: | brussels |
| The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is: | switzerland |
| Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the: | the north sea |
| The population of Northern Ireland: | |
| Northern Europe: | |
| Which Nordic European city serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city? | copenhagen |
| ___________ has more in common with Finland than its other neighboring states and is therefore included as part of Northern Europe | estonia |
| The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range? | pyrenees |
| Italy’s economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in: | po river valley |
| Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the: | ancona line |
| The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as: | catalonia |
| Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory: | gibralter |
| The Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is: | cyrus |
| The term Balkanization refers to: | |
| The Danube/Rhine River empties into which sea? | north sea |
| From the end of World War II until 1990, Eastern Europe was dominated by the: | soviet union |
| The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called: | kaliningrad |
| Which former Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Mensk (Minsk), is also called White Russia, and is still strongly linked to Moscow? | belarus |
| When a state seeks to acquire the neighboring territory that is home to ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its international border by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed: | irredentism |
| Bulgarians have felt close to the Russian population because: | the russians were responsible for driving the turks from the area |
| Which of the following is not a state created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia? | slovakia |
| An unusual aspect of Albania is: | a large muslim population |
| Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift? | pangea |
| A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n): | pandemic |
| The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that: | a pandemic moves through population, while endemic is just stable |
| Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of: | |
| Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence? | nigeria |
| Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence? | ethiopia |
| Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa? | |
| The great river of Southern Africa is the: | zambezi |
| A unique aspect of Madagascar is that: | rare plants rare animals |
| People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called: | colordes or afrikaners |
| The Boer War took place in: | south africa |
| The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by: | cronic water shortages |
| 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? | zimbabwe |
| The now-independent political entity that once was a German colony named South West Africa is today known as: | namibia |
| Cabinda is: | |
| Tourism, once a particularly important business in _______________, struggles to remain viable in the face of numerous challenges: | kenya |
| Dar es Salaam is the capital of: | tanzania |
| Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria? | kenya, tanzania, uganda |
| Which of the following is a lingua franca? | |
| Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians after World War I are: | rwanda and bruundi |
| Rwanda and Burundi: | |
| Which country has no dominant ethnic groups? | the congo |
| The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the: | hutus and tutsis |
| The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is: | gabon |
| The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is: | cameroon |
| Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa? | france and britain |
| The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is: | nigeria |
| The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is: | ghana |
| This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter’s in Rome: | ivory coast |
| Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves? | liberia |
| Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone? | the sahel |
| Most countries in the African Transition Zone have a ____ population in the north and a _____ population in the south. | muslim / non-muslim |
| Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa? | sudan, eritrea, ethiopia, kenya, somalia |
| This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea. | djibouti |
| Which of the following countries is not included in the N Africa/SW Asia realm? | pakistan |
| _____ is the name for the land between the rivers. | mesopotamia |
| Hydraulic civilization theory holds that: | cities were able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands hold power over the cities. |
| Shi’ite/Sunni Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of: | iran |
| About 85 percent of Muslims consider themselves: | sunni |
| The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the: | ottoman |
| Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer? | turkey |
| The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm contains about __________ percent of the world’s oil reserves. | 65 |
| The city of __________ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile, and serves as the capital of __________. | khartoum/sudan |
| The Aswan High Dam is located on the: | nile river |
| The upstream country that could control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt is: | sudan |
| Darfur Province, the recent scene of a massive ethnic cleansing, is located in the central-west of: | sudan |
| Which of the following is not located within the Maghreb region? | the mecca |
| The western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco are collectively called: | the maghreb |
| Which of the following oil producers does not border the Persian Gulf? | libya |
| The major mountain range in North Africa is the: | zagros |
| The North African exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are associated with which country? | spain |
| Which North African country fought a bitter war of liberation against the French? | algeria |
| This country is the smallest in North Africa, but has the highest GNI per capita in North Africa. | tunisia |
| Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq? | euphrates |
| The ______ [Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians] have lost which piece of territory to the Israelis? | golan |
| Jordan has absorbed large numbers of: | palestinians |
| Which of the following statements about Lebanon is false? | all of various religious denominations have come to an accomodation that has provided peace in the country for the past 5 decades |
| The modern state of Israel was created in: | 1948 |
| Israel regards which city as its capital? | jerusalem |
| The state of Israel: | was created from territory that was formerly administered by the british |
| Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Israel? | iran |
| From 1949 until 1967, West Jerusalem was controlled by | israel |
| The largest oil reserves in the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm are located in: | saudi arabia |
| Which of the following countries is not located on the Arabian Peninsula? | libya |
| The United Arab Emirates includes the oil-rich sheikhdom known as: | abu-dhabi |
| The choke point known as the ____________ lies between Yemen and Djibouti. | bab el mandeb |
| The Ottoman Empire was headquartered in the city of: | constantinpole |
| Kemal Atatürk is most closely identified with the city of: | ankara |
| Turkey’s application for membership in the EU will be helped by all but which of the following? | ceding of crete to greece |
| Iran differs from most of the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm in that: | it is dominantly shiite |
| Which of the following is not one of the republics of Turkestan? | azerbajan |
| The body of water devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes is the | aral sea |
| Which of the following republics of Turkestan contains an ethnic majority of Persian origin? | tajikistan |
| The most important ethnic group in Afghanistan is the: | pathans |
| _______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically. | Germany |
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