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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cultural ecology studies _________ | the interactions between human societies and the physical environment |
| latitude and longitude may be used to determine a places'______ | absolute location |
| the nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of _______ | chain migration |
| political geographers consider the ________ area of the core area of United States | New York-Washington, D.C |
| ________ is linked to chlorofluorocarbons in spray cans, refrigerators, and plastic foam | ozone depletion |
| Every map projection has some degree of distortion because ________ | a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion |
| A country at the end of the demographic transition usually has ______ | low birth rates and death rates |
| The arguments that help explain why seventy-five percent of those employed in Export Processing Zones, such as maquiladoras, are woman are that ____________ | women are paid less then men and many employers consider women to be more dexterous than men |
| The country that the United States helped to create in the early twentieth century in order to facilitate oceanic commerce is ______ | Panama |
| A pilgrim to Varanasi in India is most likely to be a _____ | Hindu |
| Corn was first domesticated in ________ | Central Mexico |
| A correct statement about the major cites of the world is that __________ | most are located on rivers or seacoasts |
| green Revolution technology has resulted in _____________ in modern agriculture | the development of high yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas |
| MOst Latin American cities are focused on a ________ | central plaza |
| The pair of European countries that had the greatest number of African colonies in 1914 is ______ | Britain and France |
| A true fact about hunting and gathering as an activity is __________________ | it is pursued by less than one percent of contemporary human population |
| In the new global economy, and increasing proportion of influential financial decisions are being made in __________ | major corporate centers such as New York, London, and Tokyo |
| A fundamental difference between folk culture and popular culture is that folk culture __________________ | often sets a minority group apart from a region's general population |
| Today, most of the United States and Canadian population lives in _______ | metropolitan areas |
| According to the model, the road between _______ cities will have the highest volume of traffic | S and Q |
| The Daily Rag provides news to all cities in the region and wants to build a new distribution center. If The Daily Rag distributes its paper according to city size, __ city is best located for minimizing distribution costs | Q |
| Students in City Y have come up with a new flavor of ice cream. If their innovation spreads hierarchically, ___ city's residents will be last to try the new flavor | Z |
| In North America, ____ is a frequently consumed item and is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation | coffee |
| The multiple-nuclei model of city structure tends to be most applicable to __________ | newer, fast-growing cities |
| Economica activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and agriculture, are called _______ | primary economic activities |
| The saltbox-type house pictured above originated in ________ | New England and the Canadian Maritimes |
| All of the following experienced sharp, sustained economic growth in the early 1990's except ______ | Vietnam |
| It can be inferred from global patters of population growth that the country most likely to be in West Africa is _______ | Country lll |
| An example of an important physical site characteristic is a _____ | natural harbor |
| Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they ________ | were engaged in collection plant resources |
| A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in __________ | The Middle East |
| The 'why of where' refers to _______________ | the idea that the explanation of a spatial pattern is crucial |
| In the Canadian prairies, barns were first built with _________ | sod and thatch |
| Core-periphery models are generally based on the idea that _________ | sharp spatial contrasts in social and economic development exist between economic heartlands and outlying subordinate areas |
| _________ was not one of the five original urban hearth regions | France |
| The sex ration represented in the age-sex graph above for Country X is most likely the result of ____________ | a large guest-worker population |
| ________________ includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication | Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East |
| _________ is unique among Latin American countries in that its capital represents the concept of a forward capital | Brazil |
| _________________ has contributed most to the deindustrialization of regions like the English Midlands and the North American Manufacturing Belt | Competition from foreign imports |
| A student who lives in Minneapolis chooses to spend her spring break in Florida rather than in Jamaica because Florida is closer and plane fare is cheaper. This type of decision-making best illustrates the concept of _____________ | intervening opportunities |
| The number of functions in a central place is dependent on all of the following except the ___________________ | total number of central places in the urban system |
| Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to _________ | built environment |
| Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced ________________ | in the dry regions of Africa and Asia |
| ____________ is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thunen's model of agricultural land use | Extensive grain or stock rasing |
| Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included _______________ | productive agricultural land and defensible cites |
| _______ best represents the concept of the nation-state in its internal cultural-political make up and spacial organization | Japan |
| Grain raised in the United States is used today primarily as ___________ | livestock food |
| During the last quarter of the 20th century, the birthrate has fallen most significantly in __________ | China |
| __________ refers to the size and functional complexity of cities | Urban Hierarchy |
| A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it _________________________ | has a selected feature or uniformity |
| ________________ all correctly sequences the continuum from language family to dialect | Indo European, Germanic, English, Midland-Northern |
| The reason for the concentration of copper smelters, refineries and foundries close to Arizona's copper mines, is that copper production is a _____________ | bulk reducing industry |
| Contact zones between religions are most likely to be volatile when they are ____________________ | associated with competing ethno-national claims to territory |
| _________________ would help explain how scale of inquiry affects truth | Maps showing Michigan's population density by countries, and the United States population density by state |
| The flow lines on the map above most likely represent the movement of ______ | guest movement |
| Historically the growth of american suburbs was constrained by ___________ | limited transportation |
| Assuming a world population of 5.7 billion and an annual growth rate of 1.6 percent ______________ | 91,200,00 people will be added to the worlds population in the next year |
| Swahili in East Africa and English in Global commerce are examples of ________________ | lingua franca |
| _____________: is a true statement about classic models of city structure | The sector model is highly influenced by transportation patterns |
| In recent decades, all of the following have played a major role in the rapid growth of sunbelt cities of the United States, except __________ | climatic changes leading to colder Northern winters |
| All of the following are correct statements about time zones except _____________ | timezones were established to facilitate the planting and harvesting of crops |
| In the nineteenth and early 20th century the demographic transition in Europe was best characterized by _________ | urbanization and falling birthrates |
| __________ are best examples of central places with large hinterlands | Atlanta, Denver and Calgary |
| ____________ does not act as a cintrifical force for a state | linguistic homogeneity |
| United nations recognitions of a state's 'exclusive economic zones' allows the state to __________________ | claim national economic jurisdiction over two hundred nautical mile of water extending from the coast |
| In Latin America, data for employment in many large urban areas are most likely to be incomplete because __________________ | many people work in the informal sector |
| _______ is a distinctive aspect of population policy emphasized for the first time by the international community in the 1990's | women's empowerment |
| The clearing of tropical rain forests for agriculture frequently results in ___________ | a shift to animal raising |
| Contemporary manufacturing is characterized by ___________ | spacial desegregation of the production process |
| _____________ is positively correlated with gross domestic product 'GDP' per capita | Carbon Dioxide emission per capita |
| In the United States and Canada ______ is a real unit best approximates a city neighborhood in size | a census tract |
| French influence on land division in the United states and Canada resulted in a __________ | long-lot system |
| Today the greatest numbers of Urban dwellers is found in ___________ | Asia |
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