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geography T/F questions

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show process of relocation, forced usually by push/pull factors - economics, war, famine, environment  
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show TRUE  
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show TRUE  
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The demographic transition model is most applicable to the presently developed nations   show
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show FALSE  
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show 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   show
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Australopithecus was discovered in Australia so how it got to Africa is a big mystery   show
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Only since the start of the Holocene period/ humanity's technology   show
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The Neolithic revolution started in Mesopotamia   show
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show FALSE - dramatic increase occurred during the Industrial revolution  
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show 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   show
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The next stage of development after the Neolithic was the centralization of power into states as it occurred in Mesopotamia   show
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show TRUE  
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Homo habilis is a more recent ancestor than Australopithecus and could speak and use tools   show
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show 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   show
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show TRUE  
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show FALSE - duh  
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show FALSE  
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show TRUE  
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There are 2 types of regions - formal and functional   show
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The geographers concept of a region is similar to a historians concept of a period   show
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show TRUE  
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show FALSE - duh  
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show TRUE  
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Geographers all not very interested in how places and things on earth are related spatially   show
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show TRUE  
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The fact that city of Chicago has great centrality has little to do with growth   show
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The absolute location of a place on earth tells us little about its climate by itself   show
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show 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   show
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show TRUE  
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DIS is an old system of storing geographical information that was helpful to Columbus   show
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A large scale map portrays only a small portion of the earth but in considerable detail   show
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During the last 600,000 years warm periods have predominated the earth's climate   show
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There are 2 kinds of change that can infringe on the environment - natural and anthropogenic   show
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The earth's environment almost never changes in cycles   show
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There is some evidence that past climate changes have at least in part been associated with periods of crustal movement   show
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Human beings first migrated into the Americas when the continents of Africa and North America were touching each other   show
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All living things have habitation niches   show
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show FALSE  
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