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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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