Barrons Practice Test 2
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- Graph 4
- Which of the graphs depicts Malthus' hypothesis regarding food production? (Picture)
- CIA
- does not represent an international organization.
- Topographical maps
- Isolines are common on which of the following?
- 'goods that are expensive to transport and spoil quickly must be located closer to the market.
- The von Thunen model describes agricultural activity as it takes place in relation to the market; a representative statement is that
- Indo-European
- The language family spoken by most people on earth today is
- Figure B
- Which of these figures demonstrates the largest dependency ratio?
- squatter settlements
- These makeshift neighborhoods, constructed of scrap materials, are dound in all of the worl'd largest peripheral cities
- one-third the population of the country's largest city.
- According to the rank-size rule, a city that has a rank of three would contain
- Globalization
- does not encourage economic development across the entire globe
- baby boom cohort
- If both you and your parents grew up in the U.S., and your dad fought in WWII, you are probably in the
- Plantation farming
- doesn't represent an extensive commercial agricultural activity.
- Palestine
- Which of the following is an example of a nation without a state?
- intensive-subsistence agriculture
- Rice paddies in Asia most likely represent
- Trail of Tears
- Map-
- Diaspora
- A Pakistani man moves his entire family to a predominantly Pakistani neighborhood in London where he and his community maintain many of their cultural traditions, an example of
- Ancillary activities
- Economic activities that increase and thereby benefit from agglomerations in particular regions are called
- China, India, Peru, and Mexico.
- Hearth regions of early agriculture included present-day
- anywhere you want in between the pine forest and the market
- To minimize transportation costs, you put your factory
- Islam.
- Mecca represents the geographical focal point of
- Pop culture, folk culture
- Elements of --- change rapidly over time, but not space, whereas elements of --- change very little over time, but dramatically over space
- A and C.
- Transnational corporations generally locate facilities outside of national boundaries to take advantage of both
- State:Country
- represents a synonymous relationship
- a revitalising force against urban decay
- Gentrification can be described as,
- all of the aboe
- Multinational corporations take advantage of geographic differences in
- 'Literacy rates vary little between developed and developing nations'
- is a not descriptive statement of spatial patterns of literacy.
- Agglomeration
- Map-
- Megalopolis
- When several large urban areas essentially merge together to form an even larger urban complex, it's called a
- New York, London, and Tokyo
- The 3 world cities that exercise the greatest degree of global economic dominance are
- Mediterranean agriculture
- Map-
- lingua franca
- Two mountain towns with unique languages develop a new simple language for trade that both groups understand. This is called a
- provides a comprehensible and limited view of a phenomenon.
- A model is useful in that it
- primary activities
- In the pre-industrial phase of urban settlement in the US, the economy was dominated by
- Prorupted
- Picture-
- environmental determinism
- Huntington promoted in his textbooks the idea that cultural changes were strongly influenced by climatic change, the philosophy of
- gerrymandering
- When districts are drawn specifically to favor a particular political party or voting block, it is called
- Lake Michigan
- is not an example of a frontier
- automobile assembler
- An example of a basic economic occupation is an
- topsoil loss
- Overgrazing, deforestation, and agricultural mismanagement are all significant causes of
- All of the above
- Demographic information from the US Census affects the political process by
- all of the above
- In a spatial context, multinational corporations tend to
- pastoralism
- Nomadic herding is associated with
- Medieval cities
- Many European cities characterized by narrow winding streets and an ornate church inherited their organization from
- primary sector
- Developing countries generally demonstrate dominance in the
- populations are extremely large
- According to the gravity model, distance may not greatly affect level of interaction if
- All of the above
- help a city fight urban sprawl
- nomadic pastoralism that is seasonal
- The term "transhumance" refers to
- supranational organization
- The UN is a
- dialects
- The italian language varies significantly between milan, rome, naples, and palermo. these varieties are examples of
- Industrial Output
- Total fertility rate is not closely correlated with
- export-processing zones
- Mexico's maquiladoras are located within
- 2013
- According to the UN Population division, world population will reach 7 billion by
- a framework for understanding the legibility of urban environments.
- Kevin Lynch's book has had a dramatic impact on urban planners as it provided
- All of the above
- could qualify as a barrier to spatial diffusion
- Scale
- The ratio between the distance on a map and distance on the Earth's surface is called the
- similarities between places can be explained using universal laws.
- The nomothetic view of geography suggests that
- cultural hearth.
- The center and place of origin of a cultural tradition is called a
- what someone believes and thinks is important about a place.
- A cognitive map tells us
- the period of fallow is too short for proper nutrient regeneration
- Swidden agriculture can have negative environmental impacts if
- A, B, and C
- Globalization involves
- Economic recession
- would not be characterized as a pull factor in a migration decision.
- frontiers
- The weakly defined political boundary regions of Antarctica and the Amazon Basin are examples of
- Salinization
- often results from irrigation use in arid environments
- The Sun Belt
- Which of the following US regions has seen the most population growth since 1945?
- they are anthropocentric and only focus on future human needs.
- A problematic characteristic of most definitions of sustainable development is that
- It affects only the U.S. as one of the world's major agricultural producers.
- The following statement is not an accurate description of agribusiness
- topological space
- The degree of connectedness between places is referred to as
- Multiple-nuclei model
- Based on this map of Los Angeles, which urban model does it most closely correspond to? (Picture)
- cultural complex
- Religious practices, languages, and dietary preferences, when combines, form a
- 'people frequently travel far for basic necessities'
- This statement is false:
- death rates increase, then birth rates increase, and population levels off.
- The demographic transition theory states that, as a nation develops economically
- Literacy Rates
- Map-
- Chicago
- An example of a city that conforms to the concentric zone model of urban growth is Chicago.
- urban sprawl
- Increased air pollution, segregation, habitat destruction, inner-city decay, and loss of productive farmlands are all caused by
- Universalizing religion
- actively seek new members or believers
- all of the above
- The Green Revolution included