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Which continent has the highest overall fertility rate?


A) South America
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) Europe

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Who was Thomas Malthus?


A) A British scholar who made the idea of paying rent popular.
B) A pastor who was greatly influential in the British economy.
C) A British scholar who worried that rampant population growth would decrease the possibility of moving toward a utopian society.
D) All of the above

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In terms of social geography, what is the correct term for differences that are based upon ethnic variations between different cultures or nations?


A) Race
B) Class
C) Nationality
D) Ethnicity

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What is the correct term for the point in the urban landscape with the highest real estate prices?


A) Breaking point
B) Peak land-value intersection
C) Gold district
D) Downtown

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In what state is the geographical center of the 48 contiguous United States, otherwise known as the centroid?


A) South Dakota
B) Oklahoma
C) Missouri
D) Kansas

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Can United Kingdom (Great Britain) be classified as a nation-state?


A) Yes
B) No

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What is true about the Prime Meridian?


A) It is 180° longitude.
B) It is 180° latitude.
C) It is 0° longitude.
D) It is 0° latitude.

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What was a major problem that faced homesteaders on the Great Plains?


A) The dry landscape
B) Regular Native American attacks
C) The cost of fertile land was too high
D) Too many settlers came to the region, crowding the land

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Which body of water lost much of its volume because water was diverted to irrigate nearby cotton fields?


A) The Nile
B) The Colorado River
C) The Aral Sea
D) The Mediterranean Sea

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How are pastoral nomads distinguished from other forms of subsistence farmers?


A) They obtain their grain through a trade system.
B) They consume animals rather than grain.
C) They only occupy deserts.
D) All of the above

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What are two examples of current "hard-line" Marxist-socialist states?


A) Russia and Cambodia
B) China and Hungary
C) Cuba and North Korea
D) Romania and Laos

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Which of the following statements about hunting and gathering is true?


A) It is a nomadic life.
B) It is still practiced today.
C) All humans were hunters and gatherers before the advent of agriculture.
D) All of the above

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The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following?


A) Population density
B) Per capita income
C) Petroleum production
D) Ratio of rural to urban areas

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The Hindu Kush Mountains cover the majority of which of the following countries?


A) Turkey
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Afghanistan

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What is a contour?


A) A line that shows points of equal elevation
B) A line graph that depicts the population density of a region over time
C) A line that shows all of the varying points of elevation
D) A line that shows all the points equidistant from a known, central location, like a city

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Which concept is based upon the idea that all things in geographic space are related, but closer things are considered to be more related than others?


A) Spatial closeness
B) Geographic relativity
C) Environmental determinism
D) Tobler's Law

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Which of the following would a geographic determinist most likely believe?


A) Societies cannot successfully thrive in harsh environments like mountains and deserts.
B) Geographic conditions play a key role-if not the most important role-in shaping societies.
C) Climate and topography have little to know effect upon a society's development.
D) Societies influence their environments more than environments base societies.

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What is the correct terminology for describing the location of the Equator?


A) 0 degrees north
B) 0 degrees latitude
C) 0 degrees longitude
D) 0 degrees east

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Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq are located in which of the following geographic areas?


A) Interior Plains
B) West Bank
C) Fertile Crescent
D) Deccan Plateau

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Compared to the method of shifting cultivation, subsistence agriculture is characterized by which of the following?


A) Organic farming
B) Greater use of animal power
C) Gigantic farms owned by multinational corporations
D) A greater reliance upon genetically engineered foods

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