Barrons Practice Test 1
Finally, I finished. =]
These are part one of the questions and answers you need to know for mrs. Boland's exam.
Her unit TEST, however, will be on the chapter 4 and 5 questions in this and the other practice test.
And also, instead of memorizing every punctuation mark and capitalization, when you are learning the words go to configuration and check off all the boxes so it doesn't pick up any mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, etc.
Happy studying! <3 Emma
These are part one of the questions and answers you need to know for mrs. Boland's exam.
Her unit TEST, however, will be on the chapter 4 and 5 questions in this and the other practice test.
And also, instead of memorizing every punctuation mark and capitalization, when you are learning the words go to configuration and check off all the boxes so it doesn't pick up any mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, etc.
Happy studying! <3 Emma
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- + births - deaths + immigration - emigration
- The demographic accounting equation computes future population as a function of current population:
- are disproportionately larger than other cities in a nation.
- primate cities are those that
- dependency ratio
- The ___ will increase over the next decade, as baby boomers reach ld age and are no longer able to work and provide for themselves.
- land values decrease farther from the urban center.
- von thunen's model of rura; ;and use is based on which of the following premises?
- 19th century victorian architecture
- the city of san fransisco is known for which of the following?
- the north/south divide
- the geographic differentiation between the colonizing countries of europe, north america, and eastern asia and the colonized states of africa and south america has been called
- central place theory
- the theory that explains the regional organization o urban areas, based on their functions and the goods and services they offer, is called
- material consumption
- In adress to the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development, India argued that, although population growth has placed pressure on the world's natural resources, ___________ by industrialized nations also had extreme consequences for environmental quality.
- Namibia
- In which of the following countries would you expect to find the highest rat of population growth?
- environmental racism
- The disproportionate siting of power plants and waste disposal facilities in the african american and latino neighborhoods- independent of other economic and historical factors- is an example of
- nutrient-poor
- agricultural techniques developed in the temperate lattitudes are frequently inappropriate for wet tropical climates because rainforest soils tend to be
- postmodernism
- The idea that our impressions and experiences of the world around us are filtered through the lens of our culture and our individual experiences, which critiques the sort of scientifif, universalists grand theories offered by modernists is called
- imperialism & colonialism
- ________ involves the economic and political denomination of one state by another, while _________ includes official institutionalized government rule
- It is part of the green revolution.
- Which of the following is false regarding slash and burn agriculture?
- high mass consumption
- in rostow's stages of development model, economic maturity is characterized by
- boroughs
- New York City is divided into five ______, in order to better organize social services for millions of people.
- cognitive maps
- Maps like the one shown here are reffered to as (another picture.)
- The Great Lakes
- which of the following regions experienced rapid industrial growth during the early 20th century, followed by a severe decline and difficult period of economic readjustment?
- a strong central government
- Which of the following is not a potential cause of Balkanization?
- Mexico city, mexico
- Which of the following qualifies as a primate city?
- political unrest and ecological degradation
- Sources of forced migration include
- there could be several thousand over the next century.
- Which of the following is true about language extinctions?
- loss of indigenous knowledge about ecosystems.
- One important consequence of cultural extinction is
- shows the age and sex structure of a population.
- A population pyramid
- Self-determination
- In 1995 plebiscite, the Canadian province of Quebec sought which of the following?
- has historical homelands spanning many national borders
- the kurds are an example of an ethinc group that
- Reference & Thematic
- ____________ maps work well for locating and navigating between places, while _________ maps display one or more variables across a specific space.
- food production & population
- according to thomas malthus __________________ grows arithmetically, but _____ grows geometrically.
- the influence of "friction of distance"
- In distance decay models, the slope of the decay function illustrates
- the angular distance east or west of greenwich, england
- Longitude is
- earth writing
- The word "geography" literally means
- in fertile river valleys
- hearths of early eurasian agriculture were generally located
- located mainly in Europe and North America
- In the world systems model, the core nations of the world are
- Chicago
- which city's dense urban core became the birthplace of the skyscraper?
- Natural increase.
- When the crude birth rate is higher than the crude death rate, the difference between the two is called the
- Appears to be on the rise in many parts of the world.
- Religious fundamentalism
- increased dramatically
- since 1960 the difference between per capita and gross national products of the world's wealthiest countries and the world's poorest countriees has
- Asia
- By 2020 most of the worlds biggest cities will be located in
- the angular distance north or south of the equator.
- Latitude is
- distance imposes a significant barrier to spatial interactions
- In the following distance decay function (another picture.)
- Istanbul, Turkey.
- ___ is strategically located on the border between two continents, and at the intersection of many cultures and religions.
- Asians from a variety of countries are moving to the US.
- Whcih of the following is true based on the map of global voluntary migration flows shown here?
- tyson's corner, virginia
- which of the following is an example of an edge city?
- eurasian diseases
- which of the following factors is most responsible for the dramatic demographic collapse of native americans during the colonial period?
- cultural ecology
- The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called
- catholicism
- which of the following does NOT qualify as a protestant denomination?
- Because their economies are less developed, they rarely suffer from significant polution.
- which of the following is not correc regarding the great metropolises of the developing world?
- assimilation
- The process by which one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture is called
- are inversely related
- in the gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distance
- sites where goods are transferred for continued shipping.
- break-of-bulk points are
- hierarchical diffusion
- Rap music first appeared in New York in the late 1970's. Later, it spread to large cities with vibrant African-American populations without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in between. This type of spatial diffusion is called
- Azimuthal
- Which of the following projections places the North or South Ple at the center of the view?
- it is versatile and aesthetically pleasing
- The national geographicl society uses the robinson projection for many maps because
- net national product
- the aggregate measure of economic development that accounts for the depreciation of capital and natural resources is called the
- map-making
- Cartography is the art and science of
- southern appalachia and the lower mississppi valley
- core-periphery patterns exist within countries exist as well as among them. In the US, economic peripheries include
- the relation between a distance on a map and distance on the ground.
- cartographic scale refers to
- territorial organization
- States with federal forms of government must also have
- hunter-gatherers caused the extinction of many species after the end of the last ice age.
- The pleistocene overkill theory argues that
- countries with high levels of economic production will have lower birth rates
- The demographic transition model posits that
- Buddhism
- Which of the gollowing religions originated in northern INdia andthen spread across central and southeast asia, indonesia, and japan?
- shading and coloring
- all chloropleth maps use
- Most americans consider environmental issues to be important.
- according to public opinion polls, more than 80% of americans consider themselves "environmentalists." Which of the following could you logically conclude from this information?
- idiographic
- Geographical research that applies only to one place or religion is
- the direct extraction of harvest or natural resources.
- primary economic activities involve
- China, India, Turkey, and Mexico.
- Hearth regions of early agriculture included present-day
- they consume more resources.
- Advanced economic countries like the united states may produce more pollution than less economically advanced countries beacuse
- "diaspora"
- the term _________ describes a group of people with a common ethnic identit that is spread out over a large geographic area.
- a cultural syncretism
- the religious practices of some Native American groups combine elements from both their traditional religion and from Christianity/ This is an example of
- Sector model of urban development
- Which of the following models of urban geography best describes this map? (This one has a picture.)
- Thematic layers
- Geographic information systems use _______ to display multiple spatial data sets.
- New Guinea
- the greatest concentration of linguistic diveristy on earth is in
- the city beautiful movement
- washington DC's Lincoln memorial and Mall, with their dramatic neoclassical architecture and symbolic references to democracy and populism are associated with
- gentrification
- durng the 1980's and 1990's, santa monica, california, became significantly wealthier and more expensice. Theis process can be referrred to as
- 2000 years
- Approximately how long did it take for eurasian hunter-gatherers to reach the tip of south america afte their initial arrival in Alaska?