World Geo EOC Review

The loss of local traditions, increased levels of pollution, and the risk of pandemics are negative aspects of ---

• genocide
• ethnic cleansing
• technology
• globalization

The daily path of the sun, as viewed from the Earth, changes with the seasons because the  ---

• Earth's axis is tilted
• sun revolves
• Earth's distance from the sun changes
• sun totes

Which conclusion can be drawn from the information in the timeline?

• the plague only affected people leaving in China
• the interaction of these cultures led to a pandemic
• port cities were relatively untouched by the plague
• the plague originally started in West Africa

According to the map, which conclusion is accurate?

• the world communist movement is growing
• more developed nations are found in North America and Western Europe
• less developed countries are found in Europe and Australia
• Economic sell-sufficiency in less developed countries is increasing

Which description could be best applied to those regions on the map now with a G.D.P. per capita of $1000 or less (with the exception of China), back in the 1800s?

• leading industrial powers
• colonies of European powers
• countries of Eastern Europe
• countries with democratic governments

What changes led to the diverse uses of the Atlantic Ocean?

• population growth forced Europeans to expand
• Technological improvements such as the compass and improvements in ship design made ocean voyages possible
• Europeans had challenged the views of the Catholic Church on travel
• the spread of the plague encouraged Europeans to search for safer areas

What generalization do these examples illustrate?

• all world religions originated from a single source
• most religions were monotheistic
• people are more religious today than the past
• a culture can be changed by spacial diffusion

According to the information in this map, which statement about urbanization between 650 and 1500 is most accurate?

• urbanization first occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa
• urbanization first took place in cooler climates
• most urban areas before 1500 were located in Europe
• most urban areas before 1500 developed along waterways

What is the best explanation for the change in world population shown on the graph between 1950 and 2000?

• family planning services became more widespread
• there were several majors wars in Asia and Africa
• improvements in medicine and agriculture were accompanied by rising birth rates in less developed countries
• a dramatic increase in the number of famines and natural disasters occurred in the last half of the twentieth century

Mountain-building rock structures, like the one in the photograph, are most often caused by --

• tectonic plate collisions
• heavy rainfall in tropical regions
• the movement of a glacier
• large deposits of sediment