Unit 9 Test REVIEW: Managing Resources

Which of the following locations would best facilitate new commercial agriculture?

• An area with a huge labor force close in an urban area

• An area with interesting topography and beautiful scenery

• An area where there is an increasing demand for social services

• An area with transportation routes and access to water resources

How did the building the Transcontinental Railroad and the Trans-Siberia Railway influence

economic patterns?

• Tourism became a leading industry

• New businesses formed near the stops along the railroads.

• Free trade agreements were negotiated to move more goods.

• Migration patterns shifted from crossing oceans to crossing land.

One way air conditioning has facilitated human adaptation to the environment is by

• decreasing disease in humid areas

• allowing people to work later at night

• enabling habitation in warmer environments

• increasing the use of electricity in urban areas

What trade agreement of the 1990s changed trade patterns between the United States and

Canada?

• Pacific Rim Free Trade Agreement

• Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement

• North American Free Trade Agreement

• United States Tariff Policy Agreement

Which of the following accounts for why some American manufacturing companies have

located factories in Mexico?

• Abundant capital resources

• A supply of inexpensive labor

• Favorable climate conditions

• Political stability in the region

Spanish explorers most likely wanted to colonize what is now modern day Peru during the

sixteenth century in order to —

• establish sugar plantations

• access deposits of gold and silver

• harvest hardwoods from rain forests

• develop a cattle industry on the vast plain

How did the opening of the Panama Canal affect economic development in Latin America?

• Tax revenues increased

• Shipping costs decreased

• Standards of living increased

• Settlement patterns changed

What economic activity is located in the taiga of Russia?

• timber

• mining

• agriculture

• ship building

Which two bodies of water are connected by the Suez Canal in the Sinai peninsula

• the Indian Ocean with the Persian Gulf

• the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea

• the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean

• the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

One way that the Saudi Arabian government is developing a strategy to address the lack

of water in the region is by

• teaching citizens about how to desalinate water in their homes

• signing contracts with companies to import water to the region

• raising taxes on a poor population to fund the building of desalination plants

• building desalination plants in order to provide water to an expanding population