Human Geo Midterm Review

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because

• (A) a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion

• (B) parallels and meridians never cross at right angles on a globe

• (C) the grid system is two-dimensional, while the real world is three-dimensional

• (D) Earth is not a perfect sphere

• (E) latitude lines are shorter than meridian lines

The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of

• (A) contagious diffusion

• (B) hierarchical diffusion

• (C) stimulus diffusion

• (D) periodic movement

• (E) relocation diffusion

Why are most South American population centers located at or near the coast?

• (A) The climate is generally warmer on the coast and cooler in the highlands.

• (B) The wars of independence damaged many inland cities.

• (C) Few Amerindian population centers were located on the coast.

• (D) Latin American armed forces have extensive plans for the defense of coastal sites.

• (E) The colonial economies were export-oriented.

Which of the following correctly lists the usual hierarchy of political-administrative units in order from the largest to the smallest?

• A) Empire, county, province, nation-state

• B) Province, empire, nation-state, county

• C) Empire, nation-state, province, county

• D) County, nation-state, province, empire

• E) Empire, nation-state, county, province

Which of the following best represents the concept of the nation-state in its internal cultural-political makeup and spatial organization?

• (A) Iran

• (B) South Africa

• (C) Japan

• (D) New Zealand

• (E) Argentina

Environmental laws, labor availability, and access to markets are major factors affecting which of the following?

• A) Political affiliation

• B) Gross domestic product

• C) Property tax rates

• D) Manufacturing locations

• E) Transportation costs

Economic activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and agriculture, are called

• A) subsistence activities

• B) organic activities

• C) secondary economic activities

• D) primary economic activities

• E) tertiary economic activities

The map represents what kind of projection?

• A) A Mercator projection with distorted land areas

• B) A planar projection with diverging lines at the poles

• C) A homolosine projection with continuity of landmasses

• D) A Robinson projection with distortions at the equator

• E) A gnomonic projection with distortions of bodies of water

An international company is looking to expand its network of factories, which use labor-intensive production methods, in a region of the world experiencing significant growth in the working-age population. Based on the data in the table, which of the following regions should the company choose?

• A) North America, which will have faster working-age growth in 2015 to 2030 than in 2000 to 2015

• B) Asia, which will have a faster working-age growth rate in 2015 to 2030 than in 2000 to 2015

• C) Latin America, which had the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2000 to 2015

• D) Asia, which will have the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2015 to 2030

• E) Sub-Saharan Africa, which will have the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2015 to 2030

Based on the data in the table, which of the following is a possible impact of ethnic and religious diversity in Iraq?

• (A)

  Ethnicity and religion act as centripetal forces in the country by creating a common Iraqi identity among

  the population.

• (B) Ethnicity and religion facilitate democratization in the country by motivating participation in elections.

• (C)

  Ethnicity and religion promote economic development in the country by generating national pride in the

  country’s accomplishments.

• (D) Ethnicity and religion lead to devolutionary pressures in the country by politically dividing regions.

• (E) Ethnicity and religion increase cultural cohesion in the country by promoting shared political ideology.