Deck 1: Globalization and World Regions

Question 1

Which of the following is not an aspect of globalization?

A) spread of ideas, technologies, and diseases
B) migrations of people for work, political asylum, and tourism
C) a folk festival that has taken place in your town for fifty years
D) spread of images and messages through the media of TV, film, the Internet, and print

Answer 1

a folk festival that has taken place in your town for fifty years

Question 2

The building blocks for major world regions are

A) countries
B) globes
C) counties
D) states

Answer 2

countries

Question 3

Features of localization include

A) local customs and practices
B) long-distance migration
C) spread of images via TV and other media from one country to another
D) long-range movement of money

Answer 3

local customs and practices

Question 4

Absolute location is

A) the location prescribed by the government
B) a matter of opinion
C) the precise position of a place
D) based on international negotiation

Question 5

The highest latitude reading a place can have is

A) 180
B) 90^{11eea3b8_e6a8_dbd0_97f4_a7be9b5b6499_TB9758_11}
C) 45^{11eea3b8_e6a8_dbd0_97f4_a7be9b5b6499_TB9758_11}
D) infinity

Question 6

The length of a degree of latitude is

A) of varying length, depending on where you are on Earth
B) about 69 miles (110 km) everywhere
C) about 100 miles (160 km) everywhere
D) impossible to determine

Question 7

The prime meridian, from which longitude is calculated, is

A) in the Pacific Ocean
B) in Washington, DC
C) near London, United Kingdom
D) in Tokyo, Japan

Question 8

Physical geographers would be least likely to study

A) mountains
B) churches
C) weather
D) plant life

Question 9

Early civilizations were marked by

A) irrigation farming
B) huge accumulations of wealth and major buildings
C) writing
D) all of the choices are correct

Question 10

Relative location is

A) a description of a location by distance and direction from another location
B) the place where your relatives live
C) a precision location on Earth's surface
D) impossible to determine

Question 11

Geography is best defined as

A) the study of maps
B) a list of place-names
C) a discipline that studies spatial patterns in the human and physical world
D) the study of the effects of the stars

Question 12

Friction of distance means that

A) roads are rough
B) rubbing items together generates heat
C) there is less contact between places if the journey is long or travel is difficult
D) people who live far apart argue a lot

Question 13

Which of the following is the larger scale?

A) 1:1,000,000
B) 1:10,000
C) 1:2,500,000
D) 1:10,00,000

Question 14

Regions are dynamic because they involve

A) different weather from day to day
B) a group of places with similar characteristics
C) flows of people, goods, and ideas
D) earthquakes and volcanoes

Question 15

The most important force in creating regions is

A) the stars
B) climate
C) topography
D) people

Question 16

Nodes are

A) places where flows begin, intersect, or end
B) high mountains
C) places where latitude and longitude lines cross
D) the north and south poles

Question 17

This text defines Europe as

A) the land west of the Ural Mountains and north of the Mediterranean
B) lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean
C) countries that were not dominated by communism after World War II
D) countries that are members of the European Union or are likely to be in the next decade

Question 18

Russia and its neighbors includes countries that

A) border Russia
B) are dominantly Russian Orthodox in religion
C) resulted from the breakup of the Soviet Union except for Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
D) have ever had communist governments

Question 19

East Asia includes

A) China, Japan, Mongolia, and the Koreas
B) All of Asia east of the Ural Mountains
C) Siberia and China
D) Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea

Question 20

Which of the following is true of Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia?

A) They lie at the junction of three continents
B) They are characterized by humid environments
C) They all speak the same language
D) They all follow the same religion

Question 21

Africa South of the Sahara

A) is a wealthy region
B) has only one ethnic group
C) has a history of democratic government
D) is the cradle of the human race

Question 22

Latin America is influenced by

A) Latin-based languages and Roman Catholic religion, with enclaves of other languages and religions
B) Uniform physical features
C) A long history of democracy
D) An absence of indigenous people

Question 23

North America

A) has large numbers of indigenous people
B) was settled exclusively by Europeans
C) is the world's wealthiest region
D) is solely English-speaking

Question 24

Until about 5000 B. C. most people in the world lived by

A) working at McDonald's
B) hunting and gathering
C) farming
D) serving in armies

Question 25

The first farming communities were

A) in southwestern Asia
B) in Mexico
C) in Florida
D) in China

Question 26

Which of the following staple (basic food) crops is incorrectly located?

A) wheat and barley in southwestern Asia
B) rice and millet in China
C) corn, squash, beans, potatoes, tomatoes and papers in the Americas
D) watermelon and black-eyed peas in Africa

Question 27

Which of the following was not the location of an early civilization?

A) the Huang He (Yellow River) of China
B) coastal Peru
C) Mesopotamia
D) Northeastern United States

Question 28

The Silk Road connected

A) China and India
B) New York and Chicago
C) China and Rome
D) London and Paris

Question 29

The "Classical" civilization in the Americas was the

A) Cherokee
B) Cahokia
C) Mayan
D) Patagonian

Question 30

Under feudalism,

A) slaves provided labor
B) people agreed to work for a lord in return for protection
C) entrepreneurs hired workers
D) the government ran the economy

Question 31

Which of the following was not an impetus for exploration in the 1450s?

A) new maritime technology
B) the whaling industry
C) a new profit motive among merchants
D) the zeal to spread Christianity

Question 32

Britain's advantage in establishing world-wide trade and colonies came from

A) speaking English
B) investment of new wealth from overseas trade in factories
C) a monarchy
D) the plays of William Shakespeare

Question 33

Which of the following are criteria which link countries that form the different regions?

A) cultural
B) natural
C) economic
D) all of the above

Question 34

Which of the following is not a new international institution that came into being following World War II?

A) The United Nations (UN)
B) The World Bank
C) The League of Nations
D) The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Question 35

Localization focuses on distinctive identities of places or people in regions, countries, or local areas.

Question 36

Boundaries between regions are necessarily precise and sharp.

Question 37

Government and other propaganda influence people's images of their region and others.

Question 38

Wealthy countries maintain great influence over regions around global choke points.

Question 39

Regions evolve largely independent of powerful governments or other organizations.

Question 40

The spread of Western culture such as food and drink, movies and TV programs has wiped out local cultural differences.

Question 41

People of the world are less aware of what is happening far away than they used to be.

Question 42

Economic globalization has no impact on social or cultural features of regions.

Question 43

"Localization" involves no region larger than a local community.

Question 44

The dominant political entities are country governments.

Question 45

"Brain drain" refers to the migration of people from rich to poor countries.

Question 46

A region is any piece of the earth's surface.

Question 47

Regions are created by nature and then they endure forever.

Question 48

It is fairly easy for one region to close itself off from interaction with other regions.

Question 49

Globalization began in the 1900s.

Question 50

In the Americas, the Inca and the Aztecs dominated large regions.

Question 51

It is now widely accepted that modern humans spread out of Asia to other parts of the world.

Question 52

Latin America includes the Caribbean.

Question 53

Mongolia is included in Russia and Neighboring Countries.

Question 54

GIS includes the use of satellite imagery.

Question 55

All regional boundaries are based on physical features.

Question 56

The friction of distance increased between New York and Chicago following the building of railroads.

Question 57

Language can be a pattern that exists on the earth's surface.

Question 58

Globalization is essentially a geographic phenomenon.

Question 59

The _______________ dominated global politics from the 1950s to 1990.

Question 60

The Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Suez Canal are examples of___________________.

Question 61

Geography provides a place- or space-related ______________________ of human experience.

Question 62

Lines on a map that show distance north and south of the equator are called
_________________.