Human Geography Places and Regions in Global Context Changing Global Context.docx

Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context Changing Global Context 2.1 Minimal Choice 1) The first agricultural revolution introduced A) hunting & gathering. B) agricultural production. Answer: A 2) The first agricultural revolution started ________ of years ago. A) thousands B) hundreds Answer: A 3) A few remnant ________ still remain at the start of the 21st century. A) minisystems B) external arenas Answer: A 4) In a sense, globalization has been around for a long time. For example, trade routes have connected the Europeans with ________ for over a thousand years. A) China B) the Americas Answer: A 5) He introduced the concept of "world-system." A) Immanuel Wallerstein B) Alexander von Humboldt Answer: A 6) The first to appreciate the practical importance and usefulness of geography were the A) Greeks. B) Germans. Answer: A 7) Between about A.D. 500 and A.D. 1400, geographic knowledge was preserved and expanded by ________ scholars. A) Islamic and Chinese B) European and North American Answer: A 8) The fundamental logic or driving force behind colonization of the late 19th century was A) economic. B) cultural. Answer: A 9) In the international division of labor, the world's periphery provides A) raw materials. B) manufactured goods. Answer: A 10) One example that old colonial patterns persist comes from the fact that 48 of the 55 sub-Saharan countries earn more than half of their export earnings from A) coffee, tea and cocoa. B) clothing, textiles and consumer goods. Answer: A 11) The simplistic idea that people's social and economic development and behavior are fundamentally shaped by their physical environment is known as A) environmental determinism. B) ecocentrism. Answer: A 12) In the process of globalization, places are ________. A) modified and reconstructed B) destroyed or homogenized Answer: A NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 13) Remnant minisystems are more likely found in A) South America. B) North America. Answer: A 14) Which came first? A) colonialism B) neocolonialism Answer: A 15) It is more likely that a pair of blue jeans purchased in the USA today was made with parts and labor from A) 1 country. B) 10 countries. Answer: A Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 16) As presented in our text, "Jihad" and "McWorld" A) don't mix. B) combine for healthy democracies and civil societies. Answer: A NG Standards: 06 Perceptions of places Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 2.2 Multiple Choice 1) According to your text, which country has NOT been hegemonic over the world economy at some time in the last 500 years? A) Portugal B) Holland C) England D) the United States of America E) Japan Answer: E 2) The global scope and activity of the global financial system has been made possible in large part by A) policies of the World Bank. B) new information technologies. C) the global decline of communism. D) the strength of the U.S. dollar. Answer: B Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 3) According to our course text, the leading cause of death in Africa is A) war. B) HIV/AIDS. C) famine. D) malaria. E) alcoholism. Answer: B PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society NG Standards: 09 Human populations (characteristics, distribution, migration) Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 4) The world region with the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate — 8 times the world average — is A) North America. B) Sub-Saharan Africa. C) Southeast Asia. D) the Caribbean. E) Europe. Answer: B PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society NG Standards: 09 Human populations (characteristics, distribution, migration) Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 5) Environmentalists are concerned that Russia's economic problems stand in the way of protecting Lake Baykal's fragile and unique ecology from untreated urban waste and other toxic pollution from ________ on the lake. A) a nuclear power plant B) pulp and paper mills C) gold mines D) oil refineries Answer: B PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 6) One sign of the environmental mismanagement of Russia's Lake Baykal in Siberia — the world's deepest and largest (by volume) lake — was the 1997 death of thousands of A) Siberian black bears. B) migratory cranes. C) tourists from western Russia. D) freshwater seals E) the world's largest salmon. Answer: D PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 7) To help understand and visualize the extent and intensity of the human impact on the earth, some scientists use the concept of the human (or ecological) A) analysis. B) convergence. C) footprint. D) region. E) settlement. Answer: C PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 8) The increasing connectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change is what we mean by A) world regions. B) globalization. C) spatial diffusion. D) distance-decay. E) time-space convergence. Answer: B Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 9) Which of the following is NOT one of the critical and interdependent "three Es" of sustainable development? A) entrepreneurialism B) environment C) economy D) social equity Answer: A PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 10) According to Knox and Marston, globalization of the last 25 years is linked to all of the following except A) new international division of labor. B) internationalization of finance. C) emergence of new technology systems. D) end of neocolonialism. E) growth and homogenization of consumer markets. Answer: D Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 11) Which of the following was NOT among the important geographical phenomena introduced by world empires? A) urbanization B) colonization C) religion D) inter-regional trade Answer: C NG Standards: 17 Historical geography 12) The first agricultural revolution set the preconditions for early world empires by A) enabling an increase in population densities & trade between minisystems. B) introducing warfare to the countryside. C) introducing colonialism and imperialism. D) highlighting the benefits of import substitution and comparative advantage. E) all of the above Answer: A NG Standards: 17 Historical geography 13) Slash-and-burn — the name given to an early innovation that enabled the growth of minisystems into early world empires — refers to an innovation in A) agriculture. B) warfare. C) metal-working. D) urbanization. E) colonization. Answer: A 14) World empires are organized around a A) reciprocal social economy. B) subsistence production economy. C) system of taxation and redistribution. D) capitalist social economy. E) all of the above Answer: C 15) The first agricultural revolution was characterized by all of the following except A) domestication of animals such as sheep and cattle. B) new methods to process, prepare and store foods. C) sedentary agriculture based on burning plant matter as a way of returning nutrients to the soil. D) uprising of rural populations against urban landholders. E) centers in Fertile Crescent, South Asia, East Asia, Mesoamerica and the Andes. Answer: D 16) Faced with problems associated with law of diminishing returns, world empires characteristically ________ in order to feed and provide for their populations. A) colonized nearby lands B) imported slave labor C) regularly invented new technologies D) promoted import substitution E) established trade relations with countries having comparative advantages Answer: A 17) World-empires introduced ________ to enlarge their resource base in the face of rising populations. A) colonization B) the law of diminishing returns C) urbanization D) import substitution E) mini-systems Answer: A 18) The sphere of economic influence around cities — from which products for export and taxes are collected and to which imports are distributed — is known as the city's A) external arena. B) hinterland. C) hearth area. D) peripheral region. E) Any of the above because they are synonymous. Answer: B NG Standards: 12 Urban - human settlements 19) By the 15th century, centers of capitalism in the developing world system included all but A) New York. B) Cairo. C) Stockholm. D) London. E) southeast China. Answer: A NG Standards: 12 Urban - human settlements 20) Which of the following centers of early global civilization was NOT linked by the Silk Road? A) Eastern Mediterranean B) China C) Northern India D) Central Andes and MesoAmerica E) All of the above were linked by the Silk Road. Answer: D 21) Motivations for 16th-century European overseas exploration and expansion included all but which of the following? A) Europe's growing population and limited agricultural resource base B) competition among numerous small monarchies in Europe C) declining wealth and land holdings of the European aristocracy D) boredom with European food, culture and ways of doing things E) search for commercial advantage and economic gain Answer: D 22) Until the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s, the volume and velocity of world trade were constrained by technologies limited to those based on A) wood, wind and water. B) coal, steel and rail. C) oil, plastics and roads. D) human labor and animal power. Answer: A 23) The concept of import substitution is best characterized as A) purchasing imported goods to replace locally produced goods. B) manufacturing goods that had previously been imported or available through trading. C) exporting and importing the same type of product. D) changing suppliers of imported goods. Answer: B 24) Production of sugar from sugar beets, as an alternative to trading for sugar made from sugar cane in a foreign, tropical country is an example of A) import substitution. B) comparative advantage. C) spatial justice. D) division of labor. E) the law of diminishing returns. Answer: A Bloom's: 3 Applying 25) The specialization of peripheral countries in raw materials and foodstuffs, the decentralization of manufacturing to areas of low labor costs, and the emphasis of core regions on high-tech manufacturing and services describes A) the digital divide. B) the international division of labor. C) comparative advantage. D) import substitution. E) initial advantage. Answer: B 26) Plantations established to exploit labor and resources in the periphery are geared toward A) high value crops like indigo, sugar and cocoa. B) mixed fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and apples. C) staple crops like corn and potatoes. D) industrial crops like hemp, flax and sunflowers. E) any and all of the above Answer: A 27) The core-periphery framework for explaining the world system is based on geographic divisions that have emerged as a result of A) private economic competition. B) competition between states. C) competition between religious groups. D) competition between political perspectives. E) both A and B Answer: E NG Standards: 12 Urban - human settlements 28) Colonialism always results in ________ domination of a foreign society by the colonizing power. A) political B) legal C) religious D) cultural E) both A and B Answer: E 29) While people and societies do, indeed, respond to the opportunities and constraints of their physical environments, ________ takes this to a simplistic, and often racist, extreme by claiming that people's physical, social and economic development and behavior are fundamentally the result of their physical environments. A) ecological determinism B) ethnocentrism C) egocentrism D) masculinism E) environmental determinism Answer: E 30) Over the last 200 hundred years, clusters of improved technological innovations seem to have come in waves of industrialization every half-century or so. With each successive wave, the world-system A) core expanded. B) periphery expanded. C) core and periphery remained unchanged. D) core and periphery both expanded. E) core and periphery both shrank. Answer: A 31) According to Knox and Marston, the "short 20th century" technology system was powered around a cluster of technological innovations based on A) water power and steam engines. B) coal and coal-powered steam engines. C) oil and the internal combustion engine. D) nuclear power. E) solar power. Answer: C 32) While exploitation of the tropical world for such things as minerals and plantation products had been underway for centuries, industrialization in the core led to A) a rise in the number of colonies exploited by the core. B) increasing numbers of people under colonial rule. C) growing interest in the periphery's grasslands for food (grain and livestock). D) narrowing and specializing economies in the periphery. E) all of the above Answer: E 33) In a surge of European imperialism to protect established interests, expand territory and compete for world influence at the end of the 19th century, European core countries carved almost the entire ________ into a collection of colonies. A) continent of Africa B) continent of South America C) country of India D) country of Brazil E) world Answer: A 34) After WWII, the world system periphery was referred to as the A) First World. B) Second World. C) Third World. D) Last World. Answer: C 35) Because of their ability and willingness to exercise power and influence in peripheral states, giant, transnational corporations have been referred to as commercial A) colonialists. B) neocolonialists. C) imperialists. D) determinists. Answer: C 36) Globalization of the last 3-4 decades is characterized by a significant increase in all of the following except A) the transnational scope of global economic and cultural activities. B) the expansion and intensification of linkages and flows of capital, people, goods, ideas and cultures across national borders. C) the influence of transnational rules and organizations. D) the importance of local communities and national governments. E) all of the above have been on the rise. Answer: D Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 37) Awareness of the ________ linking overseas production with US consumption has led some to be concerned with the working conditions in the Asian factories in which their clothing is made. A) commodity chains B) transnational corporations C) division of labor D) producer services E) comparative advantage Answer: A Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 38) A global commodity chain is the network of linkages describing A) international loans — from initial application to final project. B) products — from its production origins to final consumption. C) manufacturing plants — from shutting down in the core to opening in the periphery. D) transnational companies — the links between headquarters and their retail outlets. E) cultural trends — from its origins in the periphery to diffusion to the core. Answer: B Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 39) The phrase "Jihad vs. McWorld" is intended to symbolize the struggle and tensions between A) nutritious/traditional food and unhealthy/processed food. B) religious fundamentalists and secular capitalists. C) traditionally based cultural values and pop culture/shallow materialism. D) the local and the global. E) the North and the South. Answer: C Bloom's: 3 Applying Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 40) The world's agricultural hearth areas are those regions A) from where the core gets most of its food B) where an agricultural surplus is produced. C) where plants and animals were domesticated D) where swidden cultivation is practiced. E) where industrial agriculture is most prominent. Answer: C 41) Which of the following is NOT among the the world's main agricultural hearth areas? A) North America's Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers B) Middle East's Tigris and Euphrates Rivers C) South Asia's Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers D) South America's Andes Mountains E) Central America's Tamaulipas and Tehuacan Valley Answer: A NG Standards: 05 Regions 42) The first agricultural revolution and the subsequent transition to food-producing minisystems resulted in all of the following except A) more settlements. B) higher population densities. C) industrialization. D) non-agricultural specializations. E) barter and trade between communities. Answer: C 43) The modern world system had its origins in late 15th-century Europe, and was especially associated with a rise in A) consumer demand for imported products. B) art. C) food production. D) manufacturing. E) exploration. Answer: E 44) With the emergence of the world-system in the 16th century, European ________ reshaped the world. A) merchant capitalism B) languages C) sports D) transnational corporations E) comparative advantages Answer: A 45) The early formation of the modern world-system was driven primarily by A) colonial missionaries. B) racially-motivated Europeans. C) enlightened monarchs. D) European merchant capitalists. Answer: D 46) Satin, muslin, damask and calico are all named after Asian A) animals. B) cities. C) fabrics. D) foods. E) people. Answer: B 47) The first core regions of the world-system were the trading hubs of A) Italy, Greece and Spain. B) Portugal, Spain and North Africa. C) Austria, Hungary & Germany. D) Holland, England & France. E) Japan, Korea and China. Answer: D 48) Which of the following entered the core after having been in the periphery? A) Canada B) Mexico C) Brazil D) Portugal E) Thailand Answer: A 49) The beginning of the modern world-system generally coincides with the A) fall of the Roman Empire. B) arrival of Europeans in the Americas. C) Industrial Revolution. D) colonization of Africa. E) dropping of the nuclear bomb on Japan and the end of World War II. Answer: B 50) The core regions of the modern world-system A) dominate world trade. B) are primarily in the southern hemisphere. C) tend to have low per-capita incomes. D) became core regions by refusing to engage in imperialism. E) all of the above Answer: A 51) Semiperipheral regions A) currently include Japan and Scandinavia. B) often exploit peripheral regions. C) will eventually evolve to become core regions. D) are geographically located between core regions and peripheral regions. Answer: B 52) Of the following, the most important determinant of a state's status within the world-system is its A) military power. B) population size. C) ability to keep out foreign goods and run a positive trade balance. D) ability to ensure international economic competitiveness of its domestic producers. Answer: D 53) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of early world empires? A) colonialization B) agriculturally based economy C) use of religion and/or the military to control subjects D) distribution of wealth from the upper classes to the lower classes Answer: D 54) In 1400 A.D., the dry steppes and desert margins that ranged from the western Sahara to Mongolia were populated by A) kin-based pastoral mini-systems. B) land speculators. C) newly evangelized Christians. D) European immigrants. Answer: A 55) Many of the roads laid out by the ________ around 2000 years ago continue to be major routes throughout Europe. A) Vandals B) Romans C) Greeks D) Vikings E) Packers Answer: B 56) In 1800, the core of the world-system was located in A) North America. B) Japan. C) western Europe. D) the countries surrounding the Mediterranean. E) China. Answer: C 57) European industrialization began in the late ________ century. A) 15th B) 16th C) 17th D) 18th E) 19th Answer: D 58) European industrialization got its start in A) France. B) Sweden. C) Italy. D) Spain. E) Britain. Answer: E 59) Which sequence matches the order in which the countries were world-system hegemons? A) British, Dutch, Portuguese B) Dutch, British, Portuguese C) Portuguese, Dutch, British D) Dutch, Portuguese, British Answer: C 60) Britain's dominance of the world-system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was helped most by which of the following? A) naval power B) the fall of Napoleon C) decline of the Roman Empire D) British prowess in land battles Answer: A 61) The United States became a part of the world-system core A) in the 1600s. B) in the 1700s. C) in the 1800s. D) at the end of World War I. E) at the end of World War II. Answer: C 62) What was the single most important innovation stimulating the international division of labor? A) sewing machine B) railroad C) metal-hulled, ocean-going steamship D) cargo truck E) jet-engine airplane Answer: C 63) In the early 1900s, peripheral countries A) were well on their way to becoming core countries. B) imported most of their manufactured goods from core countries. C) diversified their economies. D) in Africa and Asia achieved their independence. Answer: B 64) The great scramble for African colonies occurred A) just after the Napoleonic wars. B) during Portugal's domination of the world-system. C) as Spain was colonizing the America's. D) in the three decades preceding World War I. E) in the two decades after World War II. Answer: D 65) In the years after World War II, this country emerged as the hegemonic power: A) Soviet Union B) Britain C) China D) United States E) Japan Answer: D 66) Neo-colonialism A) has been supplanted by globalization. B) is generally not considered exploitative. C) allows core states to maintain significant influence over periphery states. D) is not connected with transnational corporations. E) all of the above Answer: C 67) Globalization A) is less relevant now than ten years ago. B) has resulted in increasingly great international economic integration. C) began in the early 1960s. D) has decreased interdependence. Answer: B Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 68) Which of the following is NOT in the current world-system core? A) Japan B) South America C) Western Europe D) North America Answer: B Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 69) Which of the following regions was the last to be colonized by the Europeans? A) West Africa B) South America C) North America D) Australia and New Zealand E) Japan Answer: D 70) Which world region is most distant from the core of the current world system? A) Africa B) Asia C) North America D) Europe E) South America Answer: A 71) Which of the following was NOT a major hearth area? A) Fertile Crescent B) Ganges floodplain C) Anatolian plateau D) Arizona and New Mexico E) Scandinavia Answer: E 72) In 1750, this was an external area in the world system: A) Australia B) Brazil C) Caribbean D) eastern North America E) Mediterranean North Africa Answer: A 73) The first people significantly to develop geographic knowledge were the A) Chinese. B) Romans. C) Mayans. D) Europeans. E) Greeks. Answer: E 74) The European Age of Discovery is most strongly tied to this country: A) Britain B) France C) Germany D) Italy E) Portugal Answer: E 75) The major increase in fifteenth-century exploration was initiated by this country: A) Portugal B) Spain C) England D) the Netherlands Answer: A 76) In the Middle Ages, between the 5th and 16th centuries, geographic knowledge was preserved and expanded by A) Greek and Latin scholars. B) Middle Eastern and Chinese scholars. C) Scandinavian scholars. D) French and German scholars. E) English scholars. Answer: B 77) The most important reason for European voyages of discovery was the desire A) for economic gain. B) to spread Christianity. C) to gain geographic knowledge and make better maps. D) to spread European social and cultural values to the New World. Answer: A 78) Changes in and around Russia's Lake Baykal over the last few decades exemplify the ability of the globalized world economy to A) distribute resources. B) degrade environments. C) improve environments. D) change political systems. Answer: B PS GlobalOutcome: G5 Science & society Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 79) Though we don't generally think of it when we talk about globalization, a world economy has been in existence for A) millions of years. B) thousands of years. C) centuries. D) decades. E) years. Answer: C NG Standards: 17 Historical geography 2.3 True or False 1) Most of the world's remaining external arenas are above the Arctic Circle and in Siberia. Answer: FALSE 2) Globalization increases as the interdependence of people in different places increases. Answer: TRUE 3) Though globalization is increasingly making geography obsolete, it is still important to study place names. Answer: FALSE Bloom's: 4 Analyzing NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 4) The world's major hearth areas, from where new practices emerged and subsequently spread, eventually grew into the world's core. Answer: FALSE NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places 5) Based on the history of the world system, once a country is in the periphery, it always remains in the periphery. Answer: FALSE 6) World empires in Asia that relied upon large-scale irrigation and drainage schemes for agricultural productivity are known as hydraulic societies. Answer: TRUE 7) Ann Arbor, 50 miles west of Detroit, is reasonably considered to be part of Detroit's external arena. Answer: FALSE Bloom's: 3 Applying 8) The only hinterlands remaining in the world today are found in remote areas of the world's South. Answer: FALSE NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places 9) The world system has stopped evolving and been stable since the end of colonialism after WWII. Answer: FALSE 10) Silicon Valley, like the Manufacturing Belt in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, is an example of a core within a core. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 3 Applying 11) After WWII, the United States emerged as the world's hegemonic power. Answer: TRUE 12) The most recent phase of globalization is associated with the beginning of international organizations like NATO and the United Nations. Answer: FALSE 13) With political independence in the 1950s and 1960s, the former European colonies of Africa were finally able to achieve economic independence from the world's core. Answer: FALSE 14) Brazil has some characteristics of a core state and a periphery state. Answer: TRUE 15) Many of Western Europe's important cities were once Roman settlements. Answer: TRUE NG Standards: 12 Urban - human settlements 16) The states that were best able to resist European incursions during the first three centuries of the modern world-system were located primarily in South and East Asia. Answer: TRUE 17) Until the late 1700s, European economic expansion was significantly limited by dependence on wind and water for power, and wood for building materials. Answer: TRUE 18) States become world hegemons through imperial overstretch. Answer: FALSE 19) In 1800, the United States was a semiperiphery country. Answer: TRUE 20) The United States in now considered to be the world's hegemonic power. Answer: TRUE 21) Japan has been a member of the core since the beginning of the world-system. Answer: FALSE 22) Improvements in transportation technologies make it easier to access agrarian interiors. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 3 Applying 23) The nineteenth-century growth of core states would not have been possible without the use of colonies for foodstuffs, raw materials, and as markets for core-state products. Answer: TRUE 24) Most colonies produced a wide range of agricultural, manufactured and consumer products. Answer: FALSE 25) In the late nineteenth century, Britain was virtually alone in striving to gain new colonies. Answer: FALSE 26) Port cities in colonies tended to be more important than interior colonial cities. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 4 Analyzing 27) After World War II, the peripheral states were commonly known as the Second World. Answer: FALSE 28) A resident of a peripheral country is more likely to have belonged to a Third World than a First World country. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 4 Analyzing 29) Core regions usually have a higher per-capita income than do periphery regions. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 3 Applying Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 30) In 1895 most of South America was semiperiphery. Answer: FALSE 31) Slash-and-burn cultivation was characteristic of Paleolithic food production. Answer: FALSE 32) In general, the more countries and regions plan their economies around the concept of comparative advantage, the greater overall global economic output will be. Answer: TRUE Bloom's: 4 Analyzing 33) Even during the height of the colonial era, none of the peripheral areas had a significant impact on global trade. Answer: FALSE 34) Over the last 40 or so years, the gap between the world's rich and poor has decreased. Answer: FALSE Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 35) Commodity chains can be producer-, consumer- or even marketing-driven. Answer: TRUE Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 36) Understanding commodity chains can help end users understand the conditions under which the things they consume were made. Answer: TRUE Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 37) In 2010, the 20% of the world's population living in the lowest income countries had 1% of its wealth. Answer: TRUE Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 38) "McWorld" represents a Western, capitalist reaction to traditional and religious growth in the world's periphery. Answer: FALSE Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 2.4 Matching SYSTEMS & SITES: Match the specific countries and regions to the entities or groups they exemplify. A) Fertile Crescent, South Asian Floodplains, Tehuacan Valley B) Egypt, China, Byzantium C) Subsaharan Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia D Europe, Japan, North America E) Britain, France, Germany 1) Tripolar core Bloom's: 3 Applying 2) Former Third World Bloom's: 3 Applying 3) Agricultural hearths Bloom's: 3 Applying 4) Industrial hearth Bloom's: 3 Applying 5) World Empires Bloom's: 3 Applying Answers: 1) D 2) C 3) A 4) E 5) B CORE-PERIPHERY: Match the characteristic to the group of countries. A) Periphery B) Core C) Semiperiphery 6) colonizers and imperialists 7) undeveloped economies 8) world hegemons 9) Brazil, India, Mexico 10) diversified economies and advanced technologies 11) Japan and the United States 12) dependent and disadvantageous trade relations Answers: 6) B 7) A 8) B 9) C 10) B 11) B 12) A PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS: Match the device or description with the people or places. A) places after which textiles have been named B) Hanseatic League city-states C) shipping canals D) 15th-century navigational tools E) Silk Road Cities F) Portuguese Explorers G) transnational corporations 13) Samarkand & Khiva NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places 14) Quadrant & Astrolabe 15) Stockholm, Tallinn & Riga 16) Suez & Panama NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places 17) Colon & da Gama 18) Airbus, Siemens, Halliburton 19) Mosul, Damascus & Kashmir NG Standards: 04 Characteristics of places Answers: 13) E 14) D 15) B 16) C 17) F 18) G 19) A EXAMPLES: Match the example to the term or phrase. A) hegemony B) colonialism C) pandemic D) commodity chain E) import substitution F) mini-systems G) hearth area H) technology systems I) hinterland 20) Increasing use of solar energy to reduce need for imported oil 21) Middle East/Fertile Crescent as origin of wheat, olives and sheep 22) British economic exploitation and administration of political and legal affairs in India 23) the Italian countryside as the region under Rome's sphere of influence 24) 19th-century British domination over the world economy 25) Indian Tribes of N. America before the arrival of Europeans 26) clusters of energy, transportation, and production practices Section Headings: 2.4 Future Geographies 27) disease that spreads rapidly around the world with high rates of illness and death Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 28) the network of a product from its origins to its consumption Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization Answers: 20) E 21) G 22) B 23) I 24) A 25) F 26) H 27) C 28) D DATES: Match the event(s) to the approximate time at which it (they) occurred. A) First century B) 15th century C) 9000 BC D) end of 18th century E) mid-20th century 29) Beginning of the first agricultural revolution 30) Beginning of the industrial revolution 31) Beginning of Cold War Section Headings: 2.4 Future Geographies 32) Beginning of the Age of Discovery 33) Roman Empire Answers: 29) C 30) D 31) E 32) B 33) A 2.5 Map Identification World Map 1) To drive from Portugal to France, one must drive through A) Morocco. B) Turkey. C) Argentina. D) India. E) Spain. Answer: E 2) The country of Argentina is identified by the number A) 2. B) 12. C) 22. D) 32. E) 42. Answer: D 3) Which of the following is NOT in Africa? A) Kazakhstan B) Kenya C) Ghana D) Ethiopia E) Morocco Answer: A 4) Lisbon is the capital of A) Portugal. B) Canada. C) Argentina. D) Kenya. E) India. Answer: A 5) Which of the following is a North African country. A) Ghana B) Kenya C) Spain D) Morocco E) Ethiopia Answer: D 6) Countries 26, 27 and 28 are all part of A) North Africa. B) Sub-Saharan Africa. C) Southeast Asia. D) the Middle East. E) North America. Answer: A 7) The European country nearest to Morocco is A) Spain. B) Portugal. C) France. D) Canada. E) Ghana. Answer: A 8) Rabat is the capital of country labeled with the number A) 8. B) 24. C) 45. D) 58. E) 65. Answer: E 9) The capital city of country #58 is A) Tokyo. B) Dacca. C) New Delhi. D) Accra. E) Dakar. Answer: C 10) The capital city of #32 is A) Nairobi. B) Mexico City. C) Buenos Aires. D) Beijing. E) Madrid. Answer: C 11) Which pair of countries are nearest each other? A) Spain & Morocco B) Argentina & Ghana C) Kenya & Ghana D) USA & Japan E) Portugal & Ghana Answer: A Europe 12) Lisbon is the country of the capital labeled by with which number? A) 32 B) 31 C) 30 D) 28 E) 22 Answer: C 13) Country #29 is A) Morocco. B) France. C) Spain. D) Portugal. E) Italy. Answer: C 2.6 Questions with Images 1) The regions highlighted in the above map represent A) Old World Hearth areas. B) colonies of Roman Empire. C) New World hearth areas. D) areas targeted for new Starbucks franchises. E) centers in the spread of the industrial revolution. Answer: A 2) The above map shows the worldwide distribution of what phenomenon (darker colors indicate more of it)? A) HIV/AIDS B) Human Footprint C) SARS D) wealth E) fresh water Answer: A Bloom's: 4 Analyzing Section Headings: 2.3 Contemporary Globalization 3) The above map represents A) the spread of the Industrial Revolution across Europe. B) the expansion of British colonialism. C) the occurrence of local conflicts that led to World War I. D) the migration of refugees from England. E) the diffusion of nuclear power plants across Europe. Answer: A 4) In the above map, the darkest shaded regions represent the world's A) core. B) periphery. C) external arenas. D) hearth areas. E) wealthiest colonies. Answer: A 5) The above map best represents A) colonies and trading patterns of the British Empire. B) today's world core. C) the Silk Road and its trading routes. D) global Internet connectivity. E) the Columbian Exchange. Answer: A