Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development 6th Edition

Where in Australia and Oceania do anthropologists have the greatest chance of finding "uncontacted peoples"? A) Australia B) New Zealand C) Fiji D) New Guinea E) Tasmania Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D What country outside of the region is involved in a 21st-century "land grab" in Sub-Saharan Africa? A) China B) the United States C) Australia D) France E) Great Britain Answer:

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty with a goal of reducing major greenhouse gases. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Currently desiccation is a more serious threat to the Caspian Sea than pollution. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Only about 35 percent of people in South Asia live in cities. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE An

Which of the following religions are found among the peoples of Central Asia? A) Christianity B) Islam C) Buddhism D) Judaism and other minor religions E) All of the answer choices are correct Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E What is the current overall rate of natural increase (RNI) for the world? A) 0.2% per year B) 1.2% per year C)

Confucianism stresses all of the following ideals, EXCEPT A) the importance of the family. B) deference to authority. C) the importance of ethics. D) respect for tradition. E) the need for bureaucratic positions to be passed down through family lines. Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E An explanation for Sub-Saharan Africa's relatively poor soils is A) that most of

What are new suburbs called that include shopping centers, industry, office, and entertainment activities, but are less connected to the central city, and more connected to other suburban centers? A) urban decentralization B) counterurbanization C) concentric zones model D) urban realms model E) edge cities Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E Of the following places in Australia and

Which country in Southwest Asia and North Africa has made efforts to preserve its famed "cedars" forestlands in recent years? A) Libya B) Lebanon C) Turkey D) Iran E) Iraq Answer: B Answer: B Answer: B What countries are Russia's major trading partners, as measured by total foreign investment? A) Great Britain and Germany B) the United States and Canada C)

The Atlantic Coast of Europe has a maritime climate. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE The Three Gorges Dam has been constructed on the Yangtze River. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Wind travels from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia comprise the Levant. Answer: Answer:

What is a problem with power generated by wind or sun? A) It is an intermittent source requiring other types of production for backup. B) It requires constant sun or wind. C) Energy cannot be transferred from sunny or windy areas to other areas. D) It results extensive disruption of local power sources. Answer:

After they were forced to leave Palestine by the Romans, Jews clustered in Muslim lands of the Iberian Peninsula because Islam showed greater tolerance for Judaism than had Christianity. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE China is the largest importer of crude oil in the world. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Among the countries of

Weather is the long-term condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a given location. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Kurds are an example of a nation-state. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE The hurricanes that wrack the Caribbean originate in the Pacific Ocean. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE When states attempt to reclaim lost territory or peoples is called

Which of the following is NOT shown in a population pyramid? A) a general, graphic indication of the growth rate B) males in the population C) females in the population D) age distribution of the population E) birth and death rates Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E A ban on elephant poaching was removed in the late 1990s

Turkey has one of the most diversified economies of Southwest Asia and North Africa, and is not reliant on oil. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE European colonization was effective in countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with the one exception of Ethiopia. Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE Answer: FALSE The Mediterranean climate is only found in five areas

Which of the following would NOT reflect Friedman's notion of a flat earth? A) the ability of financial capital and production to flow easily from one place to another B) the ability of financial capital to change locations to take advantage of technological innovation C) the ability of financial capital to change locations

Decolonization refers to the process of a colony's gaining (or regaining) control over its territory and establishing a separate, independent government. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Islam dominates in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE Answer: TRUE The majority of Egypt's 85 million people live a long distance from the Nile River. Answer: FALSE Answer: