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
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
What country of Southeast Asia has the region’s lowest total fertility rate–a rate so low
(below replacement level) that without immigration, its population will begin to
decline?
A) Burma
B) Cambodia
C) Malaysia
D) Vietnam
E) Singapore
Other than the current territory of Japan, in which of the following parts of East Asia
has Japan controlled territory in the past?
A) Korea
B) Xinjiang, China
C) Taiwan and Korea
D) Manchuria and Xinjiang, China
E) Manchuria (China), Taiwan, Korea
Which of the following is NOT a problem facing Kolkata (Calcutta), India?
A) Electrical power is inadequate.
B) Many streets are routinely flooded during the wet season.
C) The economic base is declining.
D) A mixed Hindu-Muslim population generates ethnic tension.
E) It has poor quality educational institutions.
What is the major cause of widespread cutting of tropical rainforests?
A) the recent globalization of commerce in international wood products
B) an expansion of farmlands in tropical regions
C) intensified efforts to protect the forests from wildfires by harvesting
D) rising worldwide demand for paper
E) urban sprawl
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia.
What factor has been most crucial to the survival of the remaining indigenous people of
Latin America?
A) land
B) water
C) energy
D) education
E) jobs
Which of the following reflects growing environmental awareness in North America?
A) fewer farms that are larger in size
B) the selective removal of dams
C) heavy reliance on pesticides and herbicides in industrial agriculture
D) government incentives for coal as a primary energy source
E) the over-pumping of water for irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer
What caused the dramatic decline in Guam’s native bird species?
A) climatic change in the region
B) the elimination of its food supply by humans
C) the thinning of their eggshells and the subsequent death of their young as a result of
heavy DDT use on the island in the 1970s
D) radiation poisoning caused by nuclear tests of the United States and France
E) the accidental introduction of the non-native brown tree snake
Computer models predict that average global temperatures will increase by
A) 1F.
B) 4F.
C) 10F.
D) -2F.
E) 3F.
What is a universalizing religion?
A) a religion that attempts to appeal to all peoples regardless of location or culture
B) a metaphysical religion that seeks inner peace through contact with extraterrestrial
beings
C) a religion that seeks to identify the common elements of all religions of the world in
order to bring worldwide religious unity
D) a global movement to promote interfaith cooperation, similar to the United Nations
E) All of the other answers are definitions of a universalizing religion.
The world’s pressure systems are responsible for
A) a greater intensity of solar energy at the equator.
B) mild summer and winter temperatures along coast lines.
C) severe winters in interior regions.
D) moving the world’s wind and storm systems.
E) mild summers/winters along coasts and severe winters in interior regions.
What is ASEAN’s relationship to the United States?
A) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all countries,
except the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
B) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, but wants to keep all countries,
including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
C) ASEAN wants the United States to help it develop good ties with other countries to
encourage international trade.
D) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all
countries, including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
E) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep the United
States from having too much influence in the region.
During the third Phase of migration to the U.S. (1870-1920), where did the majority of
immigrants come from?
A) England and Africa
B) Ireland and Germany
C) Southern and Eastern Europe
D) Canada and Latin America
E) Latin America and Asia
Saudi Arabia contains approximately ________ percent of the world’s known oil
supplies.
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 50
E) 40
Which of the following countries illustrates the changing role of women in Southwest
Asia and North Africa?
A) Yemen
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Algeria
D) Turkey
E) Oman
How does Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) adjust Gross National Income per capita?
A) PPP takes into account the age and productivity of the local populations.
B) PPP takes into account the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
C) PPP takes into account the 2008-2009 economic decline.
D) PPP takes into account the strength or weakness of local currencies.
E) It is a composite indicator that takes into account all of the above features.
Which country in Southwest Asia and North Africa has taken steps to join the European
Union?
A) Iraq
B) Israel
C) Lebanon
D) Sudan
E) Turkey
Which of the following is NOT one of the immigrant groups arriving in Japan?
A) Chinese men working in construction
B) men and women from Russia working as educators
C) Thai and Filipina women working as entertainers or prostitutes
D) Brazilians of Japanese ancestry returning home for high wages
E) men from South Asia working in construction
What is the second-most widely spoken Germanic language in Europe?
A) English
B) Swedish
C) Danish
D) Norwegian
E) German
The highest population densities in the Russian Domain are found in which part of the
region?
A) the southeastern part of the region
B) the eastern-most part of the region
C) Siberia
D) the western-most part of the region
E) the coastal areas around the Sea of Okhotsk
At Kyoto in 1997, what did the 30 Western industrialized countries agree to do?
A) reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels
B) voluntarily limit greenhouse gas emissions
C) finance further studies to determine the cause of climate change
D) censure China for exceeding its carbon limits
E) reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by half
Islam
A) began within a few decades of the death of Jesus.
B) originated in present-day Saudi Arabia.
C) holds that Jesus was a false prophet.
D) says that there will be many more true prophets in the future.
E) has never had a foothold in Europe.
Demographers predict that by the year 2050 __________ number of people will live in
the North American Region?
A) 270 million
B) 464 million
C) 423 million
D) 552 million
E) 1 billion
The Durban Agreement of 2011 establishes which of the following?
A) holding signers of the Kyoto Protocol to the 2012 deadline
B) continued exemption for developing countries such as China
C) keeping the same emissions goals as Kyoto
D) creating a fund to help less developed countries reach emission reduction goals
E) encourage developing countries to use their forests for fuel
Which Caribbean country is the site of a black howler monkey sanctuary created by
local farmers?
A) Jamaica
B) Puerto Rico
C) Guyana
D) Cuba
E) Belize
Which of the following is an example of the criminal element of globalization?
A) drugs
B) pornography and prostitution
C) terrorism
D) drugs, pornography and prostitution
E) terrorism, drugs, pornography and prostitution
What is brain drain?
A) The common name given to an illness caused by exposure to toxic residues from
petroleum refining that results in short-term memory loss.
B) This occurs when highly centralized governments actively recruit the best and the
brightest individuals for jobs in the national capital, leaving few behind in the villages.
C) This occurs when bright young people migrate to foreign lands in search of better
jobs.
D) This is a rock group from the United Arab Emirates.
E) The common name given to the practice of providing scholarships to students in
North Africa/Southwest Asia, which enables them to study abroad and gain a better
education than that available in their home region. These scholars later return to share
their new-found knowledge with their own students.
Which of the following resources presents the greatest challenge for survival in
Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) petroleum
B) food
C) water
D) iron
E) human resources
Anthropogenic pollution is caused by
A) people.
B) animals.
C) climate.
D) rocks.
E) sun spots.
Describe and analyze the reasons for high population growth in South Asia. Include an
examination of family planning in your discussion.
Discuss and analyze the geopolitical history of China focusing on the rise of Great
Britain in China.
In the 1930s, which country experienced desertification known as the “Dust Bowl”?
A) China
B) Argentina
C) Turkey
D) United States
E) Spain