Globalization and Diversity, 5e (Rowntree et al.)
Chapter 1 Concepts of World Geography
1) At the most basic level, geography can be broken into two complementary pursuits. These are
A) physical and human geography.
B) social and political geography.
C) economic and environmental geography.
D) map making and GIS.
E) describing places and finding their causes.
2) Why one part of the Earth’s surface is arid and dry and a nearby part is lush and wet is
explained by the term
A) areal differentiation.
B) systematic geography.
C) thematic geography.
D) formal region.
E) functional region.
3) Formal regions are defined by their
A) economic activities.
B) latitude and longitude.
C) interactions with other regions.
D) physical form.
E) diversity.
4) A functional region is
A) where a particular activity or cluster of activities take place.
B) defined by its latitude and longitude.
C) based only on language and religion.
D) defined by its physical form.
E) the material expression of human settlement.
5) This is the study of how places interact with one another.
A) areal differentiation
B) areal integration
C) areal concentration
D) core–periphery geography
E) spatial analysis
6) How do the authors of your text define globalization?
A) the increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging economic,
political, and cultural activities
B) the spread of McDonald’s throughout the world
C) the trend toward international trade agreements among the countries of the world
D) the pattern of increasing telephone and Internet connections around the world
E) the growth of international and supranational organizations uniting the world’s people
7) According to your text’s authors, globalization is the most fundamental reorganization of our
planet’s social and economic structures since which of the following events?
A) Ice Age
B) Demographic Transition
C) Industrial Revolution
D) World War II
E) the Renaissance
8) What do most scholars agree is the most significant component of globalization?
A) climate change
B) political transition around the planet
C) international terrorism
D) cultural hybridization
E) economic reorganization of the world
9) What part of the world has had its economy reoriented to drug smuggling and money
laundering as the result of globalization?
A) Eastern Europe
B) Sub–Saharan Africa
C) the Caribbean
D) North America
E) South Asia
10) According to the text, denim blue jeans are a cultural product and one of the world’s largest
producers of jeans is
A) Pakistan.
B) China.
C) the United States.
D) Mexico.
E) Vietnam.
11) The counterpoint to globalization is
A) areal differentiation.
B) areal integration.
C) diversity.
D) the cultural landscape.
E) formal regions.
12) Which of the following groups is most likely to disrupt local ecosystems as they search for
natural resources and manufacturing sites?
A) governments
B) transnational firms
C) indigenous ethnic groups
D) international organizations such as the United Nations
E) non-governmental organizations, such as Greenpeace
13) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of our increasingly globalized world?
A) communications systems that link all regions of the Earth instantaneously
B) transportation systems capable of moving goods quickly by air, sea, and land
C) powerful transnational conglomerate corporations
D) local folk cultures
E) new and more flexible forms of monetary flow
14) What do the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade
Organization (WTO) do?
A) They strictly regulate all the international commercial transactions in the world.
B) They make possible the flow of goods and capital across international boundaries.
C) They make the banking and trade laws of the member countries of the United Nations.
D) They are “think tanks” that advise countries on international banking and trade.
E) They are the banking systems of (respectively) Europe, Asia, and the United Nations.
15) All of the following are arguments against globalization, EXCEPT
A) globalization is not a “natural” process.
B) globalization is a policy promoted by free-trade advocates, capitalist countries, and
multinational firms, all of which benefit from the process.
C) policies of globalization increase the differences between rich and poor in the world.
D) globalization will lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
E) globalization is dangerously unstable.
16) What is the middle position on globalization, according to your text’s authors?
A) Globalization will eventually fail.
B) Globalization is avoidable with cooperative effort.
C) Globalization will bring more good than bad.
D) Globalization is probably unavoidable, but it can be managed.
17) What part of the world has become a major source of both pornography and prostitution as a
result of globalization?
A) the Caribbean
B) Eastern Europe
C) Sub–Saharan Africa
D) North America
E) South Asia
18) Absolute location on Earth can be determined by using
A) the winter and summer solstices.
B) the North Star.
C) the equator.
D) the prime meridian.
E) global positioning systems (GPS).
19) One of the best map projections used to display the Earth’s surface, and the one most
commonly used in your text, is the
A) Mercator projection.
B) planar projection.
C) choropleth map.
D) Robinson projection.
E) linear scale.
20) Maps that use color shades to represent a theme based on different data values is called a
A) small–scale map.
B) choropleth map.
C) large–scale map.
D) geographic information system.
E) map projection.
21) Taking electromagnetic images from aircraft or satellites is called
A) thematic mapping.
B) GPS.
C) remote sensing.
D) geographic information systems.
E) a map projection.
22) Computerized maps that consist of many different layers of information are produced by
using
A) thematic mapping.
B) GPS.
C) map projections.
D) geographic information systems (GIS).
E) choropleth mapping.
23) What is the current population of the Earth?
A) 6.7 million
B) 670 million
C) just over 1.7 billion
D) more than 7 billion
E) just about 1.6 trillion
24) What is the current total fertility rate (TFR) for the world as a whole?
A) 1.8 children
B) 2.1 children
C) 2.5 children
D) 3.1 children
E) 3.8 children
25) Since 1970, average world life expectancy has gone up about
A) 2 years.
B) 5 years.
C) 8 years.
D) 13 years.
E) 20 years.
26) In migration, which of the following is an example of a push force?
A) war in a potential destination
B) health services in a potential destination
C) unemployment in a person’s homeland
D) economic opportunity in a person’s homeland
E) religious freedom in a potential destination
27) What is the average rate of urbanization for developing countries?
A) about 15%
B) approximately 20%
C) between 30% and 40%
D) a little less than 50%
E) more than 60%
28) According to your text, what demographic landmark was reached in 2009?
A) More than half the world’s population lived in towns and cities.
B) The number of displaced persons exceeded 60 million.
C) The rate of population growth doubled.
D) China instituted its one-child policy.
E) Earth’s population exceeded 9.7 billion.
29) Which of the following statements regarding world population is INCORRECT?
A) One-third of the world’s population lives in China and India.
B) Ten countries account for 60% of the world’s population.
C) Population density, rate of natural increase, and total fertility rate are higher in Russia than the
United States.
D) North American cities generally have lower population densities.
E) The population growth rate is about one-half the 1960s peak rate.
30) This region has the highest percentage of population younger than age 15.
A) North America
B) Latin America
C) South Asia
D) East Asia
E) Sub–Saharan Africa
31) In Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition, what important change occurs?
A) Population increases.
B) The rate of natural increase (RNI) becomes negative.
C) Death rates begin to increase.
D) Birth rates begin to increase.
E) Life expectancies begin to decrease.
32) Which of the following countries is NOT one of the top six immigrant countries?
A) United States
B) Russia
C) Germany
D) France
E) Saudi Arabia
33) Most of the current and future world population growth is occurring in which part of the
world?
A) North and South America
B) European Union countries of Eastern and Western Europe
C) Australia and Oceania
D) developing countries of Africa, Asia, and South America
E) Islamic countries of Southwest and Southeast Asia
34) Which of the following provides the annual growth rate for a country or region as a
percentage?
A) population growth
B) rate of natural increase
C) crude birth rate
D) population transition
E) total fertility rate
35) Which of the following measurements of human population is very similar to the average
number of children per family?
A) rate of natural increase
B) crude birthrate
C) refined birthrate
D) total fertility rate
E) birthrate per capita
36) What does a total fertility rate (TFR) that is less than 2.1 indicate?
A) that a population is not growing naturally
B) that a population is growing slowly
C) that a population is growing quickly
D) that a population has reached its peak
E) A TFR that is less than 2.1 has no particular significance.
37) In which stage of the Demographic Transition are birthrate and death rate both high?
A) stage 1
B) stage 2
C) stage 3
D) stage 4
E) stage 5
38) In which stage of the Demographic Transition are birthrate and death rate both low?
A) stage 1
B) stage 2
C) stage 3
D) stage 4
E) stage 5
39) In which stages of the Demographic Transition is the rate of natural increase (RNI) low?
A) stage 1 and stage 3
B) stage 1 and stage 4
C) stage 2 and stage 3
D) stage 2 and stage 4
E) stage 3 and stage 4
40) What stage of the Demographic Transition produces a rapid rise in the rate of natural
increase?
A) stage 1
B) stage 2
C) stage 3
D) stage 4
E) stage 5
41) Today, about how many people in the world live outside the country of their birth?
A) 190,000
B) 1 million
C) 19 million
D) 190 million
E) 1 billion
42) In migration, which of the following is an example of a pull force?
A) unemployment in a person’s homeland
B) war in a potential destination
C) economic opportunity in a person’s homeland
D) economic opportunities in the potential destination
E) a college scholarship in a person’s homeland
43) What does a negative net migration rate in a country tell us?
A) that more people are moving to the country than leaving it
B) that the number of people leaving the country is equal to the number moving there
C) that more people are dying in the country than are being born
D) that more people are leaving the country than moving to it
E) A negative net migration rate does not tell us anything.