Weather is the long-term condition of the Earth’s atmosphere at a given location.
Kurds are an example of a nation-state.
The hurricanes that wrack the Caribbean originate in the Pacific Ocean.
When states attempt to reclaim lost territory or peoples is called balkanization.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the value of all final goods and services
produced in a country.
Japan has a high total fertility rate.
Although soccer is seen as the most popular sport in most Central Asian countries,
Central Asian countries have been slower to embrace the globalization of sports than
other regions.
All economists agree that bailout money for EMU countries should be used to stimulate
growth through massive government projects that create jobs and allow for
consumption.
Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion in the southern part of Europe.
The Aswan High Dam is located in Iran.
The percentage of a population under age 15 is a poor indicator of the momentum (or
lack thereof) for continued population growth.
The location of the population in North Africa and Southwest Asia is most often
dependent on access to oil.
Lebanon has made efforts to preserve its famed “cedars” forestlands in recent years.
Through 2014 there has been U.S. intervention in the civil war in Syria, in defense of
rebel forces.
The Cold War ended due to U.S. pressure on the Soviet Union to allow for democratic
reforms.
A “steppe” bioregion is most closely associated with grasslands.
Turkish is NOT an Afro-Asiatic language.
The growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of
economic, political, and cultural change is globalization.
One of the most important patterns of migration in Southwest Asia & North Africa is
rural-to-urban migration.
The loss of more than 90% of the aquatic life in Poland’s rivers was due to industrial
waste.
A population pyramid with a wide base and a narrow peak is characteristic of a slow
growth rate.
Early post-World War II cooperation in Western Europe centered on transportation.
The most commonly spoken language in Southwest Asia and North Africa is Hebrew.
The Schengen Agreement paved the way for the reunification of East and West
Germany.
A reason that many Polynesians are recruited to play on American football teams is the
emphasis in Polynesian culture on group activity and bonding.
Greenhouse gases were fairly stable through most of human history, but have decreased
dramatically in the past 130 years.
A vernacular region is the visible, material expression of human settlement including the past and the present.
Islands are the dominant landform in the Caribbean.
The Tropics are defined by meridians of longitude.
Several Gulf states have immense oil reserves and production capacity, but other
countries in Southwest Asia and North Africa have little or none.
Hydropolitics is an important issue in North Africa/Southwest Asia because pollution
has made so much of the water unacceptable for consumption.
In the Australia and Oceania region, anthropologists have the greatest chance of finding
“uncontacted peoples” in Fiji.
The rate of natural increase (RNI) depicts the annual population growth rate for a
country as a percentage increase.
Efforts to reduce fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa did not begin in earnest until the
1980s.
France and Britain declared war on Germany after Germany’s invasion of Poland.
A maritime climate is characterized by
A) hot summers.
B) mild summers.
C) cold winters.
D) mild winters and mild summers.
E) cold winters and hot summers.
Which of the following phrases best describes the linguistic geography of Southeast
Asia?
A) There are five distinct languages, and each one can be placed in a different language
group.
B) There are several hundred distinct languages that can be placed into five major
linguistic groups.
C) There are five languages, and they are all in the same language group.
D) Each island has its own unique language family.
E) Because there are so many languages in this region, ASEAN has required that
everyone in the region learn English.
What is the approximate population of Australia?
A) 5 million
B) 13 million
C) 45 million
D) 23 million
E) 200 million
Mesopotamia is located in the modern-day country of Syria.
Discuss the changing role and position of women in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
How do social conditions in the Central Asian countries that were formerly part of the
Soviet Union compare with social conditions in the other countries in the region?
A) Levels of health and education are relatively low in Central Asian republics that
were formerly part of the USSR, and are continuing to decline since the demise of the
Soviet Union.
B) Levels of health and education are relatively high in Central Asian republics that
were formerly part of the USSR, and continue to rise since the demise of the Soviet
Union.
C) Levels of health and education are relatively low in Central Asian republics that
were formerly part of the USSR, but are rising since the demise of the Soviet Union.
D) Levels of health and education are relatively high in Central Asian republics that
were formerly part of the USSR, but are declining since the demise of the Soviet Union.
E) Levels of health and education in Central Asia are in the middle range, and the
demise of the Soviet Union is causing a decline in these levels.
In which country of Europe did the Industrial Revolution start?
A) England
B) Germany
C) Spain
D) France
E) Italy
What is a fjord?
A) a flooded valley originally carved out by glaciers
B) an intermontaine plateau formed by the erosion of two neighboring mountains into a
shared valley
C) a fan-shaped deposit of sediments dropped by a river or stream flowing out of a
mountain range
D) hilly topographic features that mark the path of glaciers; they are composed of
eroded material carried by glaciers and ice sheets
E) a fine, wind-deposited sediment that makes fertile soil, but is vulnerable to water
erosion
These lines run east-west around the globe and are used to locate places north and south
of the equator.
A) meridians
B) longitude
C) meridians and longitude
D) parallels
E) Prime Meridians
Using the map below, in the Ukraine, Russian speakers are largely found in what part of
the country?
A) northern
B) southern
C) western
D) eastern
E) there are no Russian speakers in the Ukraine
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) stages 1 and 4
Following the arrival of Europeans to the North American continent what happened to
the Native American population?
A) They began trading with the Europeans and benefited economically.
B) European diseases and disruptions reduced their numbers by more than 90%.
C) They migrated to better land in the interior of North America.
D) The European educational system transformed their way of life, enabling them to
benefit from early globalization.
E) They continued as before, having little contact with European immigrants.
What is colonialism?
A) the temporary occupation of another country
B) the formal establishment of rule over a foreign population
C) the establishment of trade relations with another country
D) the introduction of popular consumer culture in a traditional society
E) All of the other answers are definitions of colonialism.
Which country of Europe has a large Muslim migrant population?
A) Sweden
B) Ireland
C) Spain
D) France
E) Italy
When narrow waterways are vulnerable to military blockade or disruption it is called a
A) choke point.
B) desalination.
C) salinization
D) fossil water.
E) qanat system.
Approximately how many of the earth’s people are Christians?
A) 1.2 billion
B) 2.1 billion
C) 3.2 billion
D) 4.6 billion
E) 5.3 billion
What water policy, advocated by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, has
made it more difficult for some people to gain access to water?
A) government regulation
B) the Kyoto Protocol
C) irrigation
D) privatization
E) U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
What river has been a major supplier of commercial energy for decades in the region of
southern Africa?
A) Congo
B) Niger
C) Nile
D) Zambezi
E) Limpopo
Which of the following was a major determinant of the early industrial regions of
Europe?
A) coal
B) a large labor force
C) access to banking and finance
D) mild climate
E) All of the choices are correct.
What is a medina?
A) The temporary settlements of families engaged in pastoral nomadism in Southwest
Asia and North Africa.
B) The name for capital city in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
C) A mound built on the outskirts of Islamic cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa;
it is a burial ground.
D) The walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque.
E) The erosional materials left behind in Southwest Asia and North Africa after ancient
lakes and rivers dried up.
There are several significant ethnic conflicts in South Asia. Write an essay in which you
examine the history and current status of three of these disputes.
What is cultural syncretism?
A) the blending of cultural forces to create a new, synergistic form of culture
B) the adoption of popular culture by a local ethnic group
C) the replacement of local cultural traditions with popular culture
D) the rejection of popular culture by a local ethnic group
E) the elimination of local cultures caused by the spread of popular culture
As a region, what is the unifying characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa?
A) common religious beliefs
B) similar livelihood systems and shared colonial experience
C) shared language
D) unified political system
E) similar philosophy
Discuss and analyze the impact of religion on the history and current political borders
of South Asia.
What country of South Asia has been one of the most successful in the region in
reducing its total fertility rate?
A) Pakistan
B) Nepal
C) Bangladesh
D) Bhutan
E) India
Which of the following statements about the Uyghur language is most accurate?
A) Uyghur is an Indo-European language, and the main native language of Russia’s
eastern provinces.
B) Uyghur is an Indo-European language, and the main native language of China’s
Xinjiang province.
C) Uyghur is a Turkic language of the Altaic language family, and the main native
language of Russia’s eastern provinces.
D) Uyghur is a Turkic language of the Altaic language family, and the main native
language of China’s Xinjiang province.
E) Uyghur is a Tibeto-Burman language, and the main native language of China’s
Xinjiang province.
Plantation America refers to
A) a cultural region within the Americas.
B) a primarily coastal area engaged in monocropping.
C) villages for freed or runaway slaves.
D) a cultural region within the Americas that was primarily coastal and engaged in
monocropping.
E) farms raising sugar cane or bananas.
Which of the following is relatively common in Southeast Asia?
A) major conurbations
B) a megalopolis
C) counterurbanization
D) primate cities
E) gentrification
What is the distinctive form of a language that is associated with different regions?
A) lingua franca
B) official language
C) language group
D) dialect
E) language family
What language group dominates in the Russian Domain?
A) Slavic
B) Altaic
C) Eskimo-Aleut
D) Finno-Ugric
E) Tibetan
Which non-European country played a major role in the economy of the countries of
Eastern Europe?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Soviet Union
D) United States
E) All of the choices are correct.
Early urban development in Central Asia was located near
A) ports.
B) the coast.
C) in populated areas.
D) near the silk route.
E) near ports and rivers.
The European population is characterized by which stage of the demographic
transition?
A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth
E) Fifth
Which of the following types of music is NOT associated with the Caribbean?
A) reggae
B) calypso
C) merengue
D) jazz
E) rumba
What is the name of the belief system that deals with designing buildings and placing of
objects on the landscape in accordance with the spiritual powers that course through the
local topography?
A) feng shui
B) Shinto
C) Confucianism
D) Buddhism
E) Central Place Theory
Detail the evolution of industry in Europe.
Please explain the three major factors contributing to tropical deforestation. In which
regions do we find this problem especially pronounced?
Examine the historical roots, current areas of contention, and settlement attempts of the
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Write an essay in which you discuss the Russian war in Afghanistan, and the subsequent
rise of the Taliban. In your discussion, please consider the primary causes of the war,
the key players involved, and the Taliban’s effect on the country’s cultural landscape.
Discuss how global terrorism has forced geographers to redefine and expand our
conceptualization of globalization and geopolitics.
Describe the major languages of South Asia and explain why their use has been a
source of tension.
Explain the relationship between plate tectonics and the location of seismic activity
around the world.
Discuss the characteristics and location of Europe’s three major climates.
Describe and discuss the environmental problems of Mexico City.
Where is the Three Gorges Dam, why did China build it, and what are the major
problems associated with its construction?
Yugoslavia and its former republics have been a major area of tension and warfare in
the 1990s. First discuss the historical, ethnic, linguistic, and religious background of
Yugoslavia, and then examine the conflicts of the 1990s, including the reasons for their
occurrence and what has been done to settle them.
Discuss the role of slavery in the Caribbean region.
What is Pidgin English and why is it important?
How has the distribution of fossil fuels in Southwest Asia and North Africa affected
economic development and standards of living in the area? Use specific examples in
your answer.
What factors explain the large family size of Sub-Saharan Africa? What conditions
would be necessary to encourage parents to have smaller families?
Write an essay in which you examine and explain the nature and extent of poverty in
South Asia, as well as the region’s level of economic development, including which
sectors are strong, which are weak, and what overall growth trends have been.