Decolonization refers to the process of a colony’s gaining (or regaining) control over its
territory and establishing a separate, independent government.
Islam dominates in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The majority of Egypt’s 85 million people live a long distance from the Nile River.
The process of defending a cultural system against offensive cultural expressions while
promoting local cultural values is cultural nationalism.
Petroleum is a fossil fuel.
Basketball is unquestionably Europe’s national sport.
Traditionally the term “haoles” was used to describe an elite group in Hawaii who
profited from commercial sugarcane plantations.
Australians voted to retain their ties to the British Crown and recognize the British
Queen as their official head of state.
Throughout the Caribbean women have high social status.
The largest number of migrants to France are from North Africa.
In the Demographic Transition, birthrates and death rates are both high in Stage 1.
Hinduism and Judaism are universalizing religions.
The privatization of water in Cochabamba, Bolivia led to riots that led to violence and
deaths.
Glasnost called for greater political openness in the former Soviet Union.
Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE have a foreign workforce greater than 60%.
Most tropical rainforests are found near the equator.
The United States is a global leader in the use of renewable energy sources.
Emigration from Tonga is very high.
The Deutschemark is the currency of the European Monetary Union.
The United States did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol because no other industrialized
country in the world supported it.
Culture is learned.
A nation-state is a relatively diverse cultural group with its own fully independent
political territory.
The easiest way to interpret map scale is when it is portrayed as a linear or graphic scale.
Privatization of water services has ensured that water is clean and helpful and
affordable in many parts of the developing world.
The only feasible way of life on the Tibetan plateau seen so far is nomadic pastoralism
based on the yak.
Adult illiteracy rates measure the number of college graduates in a country.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster left about 20% of the country of Ukraine unhealthy to
live in.
Desertification is most likely to occur in a grassland region.
If one were making a pilgrimage to Makkah and Medinah, one would travel to Egypt.
Global warming would be a greater immediate problem in the Netherlands than in
Denver, Colorado.
Once independence was achieved, Sub-Saharan Africa countries were able to resolve
ethnic and political conflicts within countries and regions.
Japanese and Chinese timber firms often outbid domestic firms for wood from U.S. and
Canadian forests.
Brain drain occurs when bright young people migrate to foreign lands in search of
better jobs.
Local industries, such as steel, have seen their productivity increase and profits soar as
the Russian Domain became integrated into the global economy.
During Soviet rule, immigration of ethnic Russians to Central Asia was encouraged.
Which of the following modern countries of South America was NOT part of Gran
Colombia?
A) Panama
B) Bolivia
C) Ecuador
D) Venezuela
E) Guiana
What are the causes of deforestation in South Asia?
A) to make room for agriculture
B) urban expansion
C) industrial expansion
D) commercial logging
E) All of the choices are correct
Under what conditions is swidden agriculture sustainable?
A) when the government intervenes to control land use
B) when private entities purchase land for development, minimizing the acreage of land
used for swidden agriculture
C) when population densities remain relatively low and stable, and where practitioners
of swidden control an adequate amount of land
D) when there is a large number of people to do the hard, manual labor associated with
swidden
E) when long-term weather patterns provide adequate moisture and warmth
In which of the following cases will the total fertility rate (TFR) be highest?
A) when women marry early and have one or two children
B) when women marry in their late 30s, and then have children
C) when women marry in their late 20s, then have several children
D) when women marry early, have children, then die in their late 20s
E) when women marry early and have many children over a long span of years
The kibbutz, a collectively worked settlement that produces grain, vegetable, and
orchard crops, using irrigation, is associated with which country of Southwest Asia and
North Africa?
A) Algeria
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Israel
E) Syria
During the first Phase of migration to the United States (1800-1820), where did the
majority of immigrants come from?
A) Ireland and Germany
B) Southern and Eastern Europe
C) Canada and Latin America
D) Latin America and Asia
E) England and Africa
Emigration from of Central Asian countries is often to Russia.
About how many distinct languages are spoken in the Philippines?
A) 1
B) 85
C) 100
D) 25
E) 8
In an essay discuss the significant environmental issues facing South Asia.
What is the common language of the former Soviet union republics of Central Asia?
A) Arabic
B) Tajik
C) Persian
D) Pashtun
E) Russian
Haiti’s 2008 earthquake resulted in over 230,000 deaths whereas Japan’s 2011
earthquake resulted in 20,000 deaths. What explains the differences in loss of life?
A) effectiveness of search & rescue operations
B) strength of the earthquake
C) in Haiti there was also a tsunami that followed the earthquake
D) local building standards
E) effectiveness of search and rescue operations and local building standards
Which of the following cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa receives the highest
amounts of annual precipitation?
A) Cairo, Egypt
B) Istanbul, Turkey
C) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
D) Tehran, Iran
E) Baghdad, Iraq
What is the term for the measure of the fertility of a statistically fictitious yet average
group of women moving through their childbearing years?
A) rate of natural increase (RNI)
B) crude birthrate (CBR)
C) infant mortality rate (IMR)
D) total fertility rate (TFR)
E) life expectancy at birth
What has been the consequence of China’s “one-child” policy?
A) The average total fertility rate has declined to 1.6.
B) The number of baby boys far exceeds the number of baby girls.
C) Gender-selective abortion has emerged.
D) Some families have abandoned healthy baby girls at birth.
E) All answer choices are correct.
From the perspective of which world region is Southwest Asian and North Africa
considered the “Middle East”?
A) Europe
B) Australia and Oceania
C) East Asia
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
E) Latin America
Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that thrives in the podzol soil
region of the Russian Domain?
A) sugar beets
B) grain
C) potatoes
D) swine and other meat
E) dairying
Which EU country has recently established formal border controls along one of its
borders?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Italy
D) Belgium
E) Denmark
What type of bioregion is most often found along the equator?
A) broadleaf or mixed broadleaf and coniferous forest
B) coniferous forest
C) tundra
D) tropical forests
E) Mediterranean woodland
Temperate forests are likely to have which of the following species of trees?
A) pine and spruce
B) maple
C) beech
D) maple and beech
E) maple, beech, pine and spruce
The geography of human populations across Southwest Asia and North African
demonstrate the ties between what resource and life in this part of the world?
A) oil
B) natural gas
C) timber
D) agriculture
E) water
What was socialist realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain?
A) a type of theater that is similar to today’s “reality TV”
B) a writing style in the Soviet domain
C) a musical style that emphasized traditional melodies, combined with classical
instrumentation
D) an artistic style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or
struggling against capitalism
E) a holistic approach to the arts in the former Soviet Union
What is(are) the main cause(s) of Burma’s (Myanmar’s) lack of economic development?
A) internal warfare
B) an international economic embargo
C) economic policy
D) a lack of resources and economic policy
E) internal warfare and economic policy
Which of the following is (are) an ethnic religion(s)?
A) Judaism
B) Hinduism
C) Mormonism
D) Judaism and Hinduism
E) Judaism, Hinduism and Mormonism
What divides European Russiafrom Siberia?
A) the Ural Mountains
B) the eastern border of Ukraine
C) the center of Siberia
D) a line running from the Baltic to the Adriatic
E) along the trans-Siberian railroad
Which part of the Australia and Oceania region receives the LEAST amount of
precipitation?
A) the northeast coast of New Zealand
B) the mid-slopes of the 13,000-foot-plus volcanoes of the island of Hawaii
C) anywhere in Samoa
D) the largest of the Marshall Islands
E) the interior of Australia
The Renaissance-Baroque period of urban development was characterized by
A) a dense landscape with few open space.
B) narrow, winding streets.
C) expansive ceremonial buildings and squares.
D) clustering of factories.
E) rebuilding from war’s destruction.
How did Pacific Islanders first come to be recruited heavily for American football?
A) many Pacific Islanders began to watch American football on t.v. and saw this as a
way to improve their economic status
B) the strong presence of Mormon missionaries in Oceania led to the recruitment of
Pacific Islanders for Brigham Young University football
C) Polynesian culture’s emphasis of group activity and bonding made them transition
easily to American football culture
D) None of the above are correct
E) All of the above are correct
What is Europe’s longest river?
A) Thames
B) Rhine
C) Loire
D) Danube
E) Rhone
What is the Hajj?
A) the pilgrimage to the Holy Land that many Christians make during their lifetime
B) the pilgrimage to Muhammed’s birthplace (Makkah) that every Muslim is supposed
to make during his or her lifetime
C) the pilgrimage to the Western Wall in Jerusalem that many Jews make during their
lifetime
D) the month-long fast that Muslims must undertake each year
E) the sacred book of Islam
Which of the following is NOT likely to be reflected in the “Under age 5 mortality
indicator”?
A) heart disease
B) food availability
C) basic health services
D) public sanitation
E) accidents
Approximately how many of the earth’s people are Muslim?
A) 500 million
B) 1.3 billion
C) 1.9 billion
D) 2.4 billion
E) 2.8 billion
Which two bodies of water were connected by the construction of the Suez Canal?
A) Black Sea and the Persian Gulf
B) Black Sea and Red Sea
C) Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea
D) Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
E) Persian Gulf and Red Sea
Not including Australia and New Zealand , what type(s) of rural settlement are found in
the island realm of Oceania?
A) commercial sheep farming
B) commercial dairying
C) shifting cultivation for village populations
D) commercial plantation agriculture
E) commercial plantation agriculture and shifting cultivation
Not including the small areas in East Asia where the climate is tropical, where would
you find the mildest climate of East Asia?
A) the Japanese islands that lie closest to Russia
B) the northern portion of the Korean peninsula
C) southeastern China, the southern portion of the Korean peninsula, and the southern
portion of Japan
D) southwestern China
E) central China
Identify the twelve world regions that are covered in your textbook. Why have the
authors of your textbook identified these specific regions?
What is dollarization and how has it recently affected the economy of specific Latin
American countries? Also, what are preventive measures that some of these countries
are taking to avoid problems associated with this phenomenon?
In an essay, discuss the important legacies of the Soviet economy for the economic and
social infrastructure of the Russian Domain.
Discuss and analyze the various environmental problems affecting Europe, including
how governments have dealt with these problems.
Discuss how social and economic inequality in Haiti has contributed to a cycle of
environmental degradation and poverty.
Please discuss the history of Korea, explaining how it came to be divided into two
countries. What is the current situation in South Korea and North Korea?
Culture is an important aspect of the human experience. Define the term and then
discuss and analyze the four categories of culture presented in the text, along with an
examination of the phenomenon of cultural imperialism.
Describe and explain the overall population distribution in the Russian Region.
Discuss China’s initiatives in “green” energy.
Discuss the most important sources of renewable energy and their potential drawbacks
and benefits.
What is Gross National Income (GNI) and what are its shortcomings as an indicator of
economic development and social well-being?