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Which does NOT correspond to an actual location on the Earth? |
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Latitude 123*E, Longitude 45*N |
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A Meridian Adventure Lines ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is cruising on a due southerly course. The Captain announces that the ship has just crossed the 10* North parallel of latitude. If there are no islands to be steered around, approximately how far must the ship continue to travel straight southward to reach the Equator? |
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Which statement is TRUE concerning antipodes? |
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If point X is on the Tropic of Cancer (at Latitude 23* 16'N), the antipode of point X is on the Tropic of Capricorn (Latitude 23* 16'S) |
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Which major river is correctly matched with its primary direction of flow? |
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The geographic context of a place, including its political, economic, social or other characteristics. The relative location of a place in relation to the larger regional or spatial system; implies interconnection and interdependence. |
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The American Southwest is an example of what type of region? |
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This is an example of environmental push motivated migration: |
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People out-migrating from New Orleans because of the devastating Hurricane Katrina |
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Which was NOT one of Ravenstein's "Law's of Migration"? |
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Most migration is urban to urban |
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According to the US "Mobility Schedule," people at which age is MOST likely to move |
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Ullman's bases of spatial interaction |
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Transferability, complementarity, and intervening opportunity |
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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. Support structures are in place to help newcomers. |
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The repetitive, seasonal movements of nomads, farm workers, transients and snowbirds. |
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A successive series of moves from farm or rural village to a small town and then to a big city. |
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The movement (or spreading) of a phenomenon, such as an innovation, information, or epidemic, across space and over time. |
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Last year, Francie Froshperson lived in her parents house in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; this year, she resides at La Paz dormitory at the University of Arizona campus. |
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Intervening Opportunities |
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We don't build concrete slabs for new houses in Tucson using imported Egyptian sand because local sources are available. |
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The northernmost and westernmost of the 50 US states. |
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Areas within which people move freely on their rounds of regular daily affairs. |
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Refers to the lessened interconnectedness of the world that has taken place as a result of modern-day nation-states enacting stringent immigration laws and limiting citizenship. |
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Because China's current total fertility rate of 1.6 is below replacement level it now has a shrinking population. |
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The Reverend Thomas Malthus hypothesized that for two places to interact, one place must have a supply of an item which there is an effective demand at the other. |
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Population Explosion (false) |
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Term associated with Stage I ("The High Stationary" stage) of the demographic transition. |
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China Demographic Indicator |
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Italy Demographic Indicator |
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India Demographic Indicator |
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Central African Republic Demographic Indicator |
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Cameroon Demographic Transition Stage |
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Stage II. Early Expanding |
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The country of the world with the fourth largest current population |
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The Worlds Current Population |
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In the mythical Childrens Democratic Republic of Youthlandia, those under age 15 constitute 40% of the population, whereas those 65 and older account for 10% of the population. Th Republic's Youth Dependency Ratio is: |
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The accelerated economic growth that may result from declines in a country's mortality and fertility; the subsequent change in the age composition of the population will feature high proportions of working age adults and low proportions of youths and elderly dependents. |
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The USA continues to experience substantial natural increase, despite having had, for several decades, fertility that is at, or just below, the 2.1 replacement level. |
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The Stages of the Epidemiologic Transition |
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Age of Pestilence and Famine-Age of Receding Pandemics-Age of Degenerative and Manmade Diseases |
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Equals the number of births minus the number of deaths occurring in a population. |
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1. Gold Miner 2. Rocket Scientist 3. Waitress 4. Assembly-line worker at toy factory 5. Investment banker |
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1. Primary 2. Quinary 3. Tertiary 4. Secondary 5. Quaternary |
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A crop or livestock system characterized by sizable capital inputs and low inputs of labor per unit area of land; an example is large-scale wheat farming in the "Spring Wheat Belt" of the Dakotas, eastern Montana and the souther parts of the Prairie Provinces of Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) |
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Rostow's stages of economic development |
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Take off, Drive to Maturity, Age of Mass Consumption |
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What industry currently exhibits labor orientation? |
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According to the von Thunen model, what would be found farthest from the market? |
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Cattle ranching (raising beef cows) |
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The forestry sector of Pinelandia, which is a province of the mythical country of Borealis, has a location quotient of 3. What % of jobs does forestry account for in Pinelandia if 6% of jobs in Borealis are in forestry? |
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A video shown in lecture described economic development strategies pursued by Mauritius. |
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The Principle of Comparative Advantage |
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An independent island nation in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar |
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Suppose a U.S. Womens fashionwear company contracts out the sewing of cuffs, collars, and buttons of its ("faux fur") jackets to a Mauritian-owned company. The finished, assembled jackets are shipped via air freight back to the US for wholesale and retail sale. This is an example of: |
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Both outsourcing and offshoring |
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Norway now occupies the #1 rank on the UN's Human Development Index |
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Locavorism is defined as "Actions or processes that involved the increasing interconnection of all parts of the whole world as the full range of social, cultural, political and economic processes become international in scale and effect." |
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In 1970 most of the worlds poor lived in South and East Asia; since then, Africa has been becoming the home of the majority of the worlds impoverished. |
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Kansas is classified as an area of plantation agriculture because "Spring Wheat" (so-called because it can be harvested early in the summer) is extensively planted. |
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The impacts of the Green Revolution were felt most significantly in Asia and Latin America |
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According to a statistic cited in lecture, 85% of transnational corporations (TNCs) are headquartered in the countries known as The Four Asian Tigers (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore) or in Liberia, where corporate licensing requirements are lax and business taxes are non-existent. |
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States that the population growth necessitates increased inputs of labor and technology. |
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What is the country that first pioneered the concept of Gross National Happiness? |
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Just-In-Time Production refers to an assembly-line method of fabrication whereby goods are produced without a lot of product differentiation; large inventories of component parts are kept on the factory floor to avoid delays; models and designed to appeal to mass markets and have long production runs. |
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The Huffington Post article |
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Which shows one of the components of the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) WRONGLY matched with the indicator or indicators used to measure it? |
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Health-Percent of population with HIV/AIDS and Ratio of Doctors to Population |
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Gross National Income (GNI) |
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The total monetary value of goods and services produced in a year by a country, whether those operations are located within the country or abroad. |
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Perishability-gaining activities, such as baking bread, and weight-gaining activities, such as bottling soft drinks |
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Farming fish for commercial production |
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This type of intensive commercial gardening yields a wide range of vegetables and fruits. Because such produce is perishable and requires substantial amounts of hand labor, it is grown close to medium and large cities on valuable land. The harvested crops are hauled into the nearby cities to be sold to consumers. |
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What is NOT among the assumptions or predictions of the original von Thunen model? |
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The fertility of the soil varies: the most productive loams are just outside the city (near the river) with the dirt becoming progressively poorer and rockier at greater distances. |
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Which is TRUE about the Green Revolution |
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It expanded food production and helped alleviate some of the shortages and famines predicted for subsistence agricultural regions since the early 1960s |
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Manufacturing athletic footwear |
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Manufacturing textiles during the first phase of the Industrial Revolution |
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The simultaneous co-existence in Less Developed Countries of traditional subsistence livelihood systems alongside "modern" market sectors |
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Auto plants traditionally clustered in the Midwest because |
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Henry Ford lived in Michigan and agglomeration economies resulted from assembly being done to close to where parts were made. |
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New plants have recently been built in the South because |
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the auto manufacturers can pay lower wages and provide fewer benefits to non-union labor |
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The traditional dividing line between the richer, more developed countries of the global "North" and the poorer, less developed countries of the global "South." |
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The thin film of air, water, and earth within which we live, including the atmosphere, surrounding waters and the upper reaches of the earth's crust |
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What does I mean in I=PAT |
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Impact on the Environment |
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What does P mean on I=PAT |
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What does A mean on I=PAT |
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What does T mean on I=PAT |
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In the video shown in lecture, Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth, Program 7, "Cities and Urban Land Use," which city was praised for having an excellent, integrated public transit system, including light rail transit, and for being an especially "green" city, having taken out a freeway and developed a park along its downtown riverfront? |
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What is an example of a Biome? |
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The upper portions of the earths crust containing the soils that sustain plant and animal life and the fossil fuels and ores exploited by humans |
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Shows environmental systems from left to right in order of INCREASING size |
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Ecosystem-Biome-Biosphere |
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What are the "Three Pillars of Sustainability?" |
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1.Social 2.Economic 3.Environment |
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Ecological Footprint of a city |
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A measurement of the land area required to sustain its population |
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In addition to increased temperatures, one of the other expected effects of climate change is: |
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Reducing the emission of greenhouse gases which contribute to global climate change. |
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What gas increases in the atmosphere and is most linked to global climate change ? |
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A large-scale, functionally integrated settlement area tied together by commuting and shopping linkages; discontinuously built up, it operates as a coherent economic whole. Its official boundaries are one or more entire counties. |
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Consuming the second largest amount of land in American urbanized areas (After residential) is: |
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Transportation space (Streets and parking) |
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What is a suburban sprawl? |
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An abstract system of carefully separated pods of single use. Daily needs are located within driving distance." |
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Which shows one of the three dimensions of North American urban social space identified in social area analyses or factorial ecology studies CORRECTLY matched with its spatial pattern? |
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Socioeconomic Status (Social Rank)-Sector |
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The boundaries of the Tucson, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area are identical with those of: |
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What person performs a NONBASIC job? |
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A school bus driver in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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The basic:nonbasic ratio of Burgherburg is 1:2. The Burgherburg Economic Development Council announces a new electronics assembly plant will soon open and employ 1,000 worker. How many total new jobs can be expected? |
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Large cities typically have: |
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Larger proportions of non-basic jobs than smaller towns. |
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Which country has the LOWEST percent urban population? |
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Which country's population has become more than 50% urbanized since 2000? |
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Which of these countries has the LOWEST percentage of population living in urban areas? |
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An extensive region of continuos urbanization; multiple centers come together on fringes or are highly interconnected; an example is "Megalopolis." |
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Three World or Global Cities that stand out as the very most important in the global, capitalist economy |
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New York, London and Tokyo |
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World (or Global) Cities are |
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1.Centers of the flow of information and capital. 2.The location of important international business services, for example, banking & corporate headquarters. 3. Found on all continents (except Antarctica) |
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Which is a polycentric representation of urban land use? |
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The video, "Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western," cites the development of new downtown arenas and stadiums as a strategy for bringing vitality back to American downtowns. The downtown ballpark pictured and discussed in this context is in which city? |
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Favelas are high poverty sections of cities in: |
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