AP human geography chapter 8 multiple choice

1) As a result of a 1979 Soviet invasion, what country generated one of the worlds largest refugee migrations?
A) Serbia
B) Sudan
C) Ukraine
D) Afghanistan
E) Iraq

1) As a result of a 1979 Soviet invasion, what country generated one of the worlds largest refugee migrations?
A) Serbia
B) Sudan
C) Ukraine
D) Afghanistan
E) Iraq

D) Afghanistan

2) An area organized into an independent political unit is a(n)...
A) State
B) Country
C) Nation
D) Ethnic region
E) both B and C

A) State

3) A group of people who occupy a particular area and have a strong sense of unity based on a set of shared beliefs...
A) State
B) National Identity
C) Nation
D) City-State
E) unitary state

C) Nation

4) A state with control over its internal affairs has...
A) Self determinism
B) Sovereignty
C) Colonialism
D) A strong sense of unity
E) all of the above

B) Sovereignty

5) Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world...
A) has increased by over 100
B) has decreased substantially
C) has stayed relatively similar
D) has gradually decreased
E) has been the reason for global warming

A) has increased by over 100

6) The worlds largest state is...
A) Canada
B) China
C) USA
D) UK
E) Russia

E) Russia

7) Korea is a good example of...
A) an ethnic group
B) a city-state
C) a nation divided between more than one state
D) a bunch of communists
E) a democracy

C) a nation divided between more than one state

8) Two cities in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla are controlled by what country?
A) Spain
B) Morocco
C) the UK
D) Germany
E) Chile

A) Spain

9) Which is not true about both China and Taiwan?
A) both have official relationships with the U.S.
B) both consider that the two form one sovereign state
C) both now hold seats in the UN
D) both were once ruled by nationalists
E) both B and C

E) both B and C

10) The Fertile Crescent...
A) followed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
B) extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
C) was the location of the city-states in the Middle East
D) sometimes considered to extend into the Nile River Valley
E) all of the above

E) all of the above

The only large landmass that is not part of a sovereign state is...
A) Borneo
B) the arctic
C) Siberia
D) Antarctica
E) Greenland

D) Antarctica

A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent is a...
A) territory
B) colony
C) city-state
D) frontier
E) nation

B) colony

The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were...
A) city-states
B) communities
C) sovereign ethnic groups
D) both A and C
E) nations

A) city-states

Political unity in the ancient Mediterranean world, reached its highest in...
A) the Dark Ages
B) the industrial revolution
C) the Roman Empire
D) the ice age
E) fall of 1893

C) the Roman Empire

The first widespread use of the nation state concept came in...
A) South America
B) Western Europe
C) northern Asia
D) all of the above
E) Antartica

B) Western Europe

The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is...
A) imperialism
B) ethnic cleansing
C) colonialism
D) the reason for most wars
E) decided by the government

C) colonialism

The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of the following?
A) guilt
B) gold
C) glory
D) God
E) B, C, and D

A) guilt

By 1900, the British could claim all but which of the following about their empire?
A) their largest colony had become independent by then
B) the sun never set on the British Empire
C) the British had colonies to the east and the west
D) the british empire had more colonies than any other nation in the world
E) both C and D

A) their largest colony had become independent

The world's smallest colony is...
A) Pitcairn
B) Djibouti
C) Kazahkstan
D) Puerto Rico
E) Lesotho

A) Pitcairn

A state is a good example of...
A) an ethnic region
B) an organized region
C) unity
D) a group of ethnic groups
E) none of the above

B) an organized region

A frontier in contrast to a boundary...
A) separates 2 states
B) is a territory tied to a state
C) is made by rivers
D) is made by geographical landforms
E) none of the above

A) separates 2 states

Which shape most easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state?
A) elongated
B) microstate
C) prorupted
D) fragmented
E) compact

E) compact

The Germans established the proruption known as the caprivi strip in present day Namibia for which of the following reasons?
A) access to resources in central Africa
B) disruption of British communications
C) trading opportunities with native tribes
D) access to the Zambezi river
E) A, B, D

E) A, B, D

The boundary between the U.S. and Canada can be described as which of the following?
A) geometry
B) frontier
C) desert
D) mountains
E) none of the above

A) geography

Boundaries were redrawn in Europe after WWI according to the...
A) religions
B) distribution of language
C) geography
D) articles of confederation
E) none of the above

B) distribution of language

The Aozou strip is a good example of...
A) free range cattle land
B) separation of powers
C) a geometric boundary
D) division of religions
E) a compact state

C) a geometric boundary

The problems experienced by cypress during the past 4 decades include all but which of the following?
A) a partition of the island by the British as part of independence
B) A division of the land by the Greeks and the Turks
C) the establishment of a Turkish republic
D) development of a buffer zone between ethnicities
E) Turkey's recognition of the sovereignty of a portion of the population

A) a partition of the island by the British as part of independence

With the breakup of the Soviet Union, most Russians...
A) moved to Germany
B) rebelled against the Russian gov't
C) are clustered in Russia's western regions
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

C) are clustered in Russian gov't

Conflict is widespread in Africa in part because...
A) tribes do not get along
B) European colonial powers drew inappropriate boundaries
C) many Africans are being taken into slavery
D) religions do not get along well
E) all of the above

B) European colonial powers drew inappropriate boundaries

The Kurds are a...
A) a religious group
B) nationality that are specific to one state
C) tribe in Africa
D) all of the above
E) nationality divided among more than one state

E) nationality divided among more than one state

In 2002, the Organization of African Unity was replaced by...
A) the African Union
B) Africa United
C) Africa R us
D) Force of Africa
E) none of the above

A) the African Union

An increasing number of states have adopted a federal gov't primarily to...
A) be in good relations with the people
B) take control of the nation
C) become more advanced
D) all of the above
E) satisfy the demands of competing nationalities

E) satisfy the demands of competing nationalities

What was the distinctive feature of the worlds superpowers between the 1940s and 1980s compared to other eras?
A) the number of superpowers were relatively the same
B) the number of superpowers was much higher than in the past
C) the number of superpowers was much lower than in the past
D) the economy dropped as a result of A
E) both D and A

C) the number of superpowers was much lower than in the past

A state which places most power in the hands of a central gov't is a...
A) federal state
B) unitary state
C) compact state
D) microstate
E) none of the above

B) unitary state

Which of the following is not a member of the United Nations?
A) china
B) Russia
C) USA
D) UK
E) Taiwan

E

With the end of the Cold War...
A) The Warsaw Pact became obsolete
B) NATO became obsolete
C) Radical Muslim terrorist organizations threaten the democratic world
D) Russia absorbed all of the land known as the USSR
E) A and C

E

Terrorism differs from assassination and other acts of political violence...
A) because terrorists are crazy
B) because terrorists fight for religious extremism and other people don't
C) because there's no such thing
D) because attacks are aimed at ordinary people
E) All of the above

D

Which of the following isn't true of Al-Qaeda?
A) Al-Qaeda is a single unified organization
B) Al-Qaeda was funded by Osama Bin Laden
C) Al-Qaeda began in Afghanistan as a defense against the Soviet takeover
D) Al-Qaeda declared a fatwa against the United States
E) Al-Qaeda donates millions to charity every year

E

States cooperate with each other for what kind of reasons?
A) political
B) military
C) economic
D) all of the above
E) religion

D