WORLD GEO EXAM

Geographic thinking entails all the following except:a. Understanding the relations between places and between people, places, and social processes

b.Describing spatial patterns

c. Recognizing internal complexity of places

d.Understanding spatial processes

e. Proving that Human Development Index is determined by climate

e. Proving that Human Development Index is determined by climate

What is the Tabula Rogeriana?

• the "map of the known world" in 1154

• made by Islamic cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi

• orients the south on the top of the map

• all of the above

• none of the above

ALL OF THE ABOVE

The provision of services constitutes this form of employment?

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• quaternary

• none of the above

• tertiary

Which of the following statements about maps is false?

• all two-dimensional maps have distortions

• global scale maps have more distortions than localized maps

• lines running from pole to pole are called parallels

• the grid system map makers use to make map projections is called the graticule

• none of the above

• lines running from pole to pole are called parallels

Extractive activities are considered to be what sector of the economy?

• quaternary

• tertiary

• secondary

• primary

• none of the above

• primary

When were wild plants domesticated by native peoples in the lands we call Latin America?

• 5,000 years ago

• 500 years ago

• 10,000 years ago

• 1,000 years ago

• 20,000 years ago

• 10,000 years ago

Which Andean society constructed terraces to reduce soil erosion and allow irrigation canals to flow?

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Mayan

• Incan

• Aztec

• Incan

In "1492," James Blaut challenges and critiques all of the following ideas except:

• Tunnel History

• Diffusionism

• Eurocentrism

• Wealth from colonies enabled European development

• Wealth from colonies enabled European development

The model of diffusion refers to or implies all the following except

• Few places are centers of innovation

• A model of change over space

• Peripheries replicate processes from innovative cores

• All places have equal capacity to innovate and do so independently of one another.

• All places have equal capacity to innovate and do so independently of one another.

According to Sheppard et al, which of the following resulted from European colonialism?

• Political and regional boundaries around the world

• Forced movement of millions of Africans

• Wealth derived from resource exploitation in Asia and Africa

• All of the above

• All of the above

Which of the following, according to Sheppard et al, is associated with the first wave of colonization?

• The Imperial Scramble for Africa

• Industrial Capitalism and the Factory System

• Merchant Capitalism and the Slave Trade

• Feudalism

• Merchant Capitalism and the Slave Trade

In the mining districts of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes, what was the most important mineral excavated during the colonial period?

• iron

• coal

• gold

• copper

• silver

silver

In which economic era did plantation economies emerge?

• late 20th century globalization

• decolonization

• the Cold War

• first wave of colonization

• second wave of colonization

• first wave of colonization

During the 15th and 16th centuries, Iberian access to markets in the port cities surrounding the Indian Ocean was blocked by which empire in the Eastern Mediterranean?

• Chinese

• Ottoman

• Austrian-Hungarian

• Russian

• Mongolian

• Ottoman

In 1804, formerly enslaved people declared independence from what colonial power to form Haiti?

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

• Great Britain

• the Netherlands

• France

The dangerous journey forced upon enslaved people sailing from Africa to the Western Hemisphere by sea is termed?

• the middle passage

• the great migration

• the diaspora

• the Columbian exchange

• none of the above

• the middle passage

Which of the following banks originated in the slave trade?

• Lloyds of London

• Barclays Bank, D.C.O.

• Bank of America

• TDAmeritrade

• Lloyds of London and Barclays Bank, D.C.O.

• All of the above

• Lloyds of London and Barclays Bank, D.C.O.

The hacienda

• refers to large estates established by Spanish colonial

• rule

• were run by families, under the authority of a Patrón

• were primarily oriented toward local and regional markets

• were generally prevalent in interior and highland regions

• all of the above

• all of the above

Which large estates in the Spanish colonial era grew crops to supply local industries?

• quintas

• plantations

• haciendas

• fincas

• ranchos

• haciendas

Plantations

• focused on export crops

• were most prevalent in coastal and lowland regions

• included labor specialization

• were used to grow sugar in places such as Brazil and
  Puerto Rico

• All of the above

• All of the above

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement made by Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to divide the world between these two powers along a meridian 1100miles west of the Cape Verde:

• Spain and Portugal

• Dutch and Great Britain

• Spain and France

• Portugal and Great Britain

• France and Great Britain

This was the name of the land system used in colonial Virginia, initially granting parcels of 50 to 100 acres of land "for improvement," but which later led to massive land consolidation in the US Southeast

• Public Lands Survey

• Headright System

• Governor's Council Grants

• Haciendas

• Township Grants

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established

• The Plantation System

• Private Property

• The National Parks System

• The Headright System

• The Public Lands Survey System

All of the following are characteristics of a sovereign state except?

• exercises power over territory

• exercises authority over people or population

• recognized by other states

• recognized by international law

• has a unified religion

• one short answer asking you to use a detonator to explain some geographic change