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Geography 100 Test 2

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1.
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_____ has gradually lost adherents since secularization gathered momentum in the late 1960s, especially in western Europe.
2.
1 point
Moscow has continually served as the Russian/Soviet/Russian capital city since the rule of Peter the Great.
3.
1 point
The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as:
4.
1 point
Which of the following cities is not part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
5.
1 point
Persistently frozen ground is known as:
6.
1 point
North Africa/Southwest Asia is referred to the following except:
7.
1 point
The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the:
8.
1 point
The coniferous forest vegetation on the equatorward side of the tundra is known as:
9.
1 point
Islamic law is known as sharia.
10.
1 point
Land tenure refers to:
11.
1 point
About 85 percent of Muslims consider themselves:
12.
1 point
Von Thünen in his "Isolated State" argued that five rings of human activity would develop around the central town or city. The first (or nearest) of these is:
13.
1 point
Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer?
14.
1 point
_____ was responsible for consolidating Russia's gains in the early 1700s and in making a European-style state out of the loosely knit country.
15.
1 point
The "land between the rivers," the name of the Mesopotamian culture hearth, refers to the arable crescent lying between the Nile and the Tigris.
16.
1 point
The Berlin Conference took place immediately after World War I and was attended by 8 colonial powers interested in acquiring African spheres of influence.
17.
1 point
A country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is known as the country's:
18.
1 point
Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?
19.
1 point
In all the countries of North Africa/Southwest Asia, 90 percent or more of the people adhere to Islam.
20.
1 point
Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.
21.
1 point
A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n):
22.
1 point
The term _____ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.
23.
1 point
Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi were all British colonies.
24.
1 point
Most African families still depend on subsistence agriculture.
25.
1 point
The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and sparse grasses) is known as:
26.
1 point
Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?
27.
1 point
African sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
28.
1 point
Which of the following is not an Old World culture hearth?
29.
1 point
The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the:
30.
1 point
The Nile Valley was an integral part of the Fertile Crescent, anchoring its eastern end.
31.
1 point
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as:
32.
1 point
The last country to give up its African colonies was:
33.
1 point
The wealth from oil income has been distributed evenly among the different subregions of the Middle East.
34.
1 point
The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:
35.
1 point
Although much of Subsaharan Africa still practices tribal religions, Islam penetrated from the north to confront these faiths as well as Christianity as it advanced southward.
36.
1 point
The Industrial Revolution in Europe:
37.
1 point
Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
38.
1 point
Hydraulic civilization theory holds that:
39.
1 point
Europe's political revolution:
40.
1 point
Libya is an oil-poor country.
41.
1 point
The Ural Mountains, which run north-south across the Russian Republic, are a formidable obstacle to east-west transportation.
42.
1 point
Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places.
43.
1 point
The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm contains about _____ percent of the world's oil reserves.
44.
1 point
_____ forces are divisive to a nation.
45.
1 point
Most of the population of Russia is found in the:
46.
1 point
The movement of the headquarters of the Russian Empire to St. Petersburg allowed that city to become a(n):
47.
1 point
Which of the following Soviet programs was the most successful?
48.
1 point
The North European Lowland:
49.
1 point
The three principles of spatial interaction are:
50.
1 point
The Soviet planners called their system a _____.
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