Exam 1

1.

1 point

Which of the following cities is not a "millionaire" city?

Berlin

Rome

Athens

Paris

2.

1 point

Select the incorrect statement from the following:

Approximately 5,000,000 immigrants live in Western Europe.

Austria, Sweden, and Finland joined the European Union in 1995.

Paris owes much of its greatness to excellent site and situation characteristics.

The "Four Motors of Europe" are: Baden-wuttemburg (anchored by Stuttgart), Lombardy (anchored by Milan), Catalonia (anchored by Barcelona), and Rhone-Alps (anchored by Lyon)

3.

1 point

Select the incorrect statement from the following:

Europe includes several poor regions, with the poorest being e countries of Northern (Nordic) Europe.

In the Dry Summer Subtropical climatic region, the precipitation is highly concentrated in the winter months.

Mediterranean Europe coincides with the northern limit of the growth of olive trees.

Europe is a major agricultural area in which farmers extract some of the world's highest yields from farms that are generally small.

4.

1 point

The geographic explanation underlying the domination of the urban hierarchy of France by the city of Paris can be summed up by:

Spatial analysis

Environmental determinism

Spatial association

Site and situation (relative location)

5.

1 point

Which of the following statements is not true?

Sweden is an example of a country that achieved a zero population growth.

The high stationary phase was a characteristic of Europe before the Industrial Revolution.

Most Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are in the late expanding phase of the demographic transition.

Countries of Western Europe are in the low stationary phase of the demographic transition.

6.

1 point

All of the following are true except:

The acronym Benelux stands for Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Rotterdam is an example of a generative city.

Belgium is inhabited by Flemish speaking Belgians who live in the north and French speaking Walloons who live in the south.

Polders are types of land subdivision in the Netherlands.

7.

1 point

All of the following are true except:

Malta, Luxembourg, and Iceland are European countries with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants.

Germany birders Poland, Denmark, and Belgium.

Fishing has long been he cornerstone of Norway's economy.

Today, Ireland with 4,600,000 people had about as many inhabitants as it did in 1841.

England has a higher total population density than Scotland.

8.

1 point

All of the following are true except:

Europe's most recent nation-state is Kosovo.

The Carpathian Mountains, the North European Plain, the Ural Mountains, and the Dinaric Alps are all physical features of Eastern Europe.

Barcelona is a major seaport, second largest city, and a major industrial city of Spain.

While Skopje is the capital city of the former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Sarajevo is the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Milan is a major industrial city of Italy located between the Alps and the Apennines.

9.

1 point

"Small populations, productive economies, and high levels of education and income are characteristic of this region. Poor relative location and climatic conditions that are severe for most of the area. Teutonic languages are spoken, besides two languages that belong to the Uralic family of languages." These statements describe the countries of:

The British isles.

Eastern Europe.

Northern (Nordic) Europe.

Mediterranean Europe.

10.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

London, Berlin, and Madrid are three European "millionaire" cities.

Cuesta Cueta and Mililla are two Spanish exclaves in Morocco.

Europe's relative location is one of serious locational disadvantages.

The Roma (formerly gypsies), perhaps as many as 11,000,000 people, constitute Europe's stateless nation.

Complementary, transferability, and intervening opportunity are the principles of spatial interaction.

11.

1 point

Identify the incorrect statement from the following:

Belgium is an example of a unilingual nation-state.

The west-east axis of dense population in Europe corresponds closely to the southern edge of the North European Plain.

The Balkan Peninsula is located further east than Iberian and Italian Peninsulas.

In the dry summer subtropical climate region, precipitation reaches a maximum in the winter.

12.

1 point

Identify the incorrect statement from the following:

The latitude of Mansfield, Ohio is 41 degrees N.

The Arctic and Antarctic Circles are lines of latitude at 66.5 degrees North and South of the equator, respectively.

Lines of latitude denote position east or west of the prime meridian.

Latitude ranges between 0 and 90 degrees N and S.

13.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

The effect of a rain shadow is most pronounced on the windward side of s mountain.

A plain is an area where local relief is less than 100m (325 ft).

Weather is a statement about the physical state of the atmosphere at a given place and time.

The subsolar point travels between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

14.

1 point

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Culture includes human behavior.

Most cultural traits are inherited rather than learned.

Culture is vividly expressed on the cultural landscape.

The major components of culture are beliefs, institutions, and technology.

15.

1 point

Which of the following statements is not true?

The physical geography of a region has no bearing on its poverty or wealth.

Less developed countries (LCD) are located mainly in the tropical and subtropical regions.

Environmental determinists suggested that climate was responsible for a region's development.

Ardisolscas well as oxisols are lacking completely in Europe.

16.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Berlin is Europe's second largest city in population.

Rhine isneuropes busiest and longest river.

Poland is Europe's leading producer in sulfur.

The French term maquis is used to describe the xerophytic brush type vegetation of Mediterranean Europe.

17.

1 point

Geographers are concerned with all of the following except:

Study of instabilities.

Spatial order.

Relationships between humans and the environment.

Study of regions.

18.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Inceptisols prevail in the tundra climatic type.

Ultisols is another name for the muck soils found near Willard, Ohio.

Mollisols (chernozems) are the most fertile soils found anywhere.

Alfisols form the most extensive soil region in Europe.

A high lime content in a soil produces abundant pore space for circulation of water and air.

19.

1 point

Select the incorrect pair from the following associations, river-city.

Thames-London.

Po-Turin.

Arno-Rome.

Seine-Paris.

20.

1 point

All of the following statements about France are true except:

France is Europe's leading producer in agricultural goods.

The country's shape closely resembles a hexagon.

Nuclear power supplies about 75%

France is less heavily urbanized than Germany.

21.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Dry summer subtropical is the most extensive climatic region in Europe.

Europe has a very mild climate for its latitude.

Europe has an irregular outline.

Europe has a high latitude location.

22.

1 point

Which of the following maps has a small scale?

1:1,000,000

1:5,000,000

1:100,000

1:10,000

23.

1 point

Orographic precipitation is caused by:

Intense heating of air on hot summer days.

The lifting of sir when it's path is blocked by highlands.

The lifting of air along a warm front.

Sudden cooling of air when it passes over a cold current in the ocean.

24.

1 point

The geographic explanation underlying the rise of Paris to the top of hierarchy of the French urban system can be summed up by:

Spatial association.

Spatial analysis.

Environmental determinism.

Relative location (situation).

25.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Convergent plate boundaries exist when two plates collide with one another.

Wegener advanced the theory of continental drift.

The ancestral landmass of our planet was called Panthalassa.

The process of subduction occurs when two plates collide with one another.

26.

1 point

To think geographically about the internal makeup of an area is to think in terms of:

The connections of the area with the outside world.

Historical background of the area.

The natural features of the area.

Spatial patterns, associations, and interconnections.

27.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Latitude is an important climatic control, because it determines the amount of solar energy that a place receives.

Only places located between 23.5 degrees N and 23.5 degrees S have the sun directly overhead.

Continental and oceanic surfaces receiving the same amounts of incoming solar radiation during the day show the same increases in temperature.

Temperature, pressure, winds, and moisture are the most important elements of weather and climate.

28.

1 point

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

The Loire, the Rhone, the Seine, and the Danube rivers all flow through France.

France has coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea.

Greece is one of the noncontiguous mainland European Union member.

Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is located on the Danube river.

29.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

The principle of intervening opportunity explains why Nirth America was colonized before Australia.

Tourism is a very important part of the economies of Mediterranean Europe.

Norther (Nordic) Europe is separated by water from the rest of Europe.

Mediterranean Europe supplied most of the immigrants to Northwestern Europe during the 1960's and early 1970's.

30.

1 point

All of the following languages belong to the Indo-European family of languages except:

Greek

Ugrian (Hungarian)

English

Romanian

31.

1 point

Which of the following vegetative types is grouped with the B climates?

Savanna

Tundra

Rainforest

Steppe

32.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Complimentary, transferability, and intervening opportunity are the principles of spatial interaction.

Cyprus is the easternmost member of the European Union.

Western Europe is experiencing a population implosion.

The Roma, with about 14,000,000 members, constitute Europe's stateless nation.

Most Europeans speak languages that belong to the Altaic family of languages.

33.

1 point

Which of the following is incorrect?

The six countries of Mediterranean Europe are located on the periphery of Europe.

France has coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea.

While Pristina is the capital of Kosovo, Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro.

The Loire, the Rhone, the Seine, and the Danube all flow through France.

34.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Taiwan is one of the four "Tigers of Asia."

People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's largest country in population with 1,371,900,000 inhabitants.

Hispaniola is the name for a Carribean island that is divided by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

About 29% of the global surface is water.

35.

1 point

Monkey Business is reporting her position as being 0 degrees and 30 degrees W. Based on this information, this ship is located at the:

Arctic Circle.

Equator.

Tropic of Capricorn.

Tropic of Cancer.

36.

1 point

Which of the following statements is not true?

Frontal precipitation is very pronounced in the equatorial latitudes.

Orographic precipitation is caused by lifting of air when it's oath is blocked by highlands.

Xerophytes are plants adapted to a dry environment.

Continentality is tendency of landmass to impose a large temperature range, be sure of its ability to heat more rapidly and cool more rapidly than does water.

37.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Reykjavik is the northernmost national capital of Europe and is heated almost entirely by geothermal energy.

Glaciation was most important in shaping the terrain in southern Germany.

The Nor German Plain is heavily Protestant whereas southern Germany is heavily Catholic.

Maritime climate prevails in northwestern Germany becoming increasingly continental as one moves to the south and east.

38.

1 point

Select the incorrect statement from the following:

Basque and Magyer are descendants of Romance, Germanic, Slavic, or Celtic languages.

As defined in class, Europe has 45 countries and excludes Turkey.

Europe's relative location is one of centrality within the "land" hemisphere.

Currently, Europe has 596,890,778 inhabitants.

39.

1 point

Which country hasbthebhighest hydro electric power production potential?

The Netherlands.

Italy.

Denmark.

Ireland.

40.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

The Nir German Plain is heavily Protestant while southern Germany is heavily catholic.

Glacial ion was the most important in shaping the terrain in southern Germany.

It is Europe's largest country in population.

Vatican City forms an enclave within the city of Rome.

41.

1 point

The process called leaching:

Is a characteristic of middle latitudes areas.

Enriches soils through the addition of humus.

Removes minerals and organic matter from the soil structure by intense and prolonged rainfall.

Only takes place in glaciated areas.

42.

1 point

Which of the following definitions is incorrect?

Site: the external locational attributes of an urban center; its relative location or regional position with reference to other non-local places.

Exclave: a bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separate from it by territory of another state.

Break-of-bulk point: a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. In a port, the cargoes of oceangoing ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, barges for inland distribution.

Entrepôt: a place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshiped.

43.

1 point

Identify the incorrect association from the following:

Fjords--Italy

Switzerland--transhumance

Meseta--Spain

Alps--Switzerland

44.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

Eratosthenes coined the term geography and calculated the circumference of the earth.

The origins of the regional analysis theme can be traced to the work of Strabo.

The human-environment interactions theme in geography can be traced to the work of Ptolemy.

The regional analysis tradition is concerned with the nature of places, their character and their differentiation.

45.

1 point

A map showing a pattern of transportation and communication lines converging on a central core area would be a depiction of a:

Formal region.

General region.

Functional or nodal region.

Homogeneous region based on a single characteristic.

46.

1 point

All of the following statements are true except:

The world's largest population cluster is found in east Asia.

Iceland and Luxembourg are two European countries with less than 1,000,000 people.

According to Population Reference Bureau (PRB), 53% of the world population is classified as urban.

All Central American countries border on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans except Belize and Panama.

47.

1 point

Which statement is not correct?

The proportion of the world population classified as urban is 53%.

The world's largest population cluster is found in East Asia.

Given the present rate of natural increase,vthenworld population will double in 58 years.

The global rate of natural increase is 2.5%.

48.

1 point

Select the incorrect statement from the following:

Switzerland is a polyethnic federation with most of the population speaking German.

Switzerland has pursued a longstanding policy of neutrality.

Austria is poorer than switzerlandvin terms of the resource base.

Switzerland is smaller than Austria in area.

49.

1 point

The spatial interaction principle of complementarity:

Operates only in the presence of intervening opportunities.

Describes trade in which one area specifically needs the surplus commodity of another area.

Could not operate in Europe before World War II.

Refers to the ease with which a product may be shipped between two places.

50.

1 point

All of the following definitions are true except:

Cultural landscape: the composite of human imprints on the earth's surface.

Urbanization: the percentage of the population living in cities and towns.

Physiologic density: a country's population expressed as an average per unit area.

Culture: learned human behavior that includes beliefs, institutions,band technology.