GEOG 101 Week 1 Quiz - Which country is not located within one of the world's

American Military University GEOG 101 Week 1 Quiz

Question 1 of 25 

Which country is not located within one of the world's three largest population clusters?

 

                 A.Japan

               

                 B.the United States

               

                 C.Pakistan

               

                 D.France

               

 

 

 

 

Question 2 of 25  

What occurs during an interglacial period?

 

                 A.Ice creeps across continents from the poles toward the equator.

               

                 B.Non-frozen ecological zones shrink away from the poles.

               

                 C.Sea levels tend to rise because of all the freshwater available.

 

               

                 D.Ice descends to lower elevations from the peaks of mountains

 

 

 

 

 

Question 3 of 25   

What is an alternative description of operational scale?

 

 

                 A.

small-scale

 

 

               

                 B.

level of analysis

 

               

                 C.

map scale

 

               

                 D.

scale level          

 

 

 

 

Question 4 of 25 

By what name is Wegener's supercontinent known?

 

                 A.Tectonica

               

                 B. Atlantis

               

                 C.Eurasia

               

                 D.Pangaea

               

 

 

 

 

Question 5 of 25     

What water body is surrounded by the geologically active “Ring of Fire”?

 

                 A.Great Lakes

               

                 B.Arctic Ocean

               

                 C.Atlantic Ocean

 

               

                 D. Pacific Ocean

 

 

 

Question 6 of 25   

What best describes the spatial perspective that is unique to geography?

 

                 A. It is an interest in how space is organized.

 

  

                 B.It is an observation that spaces are completely random.

               

                 C.It considers only the space's internal physical processes.

               

                 D.It considers only the space's global human/cultural processes

 

 

 

 

 

Question 7 of 25 

When regions are considered as systems, what term represents the area that surrounds and is served by a city?

 

                 A.CBD

 

                 B.formal region

               

                 C.hinterland

               

                 D.core

               

 

 

 

 

Question 8 of 25    

The term "Lingua Franca" is best understood to mean:

 

                 A.The language suppressed by many governments

 

               

                 B.A common second language

               

                 C.A lost language that only exists as a remnant in current languages

               

                 D.A family of languages that share a common background

               

 

 

Question 9 of 25  

Which statement is not true about Alfred Wegener?

 

                 A.He was a German scientist.

 

               

                 B.He postulated that all current continents began as a single super continent.

               

                 C.Proved that the forces of plate tectonics are the mechanism behind his theory.

               

                 D.

He first proposed the hypothesis of continental drift.    

 

 

 

 

Question 10 of 25 

Which of the following is not one of the languages that are included in the most widely distributed language family?

 

                 A. Persian

 

               

                 B. Hindi

               

                 C. Mandarin

               

                 D. English

 

 

 

 

 

Question 11 of 25    

Which of the following is the best example of the challenge “from below” to the modern state system?

 

 

 

                 A.the decline in the global food supply

               

                 B.the growth of local manufacturing exports

               

                 C.an immigrant group assimilating

               

                 D.a minority group calling for independence

 

 

 

 

 

Question 12 of 25    

What is another term for the large cluster of population in the northeastern United States?

 

                 A.the urban heartland

               

                 B. megalopolis

               

                 C.the world region

 

               

                 D.the global core

 

 

 

 

 

Question 13 of 25   

What is not true about A climates?

 

 

 

                 A.Theyare also known as humid equatorial.

               

                 B.Theyhave high temperatures all year.

               

                 C.Some A climates experience monsoons.

               

                 D.No A climate regions ever have dry spells

 

 

 

 

 

Question 14 of 25     

Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the world's great population clusters?

 

                 A.Mississippi

               

                 B. Huang He (Yellow)

               

                 C.Rhine

 

 

               

                 D. Ganges

 

 

 

 

 

Question 15 of 25     

International organizations, such as the European Union, can be a threat to national power when:

 

 

                 A.member-states have regional secessionist movements

               

                 B.international organizations challenge "from below"

 

               

                 C.member-states voluntarily transfer some of their power to the higher central authority

               

                 D.International organizations recognize the historical phenomena of the modern state

               

 

 

 

 

Question 16 of 25    

What dynamic marked the emergence of the first "modern state" (not the older city-state)?

 

                 A.states conquering one another

               

                 B.states with centralized power

               

                 C.states that grew with farm surpluses

 

               

                 D.states negotiating treaties

 

 

 

 

 

Question 17 of 25      

The term sovereignty indicates an internal political dynamic whereby a government rules supreme within its borders, but what statement reflects the external political dynamic?

 

 

                 A. States must have global trade connections to survive

 

                 B. States need to have access to the ocean or a river.

               

                 C.States normally are recognized by other states.

               

                 D.States are all united by a global climate system

 

 

 

 

 

Question 18 of 25     

Which of the following aspects has been identified as having an accelerating impact on contemporary global climate change?

 

 

 

                 A.variability of precipitation patterns across regions

               

                 B.anthropogenic causes, like industrial gas emissions

               

                 C.

ocean acidification          

                 D.growth of the Arctic Ocean icecap

 

 

 

 

 

Question 19 of 25       

What is the core problem with the nation-state concept?

 

 

                 A.

One cannot manage a representative government within a uniform territory.

               

                 B. There are no true culturally homogeneous populations in a contiguous territory.

               

                 C.One cannot manage trade connections with globalized modern states.

               

                 D.There are no true environmentally homogeneous areas within political boundaries

 

 

 

 

 

Question 20 of 25            

What term represents a bridge language that facilitates national politics, commerce, and trade in multilingual societies?

 

                 A.extinct language

               

                 B. lingua franca

 

               

                 C. Indo-European dialect

 

               

                 D. regional speech disparity

 

 

 

 

 

Question 21 of 25           

What climate type do savanna environments belong to?

 

                 A. dry

               

                 B.humid cold

               

                 C.humid temperate

               

                 D. humid equatorial

               

 

 

 

 

Question 22 of 25           

The index of regional disparity is useful for examining which of the following?

 

 

 

                 A.economic differences between different regions of a country

               

                 B.political differences between functional and formal regions

               

                 C. temperature differences between core and periphery

               

                 D. similarities among African and Asian countries

 

 

 

 

 

Question 23 of 25      

The world's three major population concentrations are:

 

                 A.East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia

 

               

                 B.East Asia, South Asia, and Europe

 

                 C.East Asia, North America, and Europe

               

                 D.Africa, South Asia, and Europe

 

 

 

 

 

Question 24 of 25         

What is not true about B climates?

 

 

                 A. B climates only occur in the low latitudes.

               

                 B.Their soils are often poorly developed.

               

                 C.Theyhave a large daily temperature range.

               

                 D.B climates occur as true deserts and semiarid.

               

 

 

 

 

Question 25 of 25         

Which of the following is the way that humans efficiently and safely navigate their everyday world?

 

                 A.geographic information system

 

 

               

                 B. mental map

               

                 C.scale

               

                 D.relative location