Human Geography MCQ

In the united states educational services account for about ________ percent of jobs.

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Correct Answer: 10 percent

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In comparison to suburban governments, cities ________.

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Correct Answer: Have higher operating expenditures per capita

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Other standard-of-living measurements besides real gdp per capita may include _____.

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Correct Answer: Education

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Pastoral farming is best described as _______.

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Correct Answer: Method of raising livestock and moving herds.

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A _____ is an urban area consisting of at least two metropolises and their many suburbs.

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Correct Answer: Megalopolis

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Within a country, push factors are conditions characterized by ________.

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Correct Answer: Drought, famine or war

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In a multinational state the population consists of _____ or more nations.

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Correct Answer: 2

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In a country where there are increasingly more households, ________.

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Correct Answer: Consumption should increase

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Because of the success of china's population control programs, ________.

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Correct Answer: China's population growth rate is much lower than it was in the 1970s

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An ecologist would suspect a population to be growing rapidly if it _____.

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Correct Answer: Contains many more prereproductive than reproductive individuals

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According to this graph, the world population doubled between _______.

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Correct Answer: 1930 and 1975

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The nation believed to employ the practice of female infanticide most often is ________.

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Correct Answer: Turkey

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The most densely populated valley in central asia is the __________.

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Correct Answer: Fergana Valley

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On average, developed countries spend about $________ annually per capita on health care.

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Correct Answer: 8,000

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Malthus noted that human populations grow ___ while food supply grows ____.

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Correct Answer: Exponentially

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Malthus argued that ________

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Correct Answer: Population increase would eventually bring chaos to the world

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Large cities tend toward _______________ relationships, while smaller ones tend toward ___________.

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Correct Answer: Rapid

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Gender studies of migration indicate that men ______________ than women.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Fertility rates decline as _______.

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Correct Answer: There is an increase in family planning and birth control

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A country has net in-migration if immigration ________ emigration.

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Correct Answer: Exceeds

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Farms owned by retirees who no longer cultivate crops are __________.

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Correct Answer: Always considered small family farms regardless of acreage

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Farming varies around the world because of ________ across space.

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Correct Answer: Cultural and environmental factors

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The united nations measurement of a country's gender inequality is the country's ________.

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Correct Answer: Gender Inequality Index (GII)

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The u.s. government estimates ________ percent of the homeless are children.

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Correct Answer: 25

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Why aren't more couples using birth control in zambia? birth control in zambia __________.

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Correct Answer: Requires travel that many families cannot afford.

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Urban sprawl is a result of people moving away from ________.

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Correct Answer: City centers

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________ feature buildings clustered along a road or body of water to facilitate communications.

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Correct Answer: Clustered linear rural settlements

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Baptists are clustered in the ________ united states.

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Correct Answer: Southern

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The united states is an _____.

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Correct Answer: MDC

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_____ describes why similar organisms do not interbreed because of a physical barrier.

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Correct Answer: Allopatric speciation

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Research has found that cohabitation prior to marriage _____.

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Correct Answer: Increase likelihood of divorce.

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Anorexia occurs _____ times more in females than in males.

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Correct Answer: Bulimia nervosa

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With increasing age, the trait of neuroticism tends to _____.

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Correct Answer: Transform into extroversion.

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While literacy and numeracy are valued in every school, curriculum specifics _____.

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Correct Answer: Vary by place and culture

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The ________ is an important source area for u.s. folk house types.

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Correct Answer: Lower Chesapeake

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The french government has _________ to protect french language and culture.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Replacement fertility is the tfr that _______.

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Correct Answer: Keeps a population stable over time

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Malthus was responsible for ________.

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Correct Answer: The idea that without social restrictions increasing human population would lead to famine and war

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In poor nations, poverty is________ than in the united states.

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Correct Answer: More widespread and severe

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A good example of a demographic factor that influences population changes would be ________.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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The ____ is defined as the total rate of change in a population's size per unit of time.

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Correct Answer: Population growth rate

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Conservation of energy refers to the fact that _____.

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Correct Answer: Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one form to another

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An age class histogram of a developing country has the general shape of a ___.

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Correct Answer: Pyramid

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When studying populations, sociologists frequently compare __________ and __________.

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Correct Answer: Rates of mortality (death); rates of mortality (death)

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Forces that pull a state apart are ________ forces.

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Correct Answer: Centrifugal

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While modernization theory focuses on ________, dependency theory focuses on ________.

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Correct Answer: Production of wealth; distribution of wealth

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An example of an age-structure influence on human population size is that _____.

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Correct Answer: Populations dominated by juveniles should experience rapid growth.

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________ is an example of a secondary sector activity.

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Correct Answer: Manufacturing

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The intercoastal highway and pacua dam projects are both controversial. this means that __________.

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Correct Answer: People disagree greatly about these projects

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Madagascar's age-structure diagram ________.

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Correct Answer: Reflects a population with a high growth rate

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Lakes _____.

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Correct Answer: Are recharged by precipitation

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In wild populations, individuals most often show a _____ pattern of dispersion.

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Correct Answer: Clumped

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