geog exam 1

Question 1

this discipline which “writes about the earth” is

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geography

Question 2

congressional voting districts in connecticut are examples of

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formal regions

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even if you have never been to las vegas, you probably have a good ideas of what it is like based on social media, depictions, tourism,etc.. this is an example of?

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sense of place

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boston filling a pond, a bay and several coves in order to create more developable land is proof that

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sites can be altered

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the north end of Boston, where it is easy to get lost due to streets that are winding and change direction, and the back bay section of boston, which was planned to have a gridded road network, are two diff types of?

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patterns

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the fact that, for most major league baseball teams, fan bases are stronger closer to the teams stadium and then gets weaker as you move away from the stadium and then gets weaker as you move away from the stadium is an example of?

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distance decay

Question 7

with an automovile on the highway, you could cover 100 miles in under an hour and a half. this is much faster and makes places within 100 miles functionally closer than when foot travel was common, and it would take a day and a half to travel 100 miles. this is best described as?

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space-time compression

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the two apartment buildings above each other have 30 dwelling units in a one-acre lot. in comparing these two apartment buildings , the best description would be?

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they have the same density and different concentrations

Question 9

to geographers, the spread of mcdonalds around the world represents?

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economic and cultural globalization

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Toyota manufacturing automotive parts in several diff countries in Asia and then shipping them to plants in the US for assembly into finished vehicles is an example of?

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a spatial division of labor, transmital corporation, economic globalization

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which reigons of the world would be considered to have the weakest economic growth as a result of globalization?

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latin america, africa and most of asia

Question 12

the above commutershed map is an indicator of

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functional reigons

**employment centers with over 10,000 jobs

Question 13

the US-canada border is 5500 miles long, with 1300 miles of border following the 49 degree north ___ line as a result of the treaty of 1818 with the British

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latitude

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the international date line roughly follows ?

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a line of longitude

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the roman empire was an ancient example of a globalizing world due to

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the use of common law over a large area, the use of common currency, a large established trade network

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the political boundary between the northern Ireland portion of the UK and the Republic of ireland most closely follows which type of cultural boundary

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religious

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palestine is not a full member state of the UN because?

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it has chosen to observe and participate in the UN meetings but it is opposed to the potential use of force by the UN so it does not want full membership

Question 18

in the dispute between peru and chile regarding overlapping maritime entitlements, the International Court of justice determined that

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the overlapping claims should roughly split between the two countries

Question 19

during the cold warm the US established a military allegiance with other westernized countries thru an agreement known as?

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the north atlantic treaty organization (NATO)

Question 20

the UK voting to remove itself from the european union has been referred to as

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brexit

Question 21

the belief that ethnic groups should be able to govern themselves is called

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self-determination

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Canada, with 2 dominant ethnic groups such as English-speaking protestants and french-speaking Catholics, is a good example of

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multinational state

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the 1993 split of the Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia resulted in the creation of

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a federal state

Question 24

which of the following is not one of the goals of the UN

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promote the use of common currency

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which of the following is not one of the reasons there is conflict in the south China sea over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands?

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the islands are owned by japan but occupied by Chinese citizens

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which of the following is not true about the European union?

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it would later grow into the UN as the non-European countries joined

Question 27

which of the following is not one of the main motives that european states established countries?

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promote/expand a dominant language

Question 28

in the context of international political geography, connecticut is a state

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false

Question 29

mcdonalds is an example of a transnational corporation

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true

Question 30

since the UN is open only to “peace-loving states”, any states in conflict will have their UN membership revoked

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false

Question 31

despite being able to serve in the US military, american citizens living in the US territories do not have equal voting rights to american citizens living in the 50 US states

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true

Question 32

a unique location on earths surface

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place

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the physical gap between two objects

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space

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invisible line that marks the extent of a country’s territory

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political boundary

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an area of the world where no state exercises complete control

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frontier

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a country where a strong central government hold most of the power

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unitary state

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a country where some power is allocated to lower scales of govt (states, provinces, regions, cities)

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federal state

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relationships between people and objects across the barrier of space

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connection

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an effort by a country to impose its political, economic and cultural principles on a territory

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colonialism

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a country where citizens elect their leaders and can run for public office

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democratic state

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a country run by a ruler in their interest rather than in the interest of their citizens

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autocratic state

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the location of a place relative to others

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situation

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independence from control by other countries of one’s internal and foreign affairs

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sovereignty

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a shared cultural background

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ethnicity

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a country whose political borders closely matches the cultural borders of a dominant ethnic group

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nation state

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rural areas supporting a central city

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hinterland