Geog Final Exam

Question 1

3 major types of national economies

Answer 1

• Subsitence
• Market
• Planned (communist)

Question 2

How much global land is unsuitable for agriculture?

Answer 2

• 70%

Question 3

How much of worlds population lived in the cities? 1800? Now?

Answer 3

• 1800 : 3%

- Now: 50%

Question 4

What is a megacity and how many were there in 2008?

Answer 4

• Megacity = city with population over 10 million

- In 2008 there were 19 megacities

Question 5

Is Chicago a megacity?

Answer 5

• No, not yet. 300,000 people away from 10 million

Question 6

When was the population peak for most large U.S. cities?

Answer 6

-1950

Question 7

Current world population

Answer 7

-7.1 billion

Question 8

Where is most of the projected growth in world population to come from?

Answer 8

-Africa

Question 9

How much of the worlds population lives north of the equator?

Answer 9

-90%

Question 10

When did the U.S. go to war with Afghanistan and why?

Answer 10

-Because they refused o hand over Bin Laden, Taliban then fled to pakistan from afghanistan

Question 11

Of all the countries in South Asia, which country experiences the most regular and widespread
flooding from the South Asian monsoon.

Answer 11

-Bangladesh

Question 12

Which country has the largest democracy?

Answer 12

-India

Question 13

What is the only Muslim country to have nuclear weapons?

Answer 13

-Pakistan

Question 14

What does the Raj mean?

Answer 14

• The rule of the British in India

Question 15

Who had troops in Afghanistan from 1979-89 during the ten year war?

Answer 15

-Soviet Union

Question 16

Which country is a low lying county in danger of disappearing due to global warming?

Answer 16

-The Maldives

Question 17

Who seceded from Indonesia in 1999?

Answer 17

-East Timor did after a long and bloody civil war

Question 18

What percentage of South Asia is rural?

Answer 18

-Approximately 75%-

Question 19

What are the two most populous Islamic country in the world?

Answer 19

• Indonesia

- Pakistan is 2nd

Question 20

What are the 3 largest world economies in order?

Answer 20

1. U.S.
2. China
3. Japan

Question 21

Who was the 1st leader of China under a communist government?

Answer 21

-Mao Zedong

Question 22

What language do Chinese people speak?

Answer 22

Mandarin

Question 23

What is the dominant ethnic group in China

Answer 23

Han

Question 24

Significance between Taiwan and China?

Answer 24

Taiwan is claimed by China

Question 25

What country has the longest life expectancy in the world?

Answer 25

Japan

Question 26

Where do 20% of the worlds earthquakes occur?

Answer 26

Japan

Question 27

What is sericulture?

Answer 27

Cultivation of silkworms

Question 28

Who has the 4th largest standing army?

Answer 28

North Korea

Question 29

What is the majority religion in the Phillipines?

Answer 29

Over 80% are Roman Catholic

Question 30

Unlike it's neighbors which country was never a European colony?

Answer 30

Thailand

Question 31

Which Muslim country is made up of many island groups?

Answer 31

Indonesia

Question 32

Where do most of the people in Oceania live and what language do they speak?

Answer 32

In Australia and speak Engish

Question 33

Where is the Great Barrier Reef?

Answer 33

In the Coral Sea in NE Australia?

Question 34

What was the first nation to grant all women the right to vote and when?

Answer 34

New Zealand in 1893

Question 35

The Maori

Answer 35

Indigenous population to New Zealand, about 14.6%

Question 36

Are there any nuclear stations in New Zealand?

Answer 36

No, a change in law would be required for one to be built.

Question 37

What was one of the last places to be inhabited by humans?

Answer 37

New Zealand

Question 37

In 1850 U.S. workers were in which sector?

Answer 37

Agricultural

Question 38

In 1950 U.S. workers were in which sector?

Answer 38

Manufacturing

Question 39

86% of U.S. workers are in what sector today?

Answer 39

Service

Question 40

Population of India

Answer 40

1.2 billion

Question 41

Capital of China

Answer 41

Beijing

Question 42

What Chinese leader is responsible for ushering the current wave of economic reforms?

Answer 42

Deng Xiaoping

Question 43

Who ordered the brutal death march out of Cambodia?

Answer 43

Pol Pot

Question 44

What is the only landlocked country in SE Asia?

Answer 44

Laos

Question 45

Who was the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary that led Nnorth Vietnam from WW2?

Answer 45

Ho Chi Minh

Question 46

What is the hi tech wealthy city-state in SE Asia?

Answer 46

Singapore

Question 47

Indonesia has never been under communist rule unlike?

Answer 47

Laos Vietnam Cambodia