Geography 102 Exam 1, Spring 2015
Name: ____________________________________________
Use the map provided to answer the following questions. Some questions have multiple correct answers. Numbered locations may be used
more than once or not at all. Write your answers in the space provided to the left of the question. (2 points each)
____1. Which country would have the higher crude birth rate, #4 or #8?
____2. Which numbered location is in the region that is worst in the provision of contraception?
____3. Which numbered location is in the region of Europe where the inheritance tradition led younger siblings to emigrate?
____4. Which of the numbered locations is in the country that probably has the largest number of internal migrants?
____5. Which one of the numbered locations, in the Global Core, is exceptional because its population is not as old, nor is it shrinking like other countries in
the core?
____6. Which country would have the higher total fertility rate, #8 or #14?
____7. Which location is closest to the country Billy’s emigrated from (Billy’s Journey)?
____8. Which of the numbered locations is in a country where the total fertility rate decreased to below replacement level just 22 years after a religious
revolution?
Multiple Choice: (2 points each). Write your answer in the space provided to the left of the question.
____9. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Bidwell created the town of Chico in 1860 when he hired a surveyor to lay out city blocks between Big Chico and Little Chico Creeks.
b. Bidwell devoted much of his time and money to determining which plants could thrive in Chico.
c. Bidwell promoted diversified agriculture.
d. Bidwell ignored the opportunities that international markets held for California agriculture.
____10. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. John Bidwell discovered gold on the Feather River.
b. Livestock grazing was the dominant economic activity on the early land grants of Butte County during the late 1840s and the 1850s.
c. CSU, Chico was originally called Chico Normal School. The name reflected its focus on agricultural research.
d. Bidwell attracted settlers to Chico by offering settlers free lots on which to build homes.
____11. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. During the summer months, the Konkow ventured into the higher elevations in order to procure various plant and animals.
b. The Konkow collected several types of insects during the summer.
c. Spanish explorers entered the Big Chico Creek watershed in the early 1800s in search of productive fur-trapping sites.
d. The Konkow depended on hunting and gathering for their subsistence.
____12. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Bidwell used local Native Americans as farm laborers on his ranch.
c. Bidwell favored limits on Chinese immigration.
b. John Bidwell graduated from Harvard University before coming to California.
d. In 1905 Annie Bidwell granted land to the city to establish Bidwell Park.
____13. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. The Schengen Accords eased movement across the borders of EU member countries.
b. Ceuta is a Spanish enclave in North Africa.
c. Spain's economy and the country's slow population growth have created a demand for immigrant laborers.
d. The majority of immigrants who arrive at Ceuta and Melilla are from East Asia.
____14. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Central Washington has become more Hispanic since the 1960s.
b. The availability of agricultural work in Central Washington was a pull factor that caused some Mexicans to immigrate there.
c. Differences in population pyramids suggest that Central Washington’s non-Hispanic population will grow faster than its Hispanic population.
d. Remittances are funds that Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the US send to their relatives in Mexico.
____15. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Isopleth maps are commonly used to show the results of political elections.
b. Choropleth maps show variations in statistical values by predefined areas such as counties.
c. Your personal activity map in an example of a dot map.
d. Area class maps employ different colors or patterns to divide the surface of the earth into different classes of a particular phenomenon.
____16. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. China exports primarily manufactured articles; Saudi Arabia exports primarily fuel and related products.
b. The continental margins of the Northern Hemisphere contain most of the areas of high population density.
c. The British Isles has the same climate that is found in parts of Washington State.
d. Refugees make up a significantly higher proportion of the US’s population than that of Germany and the UK’s population.
___17. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Malthusians believe the total fertility rate is the most important indicator of population growth.
b. High birth rates are found in the poor countries of the tropical world.
c. High death rates are found in some wealthy countries.
d. Low death rates are found in some poor countries.
___18. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Poor countries of the world have a higher demand for contraception than the actual supply.
b. After Iran’s revolution, the fertility rate increased for a few years then decreased to below replacement level in just 22 years.
c. East Asia and Latin America are the regions of the non-industrialized world where the supply of contraception most closely meets demand.
d. Countries that have not lowered their total fertility rate enjoy an increase in household wealth that is called a demographic dividend.
___19. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. The Global Core represents less than 20% of humanity.
b. Locals’ lives largely depend on the circumstances into which they are born.
c. Mobals were born as locals and left home to seek greater economic opportunity in urban areas and/or the Global Core
d. The World Island includes Europe and South America and has long held the majority of humanity .
___20. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Countries in the 4th and 5th stage of the Global Demographic Transition often have unmet demand for workers. Globals, fill much of this demand.
b. Approximately 3% of humans migrated between 1990 and 2005.
c. Because of immigration, the US population is not as old, nor is it shrinking like other countries in the Global Core.
d. The Global Core earns nearly 75 percent of the world’s annual income.
___21. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. A Guatemalan who migrates to Mexico is a transnational, but not an intercultural migrant.
b. The number of international migrants is much larger than the number of internal migrants.
c. Mexico receives tens of billions of dollars from its mobals who work in the US annually.
d. Baby Boomers throughout the Global Core will exert a burden on governments as they become eligible for government old age security programs.
___22. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. The Great Plains and Midwest, the Southwest and South Florida are the regions that have the US’s oldest populations.
b. Texas border region, California’s Imperial and Central Valleys of California and the Mormon West have the US’s youngest populations.
c. Land east of the 100°W meridian has higher population density than land west of the 100°W meridian.
d. States in the western US have the highest percentages of native residents.
Short Essay question (6 points). Be sure to write concise and grammatical sentences.
You are the president of a rich country that has an old population and a low rate of natural increase. You also have waves of immigrants trying to cross your
borders. What are you going to do? Explain how an old population is a problem. Explain how migration might be a solution. Explain why immigrants want to
cross your borders. You must use the following terms in your explanations: core, periphery, mobals, locals, available jobs, tax revenue.
Extra Point Opportunity: Write a clean joke in the space below. (1 point)