Geography 102 Final Exam 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. Write only one answer, except for when I
ask for multiple answers. (2 points each)
____1. Which of the numbered locations is in the country that contains the greatest population of Muslims?
____2. Which of the numbered locations is in a country that is inhabited primarily by Shiite Muslims who speak an Indo-European language?
____3. At which of the numbered locations, in the third largest great population cluster, does a Germanic language predominate?
____4. Which numbered location is closest to the destination of the Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj?
____5. Which of the numbered locations is nearest the western boundary of the Austronesian language family region?
____6. Which of the numbered locations is in a latitudinal region that has the greatest religious diversity?
____7. Which of the numbered locations is closest to where agriculture was established first?
____8. Which of the numbered locations is closest to where early farmers developed a cereal/pulse combination based on peas and wheat?
____9. Which of the numbered locations is in a latitudinal region that has the greatest linguistic diversity?
____10. Which of the numbered locations is closest to where early farmers developed a cereal/pulse combination based on soybeans and rice?
____11. Which country would have the higher crude birth rate, #4 or #12?
____12. Which numbered location is in the region that is worst in the provision of contraception?
____13. Which numbered location is in the region of Europe where the inheritance tradition prevented the generational subdivision of families’ landholdings?
____14. Which of the numbered locations is in a country where the government instituted a total fertility rate of 1.0?
____15. Which country would have the higher total fertility rate, #8 or #14?
____16. Which location is closest to the country Billy immigrated to (Billy’s Journey)?
____17. Which numbered location is in the Great Population Cluster where one quarter of humanity lives?
____18. At which numbered location did the country’s total fertility rate increase for a few years then decrease to below replacement level in just 22 years.
Multiple Choice: (2 points each). Write your answer in the space provided to the left of the question.
___19. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. The number of international migrants is much larger than the number of internal migrants.
c. High birth rates are found in the poor countries of the tropical world.
b. High death rates are found in some wealthy countries.
d. Low death rates are found in some poor countries.
___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. Billions of globals speak a minority, endangered language as their first language.
c. American Indian languages are largely confined to sparsely populated regions.
b. Christianity is the predominant religion in the global core.
d. Slavic languages predominate in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
___22. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Hinduism is a monotheistic, ethnic religion.
b. Islam is a multi-cultural, monotheistic and universalizing religion.
c. Judaism is a monotheistic, ethnic religion.
d. Most Arabs are Muslims.
___23. 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.
____24. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
a. Cultures of southeastern Europe had productive hunting and gathering systems and were separated from early farmers by extensive deserts.
b. Hunters and gatherers were forced to turn to nomadism as farming cultures took over more and more of their land resources
c. Many hunters and gatherers were sedentary.
d. Archaeological research has shown that early farmers often had worse nourishment, smaller stature and lived to lower ages than hunters and gatherers.
____25. 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.
New Stuff
____26. Which location is in the country that has vast bauxite reserves, and which also is a leader in aluminum production?
____27. Which country, which is in the 3rd largest Great Population Cluster, has lost its share of steel production during the past 60 years?
____28. In which country, which is among the top three producers of coal, petroleum and natural gas, does a Germanic language predominate?
____29. Which location is closest to where the “race to the bottom” began in the US?
____30. Which location, which is not in a great population cluster, is in the country that produces the majority of the world's cast-off garments?
____31. Which location, which is in the second largest great population cluster, is in a country that became a major apparel manufacturer because of the
US quota system?
____32. Which one of the numbered locations is in the native region of the species of crawfish that is harvested in California’s rice paddies?
____33. In which of the numbered locations, which is in a region of Islamic-Christian conflict, do cotton farmers compete with cotton growers from the US?
____34. Which of the numbered locations is in what once was the world’s leading cotton producing region in 1860?
____35. Which of the numbered locations is in the region that has experienced dramatic growth in manufacturing since the 1970s?
____36. Would you be more likely to own a t-shirt that was manufactured in location #25 or location #18?
____37. Which location is closest to the region where the “race to the bottom” began?
____38. Which location is closest to the region to which California’s commercial crawfish producers first exported their product?
____39. Which location would have the higher GDP/Capita? 23? Or, 18?
____40. Which location is closest to the country from which refugees emigrated and later became Asian-Cajuns?
____41. Which location is closest to the region, which is in the third largest great population cluster, from which migrants brought a love of crawfish to the
Great Lakes States?
____42. Which of the numbered locations is in the world’s leading cotton producing region?
____43. Which location is closest to the region where rice growers who receive government subsidies view crawfish as an agricultural pest?
____44. Write the number of the location that is closest to the US counties that led in the production of Pima cotton in 2013.
____45. Which location is closest to Syria?
____46. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Russia is a world leader in energy reserves.
c. Many secondary economic activities are called “value-added” activities.
b. Manufacturing locations are influenced by labor costs.
d. China is a leading producer of petroleum.
____47. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. South Sudan is a landlocked state that possesses significant petroleum reserves.
b. According to DeBlij, globals can take for granted issues, desires and ideas to which locals have no access.
c. Syria’s borders were drawn in 1916 by European powers.
d. Prior to 1916, Syria functioned as a nation-state.
____48. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. ISIS controls the Syria’s Euphrates River Valley.
b. The government and ISIS each have some control over Syria’s petroleum.
c. The Syrian civil war is a fight between the Syrian government and ISIS.
d. Germany is the leading European country in the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
____49. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Syria was a part of the Ottoman Empire for more than 300 years.
b. Syrians practice multiple religions, with Sunni Islam claiming the largest number of believers.
c. The Syrian population is homogeneous, with no ethnic minorities.
d. Most of Syria’s population lives on the country’s western fringe and at a lower density along the Euphrates River.
____50. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Most Syrian refugees are displaced within Syria.
b. All of the rebel groups in Syria’s civil war want to get rid of the Assad dictatorship.
c. Shiite Muslims support the Syrian government because of the protection it has provided in the past.
d. The Islamic caliphate envisioned by ISIS would span European-drawn boundaries and, in its geographic spread, resemble the Ottoman Empire.