Geography 102 Exam 2, Fall 2014
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 of the numbered locations is in the region that contains the greatest population of Roman Catholics?
____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 Romance 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 the most important “founder package” was developed?
____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?
Multiple Choice: (2 points each). Write your answer in the space provided to the left of the question.
___11. 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.
___12. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Christians currently outnumber Muslims.
b. Muslim populations have higher rates of population growth than most Christian populations.
c. Most Muslims are Arabs.
d. Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population.
___13. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. More than 100 million Muslims live in India.
b. Since the Enlightenment, Europe has become increasingly secular and regular worship in Christian denominations has decreased.
c. Islam entered Europe after World War II when mobals from European colonies in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East immigrated to Europe.
d. Most Muslims belong to the Shiite sect.
___14. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Shiite Islam’s core of believers lives in Egypt.
b. Pockets of Shiite minorities can be found throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East.
c. Muslim Europe is young, fervently religious and growing faster than the older, secular population of Christian Europe.
d. Lands colonized by Europeans from Roman Catholic Southern Europe planted Roman Catholicism in what became known as Latin America.
___15. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Recently Islamic religious leaders have stressed a rigid fundamentalist version of Islam that has effectively silenced some moderate Muslims.
b. Ethnic religions do not obligate their member to convert non-believers.
c. Islam and Christianity are universalizing faiths because they obligate believers to convert non-believers.
d. During the past decade Muslims are increasingly ignoring their faith’s prohibition on eating meat products.
___16. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. India has experienced rapid economic growth and its own hi-tech economic boom.
b. A large portion of India’s locals live in impoverished conditions dramatically different than that of wealthy mobals who live in Bangalore.
c. Buddhism is an ethnic religion.
d. Islam has experienced periods of great tolerance and intellectual freedom.
___17. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Billions of globals are born speaking a minority, endangered language as their first language.
b. Christianity is the predominant religion in the global core.
c. American Indian languages are largely confined to high latitude, high altitude, rain forest, and desert regions.
d. Slavic languages predominate in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
____18. Which one of the following pairings, of location and approximate date of development of agriculture, is incorrect?
a. Southwest Asia - 8,500 BC
b. Andes - 3,500 BC
c. Mesoamerica - 2,500 BC
d. China - 7,500 BC
____19. Which one of the following pairings, of location and domesticate, is incorrect?
a. China – olive
b. Eastern United States – sunflower
c. Ethiopia – coffee
d. New Guinea – sugar cane
____20. Which one of the following pairings, of location and domesticate, is incorrect?
a. Mesoamerica – turkey
b. New Guinea – banana
c. Andes – maize
d. Fertile Crescent - wheat
____21. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
a. During the earliest stage of domestication, trees such as apples, pears, plums and cherries were domesticated.
b. Early agriculture often was based on the production of a high carbohydrate cereal and a high protein pulse.
c. Early farming populations of farmers grew because agriculture increased the yield of edible plant material.
d. Domesticated animals were the source of germs that caused infectious diseases in humans.
____22. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
a. Humans have domesticated only a few hundred of the world's 200,000 plants.
b. The climate of California’s Central Valley is markedly different from the climate in which earliest plant domestication occurred.
c. The Mediterranean climate’s mild wet winter and long, hot, dry summers select for annual plants.
d. Twelve domesticated plant species account for 80% of the modern world's annual tonnage of all crops.
____23. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
a. New Guinea, with its wet climate, lacked domesticable cereals.
c. Indigenous crops from different parts of the globe were equally productive.
b. Domestication in New Guinea was focused on tree and root crops.
d. Peoples of the eastern US initially domesticated 4 plants that
comprised only a small portion of their diet.
____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 incorrect?
a. New World farmers did not have large domesticated draft animals that could pull a plow.
b. Indigenous peoples of California’s Central Valley were part of an early center of plant domestication.
c. Early farmers in Mesoamerica developed a cereal/pulse combination based on maize and beans.
d. Oak acorn bitterness is controlled not by a single gene, like in almonds, but by many genes.
Extra Point Opportunity. One clean joke.