Geography 201 – Introduction to Geography
Final Exam Study Guide
The eventual test will be made up of 70-80 PowerPoint identification, multiple choice, true/false,
matching, and map questions. Not all of the questions below will end up on the final version of
the exam and some new ones might be added.
Power Point Identification
Match images of the primary starchy filler foods on the Power Point slides to their corresponding
agricultural hearth.
Match the collections of domesticated plants on the Power Point slides with the agricultural
hearths from which they first came.
Match the mind-altering substances on the Power Point slides with their hearth of origin.
Match images of subsistence-oriented agriculture on the Power Point slides to their
corresponding names.
Match images of commercial agriculture on the Power Point slides to their corresponding names.
Match images of “cowboy cultures” on the Power Point slides with their corresponding
location/name.
Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, and Map questions
Shifting cultivation is found exclusively in ________ environments.
What are rainforest soils called?
Which one of the following is not used as a criticism of shifting cultivation?
What is the primary reason for flooding rice fields?
An example of a country in which intensive subsistence agriculture is practiced but where wet
rice does not dominate is ________.
Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following?
Of the following livestock, only ________ are herded on the tundra.
Because of security concerns, ________ is the country in the Middle East that has been the most
aggressive and the most successful in making pastoral nomadic groups locate in permanent
settlements.
Does pastoral nomadism cover the least amount of land of any form of agriculture?
What prevents commercial cattle ranching in the African savannas?
What prevents commercial cattle ranching in Mongolia?
In Mediterranean environments, the presence of ________ planted in small fields is the best
indicator that subsistence rather than commercial agriculture is being practiced.
Match the characteristics of subsistence agriculture listed below with their corresponding
description.
 a labor-saving method for clearing rainforests
 the creation of stair-step fields on steep hillsides
 the forced permanent settlement of pastoral nomads
 the practice of moving fields in order to maintain yields
 the practice of planting two crops in one season on the same land
Be able to match the types of subsistence agriculture with their corresponding locations on a
map.
Does a relatively high percentage of farmers in the population of the United States account for
our massive agricultural surpluses?
Why are milkshed regions required in the United States but not in Europe?
Do Wisconsin and Minnesota specialize in fluid dairy products for sale in distant markets?
Be able to match the types of agriculture or agricultural regions with their corresponding
locations on a map of the United States.
The Wheat Belts of the United States and Canada are based on which one of the following
environments?
Dairies around Farmville are part of the milkshed of ________.
"Swidden" is the name applied to fields in which type of agriculture?
________ is the type of commercial agriculture responsible for the greatest destruction of
Western Hemisphere rainforests.
Of the following Mediterranean agriculture regions, only ________ has subsistence farmers.
Although illegal, is marijuana one of the most valuable cash crop in the United States?
Marijuana was legal in the United States until the 1930s. Which war exposed our armed forces
to marijuana and led to its reintroduction as a popular illicit drug in this country?
Is addiction to cocaine more severe in the Andean Highlands – where coca leaves are grown –
because people there have always used coca leaves as a folk medicine and therefore crave more
potent forms of the drug like powder cocaine or crack?
"Banana Republic" was a derogatory term applied to countries in ________ that depended on
plantation agriculture and were dominated by American fruit companies.
The preferred drink of Aztec nobility was derived from a plantation product still grown
predominantly in Latin America and West Africa. That product is ________.
The introduction of ________ revolutionized dairy farming and caused its movement away from
urban areas.
Farms in eastern Virginia that produce tomatoes are part of which North American commercial
farming region?
The world's largest ranching operations are the cattle and sheep "stations" found in ________.
The "Corn Belt" is considered which type of commercial agricultural region?
The primary crops and animals raised in agriculture in the United States are descended from
which two agricultural hearths?
In addition to the two agricultural hearths mentioned in the previous question, agriculture in the
American South was heavily influenced by ________ agriculture as a result of the Atlantic slave
trade.
Be able to match the animals herded in pastoral nomadism with the regions in which they are
found.
Imported to the New World by the Spanish, ________ was the staple crop for which the
plantation system was developed and which spurred the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade.
Be able to identify the locations of the five major agricultural hearths on a map.