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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) What type of bioregion is most often found along the equator? A) tundra B) tropical forests C) broadleaf or mixed broadleaf and coniferous forest D) Mediterranean woodland E) coniferous forest 42) Where are most tropical rainforests located? A) near the south pole B).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) China's one-child policy A) outlawed abortion in 1978 B) was formally abandoned in 1997 C) has not been altered since its inception in 1978 D) failed miserably and did not slow the growth rate E) is gradually being phased out.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) The Schengen Agreement, signed in 1985, meant that A) crossing a European border became more difficult for the ethnic minority Roma. B) crossing a European border required passport and auto insurance documentation. C) crossing a European border required.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) What African organization was created to help mediate disputes between neighbors in Africa? A) African Union B) Association of African Nations C) United States of Africa D) Africa United E) African Development Corporation 62) What resource is fueling conflict in the.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) From which two world regions did the indentured workers of Suriname come? A) India and Borneo B) China and Hong Kong C) Kenya and Ethiopia D) South Asia and Java E) Ghana and Tanzania 42) A sizeable percentage of the population.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Who is the father-figure of Indian independence? A) Mohandas Gandhi B) Aasif Mandviwala C) Siddhartha Guatama D) Raj Kumar E) Koose Veerappan 62) In what year did the British withdraw from India? A) 1957 B) 1947 C) 1937 D) 1927 E) 1967 63) The two nations formed.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Cities such as Atlanta and Charlotte are located in which North American physiographic region? A) the Piedmont B) the Gulf Coast C) the Rocky Mountains D) the Atlantic coastline E) the West 2) The Great Lakes A) are found in the southeastern.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) Population density in Latin America A) is densely concentrated at the deltas of major rivers such as the Amazon and Orinoco B) is heavily concentrated in the interior of the South American continent C) is most densely concentrated.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) From the perspective of which world region is Southwest Asia and North Africa the "Middle East"? A) Latin America B) East Asia C) Sub-Saharan Africa D) Europe E) Australia and Oceania 2) What does the acronym OPEC stand for? A) Organization of.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) As a region, what is the unifying characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa? A) shared language B) similar cultural values C) unified political system D) common religious experience E) similar lifestyles and idea systems 2) The physical geography of sub-Saharan Africa is best.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The most commonly spoken language in the USA after English and Spanish is A) Russian B) Chinese C) Korean D) Arabic E) French 42) The non-Hispanic white population of the United States A) is decreasing as a percentage of the total population.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) In the Tarim Basin, where do most of the people reside? A) toward the eastern opening of the basin B) high in the mountains surrounding the basin C) in an evenly distributed pattern, throughout the region D) near the.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The two most commonly spoken languages in Afghanistan are A) Hazara and Baluchi B) Pashto and Dari C) Russian and Turkish D) Pashto and Uzbek E) Dari and Uzbek 42) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the ethnolinguistic geography.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) The first colony to gain its independence in the Caribbean, in 1804, was A) Jamaica B) Haiti C) Barbados D) Cuba E) Puerto Rico 62) Which of the Caribbean countries is NOT a Crown Colony? A) Montserrat B) Cayman Islands C) Turks and Caicos D).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Where are the highest elevations found in China? A) Manchuria B) Tibet C) the loess plateau frontier with Mongolia D) the eastern coastal region E) Taiwan 2) East Asia is located in roughly the same latitudinal zone as which of the.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The Khoisan linguistic family is largely concentrated in which part of sub-Saharan Africa? A) the central Congo Basin B) the Namibian Desert region of southwestern Africa C) the coastal regions of East Africa (ex. Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique) D) the.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which nation of the Middle East has been a hotbed of fundamentalist Islam and may have financed anti-American terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda? A) Syria B) Iraq C) Iran D) Israel E) Saudi Arabia 62) The ethnolinguistic region known as Kurdistan straddles.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The islands of the Philippines and Indonesia are largely found in which linguistic family? A) Tai-Kadai B) Austronesian C) Mon-Khmer D) Tibeto-Burman E) Papuan 42) To which language group does the Vietnamese language belong? A) Tai-Kadai B) Mon-Khmer C) Austronesian D) Papuan E) Tibeto-Burman 43) Which language.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) The total population of sub-Saharan Africa is A) 1.5 billion B) just below one billion C) just over two billion D) 250 million E) 500 million 22) Sub-Saharan Africa A) has a young population in comparison with western countries. B) has seen declining.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) UNASUR was largely initiated by which South American nation? A) Chile B) Peru C) Colombia D) Brazil E) Argentina 62) Which of the following countries is NOT a member of Mercosur? A) Brazil B) Argentina C) Guatemala D) Colombia E) Chile 63) What are Colombia's FARC and.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) What are the boundaries of Latin America according to the authors of your textbook? A) the Amazon River in the north to Puntas Arenas in the south B) Tijuana in the north to the La Plata River.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) What is the largest country (in terms of land area as well as population) in the region encompassing the Oceania region? A) Vanuatu B) New Zealand C) Australia D) Solomon Islands E) Fiji 2) What is the "Outback"? A) Australia's huge, dry.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which of the following is NOT a key issue at the center of the American immigration debate? A) whether to tighten the U.S.-Mexico border B) the number of legal immigrants who should be allowed on an annual.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) The current population of India is roughly A) 1.328 million B) 162.9 billion C) 436 million D) 1.328 billion E) 203.4 million 22) Which two nations of South Asia comprise the largest population in the region? A) Bangladesh and Pakistan B) India and.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) What is the language of the Volga Tatars of the Russian Domain? A) Chinese B) Turkish C) Slavic D) Finnish E) Kurdish 42) The Transcaucasian region A) is monolingual B) has a large Jewish minority population C) is deeply fractured along ethnolinguistic lines and.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) Hinduism A) is the majority religion in Pakistan and Bangladesh B) has always denounced the caste system. C) is the majority religion in India. D) is monotheistic E) actively seeks new converts in the same manner as does Christianity and.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) What is the cultural origin of the majority of Australia's population? A) United States B) East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) C) Aboriginal D) South Asia (India, Pakistan) E) British Isles (England, Scotland, Ireland) 42) What was the purpose of the White.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) What name is sometimes given to the region of South Asia? A) Hindustan B) India proper C) the peninsula D) the Indian Subcontinent E) Indistan 2) Where do the Himalayan Mountains lie, relative to the region of South Asia? A) east of.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the population pyramids of Egypt and Iran? A) Women have more children in Iran than do women in Egypt. B) Iran is growing faster than Egypt. C) Egypt is growing.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War II to less than 2 million today? A) Nazis and their sympathizers murdered approximately six million Jews in the Holocaust. B) Their.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which nation was NOT part of the former Yugoslavia? A) Bosnia-Herzegovina B) Serbia C) Albania D) Macedonia E) Croatia 62) Which nation, formerly part of Yugoslavia, is deeply divided along ethnoreligious lines, with large minorities of Muslims, Roman Catholics and Orthodox.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Why do the authors of your text use the word "domain" when talking about "the Russian Domain"? A) The term is the name of the free trade zone now evolving in the region. B) Domain refers to.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which is a strategy employed by China to exert its influence over selected nations of Oceania? A) the establishment of Chinese military bases across Micronesia and Polynesia B) holding major Chinese naval drills in the territorial waters.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) How does Europe compare in size (area) to the United States? A) It is roughly two-thirds of the United States. B) It is the same size as the United States. C) It is about the size of the.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) Which nation in the region has a deep split between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam? A) Morocco B) Egypt C) Iran D) Turkey E) Iraq 42) Coptic Christians make up a significant minority of the population of which nation? A) Turkey B).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) The former Portuguese colony of Macau, reclaimed by China, derives a major percentage of its revenue from what industry? A) gambling B) rice exports C) medical supplies D) IT software development E) heavy machinery production 62) What is the main reason.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Which nation in the region has a coastline on the Caspian Sea? A) Tajikistan B) Mongolia C) Afghanistan D) Kazakhstan E) Kyrgyzstan 2) All of the following are nations in Central Asia with the exception of A) Mongolia B) Afghanistan C) Pakistan D) Kazakhstan E) Uzbekistan 3).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Where do most of the rebellious ethnic groups of Burma (Myanmar) live? A) in the port cities of Burma B) in middle-sized municipalities C) in the capital city D) just across the border in Thailand E) in frontier regions, far.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) The largest city in the Caribbean is A) Havana B) San Juan C) Santo Domingo D) Kingston E) Port-au-Prince 2) Which is the largest island of the Caribbean? A) Jamaica B) Belize C) Suriname D) Cuba E) Haiti 3) Of the following Caribbean countries, which one is.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) In what part of Australia do most of its people live? A) northwest B) northeast C) southeast D) southwest E) the Outback 22) What percent of the population of New Zealand lives on the North Island? A) 10% B) 25% C) 70% D) 50% E) 60% 23).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Which country of Southeast Asia lies both on the mainland and in the islands of the region? A) Singapore B) Malaysia C) Laos D) Brunei E) Vietnam 2) What is the longest river in Southeast Asia? A) Mekong B) Red River C) Chao Phraya D).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) Swidden agriculture A) works best in regions of medium to high population density. B) is most common on coastal plains. C) usually is associated with paddy rice production D) has benefited significantly from logging operations. E) depletes soil nutrients within.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The Ainu are found primarily on which island of Japan? A) Honshu B) Kyushu C) Hokkaido D) Taiwan E) Shikoku 42) You fly from the city of Guangzhou to Seoul and then onward to Tokyo. You will speak which three languages.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) Which Caribbean country has the lowest rate of natural increase in the region? A) Haiti B) Belize C) French Guiana D) Cuba E) Trinidad and Tobago 22) Which of the following Caribbean nations has the greatest percent of its population below.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) The famous city located on the shores of the Baltic, formerly known as Leningrad, is called A) Moscow B) St. Petersburg C) Kiev D) Volgograd E) Vladivostok 22) The Trans-Siberian Railroad A) travels through the far north of Siberia. B) ends at Vladivostok. C).

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Why did the Russian military invade Georgia in 2008? A) because the Georgian government attempted to establish control over the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are two regions dominated by Russian sympathizers B) to establish.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 21) Which of the following statements best describes North America's population settlement pattern? A) Settlement is evenly distributed across the region. B) Settlement is strongly focused on rural regions with very few cities C) Settlement is strongly centered on.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which of the following pairs are a renewable energy source? A) coal and wind B) solar and natural gas C) wind and natural gas D) wind and solar E) hydrologic and oil 62) What percent of the world's power is generated.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 61) Which countries are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? A) Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan B) Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan C) Russia, China and the United States D) Afghanistan, China and Kyrgyzstan E) Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 41) The mixing of the races is known as A) ethnic classification B) syncretism C) mestizo D) Columbian Exchange E) miscegenation 42) What is the predominant language in Latin America, based on the number of people who speak it as a first.