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A
form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after
short periods of crop production is |
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shifting
cultivation |
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The
zone of probability for a business is marked by |
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high
income and low cost |
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The
Kyoto Protocol addresses |
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global
climate change |
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The
continuation of economic dependence after political independence is |
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neocolonialism |
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The
type of manufacturing that is more likely to be located in peripheral countries
is |
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labor-intensive |
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The
boundaries of rocky crustal plates are associated with |
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earthquakes |
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In
which major world manufacturing country does industry not lie near sources of
raw material |
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Japan |
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The
increase in time and cost with distance is referred to as |
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friction
of distance |
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Which
of the four classifications of industry must locate where the resources are
found |
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tertiary
|
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Theories
which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system
are |
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structuralist
theories |
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Globally,
the consumption of resources is tied to ______ more than any other factor |
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rate
of population growth |
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The
most prevalent rural residential pattern in the world's agricultural areas is |
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nucleated
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20,000
NGO's in Bangladesh constitute what can be called _____ |
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a
parallel state |
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Changes
in climate involve changes in the ______ cycle, which in turn affects patterns
of precipitation |
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hydrologic |
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Depletion
of the ozone layer is caused by the release of ______ into the atmosphere |
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chlorofluorocarbons
|
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Forests
affect the atmosphere through their role in (the) |
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oxygen
cycle |
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Most
scholars believe that seed cultivation first occurred in |
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the
Fertile Crescent |
| |
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England
not only held a monopoly over products that were in world demand at the
beginning of the Industrial Revolution, but also a monopoly on |
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the
skill necessary to make the machines that manufactured the products |
| |
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Alfred
Wegener used his spatial view of the world to develop the theory of |
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continental
drift |
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The
word "development" implies |
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progress |
| |
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__________
give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small
businesses |
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Micro
credit programs |
| |
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Who
actually laid the groundwork for the colonial expansion of Europe |
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Europe's
commercial companies |
| |
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Colonial
powers would make subsistence farmers |
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grow
cash crops in addition to feed crops the farmer needed to survive |
| |
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If
a substantial number of enterprises all develop in, or move to, the same area
the factor is called |
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agglomeration |
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In
Britain, the proximity of what three things gave an unsurpassed advantage to
the development of early industry |
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coal
fields, iron ores and coastal ports |
| |
|
Mass
production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to
as |
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Fordist |
| |
|
Which
is not an example of a primary economic activity |
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corn
flake production |
| |
|
A
large component of survival in countries with low per capita GNP is |
|
the
informal economy |
| |
|
Gross
domestic product measures only |
|
production
only within a country |
| |
|
Over
the past century the pace of human environmental change has |
|
increased
significantly |
| |
|
By
1992, the most widely grown crop variety on Earth was a product of the Green
Revolution called IR36, which is a variety of |
|
rice |
| |
|
Microcredit
programs have been successful in many places with the exception of |
|
places
with high AIDS mortality rates |
| |
|
The
relocation of industry to cities like Paris and London was facilitated by |
|
development
of railroads |
| |
|
The
climatic record documenting the beginning of the Little Ice Age was partially
pieced together by using ___________farmer's diaries |
|
wine |
| |
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Which
commodity would be found closest to the market town in con Thunen's model |
|
milk |
| |
|
Dependency
ratio measures |
|
the
number of young plus the number of elderly per 100 workers |
| |
|
Bio-genetic
engineering now allows the growing of new strains in more arid regions of the
Plains States to meet the demand of the ______ industry |
|
grain
export |
| |
|
Examples
of luxury crops include |
|
tobacco |
| |
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The
United States is the most prolific producer of solid waste. It is estimated that the U.S. produces about
____ pounds per person per day |
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3.5 |
| |
|
Tsunami
waves result from |
|
earthquake
displacement of the seafloor |
| |
|
Nike,
headquartered in Oregon, employs 20,000 people in that state. What percentage are employed in making shoes |
|
0 |
| |
|
Subsistence
forms of agriculture in peripheral areas produce little in the way of |
|
protein
|
| |
|
The
basic unit of the township-and-range survey system, the section, has an area of
|
|
1
square mile |
| |
|
In
peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels in tourist areas to be owned
by |
|
multinational
corporations
|
| |
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Which
of the following is not an example of a hunting and gathering group that still
existed into the early 2000's |
|
the
Bantu of Southern Africa |
| |
|
The
average size of a family farm in China is _____ acres |
|
.5 |
| |
|
Increasingly,
people have come to depend on water sources |
|
of
uncertain future capacity |
| |
|
Even
if the GNP index is used to measure the well_being of a country, it will fail
to show |
|
the
distribution of wealth |
| |
|
________
processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and
development, and high wages |
|
Core |
| |
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In
areas of shifting cultivation, the population |
|
cannot
have a high density |
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