Test Cultural Geography

1. Which of the following countries has both the largest territory and population of any country in Latin America?

Bolivia

Brazil

Argentina

Chile

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

Explanation

NGS 4.0 The physical and human characteristics of places

2. Which of the following is expected to contribute to Mexico's economic prosperity?

Rising population

NAFTA

Human-environment interaction

National Action Party

NGS 10D.3 Predict how evolving political and economic alliances affect the traditional cohesiveness of world culture regions (e.g., post-reunification Germany and its economic effect on the European Union, NAFTAs effect on trade relations among the United States, Canada, and Mexico)

Explanation

NGS 10D.3 Predict how evolving political and economic alliances affect the traditional cohesiveness of world culture regions (e.g., post-reunification Germany and its economic effect on the European Union, NAFTAs effect on trade relations among the United States, Canada, and Mexico)

3. Which of the following identifies the reason why the Portuguese brought Africans to the colony of Brazil?

To work on the sugar plantations

To build cities

To clear land

To mine gold and silver

NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to

Explanation

NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to

4. Which of the following two cultures blended to shape the development of Mexico?

Spanish and Portuguese

Native peoples and Spanish

Maya and Aztec

Spanish and African

NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to

Explanation

NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to

5. Which of the following are the major groups of people that shaped the cultures of both Central America and the Caribbean?

Native peoples, Europeans, Africans

Native peoples, Spanish, Portuguese

Spanish, French, Dutch

Inca, Maya, Spanish

NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to

Explanation

NGS 10A Compare the role that culture plays in incidents of cooperation and conflict in the present-day world, as exemplified by being able to

6. What minerals are found nearest to Chihuahua?

Copper and silver

Silver and lead

Zinc and gold

Lead and zinc

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

7. Which mineral is nearest to Guadalajara?

Lead

Gold

Zinc

Iron ore

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

8. Which of the following time spans indicates the time when a mestizo population began to develop in this region?

1519-1540

1540-1565

1565-1570

1570-1597

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Explanation

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

9. The economies of Central America and the Caribbean are primarily based on which of these two factors?

Agriculture and industry

Trade and industry

Tourism and industry

Agriculture and tourism

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

Explanation

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

10. Which of the following population groups changed LEAST during the time shown on the graph?

Natives

Mestizos

Mexican

European

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Explanation

NGS 1.3 How to use geographic representations and tools to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems

Test Cultural Geography

1. Which of the following countries has both the largest territory and population of any country in Latin America?

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What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Which of the following is expected to contribute to Mexico's economic prosperity?

3. Which of the following identifies the reason why the Portuguese brought Africans to the colony of Brazil?

4. Which of the following two cultures blended to shape the development of Mexico?

5. Which of the following are the major groups of people that shaped the cultures of both Central America and the Caribbean?

6. What minerals are found nearest to Chihuahua?

7. Which mineral is nearest to Guadalajara?

8. Which of the following time spans indicates the time when a mestizo population began to develop in this region?

9. The economies of Central America and the Caribbean are primarily based on which of these two factors?

10. Which of the following population groups changed LEAST during the time shown on the graph?