GEOG 101 Week 4 Midterm Exam Answers
GEOG 101 Week 4 Midterm Exam Answers
Question 1 (Worth 1 points)
The term that is used to indicate decreasing levels of spatial interactions with increasing distances is:
- distance delay
- state’s rights
- diversity theory
- oblast
- distance decay
Question 2 (Worth 1 points)
Central America, as defined by geographers, is:
- a region within Middle America between Mexico and Colombia
- a region that incorporates all the lands and islands between the U. S. and South America
- the regional term for the Greater Antilles, “that is, the Caribbean’s larger islands”
- the heartland or central zone of Middle America (its technical name is Mestizoamerica)
- the region covered by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
Question 3 (Worth 1 points)
The rebellion in Chiapas was designed to occur at the same time as:
- the launching of NAFTA
B. Christmas
- the presidential election in Mexico
- other Mexican states were seceding from the country
- none of the above
Question 4 (Worth 1 points)
The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is:
- Austria
- England
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Belgium
Question 5 (Worth 1 points)
The leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland is located in:
- Gdansk
- Warsaw
- Slovenia
- Silesia
E. The Ukraine
Question 6 (Worth 1 points)
The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:
- an endemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a pandemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
- a pandemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
- a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
D. there is no difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease
- none of the above
Question 7 (Worth 1 points)
A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a ____ market.
- Bantustan
- condominium
- trader
- periodic
- sequent occupant
Question 8 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is landlocked?
- Paraguay
- Ecuador
- Guiana
- Peru
- Chile
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 9 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is not a state created by the devolution of former Yugoslavia?
- Bosnia
- Macedonia
- Croatia
- Slovakia
- Serbia-Montenegro
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 10 (Worth 1 points)
Italy’s economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:
- Romania
- Po River Valley
- the Indus River Valley
- Greece
- the Alpine chain
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 11 (Worth 1 points)
Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
- France
- Germany
- Britain
- Belgium
- South Africa
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 12 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following statements is false?
- Germany is larger territorially than France
- Germany has a better river system than France.
- Germany is more industrialized than France.
- Germany is more urbanized than France.
- France has better harbors than does Germany.
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 13 (Worth 1 points)
The Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with:
- Venezuela
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Mexico
- Sao Paulo
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 14 (Worth 1 points)
These two cities act as Russian ports facing the Barents Sea in the north.
- Kiev and Odessa
- Murmansk and Vladivostok
- Tyva Republic and Yakutia
- Arkhangelsk and Odessa
- Murmansk and Arkhangelsk
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 15 (Worth 1 points)
The Kuzbas region:
- lead city is Novosibirsk
- is also called the Kuznetsk Basin
- has developed in part because of the central planning activities of the former Soviet Union
- contains both iron and coal deposits
- all of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 16 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following cities is an oil center in the Azerbaijan?
- Moscow
- White Russia
- Baki (Baku)
- Leningrad
- Bucharest
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 17 (Worth 1 points)
In South America, the richest 20% of the population control _____ of the wealth.
- 2%
- 70%
- 90%
- 1%
- 95%
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 18 (Worth 1 points)
The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper middle income economy is:
- Congo
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Gabon
- Equatorial Guinea
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 19 (Worth 1 points)
The Brazilian subregion with the most diversity in its European population is the:
- South
- Northeast
- state of Sao Paulo
- Interior
- Amazonian North
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 20 (Worth 1 points)
The __________ form(s) the eastern limit of the Russian Core:
- Volga-Dan Canal
- large petroleum reserves
- Volga River
- Ural Mountains
- distance from European conflicts
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 21 (Worth 1 points)
In which of the following countries did the Communist Chinese build the Tan-Zam Railway?
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Malawi
- The Congo
- Ethiopia
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 22 (Worth 1 points)
The North American region which is the largest and the least densely settled is the:
- Northern Frontier
- Continental Interior
- Maritime Northeast
- Southwest
- Pacific Hinge
Points earned on this question: 0
Question 23 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is one of the world’s most productive post-industrial complexes?
- Phoenix and Tucson
- Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio
- El Paso
- Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach
- Charlotte, Atlanta, and Charleston
Points earned on this question: 0
Question 24 (Worth 1 points)
From the end of World War II until the 1990s, Eastern Europe was dominated by the:
- Ottomans
- Hapsburgs
- Lithuanians
- Soviet Union
- Poles
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 25 (Worth 1 points)
The island contested between Greece and Turkey is:
- Cyprus
- Crete
- Malta
- Sicily
- Macedonia
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 26 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is the smallest Central American country in terms of population?
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Belize
- Nicaragua
- Guyana
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 27 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is a natural gas producing state?
- Maine
- New York
- Ohio
- Texas
- none of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 28 (Worth 1 points)
Civil war in which of the following led to the change in the government of The Congo?
- The Congo
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Rwanda
- Equatorial Guinea
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 29 (Worth 1 points)
The vegetation of coniferous forest at the southern end of the treeless plains is known as:
- taiga
- Ural
- permafrost
- tundra
- Kola
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 30 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following countries is not in The African Transition Zone?
- Mauritania
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Egypt
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 31 (Worth 1 points)
The North American region which has undergone the most change in recent years is:
- the South
- the Continental Core
- Agricultural Heartland
- New England/Atlantic Provinces
- French Canada
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 32 (Worth 1 points)
A growth pole is:
- an established manufacturing center that dominates a substantial region
- any large city in a national core area
- a location where a set of industries, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area
- a location, now in decline, that served as a focal point for a developing region in the
past - an agricultural region where annual yields increase annually
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 33 (Worth 1 points)
The territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is:
- Georgia
- Abkhazian
- Nakhichevan
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- South Ossetia
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 34 (Worth 1 points)
Slovakia has a large _______ minority.
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Serbian
- Moldovan
- Jewish
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 35 (Worth 1 points)
The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is:
- part of the Rimland
- part of the Heartland
- an area settled by the Dutch
- an area settled by the Portuguese
- none of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 36 (Worth 1 points)
The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:
- Kikuyu
- Swahili
- Tutsi
- Bantu
- Hutu
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 37 (Worth 1 points)
Quebec has:
- a declining birth rate.
- offered incentives for French speakers from elsewhere to move to Quebec.
- significant hydroelectric power.
- a population that has rapidly urbanized.
- all of the above are true.
Points earned on this question: 0
Question 38 (Worth 1 points)
In which country did a major slave rebellion take place?
- Mexico
- Jamaica
- Haiti
- Ocho Rios
- Cuba
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 39 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is not one of the four Motors of Europe?
- Tirane (Albania)
- Milan
- Stuttgart
- Barcelona
- Lyon
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 40 (Worth 1 points)
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n):
- spine
- isthmus
- Oriente
- rimland
- peninsula
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Question 41 (Worth 1 points)
As a result of U.S. interest in a Panama Canal during the early 20th century:
- Panama became a territorially coherent state
- a treaty was drawn granting the U. S. permanent sovereignty over the Canal Zone
- Panama became independent from Colombia
- a Panamanian revolt was subdued by U. S. intervention
- a French company finally completed the canal in 1918
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 42 (Worth 1 points)
The capital of the Chechen Republic is:
- Chechenia
- Moscow
- Tbilisi
- Groznyy
This is a correct answer - Yerevan
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 43 (Worth 1 points)
The geopolitical theory that indicates that the rimland is the key to control of the world was forwarded by:
- Marx
- Mackinder
- Spykman
This is a correct answer
- Lenin
- Gorbachev
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Question 44 (Worth 1 points)
Identify the incorrect association.
- Jamaica: British dependency
- Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao: Netherlands dependencies
- Martinique: French département
- Cayman Islands: United States possessions
This is a correct answer
- Cuba: Spanish
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 45 (Worth 1 points)
_________ is the city with the most Asians in North America.
- Denver
- Vancouver
This is a correct answer - Seattle
- San Diego
- Chicago
Points earned on this question: 0
Question 46 (Worth 1 points)
The Peru (Humboldt) Current is:
- a cool offshore ocean current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the
Peruvian coastline
This is a correct answer
- a drying wind that blows off the Andes and creates desert-like conditions along the Peruvian coastal plain
- a rising air movement that brings the hot and humid conditions of the tierra fría to the uppermost Andean basins
- a new high voltage electrical network that transmits Amazon-oil-generated power by pipeline to the cities across the Andes
- the name of Bolivár’s revolutionary movement of the 1960s
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 47 (Worth 1 points)
Which former Soviet Republic, with its capital at Mensk, is also called White Russia, and is still strongly linked to Moscow?
- Belarus
This is a correct answer - Lithuania
- Georgia
- Estonia
- Ukraine
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 48 (Worth 1 points)
The Transcaucasian area includes all of the following except:
- Georgia
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Kirghizstan
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 49 (Worth 1 points)
The term _________ refers to a huge state farm and literally means “a grain and meat factory” in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak.
- kuzbas
- sovkhoz
This is a correct answer - gorod
- Ural
- kolkhoz
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 50 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following cities is located in Italy’s core area?
- Milan-Turin-Genoa
This is a correct answer - Rome
- Barcelona
- Naples
- Catalonia
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 51 (Worth 1 points)
The Central American country where English is spoken, but where Spanish will eventually become the predominant language is:
- Cuba
- Guatemala
- Costa Rica
- Mexico
- Belize
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 52 (Worth 1 points)
Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?
- South
- Northeast
- state of Sao Paulo
- Interior
- North
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 53 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following jobs belongs to the tertiary sector of the American economy?
- computer systems specialist
- chief executive of a multinational corporation
- auto assembly line welder
- office receptionist
This is a correct answer - farmer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 54 (Worth 1 points)
The rings of slums surrounding South America’s large cities are known as:
- mestizos
- favelas
This is a correct answer - tierra templada
- altiplanos
- the spines of the city
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 55 (Worth 1 points)
This former Soviet Republic contains the oil city of Baki (Baku) and its people have ethnic affinities with Iran. Recently, the Armenian population of this area became refugees.
- Azerbaijan
This is a correct answer - Moldavia
- Georgia
- Estonia
- Turkmenistan
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 56 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
- Haiti’s population is predominantly black with a small mulatto minority.
- In the second half of the nineteenth century approximately 100,000 Chinese emigrated to Cuba as indentured servants.
- Trinidad has a large East Indian minority and Hindi remains a commonly spoken language.
- Cuba’s population has a black majority.
This is a correct answer
- Haiti is on the island of Hispanola.
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Question 57 (Worth 1 points)
An interesting aspect of Madagascar is that:
- the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country
- the population is of Malay-Polynesian origin
This is a correct answer - it produces exceptional quantities of corn
- the island is controlled by the South Africans who have extended apartheid to the
island - most of the population is descendant of Ethiopians
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 58 (Worth 1 points)
The now-independent political entity that was called South West Africa is today renamed:
- Namibia
This is a correct answer - Botswana
- Western Rhodesia
- Bophuthatswana
- Lesotho
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 59 (Worth 1 points)
Japanese investment in Russia’s Far East has been held up by a dispute over:
- the Amur River
- Kurile Islands
This is a correct answer - Manchuria
- Sakhalin Island
- Vladivostok
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 60 (Worth 1 points)
The two major language groups in Canada are:
- English and Spanish
- English and French
This is a correct answer - English and Canadian
- Canadian and French
- only English is spoken widely in Canada
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 61 (Worth 1 points)
The North Slope of Alaska contains large fields of:
- cold weather crops
- tar sands
- diamonds
- hydroelectric power
- coal
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 62 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence?
- Botswana
- Zambia
- Kenya
- Ethiopia
This is a correct answer - Malawi
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 63 (Worth 1 points)
This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait leading into the Red Sea
- Mauritania
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Djibouti
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 64 (Worth 1 points)
The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:
- Congo
- Cameroon
This is a correct answer - Central African Republic
- Gabon
- Equatorial Guinea
Points earned on this question: 0
Question 65 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following states has most of its territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiographic province?
- Wisconsin
- Texas
- Pennsylvania
- Nevada
This is a correct answer - New York
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Question 66 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following is not an important manufacturing region of the Soviet Union?
- Volga Region
- Urals Region
- Donbas Region
- Central Industrial Region
- the Muslim region of central Asia
This is a correct answer
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Question 67 (Worth 1 points)
Your textbook identifies Eastern Europe as a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing, called a:
- Irredentist region
- hinterland
- shatter belt
This is a correct answer
- Balkan
- heartland region
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Question 68 (Worth 1 points)
When a state seeks to acquire the ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its boundary by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed:
- irradiation
- irrational
- interference
- irredentism
This is a correct answer - irresponsible
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Question 69 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following associations is incorrect?
- Niger River, Bulge of Africa
- Congo River, The Congo
- Zambezi River, Angola
- Nile River, Sudan
- Orange River, Kenya
This is a correct answer
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 70 (Worth 1 points)
_______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically.
- France
- Belgium
- Austria
- Germany
This is a correct answer - Switzerland
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 71 (Worth 1 points)
Central America’s poorest country is:
- Cuba
- Guatemala
- Mexico
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
This is a correct answer
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Question 72 (Worth 1 points)
The three-pronged foundation of the Southwest is:
- sail-wagon, horsecar-walking, steel-rail
- coal, natural gas, oil
- urban, rural, and suburban settlement
- electricity, water, and the automobile
This is a correct answer
- none of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 73 (Worth 1 points)
The Autonomous Community in eastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as:
- Silesia
- Galicia
- Catalonia
This is a correct answer
- Lombardy
- Portugal
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Question 74 (Worth 1 points)
The Soviet Union consisted of _____________ Soviet Socialist Republics.
- 120
- 1
- 15
This is a correct answer
- 3
- 2
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Question 75 (Worth 1 points)
An industry identified in your textbook as one with mixed blessing for Middle America is:
- agriculture
- industry
- banking
- tourism
This is a correct answer - diamond cutting
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Question 76 (Worth 1 points)
Which republic has Serb, Croat and Muslim populations that were finally brought together in 1995 at a US-run peace conference?
- Bosnia
This is a correct answer - Serbia
- Croatia
- Kosovo
- Slovenia
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Question 77 (Worth 1 points)
The Panama Canal was opened in ________.
- 1872
- 1903
- 1914
This is a correct answer
- 1934
- 1959
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Question 78 (Worth 1 points)
In 1982, Argentina fought a war with Britain over the:
- Tierra del Fuego
- Falkland Islands
This is a correct answer - South Georgia Islands
- British withdrawal of trade concessions
- Antarctica
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Question 79 (Worth 1 points)
Canada’s large cluster of Francophones in New Brunswick are known as:
- Acadians
- Ontarioans
- French
- Brunswickers
- none of the above
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Question 80 (Worth 1 points)
Which country has no dominant ethnic groups?
- Nigeria
- Ethiopia
- Zimbabwe
- The Cong
- Kenya
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Question 81 (Worth 1 points)
Which city contains the United States’ largest cluster of Asian ethnics?
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Montreal
- Pittsburgh
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Question 82 (Worth 1 points)
The largest ethnic minority in Ukraine is:
- Bulgarians
- Moldovans
- Crimeans
- Russian
- None of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 83 (Worth 1 points)
The archipelago to the north of Cuba that is a leading tourist destination is:
- Bermuda
- Bahamas
- Turks
- Jamaica
- Grenidines
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Question 84 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where many whites have remained even after the white minority government was replaced?
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- Zimbabw
- Zambia
- Mozambique
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Question 85 (Worth 1 points)
Which South American “culture sphere” resembles the Middle American “Rimland?”
- The European-Commercial region
- The Tropical-Plantation spher
- The Indo-Subsistence region
- The Mestizo-Transitional region
- The “Undifferentiated” area
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Question 86 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following Soviet programs was most successful?
- Virgin and Idle Lands Project
- Sovkhoz farms
- Kolkhoz farms
- Ethnic acculturation
- Industrialization
This is a correct answer
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Question 87 (Worth 1 points)
The country of Guyana:
- was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
- is also called Suriname
- contains a population that is three-quarters European
- is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size
- still belongs to France
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Question 88 (Worth 1 points)
This Russian republic contains 30 distinct nationalities, is located near the Chechen Republic, and is dominated by agriculture and oil:
- Chechen Republic
- Mari Republic
- North Ossetian Republic
- Dagestan Republic
- Mordovian Republic
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 89 (Worth 1 points)
Brazil’s Northeast:
- was Brazil’s source area: its early plantation economy developed here first
This is a correct answer
- today still produces the country’s coffee crop
- is the site of Brazil’s most spectacular recent surge of economic development
- contains the largest number of German settlers in the country
- remains mainly Indian country: most of the Amazonian Indians have resettled here
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Question 90 (Worth 1 points)
An industrial area east of the Kuzbas is centered around:
- Kiev
- Uzbekistan
- Lake Bayka
- Odessa
- Siberia
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Question 91 (Worth 1 points)
Which two colonial powers were principally involved in West Africa?
- Britain and France
- Portugal and France
- Italy and Britain
- U.S. and France
- Algeria and Sudan
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Question 92 (Worth 1 points)
Bulgarians have felt close to the Russian population because:
- the Russians are a fellow Serbian population
- the capital Sofia is close to the Russian city of Kiev
- the Russians were responsible for driving the Turks from the area
This is a correct answer
- the Russians were responsible for freeing Bulgaria from the control of the Hungarians
- none of the above
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 93 (Worth 1 points)
In the Russian revolution of 1917:
- the czars defeated the communists
- the Bolsheviks defeated the Leninists
- the Bolsheviks defeated the Menshevik
- the whites defeated the reds
- the capitalists defeated the communists
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Question 94 (Worth 1 points)
Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory:
- Basque
- Portugal
- Ceuta
- Malta
- Gibraltar
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Question 95 (Worth 1 points)
The name Peron is associated with which country?
- Venezuela
- Argentina
- Chile
- Tierra del Fuego
- Entre Rios
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Question 96 (Worth 1 points)
The final stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of:
- equilibrium
- contention
- counteroffensiv
- subsequence
- disintegration
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 97 (Worth 1 points)
According to Japanese economist Ohmae, a regional state is:
- a province about to secede from a country
- a natural economic zone
- one of the Four Canadas
- a grouping of provinces or states
- soley a Japanese phenomena
Points earned on this question: 1
Question 98 (Worth 1 points)
Northern New England is tied culturally and economically to:
- Quebec
- Atlantic Canada
This is a correct answer - British Columbia
- Prince Edward Island
- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Question 99 (Worth 1 points)
The majority of Russia falls within the humid cold climate region. In the Köppen-Geiger classification scheme, this is signified by the letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
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Question 100 (Worth 1 points)
Which city is not located within the American Manufacturing Belt (the Continental Core)?
- Atlanta
This is a correct answer - New York
- Detroit
- Pittsburgh
- Philadelphia
Points earned on this question: 1
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