Exam 1 Review

• Countries with a majority religion of Islam?

  Indonesia, Somali, Albania, Turkey
• Countries with a major religion Christianity?

  Canda, Italy, Ethiopia, East Timor
• Counties with a majority religion of Buddhism?

  Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bhutan
• The prime meridian passes through?


  Greenwich, England
• One way to study development is by proportion of economic activity in "sectors." The sector concerned with information-based services is referred to as?

  Quaternary
• Examples of globalization?

  Expansion of arms trafficking

  Human mobility leading to brain drains

  Availability of imported products

  Use of English as a universal business language

  Spread of HIV/AIDS

  Space-time compression
• Language is frequently a key component of identity for many people. The Quebecois, an ethnic group in Quebec, speak what language?

  French
• The energy that allows tectonic plates to interact on the earth's surface is supplied by?

  Molten interior
• An example of a very early cultural hearth is?

  Mesopotamia
• When a country has a single city that has several times the population of any other city, it is called?

  Primate City
• Which of the following is a situation of irredentism?

  Serb claims to territories outside of Serbia that are inhabited by Serbs
• Albains make up the majority of the population where?

  Kosovo
• Flemish, one the the two official languages of Belgium, belongs to which of Europe's major language families?

  Germanic
• The less prosperous counties of Europe tend to be concentrated in which region?

  East Central
• Europe's two most populous cities?

  London and Paris
• In the 1960s & 1970s a major source of immigrant labor for Germany, was the so-called gastarbieter, what was the country?

  Turkey
• Concerning the population geography of Europe?

  Countries with significant Muslim populations have the highest population growth rates
• One reason Europe attracts so many tourists is the medieval cultural landscape at the core of many older cities. Yet much of the stock of classical architecture is now gone due to?

  The destruction of cities in WWII
• Based on its age-sex diagram, by 2025 Italy will be facing a serious problem with?

  Caring for its retirees
• The "Velvet Divorce" refers to the political division of?

  Czechoslovakia and Slovakis
• What led to a spike in world wheat prices in 2010?

  A heat wave that resulted in the Russian government's decision to ban wheat exports
• Which of the following is a major economic product of Central Asia countries?

  Oil, Natural gas, and Cotton
• Assuming tea and citrus fruits require a temperate climate, these products are most likely to be grown in which country?

  Georgia
• What states are true about Russia's 1990 Female and Male chart?

  Indicates aRussia's low population growth rate

  Over one million females over the age 80

  Challenge to care for retirees after 2010

  Indicates a rapidly aging population

  Major contraction in the WWII years

  More baby boys than girls

  From about 45 there are more females than males
• How many cities are there in this region with more than 5 million inhabitants?

  1
• The physical environment of Russia?

  Steepe grasslands

  Tundra

  Taigia

  Podzol soils

  Boreal Climates

  Black earth soils

  Ural Mountains

  Continentality
• Chernozem soils are associated with which of the following vegetation zones?

  Steppe
• This region supplies most of the oil, natural gas, coal, and diamonds used in Russia?


  Siberia
• An example of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) is?

  Greenpeace
• When a country has a single city that has several times the population of any other city, it is called the?

  Primate city
• According to the Gender Inequality Index (GII), these countries have great equality between males and females?

  Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and Finland
• Nation states?

  France, Japan, Norway, Sweden
• Multicultural States?

  Belgium, United states, Iraq, China
• Which of the following scenarios represents the activities of a universalizing religion?

  A Buddhist seminary actively recruits students on its website
• Taiwan is self-governing, has sovereignty over its citizens, and has all of the emblems of an independent country, including its own currency, flag, and diplomatic corps. Why is it not recognized as an independent sovereign country?

  The People's Republic of China claims it as a territory which affects how other countries relate to Taiwan
• EU supranational memberships?

  France, United Kingdom, Spain, Ecuador
• NAFTA supranational memberships?

  United states, Canada, Mexico
• OPEC supranational memberships?

  Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Algeria
• Minority populations?

  Russians in Khazakstan, Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, Wallons in Belgium, Male population in Russia, India's Urban population
• Majority populations?

  Muslims in Croatia, Unemployed in Zimbabwe, Mestizos in Guatemala, Shia Muslims in Iran, Male smokers in Russia