GEOG 101 Week 8 Final Exam Answers

GEOG 101 Week 8 Final Exam Answers
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Question 1 (Worth 1 points)

The city of __________ is located at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile and serves as the
capital of __________.
1. Khartoum/Sudan
2. Addis Ababa/Ethiopia
3. Cairo/Egypt
4. Kabol/Afghanistan
5. Baghdad/Iraq
Points earned on this question: 1
Wallaces Line refers to:
1. the point in Australia where earthquakes are particularly severe
2. the line separating Australian species from non-Australian species
3. the midpoint of the Great Dividing Range
4. the point at which Australian waters are divided from New Zealand waters
5. the dividing line between the aboriginal and modern Australian territories
Which of the following statements is false?
1. Though the official language of Bangladesh is Bengali, the official language of Pakistan
is
Urdu.
2. While the major natural hazard faced by Bangladesh is flooding, the major natural hazard
faced by Pakistan is drought.
3. While rice is the major staple grain in Bangladesh, wheat is the major staple grain in
Pakistan.
4. Bangladesh and Pakistan have significant known mineral resources.
5. Bangladesh and Pakistan were once united into a single country.
The lava covered plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the:
1. Punjab
2. Bengla
3. Dravidian
4. Deccan
5. Raj
The Hindu population of Sri Lanka is called the:
1. Ceylonese
2. Sinhalese
3. Tamils
4. Ghats
5. Lankanese

The rural areas of Australia are known as the:
1. backward zone
2. outlands
3. aboriginal territories
4. Northern Territory
5. outback
. Which of the following countries is not on the Arabian Peninsula?
1. Libya
2. Kuwait
3. Oman
4. Qatar
5. Bahrain
This country is the smallest in North Africa, but has the highest GNP per capita in North Africa.
1. Chad
2. Algeria
3. Tunisia
D. Morocco
4. Libya
The partitioning of Hindu India from Muslim Pakistan occurred in:
1. ca. 460 B.C.
2. 1857
3. 1947
D. 1971
4. the two areas have never been partitioned
The largest country in Melanesia by area is:
1. Solomon Islands Island
2. Fiji
3. Papua New Guinea
4. Hawaii
5. Easter
The island of New Guinea is included in the region known as:
1. Melanesia
2. Micronesia
3. Polynesia
4. Fiji
5. Indonesia
The small group of islands 400 miles south of India are the:
1. Sri Lanka
2. Punjabs
3. Maldives
4. Dravidians
5. Colombos
. The Gobi is associated with which region?
1. North China
2. Northeast China
3. Inner Mongolia
D. Xinjiang
4. Xizang
The Sikh population is concentrated in:
1. Punjab
2. Assam
3. Kerala
4. Kashmir
5. Seekland
The State of Israel:
1. was settled by people fleeing the Zionist policies of Nazi Germany
2. was created from territory that was formerly administered by the British
3. was part of the Ottoman Empire and ceded to the Israelis in 1923
4. was created out of the country of Palestine that previously had no Jewish population
5. was founded after World War I
The irredentist movement in the North West Frontier of Pakistan is based on cultural affiliations
with the neighboring country of:
1. Iran
2. Afghanistan
3. Jammu and Kashmir
4. Bangladesh
5. India
The untouchable caste in India is known as the:
1. Hindus
2. Harijans
3. Brahmans
4. Sikhs
5. none of the above
_______ held onto eastern Timor well after the Dutch left the East Indies.
1. Portugal
2. Spain
3. U.S.
4. British
5. Japanese
Prior to independence, New Guinea was administered by:
1. Australia
2. New Zealand
3. U.S.
4. Indonesia
5. Papua
The modern state of Israel was created in:
1. 1923
2. 1937
3. 1948
D. 1959
4. 1967
Which of the following cities suffered severely in the devastating 1991 cyclone that came ashore
north of the Bay of Bengal?
1. New Delhi
2. Bombay (Mumbai)
3. Dhaka
D. Karachi
4. Beijing
The body of water destroyed by Soviet irrigation schemes is the:
1. Black Sea
2. Aral Sea
3. Caspian Sea
4. Lake Balkhash
5. Sea of Azov
An area whose control is still disputed by India and Pakistan is:

1. Punjab
2. Jammu and Kashmir
3. Bangladesh
4. Bengal
5. Goa
Which of the following statements about Indian agriculture is false?
1. Rice is grown in the east and wheat in the west.
2. Wheat is grown in the east and rice in the west.
C. The Green Revolution led to significant increases in production.
3. Cotton is produced in west-central India.
4. All of the above are false.
The majority population in the north of Kazakhstan is:
1. Kazakhstan
2. Russian
3. Uzbek
4. Armenian
5. Ukrainian

The dominant centripetal force in India has been the:
1. cultural and religious strength of Hinduism
B. universality of the English Language
2. united opposition to Islam
3. national effort against the colonial power
4. war on hunger and malnutrition
One of the worlds most heavily populated agricultural areas is known as:
1. Xizang
2. Chang-Yangzi Basin
3. Xinjiang
4. Shazam
5. North China Plain
The country that could control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt is:
1. Iraq
2. Sudan
3. Libya
4. Turkey

The two major cities on the North China Plain are:
1. Beijing and Shanghai
2. Beijing and Tianjin
3. Shandong and Tibet
4. Hainan and Hong Kong (Xianggang)
5. Singapore and Shenyang
The city located closest to the Ganges Delta is:
1. Calcutta (Kolkata)
2. New Delhi
3. Madras (Chennai)
4. Islamabad
5. Colombo
Which of the following is not located within the Maghreb region?
1. the Atlas Mountains
2. Casablanca
3. the countries that were once called the Barbary states
4. the Mecca area of the Arabian Peninsula
5. the city of Tunis

. The Grand Canal connects:
1. the Xi (West)/Pearl River and the Chang-Yangzi River
2. the Chang-Yangzi River and the core of Northern China
C. the Liao and the Amur
3. the Indus and the Ganges
4. the Liao and the Ob
Between Yemen and Djibouti is the choke point known as:
1. Hormuz
2. Tiran
3. Bab el Mandeb
4. Suez
5. Gibraltar
Which of the following is false about New Caledonia?
1. It has significant nickel resources.
2. It was under British rule.
C. It is inhabited by only about 240,000 persons.
3. It consists of about 80 islands.

4. About 37% of the population is of French origin.
1. The first Temple of the Jews was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.
2. The second Temple of the Jews was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
3. Christianity began as a messianic religion under the Romans
4. The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution
E.
The Palestinians and the Israelis both desire Jerusalem as their capital.
The Pacific region called ___________ takes its name from the word for many, and is contained
within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand, Easter Island, and the Hawaiian Islands.
1. Polynesia
2. Amnesia
3. Micronesia
4. Melanesia
5. Oceania
Ceuta and Mellila are associated with which country?
1. Egypt
2. Tunisia
3. Persia
4. Morocco
5. Spanish Sahara
In India, a leading centrifugal force is:
1. the caste system
2. cultural strength of Hinduism
3. the personality of Nehru
4. the Sikh population
The emerging economic region of China is:
1. Shandong
2. Shenzhen
3. the Pacific Rim
D. Hainan Island
4. Hong Kong (Xianggang)
The priestly caste in India is known as the:
1. Hindus
2. Brahmans
3. Harijans
4. Sikhs
Which region contains Tibet?
1. South China
2. Inner Mongolia
3. Xinjiang
4. Xizang
5. Northeast China
The power coming through India in the tenth century was:
1. Roman
2. Greek
3. Islam
4. Buddhist
5. Aryan
Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Pakistan?
1. Iran
2. China
3. Bangladesh
4. Afghanistan
5. India
Iran differs from most of the North African/Southwest Asian realm in that:
1. it is non-Islamic
2. its population is nearly 100% Arab
3. it is dominantly Shiite
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4. it is ruled by a monarchy
5. as a nation it is very young
1. Australias total population is modest in size.
2. The largest core area of Australia is on the southeastern coast.
3. Most Australians live in rural areas.
4. Much of Australia is arid or semi-arid.
5. The capital of Australia is Canberra.

Which of the following is not one of the republics of Turkestan?
1. Kazakhstan
2. Uzbekistan
3. Turkmenistan
4. Azerbaijan
5. Kyrgyzstan
The UAE includes the oil-rich sheikhdom known as:
1. Kuwait
2. Saudi
3. Abu Dhabi
4. Bahrain
5. Qatar
The better watered volcanic islands where the economy is based upon agriculture are known as:
1. high islands
2. low islands
3. Melanesia islands
4. Micronesia islands
5. Polynesia islands
The largest oil reserves in the Middle East are in:
1. Israel
2. Libya
3. Iraq
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Yemen
Which of the following has not been important in the development of Shenzhen as an SEZ?
1. proximity to Hong Kong (Xianggang)
2. the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development
3. port facilities
4. investment of overseas Chinese in its development
5. U.S. and Japanese investments
Which of the following is located in Micronesia?

1. Hawaiian Islands
2. Marshall Islands
3. New Caledonia
4. Solomon Islands
5. Papua New Guinea
The Huang He (Yellow River):
1. drains the Xi (West)/Pearl River Basin
2. flows into the South China Sea
3. almost encircles one of Chinas driest areas, the Ordos Desert
4. flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward the East China Sea south of Shanghai
5. originates in the Tarim Basin
Chinas current population is closest to:
1. 700 million
2. 800 million
3. 1.6 billion
4. 500 million
5. 1.3 billion

About ___ % of Australians live in cities or towns.
1. 20
2. 40
3. 85
4. 10
5. 12
Which of the following is not located in Pakistan?
1. Deccan Plateau
2. Sind
3. Punjab
4. Islamabad
5. Baluchistan
Egypts peasant farmers are known as:
1. Shatt-al-Arabs
2. fellaheen
3. Shiites
4. mestizos
5. Bedouins
Centrifugal forces:
1. tend to pull a state together, unifying it and increasing its cohesion
2. determine the effectiveness with which the boundary system functions to control the
population
3. affect the binding function of the capital city
4. have the effect of dividing a state, promoting disunity and internal fragmentation
5. pull a state from representative to authoritarian forms of government
Which of the following statements about Nepal is false?
1. Deforestation is a problem.
2. Agriculture is a true success story.
3. The Himalayas are the principal physical feature.
4. About 80% of the population are Hindu.
5. Kathmandu is the countrys core area.

The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as:
1. Marsupials
2. Kangaroos
3. Platypuses
4. Maoris
5. Tasmanians
8 of the 10 costliest natural disasters in the world have struck which of the following countries?
1. India
2. Bangladesh
3. Pakistan
4. Sri Lanka
5. Nepal
The Empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was:
1. Ottoman
2. Persian
3. Byzantine
4. Crusader Kingdom
5. Maghreb Empire
The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the:
1. Xi (West)/Pearl River
2. Huang He (Yellow River)
3. Chang-Yangzi River
4. Irawaddy River
5. Songhua
The leader who took over in China following Mao was:
1. Deng Xiaoping
2. Maos son
3. Chiang Kai-Shek
4. Sun Yat-sen
5. Zhou Enlai
The periphery of the Deccan plateau is marked by mountain ranges called:
1. Punjabs
2. Ghats
3. Himalayas
4. Karakoram
5. Hindu Kush
Which of the following regions is often called Manchuria by uninformed foreigners?
1. Northeast China
2. Taiwan
3. North China Plain
4. Xizang
5. Red Basin of Sichuan
Bangladesh was formerly known as:
1. East Pakistan
2. West Pakistan
3. Ceylon
4. Nepal
5. Burma
The caste system is most associated with which of the following religious group?
1. Rastafarian
2. Muslim
3. Buddhist
4. Hindu
5. Christian
Which of the following republics of Turkestan has a people of Persian origin?
1. Kazakhstan
2. Uzbekistan
3. Turkmenistan
4. Tajikistan
5. Kyrgyzstan
Native Australians are known as:
1. Maoris
2. Cook Islanders
3. Aborigines
4. Indians
5. Guineans
Xizang:
1. is the Chinese name for Tibet
2. is Buddhist
3. has suffered from the destruction of its culture by the Chinese
4. has its capital at Lhasa
5. all of the above
Which state is located in southern India?
1. Assam
2. Tamil Nadu
3. Punjab
4. Kashmir
5. Tibet
The Han Dynasty:
1. is the earliest Chinese dynasty about which substantial information is available
2. began and ended before 300 B.C., when China already was a well-organized state
3. was a pivotal and formative period in Chinese history, when the Chinese sphere of
influence was enlarged, land reform occurred, and external trade commenced
4. was a period of division and disarray, causing the emergence of two rival capitals, Tianjin
and Beijing
5. led directly to the takeover of the Manchus
The island off the south coast of Australia is known as:
1. Tasmania
2. Canberra
3. Sydney
4. New Guinea
5. Christmas Island
Which of the following areas of India is located in the Brahmaputra Valley?
1. Deccan
2. Assam
3. Punjab
4. Kashmir
5. Tibet

A boundary is actually marked on the ground during the stage called:
1. administration
2. allocation (definition)
3. delimitation
4. demarcation
5. antecedence
Which of the following are not Chinese areas encouraging foreign investment?
1. special economic zones
2. open coastal areas
3. open cities
4. forbidden cities
5. Shenzhen
Which of the following oil producers does not border the Persian Gulf?
1. Libya
2. Kuwait
3. Iran
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Oman
In Iraq, the Shiite population is concentrated in:
1. the north
2. the capital
3. the border area near Jordan
4. the south
5. the Kurdish area
Mao Zedongs proclamation creating the communist Peoples Republic of China was announced
in:
1. 1911
2. 1925
3. 1949
4. 1976
5. 1983
Which country maintains the largest land claim in Antarctica?
1. United States
2. Australia
3. New Zealand
4. Japan
5. France
The ___________ Revolution of the 1960s introduced miracle varieties of wheat and rice that
significantly increased the productivity of these crops.
1. Communist
2. Green
3. Agricultural
4. Malthusian
5. Gandhian
Powdery wind-blown soil pulverized by glaciers is called:
1. ordos
2. loess
3. cenozoic
4. shandong
5. huang soil

Which of the following was not a part of French Indochina?
1. Tonkin
2. Siam
3. Cambodia
4. Laos
5. Vietnam
The most important ethnic group in Afghanistan is the:
1. Pushtuns (Pathans)
2. Turkmen
3. Azeris
4. Kurds
5. Baluchis
The people of New Guinea are:
1. mostly Chinese
2. Hindus
3. Indonesian in their ancestry
4. of Portuguese descent
5. Papuans
Your textbook indicates that a newly developing regional disparity in India is between:
1. urban and rural areas
2. east and west
3. north and south
4. coastal and interior
The shortest of the three great rivers in China is the:
2. Chiang River
3. Xi (West)/Pearl River
4. Liao River
5. Indus River
Two political entities that recently reunited with China are:
1. Vietnam and Shandong
2. Macau (Macao) and Shenzhen

3. Hong Kong (Xianggang) and Shenzhen
4. Hong Kong and Xianggang
5. Macau (Macao) and Hong Kong (Xianggang)
The Hawaiian Islands are included in:
1. Melanesia
2. Micronesia
3. Polynesia
4. Fiji
5. Indonesia
The first true indigenous empire in India was the:
1. Aryan
2. Indus
3. Dravidian
4. Buddha
5. Mauryan

Which of the following colonial associations is incorrect?
1. Spain, Philippines
2. France, Sumatera (Sumatra)
3. Dutch, Indonesia
4. France, Vietnam
5. Timor, Portugal
Much of Indias coal supply is found in the:
1. Assam region
2. Chota-Nagpur Plateau
3. Western Ghats
4. Kathiawar Peninsula
5. Kashmir province
Which association is incorrect?
1. Myanmar, Irrawaddy
2. Thailand, Chao Phraya
3. Liao, Laos

4. Mekong, southern Vietnam
5. Red, northern Vietnam
Which of the following cities is located in Pakistans Sind region?
1. Karachi
2. Kabul
3. Islamabad
4. Lahore
5. Rawalpindi
The North China Plain is dominated by the:
2. Himalayas
3. Chang-Yangzi River
4. Xizang
5. Ordos Desert
Which of the following is the core area of Pakistan?
1. Punjab
2. Sind
3. Assam
4. Islamabad
5. Baluchistan
A territorial sea is:
1. an area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail
2. a body of water completely surrounded by a state
3. a small body of water that connects to larger bodies of water
4. only found in the Southern Ocean
5. an area where a state has no rights to exploit minerals
Kemal Atatrk is most closely identified with the city of:
1. Cairo
2. Mecca
3. Tehran
4. Ankara
5. Baghdad

The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm contains about __________ % of the worlds oil
reserves.
1. 10
2. 95
3. 77
4. 30
5. 3
The Syrians have lost which piece of territory to the Israelis?
1. Lebanon
2. Bratislava
3. Palestine
4. Golan
5. Kurdistan

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An area whose control is still disputed by India and Pakistan is:

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5. the city of Tunis

3. It consists of about 80 islands.

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Which of the following is located in Micronesia?

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2. Macau (Macao) and Shenzhen

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