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The first cities appeared in

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Turkey and Iraq.

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The United States economic system can be best described as

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a mixed system, dominated by liberal or conservative ideas of government but always having some government presence in the economy

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A country, such as the United States, in which a majority of the workers are engaged in the tertiary sector is said to be a(n) ________ society.

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post-industrial

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Which of these statements about diffusion and distribution of religions is true?

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Both Iran and Iraq are predominantly Shiite Muslim.

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A genetically modified (GM) plant

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is created with DNA from more than one organism, that has been recombined by people.

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Today urbanization is occurring in many places without economic development, especially in

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poor countries.

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Which of the following countries is NOT predominantly Catholic?

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Sweden

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What is a caste?

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a social class within a hierarchy of social classes found in Hinduism

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Compared to relatively developed countries, developing countries have a higher percentage of workers in which sector of the economy?

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primary

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Which of the following countries does not contain a primate city?

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United States

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Land reform

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redistributes large land holdings to landless would-be farmers.

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What is a difference between subsistence and commercial farming?

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Subsistence farmers mostly eat what they produce, while commercial farmers grow crops mainly for sale. Subsistence farmers usually grow more varieties of crops that commercial farmers, who are more likely to practice monoculture farming. Subsistence farmers tend to use fewer inputs like pesticides adn fertilizers than commercial farmers.

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Which of the following are examples of how religious practices can leave traces on the landscape?

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houses of worship farming practices arrangements for dealing with the dead

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What proportion of the world's total grain harvest is consumed by livestock?

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one third

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As a major importer of products from other countries, the United States has

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accumulated substantial trade deficits.

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There has been a transportation revolution in the United States called just-in-time manufacturing, which saves all of the following EXCEPT

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natural resources.

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The case of water privatization in Bolivia and around the world is an example of

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neoliberalism

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What is the relationship between sectoral development and national wealth, according to our textbook?

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More value is presumably added in each sector, so the farther away from the primary sector the more developed a country is.

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Metropolitan regions in the United States are ________ metropolitan areas in Europe and Latin America.

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governed with less cross-city coordination than

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The multiplier effect is closely related to which set of concepts?

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basic and nonbasic sectors

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Gentrification is most related to the ____ sector of the economy.

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service

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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) programs in the US during the 1950s had the effect of

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promoting housing segregation in suburban areas.

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Sustainable agriculture is food production that can be continued indefinitely and

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limits or even reverses environmental degradation.

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The system found in some Asian countries where the government does not own much outright, but it does plan and regulate the economy, is called

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state-directed capitalism

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When a developer buys land beyond the edge of growth causing the infrastructure network to be developed in an irregular pattern, it is called

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leapfrogging

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The first major monotheistic religion was

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Judaism

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An ejido is a

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form of land tenure in which a peasant community collectively owns a piece of land.

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If the Gross National Income is much higher than the Gross Domestic Product, which is true

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The country must have profitable foreign investments.

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Traditional fishing provides low incomes, but these activities employ about ________ of the world's fishermen.

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80

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The economist Hernando de Soto and those that follow him believe that slum dwellers will be more economically secure if they can use their houses to acquire debts

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True

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Aside from northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, Islam also predominates in __________

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Indonesia

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Informal settlements

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often lack legal recognition

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The multiple nuclei theory recognized that

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cities develop around several nodes.

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the following are countries contain significant Eastern Christian presence:

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Romania, Ethiopia, Greece

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Which of the following is unlikely to be found in the zone of transition that surrounds the CBD in the concentric zone model?

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upper-class residences

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which of the following modern-day countries did Ibn Battuta NOT visit during his fourteenth-century travels?

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Italy

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About what proportion of the world's people depends wholly or in part on wet rice?

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one-half

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Government restrictions on the use to which various parcels of land may be put is called

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zoning.

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Which of the following states is an example of a theocracy?

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The Vatican

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Backyard shops, street hawkers, and providers of simple services on street corners constitute the

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informal sector.

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The Green Revolution

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concentrated on higher yielding varieties of crops.

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Poor countries do not have the opportunity to sell food products to rich countries because

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the rich countries have erected tariff walls to close their markets of food imports from poor countries.

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Increasing the production of cash crops is a proven, guaranteed way to increase the food security of poor farmers.

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False

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Crony capitalism is found only in developing countries or countries that have recently transitioned from communism.

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False

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Import-substitution policies' purpose is to

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protect domestic infant industries.

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The Human Development Index

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includes both monetary and non-monetary measures of well-being, such as literacy and life-expectancy

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The process of economic development means

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progressively increasing the value of goods and service that a place can produce

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Which of the following is NOT a correct pairing of crop with its origin area?

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Europe, potato

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The later urban form models, such as sector, multiple nuclei, and peripheral, show the influence of changing transportation infrastructure on urban form.

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True

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