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GEOG101 Final Exam - World Regional Geography
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MCQs on the Earth and its atmosphere, including landscape development, weather and climate, and geology, and how the activity of humans (cultural, economic, and political) affects those features. 

GEOG101 Final Exam - World Regional Geography
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1. Which of the following accurately describes demographic transition?
2. What are the main economic activities of the Amazon Basin, and what is the main environmental concern due to those activities?
3. What climate type dominates most of Russia?
4. The three-way split in China was a three-way war over the control of China by the Nationalists, Communists, and Japanese.Eventually, which group took control and what happened to the other two?
5. What is a common environmental concern for both Pakistan and Bangladesh?
6. The African Transition Zone creates the southern boundary for North Africa.This zone serves as the transition between what two climate zones?
7. Which of the following physiographic regions of North America extends from the southern states all the way to the great northeast?
8. Why is it that women in Central Africa do not always have the opportunity to earn an education or obtain the training required for employment opportunities?
9. Fill in the blank. The continent of South America can be divided into regions by ____, influenced by early colonial development.
10. Why were the Soviets sending ethnic Russians to live in non-Russian parts of the Soviet Union?
11. Why is the proportion of French speakers in Canada declining?
12. What are the countries of the Southern Cone, and what has been a major focus of their early development pattern?
13. Despite its cultural diversity, residents of Brazil have a strong sense of nationalism and identity.Which of the following overarching cultural forces have helped hold the country together?
14. What was 'manifest destiny' in the minds of many Americans of the original thirteen colonies?
15. Fill in the blank. As countries move from an agricultural to a(n) ____ economy, there tends to be a shift in population from rural to urban settings.
16. In the tropical areas of Latin America, there are five established temperature-altitude zones.Which of the following elevation zones is typically found at 12,000 to 15,000 feet?
17. What is a major difference between Madagascar and Southern Africa?
18. A During the Soviet Era, the Chechen Republic was administratively part of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic with no right to future secession.
19. What was the 'Great Migration'?
20. What is the reason behind many of the civil wars in Central Africa?
21. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet.Which mountain range creates the rain shadow that contributes to the dry conditions?
22. What were the general reasons for the massive wave of protests and demonstrations by citizens of the North Africa and Southwest Asia realm beginning in 2011 (known as the Arab Spring of 2011)?
23. Which of the following nations has isolated itself behind an authoritarian dictatorship since World War II?
24. Although Argentina is politically unstable, how does the country have great potential for economic growth?
25. What key element has the northern European countries taken advantage of to expand their economies?