STUVIA 2024/2025
GEOG 150 Practice Test
250x - ✔✔A baby born in the U.S. will use ____ times the amount of energy over their lifetime than a
baby born in Bangladesh.
31% - ✔✔Forests cover ____% of the earth's land surface.
a. - ✔✔In contrast to Fordist production, Post-Fordist production is more likely to
a. introduce more flexible work rules.
b. place more importance on site factors.
c. assign each worker one task.
d. include repetitive tasks.
e. require larger inventories of parts and components.
a. - ✔✔Mexico's immigration policy
a. is complicated because Mexico favors migration to the U.S. but opposes migration from its south.
b. is opposed to Mexicans migrating to the U.S. because they otherwise would contribute to the
economy at home.
%
c. welcomes migrants from other countries.
d. is flexible for most countries of origin but does not generally allow immigration from the United
States.
e. attempts to prevent any money from leaving the country.
a. - ✔✔Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
a. both have low growth rates.
b. both have high dependency ratios.
c. both have low dependency ratios.
d. both have low life expectancies.
e. both have low death rates.
a. - ✔✔The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
a. hinterland.
b. range.
c. threshold.
d. median.
e. meridian
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a. - ✔✔The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote
a. balanced growth of all economic sectors.
b. global competitiveness for local industries.
c. the maintenance of a large bureaucracy.
d. unequal distribution of resources.
e. international trade.
a. - ✔✔The United Nations and the World Bank set up which organization to have significant
authority over environmental action on a global scale?
a. Global Environmental Facility
b. World Wildlife Fund
c. all of these
d. Conservation International
a. - ✔✔When geographers study the sites where religions originated as well as the processes by
which those religions diffused to other locations, they are focusing on the
%
a. spatial connections in religion.
b. geo-religious linkages of culture.
c. role of history in the social sciences.
d. lack of spatial connections in religion.
e. loss of historical processes in the formations of religions.
a. - ✔✔Which of the following is the most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe?
a. mixed crop and livestock farming
b. dairy farming
c. grain farming
d. livestock ranching
e. Mediterranean agriculture
b. - ✔✔Acid rain occurs when water vapor in the air combines with:
a. mercury and nitrogen oxides
b. sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides
c. all of these
d. sulfur dioxide and mercury
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GEOG 150 Practice Test
250x - ✔✔A baby born in the U.S. will use ____ times the amount of energy over their lifetime than a
baby born in Bangladesh.
31% - ✔✔Forests cover ____% of the earth's land surface.
a. - ✔✔In contrast to Fordist production, Post-Fordist production is more likely to
a. introduce more flexible work rules.
b. place more importance on site factors.
c. assign each worker one task.
d. include repetitive tasks.
e. require larger inventories of parts and components.
a. - ✔✔Mexico's immigration policy
a. is complicated because Mexico favors migration to the U.S. but opposes migration from its south.
b. is opposed to Mexicans migrating to the U.S. because they otherwise would contribute to the
economy at home.
%
c. welcomes migrants from other countries.
d. is flexible for most countries of origin but does not generally allow immigration from the United
States.
e. attempts to prevent any money from leaving the country.
a. - ✔✔Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
a. both have low growth rates.
b. both have high dependency ratios.
c. both have low dependency ratios.
d. both have low life expectancies.
e. both have low death rates.
a. - ✔✔The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
a. hinterland.
b. range.
c. threshold.
d. median.
e. meridian
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a. - ✔✔The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote
a. balanced growth of all economic sectors.
b. global competitiveness for local industries.
c. the maintenance of a large bureaucracy.
d. unequal distribution of resources.
e. international trade.
a. - ✔✔The United Nations and the World Bank set up which organization to have significant
authority over environmental action on a global scale?
a. Global Environmental Facility
b. World Wildlife Fund
c. all of these
d. Conservation International
a. - ✔✔When geographers study the sites where religions originated as well as the processes by
which those religions diffused to other locations, they are focusing on the
%
a. spatial connections in religion.
b. geo-religious linkages of culture.
c. role of history in the social sciences.
d. lack of spatial connections in religion.
e. loss of historical processes in the formations of religions.
a. - ✔✔Which of the following is the most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe?
a. mixed crop and livestock farming
b. dairy farming
c. grain farming
d. livestock ranching
e. Mediterranean agriculture
b. - ✔✔Acid rain occurs when water vapor in the air combines with:
a. mercury and nitrogen oxides
b. sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides
c. all of these
d. sulfur dioxide and mercury
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