GEOG 101 Midterm Exam Your score on this exam is 96 out of 100. Practice docs 2021

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GEOG 101 Midterm Exam Your score on this exam is 96 out of 100. Practice docs 2021 Instructions: You have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the quiz. After 1.5 hours, the exam software will automati... cally deduct 1 point per minute for each additional minute that you have the exam open. ________________________________________ Answer Key ________________________________________ Question 1 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following countries is landlocked? Uruguay Ecuador Paraguay Peru Suriname ________________________________________ Question 2 (Worth 4 points) Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa? Britain and France Portugal and Spain Germany and Britain U.S. and France Belgium and the Netherlands ________________________________________ Question 3 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift? separate development Pangaea land alienation continentality apartheid ________________________________________ Question 4 (Worth 4 points) People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are now called: Highveld Hollanders Afrikaners Cape Boers Great Trekkers the Transylvaalia Dutch ________________________________________ Question 5 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following is a lingua franca? Bantu Kalahari Swahili Sharia Niger-Kordofanian ________________________________________ Question 6 (Worth 4 points) A country's core area: often contains a state's capital city incorporates the nation's largest population cluster contains the region with the country's most efficient communications networks exhibits the country's strongest cultural imprints displays all of the characteristics listed above ________________________________________ Question 7 (Worth 4 points) The Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is: Cyprus Crete Malta Sicily Sardinia ________________________________________ Question 8 (Worth 4 points) A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a ____ market. mobile nomadic pandemic periodic common ________________________________________ Question 9 (Worth 4 points) A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n)__________. ________________________________________ Question 10 (Worth 4 points) When figuring out how the world works, geographers use a ________ perspective, which asks the key question "where". ________________________________________ Question 11 (Worth 4 points) The Congo River basin mainly supports what type of vegetation? grassland savanna tropical rainforest Mediterranean scrub coniferous forest ________________________________________ Question 12 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa? Senegal South Africa Somalia Chad Kenya ________________________________________ Question 13 (Worth 4 points) The country of _________ was established by former American slaves. ________________________________________ Question 14 (Worth 4 points) Central America, as defined by geographers, is: a region within Middle America lying between Mexico and Colombia a region that incorporates all the lands and islands between the United States and South America the regional term for the Greater Antilles the heartland or central zone of Middle America (Mestizoamerica) the region covered by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize ________________________________________ Question 15 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa? Botswana Cameroon Zimbabwe Zambia Moçambique ________________________________________ Question 16 (Worth 4 points) Land tenure refers to: the balance between population and land resources the sustainable development level of a tract of land the way people own, occupy, and use land a system not unlike tenure at a university, where once you gain land, you keep it forever a form of subsistence farming ________________________________________ Question 17 (Worth 4 points) Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of _______. France Germany Britain Belgium South Africa ________________________________________ Question 18 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone? tropical rainforests the Kalahari Desert the Islamic Front the Zambezi Basin Madagascar ________________________________________ Question 19 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa? Nigeria Kenya Uganda Tanzania Burundi ________________________________________ Question 20 (Worth 4 points) The transformation of raw materials into finished products is associated with the ____________ sector of a nation's economy. primary secondary tertiary quaternary quinary ________________________________________ Question 21 (Worth 4 points) The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing cultural, economic, political and other types of exchanges is known as ___________. ________________________________________ Question 22 (Worth 4 points) The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is ________. ________________________________________ Question 23 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa? Burkina Faso Mali Niger Nigeria Ethiopia ________________________________________ Question 24 (Worth 4 points) Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries? Muslims Chinese Hispanics Russians North Africans ________________________________________ Question 25 (Worth 4 points) The great river of Southern Africa is the: Zambezi Zimbabwe Niger Congo Angola [Show More]

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