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Geography 102 Exam 2, Questions
Use the map provided to answer the following questions. Some questions have multiple correct answers. Numbered locations may be used
more than once or not at all. Write your answers in the space provided to the left of the question. (2 points each)
____1. Which of the numbered locations is in the region that contains the greatest population of Roman Catholics?
____2. Which of the numbered locations is in a country has significant populations of members of both of the major branches of Islam?
____3. At which of the numbered locations, in the third largest great population cluster, does a Romance language predominate?
____4. Which numbered location is closest to the destination of the Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj?
____5. Which of the numbered locations is nearest the western boundary of the Austronesian language family region?
____6. Which of the numbered locations is in a latitudinal region that has the greatest religious diversity?
____7. Which of the numbered locations is closest to where agriculture was established first?
____9. Which of the numbered locations is in a latitudinal region that has the greatest linguistic diversity?
____1. At which one of the numbered locations in the 1st or 2nd largest great population clusters is a Germanic language an official language?
____2. Which of the numbered locations is in the region that contains the greatest population of Roman Catholics?
____3. Which of the numbered locations is in a country that is inhabited primarily by Shiite Muslims who speak an Indo-European language?
____4. At which of the numbered locations does a Germanic language predominate in a country that is in the 3rd largest great population cluster?
____5. Which country would have the higher crude death rate, #12 or #8?
____6. Which numbered location is closest to the destination of the Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj?
____7. Which country has a rate of natural increase that you would expect to find during the first stage of the Demographic Transition?
____8. Which of the numbered locations is in a country has significant populations of members of both of the major branches of Islam?
____9. Which of the numbered locations is in a country that has the largest population of Muslims?
____10. Which of the numbered locations is nearest the western boundary of the Austronesian language family region?
____11. Which of the numbered locations is closest to the region from which Billy was “pushed” to migrate to Europe?
____12. Which numbered location is closest to the region Mexico where the total fertility rate is highest?
____13. Which numbered location is in Europe’s Roman Catholic region?
____14. Which location is closest to Billy’s (Billy’s Journey) home country?
____15. At which location is a version of English spoken that includes many loan words from Hindi?
____16. At which location was Latin the lingua franca 2000 years ago?
Multiple Choice: (2 points each). Write your answer in the space provided to the left of the question.
___11. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Hinduism is a monotheistic, ethnic religion.
b. Islam is a multi-cultural, monotheistic and universalizing religion.
c. Judaism is a monotheistic, ethnic religion.
d. Most Arabs are Muslims.
___12. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Christians currently outnumber Muslims.
b. Muslim populations have higher rates of population growth than most Christian populations.
c. Most Muslims are Arabs.
d. Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population.
___13. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. More than 100 million Muslims live in India.
b. Since the Enlightenment, Europe has become increasingly secular and membership and regular worship in Christian denominations has decreased.
c. Islam entered Europe after World War II when mobals from European colonies in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East came to Europe and provided the lab
help re-build war-torn countries.
d. Most Muslims belong to the Shiite sect.
___14. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Shiite Islam’s core of believers live in Egypt.
b. Pockets of Shiite minorities can be found throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East.
c. Muslim Europe is young, fervently religious and growing faster than the older, secular population of Christian Europe.
d. Lands colonized by Europeans from Roman Catholic Southern Europe planted Roman Catholicism in what became known as Latin America.
___15. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Recently Islamic religious leaders have stressed a rigid fundamentalist version of Islam that has effectively silenced some moderate Muslims.
b. Ethnic religions do not obligate their member to convert non-believers.
c. Islam and Christianity are universalizing faiths because they obligate believers to convert non-believers.
d. During the past decade Muslims are increasingly ignoring their faith’s prohibition on eating meat products.
___16. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. India has experienced rapid economic growth and its own hi-tech economic boom.
b. A large portion of India’s locals live in impoverished conditions dramatically different than that of wealthy mobals who live in Bangalore.
c. Buddhism is an ethnic religion.
d. Islam has experienced periods of great tolerance and intellectual freedom.
___17. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Billions of globals are born speaking a minority, endangered language as their first language.
b. Christianity prevails in the global core.
c. American Indian languages are largely confined to high latitude, high altitude, rain forest, and desert regions.
d. Slavic languages predominate in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
___17. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. The most densely populated region of the lower 48 states of the US is east of the 100°W meridian.
b. African-American populations in the US are primarily in the southeastern US and urban areas in the West, Northeast, Great Lakes regions.
c. Asian-American populations in the US are primarily in urban areas in the southeastern US.
d. The regions of the US that have the youngest populations include the Texas-Mexico border, Imperial and Central Valleys of California
___18. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Hinduism is a polytheistic, ethnic religion.
b. Islam is a multi-cultural, monotheistic and universalizing religion.
c. Most Muslims are Arabs.
d. The geographic distribution of Roman Catholics in the US correlates with the geographic distribution of Hispanic, Irish and Italian-Americans.
___19. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Large areas of low population density are found in regions of high latitude, high elevation, deserts and tropical rain forests.
b. Fewer than 10% of the world’s people lived in the North America in 2000.
c. High birth rates are found in the poor countries of the tropical world.
d. Countries with high crude birth rates and low crude death rates have high doubling times.
___20. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. According to the Demographic Transition, industrialization caused birth rates to decline more rapidly than death rates.
b. Low birth rates are found in the wealthy, industrialized countries of the mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere.
c. Some European countries have lowered their crude birth rates so low that they have negative rates of natural increase.
d. Rural, agrarian societies, in Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition had low rates of rates of natural increase.
___21. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Differences in rates of natural increase will cause the percentage of the world’s native English-speakers to decrease.
c. From 1980–1990 the number of native Chinese-speakers in the US increased by 98%.
c. The population of English-speakers will grow in the next 50 years primarily as a result of the spread of English as a 2 nd language.
d. There ten times as many native speakers of Chinese in the world as there are native speakers of English.
___22. Which kind of thematic map would allow you show different rates of average temperature increase across the US?
a. Dot
b. Isopleth
c. Choropleth
d. Area Class
___25. Which one of the following statements is false?
a. Differences in population pyramids suggest that Central Washington’s Hispanic population will grow faster than its non-Hispanic population.
b. Central Washington has become more Hispanic since the 1960s.
c. Remittances are funds that Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the US send to their relatives in Mexico.
d. The availability of work in agriculture in Central Washington is a push factor that caused some Mexicans to emigrate from their homes.
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