ExamName___________________________________MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.1)Despite independence, marginalized countries must to compete in the world economy withincreasing amounts of all of the following exceptA)external debt.B)foreign investment.C)civil strife.D)people.E)poor health.1)World Map2)Which of the following is landlocked (does not have a sea coast)?A)MozambiqueB)ZambiaC)United StatesD)JamaicaE)Bulgaria2)3)The United Nations predicts that in the future the gap between the world's rich and poor willA)stay about the same.B)narrow.C)widen.D)alternate unpredictably.3)14)According to Knox and Marston, peripheral and semi-peripheral countries will consume overhalf the world's ________ by the year 2020.A)energyB)water4)5)After the European Union, the United States and Japan, ________ has the world's 4th largesteconomy.A)ChinaB)Australia5)World Map6)Botswana is identified by the numberA)53B)20.C)21.D)22.E)52.6)7)The capital of country #40 isA)Nairobi.B)Ottawa.C)Bamako.D)Maputo.E)Gaborone.7)8)The Asian Brown Cloud affecting temperature, rainfall and, ultimately, agriculturalproductivity, is the result ofA)a rise in nuclear power generation and use.B)unexplained natural causes.C)dust storms combined with volcanic ash.D)pollution blown eastward from Europe.E)burning wood and fossil fuels.8)29)Information technologiesA)have already brought nearly 90% of the world on-line.B)have yet to reach the peripheral countries.C)will increase the digital divide separating the world's core and periphery.D)have had the smallest impact on cities.E)include both soft- and hardware.9)10)The biggest obstacles impeding regional integration lie in the desire of countries to remainculturally distinct andA)a general unwillingness to resolve differences diplomatically.B)from fundamental differences in language and religion.C)the difficulties in bridging the North-South divide.D)reluctance to give up control over their own affairs.E)in the competition over the same export markets.10)11)According to Knox and Marston, the main challenger to U.S. hegemony isA)India.B)the European Union.11)12)In the same way that the twentieth century was called the American Century, some arebeginning to forecast the twenty-first century as the ________ Century.A)AsianB)EuropeanC)LatinoD)AsianE)Islamic12)13)This mode of transport will see the smallest change from technology in the near future:A)sea travelB)car travelC)train travelD)air travel13)3World Map14)The capital of country #52 isA)Ankara.B)Lusaka.C)Akmola.D)Luanda.E)Sofia.14)15)According to numerous national and international agencies, the most critical areas for futureeconomic development include all of the following exceptA)information technology.B)military technology.C)materials technology.D)biotechnology.15)16)With the stratification of the world economy through contemporary globalization, the elitepeople and places in peripheral countries have more in common withA)the poorer people and places in their own country.B)elite people and places in the core.16)17)Advances in materials technologies willA)increase the weight and size of most products.B)produce large amounts of waste.C)lead to a cycle of creative destruction destructive to the world's periphery.D)reduce the demand for traditional raw materials.17)18)With the post-Cold War homogenization of culture, new cultural fault lines are emerging asA)people attempt to reestablish distinctive cultural identities.B)the gap between the core and the periphery widens.C)transnational corporations search for new markets for their products.D)sports becomes the new arena for international conflict.E)governments impose new cultural requirements on their populations.18)419)Global consumer trends that transcend traditional national and cultural differences are mostapparent among the world'sA)middle class.B)impoverished.C)upper class.D)lower-middle class.19)20)Which of the following dimensions of human geography are most uncertain looking into thefuture, most likely to bear the most surprises?A)politics and technologyB)demography, environmental resources & regional economies20)21)China's competitive advantage in the world economy is in wages kept low by itsA)"open door" policy.B)huge labor force.21)World Map22)Which of the following is not a sub-Saharan country?A)Democratic Republic of the CongoB)BotswanaC)ZambiaD)BulgariaE)Mozambique22)23)According to your text, the main resource issue in the near future will revolve aroundA)raw materials.B)energy.C)labor.D)water.E)food.23)524)About which of the following do we know the least regarding its future trends?A)distribution of environmental resourcesB)changes in technologyC)demographic characteristicsD)characteristics of regional economies24)25)The hope for budding innovations in materials technology is that theyA)increase energy demands world-wide.B)lead to a whole new wave of environmental problems.C)provide new opportunities for the economies of the world's periphery.D)replace biotechnology as a potential solution for regional food shortages.E)replace scarce natural resources.25)World Map26)Which of the following is the European country?A)JamaicaB)MozambiqueC)BotswanaD)UkraineE)Zambia26)27)Bogota is the capital ofA)Morocco.B)Croatia.C)Ecuador.D)Hungary.E)Kazakhstan.27)628)The "short twentieth century"A)ended with the end of the Cold War.B)ended with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.C)refers to the glory years of the baby boom.D)refers to the boom years of the 1990s.E)was still longer than the "tedious fourteenth century."28)29)Of the following regions, which has exploited the greatest percentage of its raw materials?A)EurasiaB)East AsiaC)EuropeD)Africa29)30)For human geographers, the greatest areas of future uncertainty and surprise are inA)politics.B)natural resources.C)politics and technology.D)demography & technology.E)technology and natural resources.30)7Answer KeyTestname: CHAPTER