GEOGRAPHY 1982 MID-TERM EXAM #3 Name________________WORLD REGIONAL Recitation #____________GEOGRAPHYTrue or False (2 points each)A high savings rate is a very strong indicator of positive development.The majority of nutrition in an African pastoralist’s diet comes from direct consumption of vegetables.The slide show on Africa featured African wildlife.The slide show on Africa featured penguins in South Africa,The slide show on Africa featured practices of cannibalism.Food security programs include banning of imports, encouraging change of diets, and prevention of genetically modified crops.The success in African social development has been greater than the success in African economic development.Current archeological thought argues that the earliest humans DID NOT originate in Africa.China’s development under communism saw significant loss of economic and social development based on health, education and income indicators.China’s move to a market system has been accompanied by a move to democracy, and elections have been held.The Three Gorges Dam project in China has met with universal acclaim as a wise sustainable development project.The Cultural Revolution in China featured an expansion of freedoms and a loosening of the authoritarian regime.The fact that diffusion has proven to be amenable to modeling makes it a useful tool for prediction and solving problems, such as the spread of disease.Polygamy is a common practice among African pastoralists.In the “Scramble for Africa” European powers allowed Africans to draw their own boundaries.There has been a general movement towards democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.Microenterprise lending has become popular in the developing world even through the rates of repayment are low compared to commercial loans.One thing that distinguishes the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is that it provides microenterprise loans primarily to women. One reason to study the relationships between gender and development is that women areresponsible for agriculture and food production in various parts of the developing world.Contagious diffusion is based on a neighbor-effect.About one in 70 Africans is a refugee.Mt. Kenya is in the African country of
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