Sheet1GEOG 1982 - World Regional GeographyEXAM 110 February, 2011Multiple Choice: Choose the BEST Answer:1 Which statement best expresses the idea of the ‘centrality of boundaries’?A) Boundaries have become more important with globalizationB) Boundaries reveal and clarify particular geographical imaginations of the worldC) Boundaries have declined in importance as nation-states lose control over their administrative spacesD) Boundaries have become borderlands as globalization ensues2 Which of the following statements BEST illustrate the concept of SCALE as used in human geography?A) Thomas Friedman argues that the world is "flat"B) Globalization tends to impact all places equallyC) English is the dominant language of Canada, but French dominates the Canadian province of QuebecD) World regions are no longer an effective way to understand our world3 Which of the following statements about Shanghai waste collectors best illustrates the distinction between formal and informal economies?A) Shanghai waste collectors typically use cash only for their transactions and usually pay no taxes to the city of ShanghaiB) The human rights of Shanghai waste collectors are regularly abusedC) Shanghai waste collectors tend to not speak the local Shanghai dialectD) Shanghai waste collectors offer a compelling example of sustainable development4 Which of the following is true?A) Regional geography will often concentrate on only one regionB) Regional geography will look at several geographical processes in the same placeC) Systematic geography organizes knowlege around subfields like population geography, economic geography, etc.D) All of the above5 Which of the following is the best example of the concept of Sustainable Development?A) Rare earths development in ChinaB) The maid tradeC) Informal waste collection in ShanghaiD) 'Big Push' modernization6 Which of the following is the best definition of a Transnational Corporation (TNC)?A) A firm which owns branch operations in more than one countryB) A firm which owns all stages of the production process across multiple countriesC) A firm which has the power to control operations in more than one country, even if it does not own themD) A firm which has recently moved its production facilities from one country to another7 Which of the following is NOT one of the four subfields of geography?A) World Regional GeographyB) Human GeographyC) Physical GeographyD) Geographic Information Science8 Which of the following concepts is the most useful in explaining the struggles over Sunday picnics for Filipina maids in Singapore?A) Public spaceB) Informal EconomyC) ScaleD) Structural Adjustment9 Which of the following best illustrates the New International Division of Labor?A) The rare earths tradeB) 'Big Push' modernizationC) Tropical wood exports from Southeast AsiaD) Export Processing Zones in developing countries10 Which of the following best illustrates geography's counter-argument to Friedman's 'flat world' approach to globalization?A) We don't yet live in a globalized worldB) World Regions is a more accurate way of understanding globalizationC) Borders have become increasingly meaningless in the global economyD) Globalization is an uneven set of processes11 Which of the following best expresses how the terms subsistence economy and cash economy relate to labor migration?A) People migrate away from cash economies in order to join the subsistence economies in the citiesB) People migrate away from urban cash economies to live simpler lives in the countrysideC) People migrate away from subsistence economies because they need cash-paying jobs to pay for things like education and televisionD) People migrate away from subsistence economies in order to sell the products they grow on their farms12 Which of the following best explains the reasons for opening Special Economic Zones in China?A) To avoid the disruption of opening the entire country to international trade all at onceB) To help prop up ailing state-owned interprises in China's interiorC) To reduce labor migration to the southeastern coastal regionD) To slow down the rapid economic growth in the southeastern coastal region of China13 Which of the following best describes the process of demographic transition?A) high mortality and fertility, followed by high natural increase, followed by low mortality and fertilityB) high natural increase, followed by medium natural increase, followed by low natural increaseC) low mortality and high fertility, followed by high mortality and low fertilityD) high natural increase, followed by low natural increase, followed by negative natural increase14 What were the two key institutions established by the Bretton Woods Accords of 1944?A) World Trade Organization and World BankB) World Trade Organization and IMFC) World Bank and IMFD) World Bank and ASEAN15 What is the earliest manifestation of globalization according to your textbook?A) European colonialismB) Creation of the World Trade OrganizationC) Founding of Cisco SystemsD) Implementation of Structural Adjustment Policies16 What are the conflicts between Southeast Asian countries and China over the Mekong River about?A) DamsB) FishC) SustainabilityD) All of the above17 US dependence on China for rare earths has increased for which of the following reasons?A) The US has exhausted its supply of rare earthsB) China's rare earths are of higher qualityC) Increasingly popular communication, energy, and 'green' technologies use rare earthsD) Rare earths are no longer being exported from Indonesia18 Thomas Friedman's concept of the 'flat world' conveys which of the following approaches to globalization?A) Globalization is an uneven processB) Globalization occurs in placesC) Globalization reduces the barriers and boundaries that keep people poorD) We do not yet live in a truly globalized world19 The 'Washington Consensus' is associted with all of the following EXCEPT:A) Open bordersB) 'Big Push' modernizationC) Structural adjustment policiesD) Free trade20 The two central concepts in Oakes' approach to World Regional Geography are best summed up by which of the following terms?A) scale / regionB) contamination / multiculturalismC) place matters / connectionsD) globalization /cosmopolitanism21 The ambiguity of the region concept is best expressed by which of the following statements?A) Because of globalization regions are becoming increasingly homogenousB) The borders between regions are increasingly porousC) Regions are both