Test Bank for World Regional Geography, Global Patterns, Local Lives, 8th Edition Pulsipher (All Chapters included)
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Complete Test Bank for World Regional Geography, Global Patterns, Local Lives, 8th Edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Alex Pulsipher ; ISBN13: 9781319206772....(Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 11)...Chapter 1 Geography: An Exploration of Connections
Chapter 2 North America
Chapter 3 Middle a...
World Regional Geography, Global
Patterns, Local Lives
8th Edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
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Chap 01 8e
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. A country has a growth rate of zero when its birth rate and death rate are equal.
a. True
b. False
2. Changes that occur on Earth's surface happen more rapidly than changes occurring beneath Earth's surface.
a. True
b. False
3. Prices of fair trade goods are usually lower than the prices of free trade goods.
a. True
b. False
4. In general, people tend to live where resources such as food and water are available.
a. True
b. False
5. In 1700, fewer than 10 percent of the population lived in cities; today, more than 50 percent live in cities.
a. True
b. False
6. It is estimated that the current global food production system, producing at current rates, is adequate to
support population projections for 2050.
a. True
b. False
7. A capitalist system is one based on the private ownership of capital and is driven by the profit motive in a
competitive marketplace.
a. True
b. False
8. Nearly 90 percent of Earth's population lives north of the equator.
a. True
b. False
9. Lines of longitude (also called meridians) run from pole to pole; lines of latitude (also called parallels) run
parallel to the equator.
a. True
b. False
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Chap 01 8e
10. Although cultures may share some core beliefs, they may also disagree on a number of other values.
a. True
b. False
11. A proselytizing religion is one that rarely accepts converts.
a. True
b. False
12. Oceanic plates are thicker and less dense than continental plates.
a. True
b. False
13. European colonization prevented the spread of Roman Catholicism.
a. True
b. False
14. Geographers endeavor to be sensitive and tolerant of all cultural practices, no matter how cruel or inhumane
they may seem.
a. True
b. False
15. Human activity such as agriculture, forestry, and damming rivers can contribute to external landscape
processes.
a. True
b. False
16. Better-educated people tend to want a stronger voice in how they are governed.
a. True
b. False
17. The theory of global warming suggests that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are decreasing and
preventing the release of reflected solar heat.
a. True
b. False
18. Data indicate that the twentieth century was the warmest century in 600 years.
a. True
b. False
19. Privatization of water is happening primarily in developed countries.
a. True
b. False
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