Ch. 11 Test Cultural Geography

1. Which of the following have contributed to the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest?

Demand for hardwoods such as mahogany and cedar

Clearing of land for farming

Clearing of forest for cattle to graze

All of the above

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.2 The significance of the global impacts of human modification of the physial environment

NGS 14B.3 Examine the characteristics of major global environmental changes and assess whether the changes are a result of human action, natural causes, or a conmbination of both factors (e.g., increases in world temperatures attributable to major global action, the link between changes in solar emissions and amounts of volcanic dust
in the atmosphere attributable to natural causes)

Explanation

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.2 The significance of the global impacts of human modification of the physial environment

NGS 14B.3 Examine the characteristics of major global environmental changes and assess whether the changes are a result of human action, natural causes, or a conmbination of both factors (e.g., increases in world temperatures attributable to major global action, the link between changes in solar emissions and amounts of volcanic dust
in the atmosphere attributable to natural causes)

2. In which land area would you live if you raised cattle?

Grazing land

Forest land

Cultivated land

Industrial areas

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

3. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of global warming?

Buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Increase in temperatures

Decrease in temperatures

Climate changes

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.0 How human actions modify the physical environment

NGS 14A.2 Analyze the role of people in decreasing the diversity of flora and fauna in a region (e.g., the impact of acid rain on rivers and forests in southern Ontario, the effects of toxic dumping on ocean ecosystems, the effects of overfishing along the coast of northeastern North America or the Philippine archipelago)

Explanation

NGS 8C.3 Evaluate the long-term effects of the human modification of ecosystems (e.g., how acid rain resulting from air pollution affects water bodies and forests and how depletion of the atmospheres ozone layer through the use of chemicals may affect the health of humans)

NGS 14.0 How human actions modify the physical environment

NGS 14A.2 Analyze the role of people in decreasing the diversity of flora and fauna in a region (e.g., the impact of acid rain on rivers and forests in southern Ontario, the effects of toxic dumping on ocean ecosystems, the effects of overfishing along the coast of northeastern North America or the Philippine archipelago)

4. What is the most important reason that many Latin American citizens are unable to take advantage of the free-market economy?

They live in crowded cities

They lack education and cannot get meaningful jobs.

They live in rural areas.

They have many diseases

NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to

Explanation

NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to

5. Which of the following best describes the form of government known as an oligarchy?

Government by a few powerful rulers

A government based on constitutional freedoms

An opposition government

A Spanish government

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)

Explanation

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)

6. What is exchanged in a debt-for-nature swap?

Payment of debt for protection of part of the rain forest

Money for products

Timber for farmland

Oxygen for carbon dioxide

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

Explanation

NGS 5A.2 Explain why regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today (e.g., the Caribbean Basins transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer to a center for tourism, New Englands gradual conversion from a region of small textile mills and shoe factories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to one of high-technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s)

NGS 18D.3 Examine tourism in a developed or a developing country to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism to local resident and the costs and benefits of tourism from several points of view (e.g., those of the owner of a diving shop, a hotel maid, a tourist, and a local fisherman) to put together a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location,

7. Where are the industrial areas located on this map?

Northern forest lands

Southern agriculture lands

Near cities

Western forest lands

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

8. Which of the following is the goal of land reform?

To support growing cities

To reduce inflation

To divide land and wealth more fairly

To end military leadership in government

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)

Explanation

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)

9. If you wanted to inspect the sugar cane, to what land area would you go?

Forest land

Industrial areas

Grazing land

Cultivated land

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

10. What type of crop is grown along the Amazon?

Coffee

Cacao

Corn

Sugar cane

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

11. What type of land is located in western Brazil?

Grazing land

Cultivated land

Industrial land

Forest land

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

Explanation

NGS 1.0 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial persepective

12. Which term describes a government under harsh, military leadership?

Junta

Democracy

Oligarchy

Caudillo

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)

Explanation

NGS 13A.1 Explain how cooperation and/or conflict can lead to the allocation of control of Earths surface (e.g., the formation and delineation of regional planning districts, regional school districts, countries, free-trade zones)