1.
What type of crop is grown along the Amazon?
Correct Answer
B. Cacao
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
2.
What type of land is located in western Brazil?
Correct Answer
D. Forest land
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.
In which land area would you live if you raised cattle?
Correct Answer
A. Grazing land
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
4.
What is exchanged in a debt-for-nature swap?
Correct Answer
A. Payment of debt for protection of part of the rain forest
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,
5.
Which of the following is NOT an aspect of global warming?
Correct Answer
C. Decrease in temperatures
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)
6.
Which of the following have contributed to the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest?
Correct Answer
D. All of the above
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)
7.
What is the most important reason that many Latin American citizens are unable to take
advantage of the free-market economy?
Correct Answer
B. They lack education and cannot get meaningful jobs.
Explanation
NGS 4C Explain how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places, as exemplified by being able to
8.
Which of the following best describes the form of government known as an oligarchy?
Correct Answer
A. Government by a few powerful rulers
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.
Which of the following is the goal of land reform?
Correct Answer
C. To divide land and wealth more fairly
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)
10.
Which term describes a government under harsh, military leadership?
Correct Answer
A. Junta
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)
11.
If you wanted to inspect the sugar cane, to what land area would you go?
Correct Answer
D. Cultivated land
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.
Where are the industrial areas located on this map?
Correct Answer
C. Near cities
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