Student Study Guide: Answer Key

CHAPTER ONE

Key Terms:

  1. d, f, b, c, a, e
  2. c, e, d, f, a, g, b
  3. g, d, a, c, b, f, e
  4. c, b, e, f, d, a
  5. a. the ideas, beliefs, and practices that a group of people hold in common

b. strategic locations because of the convergence of important transportation routes

c. climate, landforms, plants, animals, soils, and oceans as they might be without any human impact

d. materials, like minerals and water, present in the natural environment that humans use to create their economic and cultural systems

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. classical
  2. nine
  3. continued tension and conflict
  4. what can happen when dangerous, polluting industries are exported (located) to peripheral countries
  5. people or cultures
  6. Myanmar
  7. five
  8. Amazon, Papua New Guinea
  9. multinational corporations
  10. Mesopotamia
  11. people in different countries demanded local variations of cars

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. T 10. T 11. F

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. b 2. a 3. a 4. c 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. d 9. c 10. a 11. c

Key Regions:

  1. 1st column: h, b, f, a, e, e, d, d, c

2nd column: g, f, d, h, e, g, g, d, g

 

CHAPTER TWO

Key Terms:

  1. g, c, f, e, h, a, b, d
  2. b, h, d, g, a, e, c, f
  3. e, h, f, b, g, d, a, c
  4. c, d, e, b, a
  5. a, d, e, b, f, c
  6. a, d, b, a
  7. d, f, e, b, g, a, c
  8. b, c, d, a, e
  9. a, f, b, d, c, e
  10. b, d, a, c
  11. c, e, a, d, b
  12. d, e, h, b, a, g, f, c
  13. c, a, e, b, f, d
  14. a. the study of how the world is governed and how governments influence people and regions.

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. different assumptions are made or different factors are considered
  2. height above sea level
  3. immigration
  4. capital cities that were built to avoid jealousies between established cities
  5. direction, distance
  6. income, human
  7. 29
  8. a map of the world that was considered a very important information source
  9. gender
  10. oceans
  11. resources, hazards
  12. minutes, seconds
  13. actual cost of living
  14. the desire to combine culture and territory
  15. imports

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. F 8. F 9. F 10. T 11. T 12. F 13. F 14. T 15. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. a 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. b 6. b 7. c 8. a 9. d 10. a 11. b 12. c 13. c 14. d 15. d

 

CHAPTER THREE

Key Terms:

  1. a, d, b, e, c
  2. c, d, b, f, a, e
  3. a. Hutus were farmers; Tutsis were herders; civil war in Rwanda resulted in many deaths and the Tutsis taking over the government from the Hutus
  1. cacao, coffee, rubber are the tropical tree crops frequently grown in large scale commercial operations known as plantations
  1. a. economic and financial connections between France and many of its former colonies in Central and Western Africa

b. illnesses which adversely affect humans, animals, and plants

c. exploitation of the periphery by the core; multinational corporations extracting raw materials and paying little for them

d. unplanned and lacking basic services, these are poor sections of cities; found throughout the third world

e. originally against apartheid in South Africa, now this group of countries promotes cooperation to achieve economic growth

f. group of people with a common cultural heritage and language

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. poor
  2. Hutu, Tutsi
  3. Nigeria
  4. modern
  5. Suez Canal
  6. oil
  7. Belgians
  8. Ghana
  9. Ethiopia
  10. famine
  11. large scale commercial production of crops
  12. rapidly
  13. Christian

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. T 9. T 10. T 11. F 12. F 13. F

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. a 2. d 3. b 4. d 5. c 6. c 7. b 8. a 9. b 10. a 11. a 12. c 13. b 14. c 15. c

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 36, 38, 23, 21, 27, 16, 30, 29, 17, 33, 12

2nd column: 11, 41, 19, 1, 14, 32, 39, 34, 28, 35, 40
  1. 1st column: o, h, v, t, b, aa, g, m 2nd column: k, y, c, s, r, a, i, d

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Key Terms:

  1. d, a, f, b, c, e
  2. c, f, a, d, e, b
  3. e, d, a, b, c, f

4. a. creates freshwater from saltwater by evaporating and then condensing the water

b. manufacturing is more important than primary production, plus a variety of manufactured products are made and services are growing

c. communal farming villages in Israel

d. agreement to divide the Nile’s water with Egypt receiving 70 percent and Sudan about 30 percent

e. salts build up in soils as irrigation waters evaporate

f. mountains created within the last 50 million years by collisions of tectonic plates

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. open desert, intensely cultivated and irrigated fields
  2. Egypt
  3. scarce or crucial or a precious commodity
  4. being able to participate in world economy, resolving disputes over oil and water, controlling their population
  5. Islamic revivalism
  6. Israel
  7. Baath
  8. Islam, oil
  9. Shia
  10. Kuwait, Iraqi invasion
  11. have access to water
  12. Istanbul

True - False Questions:

1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T 11. F 12. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. d 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. c 6. a 7. c 8. d 9. a 10. d 11. c 12. b 13. c 14. d 15. d

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 2, 15, 17, 16, 14, 18 2nd column: 4, 11, 7, 6, 19, 20
  2. 2nd column: ff, dd, n, d, k, v, e, j, a, w 2nd column: r, q, t, cc, m, g, z, h, bb, c

 

CHAPTER FIVE

Key Terms:

1. b, d, a, c 2. b, c, a 3. e, i, h, d, b, a, f, j, g, c

4. a. rigid social class system associated with Hinduism in India

b. manufacturing that takes place in homes, not in factories

c. the use of high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice; needs expensive inputs

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. summer
  2. a separate country for Muslims
  3. Hinduism
  4. a revolt
  5. Sinhalese, Tamil
  6. Pakistan
  7. heavy rains
  8. jute
  9. poor
  10. women
  11. cattle
  12. trade with the Soviet Union had ended

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. F 8. T 9. F 10. T 11. F 12. F

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. b 2. c 3. b 4. b 5. d 6. c 7. a 8. d 9. b 10. d 11. d 12. a 13. c 14. d 15. c

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 1, 8, 7, 3 2nd column: 4, 6, 2, 5
  2. 1st column: j, a, e, r, i, n, x, w 2nd column: f, b, u, c, g, s, k, h

 

CHAPTER SIX

Key Terms:

1. b, c, a 2. h, e, b, f, a, g, d, c 3. c, b, a, e, d

4. a. the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s tried to force increased industrialization, whereas the Cultural

Revolution between 1966 and 1976 persecuted certain groups of people; both slowed economic development

5. a. originally an anti-communist military alliance in Southeastern Asia, now more of a trading group

b. a country between major powers helping to reduce conflict between them

c. the largest ethnic group in China

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. oil discoveries in the area
  2. Hong Kong, Taiwan to join mainland China
  3. megalopolis
  4. agricultural
  5. Mongolia
  6. Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
  7. Han Chinese
  8. huge South Korean conglomerates
  9. Asian tigers
  10. "Great Green Wall"
  11. slow
  12. China
  13. tropical rain forests
  14. paddy fields of growing rice
  15. Indonesia

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. F 8. F 9. F 10. T 11. T 12. T 13. T 14. F 15. F

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. b 2. a 3. c 4. c 5. a 6. b 7. a 8. c 9. b 10. d 11. a 12. d 13. d 14. b 15. c

Key Places:
  1. 1st column: 14, 17, 11, 15, 7, 12, 18 2nd column: 3, 9, 13, 4, 6, 16, 8
  2. 1st column: a, k, f, t, h, b, c, d, u, z 2nd column: i, p, g, n, bb, q, w, v, m, s

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

Key Terms:

1. b, d, c, f, a, e 2. e, b, c, a, d 3. c, d, b, f, a, e

4. a. coal combustion yields sulfur and nitrate gases which create acids that fall from the atmosphere

b. a dominant group causes another group to leave an area often threatening or using force.

c. a very significant organization which includes much cooperation on trade and other economic matters. Cooperation on political and social issues may increase.

d. has wet winters and dry summers

e. dominated by cyclonic weather systems associated with oceans, but interspersed with anticyclones; has cooler summers and milder winters

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. coal
  2. strong role in their own affairs
  3. producer services, tourism
  4. feudalism
  5. larger ocean
  6. Paris, London
  7. Brussels
  8. rising sea levels might flood the city
  9. richer or more developed
  10. Danube river
  11. protection
  12. neutrality
  13. North Sea
  14. policing disputes within Europe
  15. Moors

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. T 8. T 9. T 10. F 11. F 12. T 13. F 14. F 15. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. c 2. a 3. c 4. b 5. d 6. b 7. a 8. a 9. d 10. d 11. d 12. a 13. c 14. d 15. b

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 31, 2, 15, 5, 7, 25, 18, 32, 12 2nd column: 3, 6, 1, 19, 33, 8, 16, 20, 29
  2. 1st column: ff, ww, h, nn, vv, t, o, d, gg, s, m, dd, y, aa, tt

2nd column: qq, f, hh, i, ss, bb, ii, g, w, e, uu, b, j, nn, k

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

Key Terms:

1. c, g, h, f, j, b, i, d, a, k, e 2. a, d, g, e, h, b, f, c

3. a. openness and exchange of information

b. influence or control of an area

c. reconstructing the economic and political systems

d. visual features of the built environment, like statues, that promote a dominant social or political message

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. Western Europe
  2. Armenia
  3. state, market
  4. secret cities
  5. Belarus
  6. mountains
  7. Islam or Muslim
  8. Orthodox Christianity
  9. declining
  10. Transcaucasia
  11. many Russians left in what are now independent countries
  12. Moscow
  13. basketball, hockey
  14. taiga of northern Russia
  15. price

True - False Questions:

1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. T 11. T 12. T 13. T 14. F 15. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. d 2. b 3. a 4. d 5. c 6. c 7. a 8. a 9. d 10. a 11. c 12. d 13. a 14. a 15. b

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 7, 8, 1, 3 2nd column: 11, 6, 5, 12
  2. 1st column: z, c, i, h, o, aa, b, q, d 2nd column: p, r, e, m, k,u, w, n, x

 

CHAPTER NINE

Key Terms:

1. b, a, c, d 2. d, b, e, f, a, c 3. c, e, f, g, a, b, h, d

4. a. congregate refers to a process where people with good incomes and similar tastes can choose to live close together, whereas segregated implies poorer people who are less able to choose and become excluded from more affluent areas

5. a. an American resident of African origin

b. plowing of subhumid grasslands in the U.S. which led to massive wind erosion in the dry years of the 1930s

c. system of government where states agree to share some functions and to delegate them to the central government

d. French colonial land settlement pattern giving each lot a narrow portion of river or road frontage

e. peoples who inhabited Anglo America before Europeans arrived

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. climates
  2. Nunavut
  3. Sunbelt, Frostbelt
  4. fifty years of poverty
  5. Ohio Valley power plants
  6. commercially cultivated areas
  7. Silicon Valley
  8. gambling casinos
  9. human resources
  10. Hawaii
  11. New Spain
  12. textiles or metal goods or leather goods
  13. colonial ports, inland market centers
  14. internal, international

True - False Questions:

1. T 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. F 8. F 9. T 10. T 11. F 12. F 13. T 14. F

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. a 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. a 6. a 7. a 8. c 9. a 10. a 11. b 12. b 13. b 14. b

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 21, 9, 15, 14, 16, 6, 20, 7 2nd column: 17, 19, 11, 3, 22, 4, 12, 5
  2. 1st column: c, g, h, f 2nd column: b, e, d, a
  3. 1st column: n, q, v, t, s 2nd column: x, u, r, y, o

 

CHAPTER TEN

Key Terms:

1. f, g, a, e, d, c, b 2. e, f, a, g, i, h, b, c, d

3. a. Pre-European people found in southern Mexico, around Mexico City, and Peru, respectively

4. a. warm equatorial waters push the cold Peruvian Current away from the west coast of tropical South America

affecting fish and world climate

b. area within a country where parts can be imported with lower tariffs; the product is assembled and then exported

c. idea that some countries want to extend their territory at the expense of other countries

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. richest fisheries
  2. Occidental, Central, Oriental
  3. cultural and political history, tropical environments
  4. Portugal
  5. rural to urban
  6. large land estates or agriculture
  7. squatter settlements
  8. capitalization
  9. Haiti
  10. Peru
  11. global warming, decreases in the genetic pool of life
  12. sugar cane
  13. cocaine
  14. Aztecs
  15. Miami, Florida

True - False Questions:

1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. T 7. T 8. T 9. T 10. F 11. T 12. F 13. T 14. T 15. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. b 2. c 3. a 4. c 5. c 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. b 10. c 11. d 12. a 13. d 14. a 15. d

Key Places:

  1. 1st column: 1, 19, 11, 2, 13, 6, 26, 8 2nd column: 17, 3, 25, 4, 12, 28, 20, 5
  2. 1st column: w, s, dd, m, ee, d, t, c, p 2nd column: i, h, r, k, gg, g, e, aa, n

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Key Terms:

1. d, c, e, a, b 2. d, b, a, e, c 3. d, b, c, a

4. a. when an area’s land and resources cannot support the population on a subsistence basis

b. the countries that border the Pacific Ocean that are growing in economic and political importance

c. the "Southland" mythical continent of the South Pacific; which after discovery is Australia

Fill in the Blank Questions:

  1. White Australia
  2. overpopulation
  3. Snowy Mountain Scheme
  4. dry
  5. East Asian
  6. distance
  7. poor or struggling
  8. copra
  9. New South Wales
  10. Pacific Rim

True - False Questions:

1. T 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. d 2. b 3. b 4. d 5. c 6. b 7. a 8. b 9. c 10. c 11. a 12. d

Key Places:

1. 1st column: o, z, u, m, hh, t, n, jj, y, oo, r, j, c

2nd column: bb, h, ii, q, e, cc, a, kk, gg, g, p, i, aa
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