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Test Bank For Geography Realms Regions and Concepts 15th Edition Harm J de Blij
Test Bank For Geography Realms Regions and Concepts 15th Edition Harm J de Blij
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: Landforms and Opportunities
2) The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on
the production of particular goods is known as:
a) complementarity
b) Balkanization
c) supranationalism
d) irredentism
e) local functional specialization
Answer: e
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective: Discuss the evolution of modern Europe in spatial context and its impact on
the world.
Section Reference: Modern Historical Geography
3) Von Thünen in his “Isolated State” argued that five rings of human activity would develop
around the central town or city. The first (or nearest) of these is:
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe
Answer: c
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe
a) situational
b) centripetal
c) centrifugal
d) charismatic
e) disparitic
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Demonstrate the rise of European unification in terms of the economic,
political, and cultural issues that drive this process.
Section Reference: European Unification
7) Which of the following states is unilingual in that it possesses a single language spoken
throughout its territory?
a) Switzerland
b) Austria
c) former Yugoslavia
d) Belgium
e) the British Isles
Answer: b
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective: Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its changing
population.
Section Reference: Contemporary Europe
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its changing
population.
Section Reference: Contemporary Europe
9) A country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive
of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is known as the country's:
a) core city
b) primate city
c) entrepot
d) functional region
e) conurbation
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its changing
population.
Section Reference: Contemporary Europe
a) Benelux
b) the Euro currency
c) the European Union
d) the European Parliament
e) Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Answer: e
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective: Demonstrate the rise of European unification in terms of the economic,
political, and cultural issues that drive this process.
Section Reference: European Unification
11) Only the southern portion of which of the following islands was recently granted admission
to the EU?
a) Ireland
b) Malta
c) Turkey
d) Sicily
e) Cyprus
Answer: e
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective: Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its changing
population.
Section Reference: Contemporary Europe
12) The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing
autonomy is known as:
a) devolution
b) irredentism
c) complementarity
d) supranationalism
e) transferability
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: Diminished State Power and Regionalism
13) Which of the following cities is not part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
a) Brussels
b) Milan
c) Stuttgart
d) Barcelona
e) Lyon
Answer: a
Difficulty: Moderate
Learning Objective:
Section Reference: A New Economic Geography
14) _________ has gradually lost adherents since secularization gathered momentum in the late
1960s, especially in western Europe.
a) Islam
b) Hinduism
c) Judaism
d) Christianity
e) Sikhism
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its changing
population.
Section Reference: Contemporary Europe
15) _______ has been pulling through the global recession better than any other country in the
realm.
a) France
b) Italy
c) the United Kingdom
d) Germany
e) the United States
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the concept of the “European core” in western Europe and analyze
the present and future role of the core countries in the unification of Europe.
Section Reference: The Mainland Core
16) The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands
and which passes through the Ruhr is the:
a) Rhône
b) Danube
c) Elbe
d) Rhine
e) Po
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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