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Test Results:

Summary
68% Your Score
Correct Answers:
Incorrect Answers:
51
24
Total Questions: 75
Your Score: 68%

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Distribution
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31 32 33 34 35 36

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61 62 63 64 65 66

67 68 69 70 71 72

73 74 75

Total Time

00:30:27

Breakdown By Concept Area

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CORRECT CONCEPT QUESTIONS ANSWERED

5 Correct AGRICULTURE, FOOD

71% PRODUCTION, & 7 7
RURAL LAND USE

DEVELOPMENT OF
AGRICULTURE
2 Correct
66% View 3 3 3
Subconcepts

RURAL LAND USE &

SETTLEMENT
3 Correct PATTERNS
75% 4 4
View 5
Subconcepts

9 Correct CITIES & URBAN

90% 10 10
LAND USE

CONTEMPORARY
URBAN ISSUES
2 Correct
100% View 2 2 2
Subconcepts

DEVELOPMENT OF
CITIES
4 Correct
100% View 4 4 4
Subconcepts

MODELS OF CITY
STRUCTURE &
URBAN
0 Correct
DEVELOPMENT 1 1
0%
View 1
Subconcept

MODELS OF URBAN
HIERARCHIES
2 Correct
100% View 2 2 2
Subconcepts

SOCIAL SPACES
1 Correct
100% View 1 1 1
Subconcept

4 Correct CULTURAL PATTERNS

57% 7 7
& PROCESSES

CONCEPTS OF
CULTURE
1 Correct
100% View 1 1 1
Subconcept

CULTURAL
DIFFERENCES &
REGIONAL
2 Correct
PATTERNS 4 4
50%
View 3
Subconcepts

CULTURAL
LANDSCAPES &
1 Correct IDENTITY
50% 2 2
View 2
Subconcepts

3 Correct
75% GEOGRAPHY 4 4

1 Correct GEOSPATIAL
100% 1 1
TECHNOLOGIES

1 Correct INDENTIFYING
100% MAJOR WORLD 1 1
REGIONS

0 Correct MAJOR
0% GEOGRAPHICAL 1 1
TERMINOLOGY

1 Correct
100% USING MAPS 1 1

7 Correct INDUSTRIALIZATION
63% & ECONOMIC 11 11
DEVELOPMENT

CONTEMPORARY
PATTERNS OF
INDUSTRIALIZATION
3 Correct
& DEVELOPMENT 5 5
60%
View 5
Subconcepts

GROWTH &
DIFFUSION OF
1 Correct INDUSTRIALIZATION
33% 3 3
View 3
Subconcepts

SOCIAL &
ECONOMIC
MEASURES OF
3 Correct
DEVELOPMENT 3 3
100%
View 3
Subconcepts

13 POLITICAL
Correct ORGANIZATION OF 20 20
65% SPACE

CHALLENGES TO
POLITICAL-
TERRITORIAL
4 Correct
ARRANGEMENTS 7 7
57%
View 6
Subconcepts

EVOLUTION OF
POLITICAL
5 Correct PATTERNS
62% 8 8
View 5
Subconcepts

TERRITORIAL
DIMENSIONS OF
4 Correct POLITICS
80% 5 5
View 5
Subconcepts

10
Correct POPULATION &
16 16
62% MIGRATION

GEOGRAPHICAL
ANALYSIS OF
3 Correct POPULATION
75% 4 4
View 4
Subconcepts

MIGRATION
3 Correct
60% View 5 5 5
Subconcepts

POPULATION
GROWTH & DECLINE
4 Correct
57% View 6 7 7
Subconcepts

Your Percentile

0 100

55.53%
Correct vs. Incorrect

32% 68%
INCORRECT CORRECT

Time Per Question

75

50
Seconds

25

0
Questions

Your Time Spent on Question

Average Time Spent on Question

% of People Who Answered Correctly Each

Question

100

75
Percent

50

25

% Correct

Questions Overview:

1. Which of the following provides the best example of

quaternary economic activity?

An economic consultant who makes suggestions to

companies as to which agricultural products to buy
(coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market
trends

View Explanation

Concept: Agribusiness

Time Used: 27 secs

Average: 59 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 60.33%

2. Which of the following two points were the key driving

forces behind the Green Revolution?

Agriculture expanding into arid and previously

unarable regions and the resulting increase in
irrigation systems and dependence on the water
table.

An exponential increase in the human population

and the advent of industrial fertilizers.

View Explanation

Concept: Green Revolution

Time Used: 20 secs

Average: 38 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 59.1%

3. The adoption of agriculture by neolithic societies

resulted in __________.

cultures adopting a more settled lifestyle

View Explanation

Concept: Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

Time Used: 28 secs

Average: 23 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 77.36%

4. Which of the following is not a feature of an

agricultural cash crop?

Only kept by the producer and never distributed

View Explanation

Concept: Cash Cropping

Time Used: 25 secs

Average: 23 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 86.06%

5. Raising and cultivating fish and shellfish in controlled

bodies of water is known as __________.

aquaculture

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Concept: Fishing & Aquaculture

Time Used: 14 secs

Average: 17 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 85.91%

6. Which of the following types of farming is not

historically prevalent in the United States of America?

Mixed-crop farming

None of the other answers

View Explanation

Concept: Mixed Farming

Time Used: 29 secs

Average: 17 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 74.0%

7. Swidden agriculture is a form of subsistence agriculture

that is defined by which of the following activities?

Cutting down trees and lighting the remaining

plants on fire

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Concept: Subsistence

Time Used: 30 secs

Average: 33 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 50.78%

8. A key problem poorer inner-city neighborhoods in

America face due to their geographical position is
__________.

a lack of quality food options

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Concept: Access to Food Stores

Time Used: 18 secs

Average: 27 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 57.13%

9. Which of the following terms describes urban renewal

that leads to the displacement of the occupying
demographic, and is often associated with rising
property values in low-income urban areas?

Gentrification

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Concept: Gentrification, Disamenity, & Zones of

Abandonment

Time Used: 20 secs

Average: 28 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 81.07%

10. According to the Von Thunen model, what is the land

closest to the urban center typically utilized for and
why?

Dairy and intensive agriculture, because the

products are typically perishable and must be
transported to markets quickly.

View Explanation

Concept: Forces Driving Urbanization

Time Used: 16 secs

Average: 29 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 87.07%

11. Which of the following is the largest metropolitan area

in the world in 2015?

Tokyo

View Explanation

Concept: Megacities

Time Used: 13 secs

Average: 16 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 64.16%

12. Organize the following human communities from least

to most heavily populated:

City, Town, Hamlet, Megalopolis, Village

Hamlet, Village, Town, City, Megalopolis

View Explanation

Concept: Origin of Cities

Time Used: 21 secs

Average: 20 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 78.23%

13. Which of the following is true of an edge city?

A city with a large amount of developed retail and

office space outside a larger city

View Explanation

Concept: Suburbanization Processes

Time Used: 11 secs

Average: 22 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 77.62%

14. Which of the following real-world examples is the most

accurate example of people living in a Transition Zone?

Due to the frustration of overcrowding and traffic

congestion, many people who work in San Francisco
in fact take the train or metro rail from surrounding
bedroom communities.

During the 1990s, China experienced an influx of

rural residents migrating to industrial centers of big
cities to work at manufacturing facilities, often
living in slums or company housing.

View Explanation

Concept: Burgess Concentric Zone Model

Time Used: 1 mins 8 secs

Average: 47 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 49.52%

15. In Mexico, the population of Mexico City metropolitan

area is over 20 million people. The next largest
metropolitan area, Guadalajara, has approximately 4.5
million people. This disparity in population sizes
makes Mexico City an example of __________.

a primate city

View Explanation

Concept: Primate Cities

Time Used: 25 secs

Average: 22 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 83.52%

16. According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a

country has a population of 1,000,000, then the fourth
largest city in that country would have a population of
approximately __________.

250, 000

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Concept: Rank-Size Rule

Time Used: 15 secs

Average: 28 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 83.98%

17. The main housing unit in suburban neighborhoods is

__________.

the single-family house

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Concept: Types of Residential Buildings

Time Used: 25 secs

Average: 18 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 87.23%

18. What type of diffusion occurs when people move from

their original location to another and bring their
innovations with them?

Relocation diffusion

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Concept: Diffusion Patterns

Time Used: 11 secs

Average: 17 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 86.02%

19. What continent has the most languages?

Africa

View Explanation

Concept: Language & Communications

Time Used: 6 secs

Average: 16 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 54.22%

20. The key religious divide between Scotland and England

historically was __________.

that Scotland was largely Lutheran, while England

was largely Presbyterian

that Scotland was largely Presbyterian, while

England was largely Anglican

View Explanation

Concept: Religion

Time Used: 16 secs

Average: 31 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 32.38%

21. The May Day maypole celebration practiced in parts of

Western Europe is an example of __________.

folk culture

View Explanation

Concept: Popular & Folk Culture

Time Used: 20 secs

Average: 19 secs
Difficulty:
% Correct: 83.5%

22. Which of the following events would not be a

contributor to contemporary German national identity?

The Oktoberfest Celebration

The Papal Bull of 1965

View Explanation

Concept: Formation of Identity

Time Used: 28 secs