Question.281 - According to your text, which country has NOT been hegemonic over the world economy at some time in the last 500 years? Select one: a. Russia b. England c. Portugal d. Holland e. United States Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Russia Question?2 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text In addition to environmental mismanagement, Lake Baikal's fragile and unique ecology is seriously threatened by Select one: a. climate change b. oil refineries c. tourism d. gold mines Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: climate change Question?3 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The increasing connectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change is what we mean by Select one: a. time-space convergence b. globalization c. distance decay d. world regions e. spatial diffusion Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: globalization Question?4 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Which of the following was NOT among the important geographical phenomena introduced by world-empires? Select one: a. urbanization b. colonization c. religion d. inter-regional trade Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: religion Question?5 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The first agricultural revolution set the preconditions for early world-empires by Select one: a. enabling an increase in population densities & trade between mini-systems. b. highlighting the benefits of import substitution and comparative advantage. c. introducing warfare to the countryside d. introducing colonialism and imperialism Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: enabling an increase in population densities & trade between mini-systems. Question?6 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Faced with problems associated with the law of diminishing returns, world-empires characteristically ________ in order to feed and provide for their populations. Select one: a. regularly invented new technologies b. promoted import substitution c. colonized nearby lands d. established trade relations with countries having comparative advantages e. imported slave labor Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: colonized nearby lands Question?7 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Motivations for 16th-century European overseas exploration and expansion included all but which of the following? Select one: a. Europe's growing population and limited agricultural resource base b. competition among numerous small monarchies in Europe c. declining wealth and land holdings of the European aristocracy d. boredom with European food, culture and ways of doing things e. search for commercial advantage and economic gain Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: boredom with European food, culture and ways of doing things Question?8 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The specialization of peripheral countries in raw materials and foodstuffs, the decentralization of manufacturing to areas of low labor costs, and the emphasis of core regions on high-tech manufacturing and services describes Select one: a. the international division of labor. b. import substitution. c. the digital divide. d. comparative advantage. e. initial advantage. Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: the international division of labor. Question?9 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text To help understand and visualize the extent and intensity of the human impact on the earth, some scientists use the concept of the human (or ecological) a. region b. convergence c. analysis d. settlement e. footprint Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: footprint Question?10 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Plantations established to exploit labor and resources in the periphery are geared toward Select one: a. staple crops like corn and potatoes. b. high value crops like indigo, sugar and cocoa. c. both staple crops like corn and potatoes and high value crops like indigo, sugar, and cocoa. d. mixed fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and apples. e. industrial crops like hemp, flax and sunflowers. Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: high value crops like indigo, sugar and cocoa. Question?11 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The core-periphery framework for explaining the world-system is based on geographic divisions that have emerged as a result of Select one: a. private economic competition. b. competition between states. c. competition between religious groups. d. competition between political perspectives. e. both private economic competition and competition between states. Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: both private economic competition and competition between states. Question?12 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Which of the following is NOT one of the critical and interdependent "three Es" of sustainable development? a. social equity b. environment c. economy d. entrepreneurialism Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: entrepreneurialism Question?13 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text According to Knox and Marston, globalization of the last 25 years is linked to all of the following?except a. emergence of new technology systems b. new international division of labor. c. growth and homogenization of consumer markets. d. internationalization of finance. e. end of neocolonialism. Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: end of neocolonialism. Question?14 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Slash-and-burnthe name given to an early innovation that enabled the growth of minisystems into early world-empiresrefers to an innovation in a. warfare b. metal-working c. urbanization d. colonization e. agriculture Feedback Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: agriculture Question?15 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The sphere of economic influence around citiesfrom which products for export and taxes are collected and to which imports are distributedis known as the city's a. hinterland b. external arena c. both as the hinterland and the external arena. d. hearth area e. peripheral region
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