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Resources & Location Quiz
  • 1. What is a major reason for the differences in economic prosperity in various areas of the world today?
A) The success of nationalist movements
B) Religious unity between nations
C) Membership in the United Nations
D) An unequal distribution of resources
  • 2. Countries generally specialize in producing particular goods. What is one result of such specialization?
A) Production and consumption gradually decreases
B) Prices increase as goods become more rare
C) Countries depend on trade to obtain other goods
D) Countries become less interdependent
  • 3. How might changes in environment change a group’s access to resources?
A) All of the above
B) Long term drought ruins agriculture in a once productive region
C) A change in rain patterns open up formerly marginal lands to agriculture.
D) The melting of ice caps make previous unavailable lands and waters available for exploitation.
  • 4. What factors tend to cause the isolation of a region?
A) Lack of valuable minerals
B) Lack of soils good for agriculture
C) All of the above
D) Lack of access to profitable trade routes
  • 5. What differentiates developed countries like the United States from “gems in the rough?”
A) All of the above
B) Tend to be more wealthy
C) More efficient use of their labor resources
D) More efficient use of their natural resources
  • 6. Which statement provides a reason why nations and regions specialize in economic activities?
A) They do not wish to compete
B) To become more self-sufficient
C) They have different resources
D) They cannot overcome trade barriers
  • 7. The geographic isolation of a people frequently leads to-
A) The need for higher education
B) A process for cultural diffusion
C) The development of industrialization
D) A traditional way of life
  • 8. In the late 18th century, the factors listed above contributed to the development of the -
A) Common currency
B) Industrial Revolution
C) Agricultural Revolution
D) Stock Exchange
  • 9. What is the dominant economic activity in the circled area?
A) Manufacturing and Trade
B) Nomadic herding
C) Subsistence farming
D) Commercial farming
  • 10. The above passage is describing -
A) The commercial shell industry
B) A market-oriented agricultural activity
C) A subsistence agricultural activity
D) One man’s cottage industry
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