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