Resources & Location Quiz
  • 1. What is a major reason for the differences in economic prosperity in various areas of the world today?
A) Membership in the United Nations
B) The success of nationalist movements
C) An unequal distribution of resources
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) Countries depend on trade to obtain other goods
C) Production and consumption gradually decreases
D) Prices increase as goods become more rare
  • 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) The melting of ice caps make previous unavailable lands and waters available for exploitation.
C) Long term drought ruins agriculture in a once productive region
D) All of the above
  • 4. What factors tend to cause the isolation of a region?
A) Lack of access to profitable trade routes
B) Lack of soils good for agriculture
C) All of the above
D) Lack of valuable minerals
  • 5. What differentiates developed countries like the United States from “gems in the rough?”
A) More efficient use of their labor resources
B) All of the above
C) More efficient use of their natural resources
D) Tend to be more wealthy
  • 6. Which statement provides a reason why nations and regions specialize in economic activities?
A) To become more self-sufficient
B) They cannot overcome trade barriers
C) They do not wish to compete
D) They have different resources
  • 7. The geographic isolation of a people frequently leads to-
A) The development of industrialization
B) The need for higher education
C) A process for cultural diffusion
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) Stock Exchange
C) Agricultural Revolution
D) Industrial Revolution
  • 9. What is the dominant economic activity in the circled area?
A) Commercial farming
B) Subsistence farming
C) Nomadic herding
D) Manufacturing and Trade
  • 10. The above passage is describing -
A) A market-oriented agricultural activity
B) One man’s cottage industry
C) A subsistence agricultural activity
D) The commercial shell industry
Created with That Quiz — where a math practice test is always one click away.