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Resources & Location Quiz
Contributed by: Anderson
  • 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) An unequal distribution of resources
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) Production and consumption gradually decreases
B) Prices increase as goods become more rare
C) Countries become less interdependent
D) Countries depend on trade to obtain other goods
  • 3. How might changes in environment change a group’s access to resources?
A) Long term drought ruins agriculture in a once productive region
B) The melting of ice caps make previous unavailable lands and waters available for exploitation.
C) All of the above
D) A change in rain patterns open up formerly marginal lands to agriculture.
  • 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) More efficient use of their natural resources
C) All of the above
D) Tend to be more wealthy
  • 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) They have different resources
D) To become more self-sufficient
  • 7. The geographic isolation of a people frequently leads to-
A) The development of industrialization
B) A process for cultural diffusion
C) A traditional way of life
D) The need for higher education
  • 8. In the late 18th century, the factors listed above contributed to the development of the -
A) Industrial Revolution
B) Common currency
C) Agricultural Revolution
D) Stock Exchange
  • 9. What is the dominant economic activity in the circled area?
A) Manufacturing and Trade
B) Subsistence farming
C) Commercial farming
D) Nomadic herding
  • 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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