Geog 101 Week 2 quiz
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4 / Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition aim was:
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conquest of western Europe in retaliation for Napoleon's 1812 invasion.
four islands near Japan.
establishing a Russian base in interior Canada.
the warm-water Black Sea via Ukraine.
on Which of the following western European states is not currently a member of the European Union?
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Austria
Switzerland
the Netherlands
Luxembourg
on The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by what mountain range?
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Appennines
Alps
Pyrenees
Pennines
on Which of the following statements about Moscow is NOT true?
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Russia's core area centers on Moscow.
One of Moscow's chief locational attributes is its coastal site on an arm of the Baltic Sea.
Many Russians can not afford to live in Moscow.
Moscow is surrounded by a ring of industrial cities.
on Which revolution does this describe - when more food was produced on less land and with less labor than ever before:
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Scientific revolution
Agriculture (agrarian) revolution
French revolution
Industrial revolution
on Which of the following statements about Russia and the United States is NOT true?
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The Bering Strait separates the United States from Russia.
The majority of Russia's climate resembles that of the west coast of the United States.
Russia eventually sold Alaska to the United States.
The Russian Empire expanded to cover territory that eventually became part of the United States.
on Which of the following statements about the former Soviet Union is NOT true?
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The central government favored some ethnic groups over others.
The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still exist if it were not for overriding ethnic differences.
The Soviet system bound the economies of the republics to the decision making power of the central government.
The central government sent ethnic Russians to settle in places that were not traditionally Russian.
on All of the following countries are part of "Mediterranean Europe", EXCEPT:
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Greece
Spain
Switzerland
Italy
Cyprus
on Which is NOT true about the site and situation of Paris?
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Paris is situated on the coast of France, making trade easier.
Paris is a core city serving a large peripheral region.
It is the primate city of France.
Paris was originally founded on an island in the Seine River as a citadel.
on Which of the following is Northern Europe's largest country - with both population and territory?
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Norway
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Finland
Denmark
Sweden
on Which physical region of Russia is the most agriculturally productive?
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The Yakutsk Basin.
The Ural Mountains.
The Russian plain.
The West Siberian Plain.
on As a command economy, the former Soviet Union was able to make which major change to Russian agriculture?
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It fostered the enrichment of individual farmers.
It collectivized farms into large state or cooperatively run units.
It increased private ownership of farms.
It gave individual land owners the freedom of decision making.
on St. Petersburg:
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was named Leningrad during Soviet times.
was always a competitor for Moscow but did not become the capital of Russia until the 1917 Revolution.
lies at the head of the Sea of Okhotsk.
lies on the doorstep of Siberia, a binding force between the eastern and western halves of Russia.
on Which of the following is NOT true about Azerbaijan?
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Baku is its capital.
It is located on the Aral Sea.
It has significant oil reserves.
Part of it is located on the western side of Armenia, separate from the rest of the country.
on What is true of about a primate city?
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It is always the country's capital city.
It is a country's largest city by population.
All countries have a primate city.
All of the above.
on Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt?
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A fractious political party.
A country like Greece which contains many small islands.
The division and fragmentation found in Eastern Europe.
An encircling roadway destroyed by conflict.
on
Physical and cultural geographic regions of Europe include:
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Mediterranean Europe
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
All of the above
on Which of the following areas of Russia is east of the Urals?
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the Volga River
the realm's core area
the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbas)
Moscow
on The population of Northern Ireland is:
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about 8 million.
made up of refugees from Wales.
driven by political and cultural differences hidden by religious differences.
not part of the United Kingdom.
on Russian imperialism in the century after Catherine the Great was aimed chiefly at:
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Persia.
Central Asia.
Canada.
China.
on To the east of the Kuzbas region lies a farming and resource extraction region centered around _____.
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the Caspian Sea
Lake Baikal
the Volga River
the Ural Mountains
on Where have significant oil and natural gas supplies been found
in the European realm?
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Baltic Sea
Gulf of Finland
North Sea
Adriatic Sea
on Which of the following is NOT an example of European international integration?
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Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004-2005
The Euro currency.
The Benelux countries
on The textbook maps a boundary between Europe's core and periphery in Chapter 2. Which country lies
entirely
outside the European core?
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Sweden
the United Kingdom
Portugal
Spain
on Moscow dealt severely with the breakaway republic of Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s because _______.
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A large number of Russians lived there.
Moscow feared other republics within the Russian federation might declare independence.
Chechnya contains important resources