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Which of the following coordinates of latitude and longitude do not accurately describe the absolute location of the associated city? 

Please refer to the map provided. 

Question 1 options:

Madrid = 40.4 N Latitude / 3.4 W Longitude 

Berlin = 52.5 N Latitude / 13.4 E Longitude

London = 58 N Latitude / 10 W Longitude 

Oslo = 60 N Latitude / 10.7 E Longitude 

Question 2 (8 points)

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of longitude? 

Question 2 options:

There are 180 numbered meridians of longitude – 90 West and 90 East. 

Lines of longitude converge at the North and South Poles. 

The International Date Line is designated at 180 degrees and is actually a continuation of the Prime Meridian. 

The Prime Meridian of longitude is designated as 0 degrees and runs through Greenwich England.

Question 3 (8 points)

Which of the following pairs of landforms and causal agents is INCORRECT? 

Question 3 options:

Beaches – Waves

Canyons – Rivers 

Abyssal Plains – Glaciers 

Fold Mountains – Plate Movement (Rifting)

Question 4 (8 points)

Which of the following pairs of landforms and lithospheric plate boundary types is INCORRECT? 

Question 4 options:

Transform – Rift Valleys 

Convergent – Fold Mountains 

Divergent – Undersea Volcanoes

Convergent – Volcanoes

Question 5 (8 points)

Which of the following statements concerning Plate Tectonics is INCORRECT? 

Question 5 options:

Sea floor spreading, and subduction can be thought of as the mechanisms by which the earth’s crust adjusts to upwelling of magma from the mantle zone of its interior. 

Lithospheric plates move at a rate of only one or two inches per year. 

The San Andres fault system in California is located along transform plate boundaries. 

Continental Drift is the process that created Pangea.

Question 6 (8 points)

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of countries with low birth rates? 

Question 6 options:

High female workforce participation

A triangular shaped population pyramid

High degree of economic security 

A highly educated female population

Question 7 (8 points)

Which of the following statements about migration is INCORRECT? 

Question 7 options:

Environmental factors play little to no role in migration decisions.

The number one reason people migrate is for economic purposes.

Migration is influenced by both Push and Pull factors.

Refugees are people who have been forced from their homes and cannot return because of their religion, race, nationality, or political opinion. 

Question 8 (4.5 points)

Time zones west of the Prime Meridian have earlier times than time zones east of the Prime Meridian. 

Question 8 options:True or False

Question 9 (4.5 points)

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The Koppen climate classification system uses visible vegetation as a guide and divides the world into six climate types based on moisture, temperature and elevation.  

Question 9 options:True or False

Question 10 (4.5 points)

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Carrying Capacity is the regular reduction of air temperature with increased elevation (6.5 degrees Celsius for 1,000-meter increase). 

Question 10 options:True or False

Question 11 (4.5 points)

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The terms Weather and Climate can be used interchangeably.

Question 11 options:True or False

Question 12 (4.5 points)

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Two-thirds of the world’s population resides in three clusters: East Asia, South Asia, and Europe. 

Question 12 options:True or False

Question 13 (4.5 points)

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The majority of the world’s population increase has occurred in the past 100 years.

Question 13 options:True or False

Question 14 (4.5 points)

The world’s population rate of natural increase continues to grow and is now at its highest level.

Question 14 options: True or False

Question 15 (12.5 points)

In the 1850s the United States’ natural rate of population increase (crude birth rate minus crude death rate) may have been as high as 3.5% meaning the population absent immigration considerations would double every 20 years.  Today the rate of natural increase is about .4% meaning the population will double every 175 years. 

How does the Demographic Transition Model explain this process?  What has caused the decreased rate of natural increase and what changes in demographic composition have accompanied the process? 

The question can each be adequately answered in about 6 sentences. Students do not need to cite sources.