Miscellaneous
What best explains the political relationship between the autonomous republics and the central government of Russia?
Comparative advantage, because products can be made more efficiently in the southern United States and Mexico. Operating costs and wages are lower, and the manufactured products are easily transported to major United States markets. Rationale: Correct. The concept of comparative advantage may reflect lower costs for labor, land, and capital. Thus, relocating a manufacturing firm from a higher-cost location to a lower-cost location will result in a comparative advantage over firms that continue to operate in higher-cost areas.
. What is a benefit of membership in the European Union?
Member states form a single market, which creates a powerful economic bloc.
What explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?
Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements.
Explains the diffusion of plants and animals from their hearths of domestication?
What is domesticated plants and animals spread across the globe through contagious diffusion in early years by farmers and traders, and later by relocation diffusion through European exploration and colonialism.
Explains multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia?
What domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.
2. Nunavut in Canada is a semiautonomous region that allows an indigenous group within Canada to maintain their own culture and local government, reducing the threat of fragmentation.
What best compares the impact of the creation of Nunavut at both local and national scales?
What is created centripetal forces at both local and national scales.
Events could be a threat to a state’s sovereignty at the national scale, while holding a region together at the global scale
What is admittance into a supranational organization such as the European Union
The following explains why a country with a high physiological density (e.g., Japan, Egypt, or the Netherlands) risks exceeding its carrying capacity
What is a large number of people per unit of total land area, so there is no available land for farmers to raise crops and other food products.
In the early part of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, Thomas Malthus developed a theory that population increases exponentially, while food production can increase only arithmetically.
The following statements best explains how the Industrial Revolution reduced the threats forecast by Malthus?
What is the resulting rural-to-urban migration for jobs in factories led to a decline in birth rates and lowered population growth rates below what Malthus predicted.
Explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices
What is midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.
The following compares the impact of increased global communications technology to the impact of state-controlled media?
What s global communications technology may bring in new ideas that act as centrifugal forces, whereas state-controlled media is utilized as a centripetal force to present a common message.
In 2018, a large number of migrants from Afghanistan and Iraq applied for asylum in the European Union. Which of the following is a pull factor that explains this migration?
What is economic growth and employment opportunities in Europe, attracting immigrant workers
The increasing percentage of urban dwellers in more-developed countries is best explained by
What is a greater access to job opportunities, resources, and facilities
Family A from Mumbai has convinced their close friends Family B to emigrate to London as they did in order help start up their business, this is called what kind of migration.
What is international migration and voluntary migration:
Explains the potential impact of rising global temperatures on agricultural regions
What is the wheat belt will shift northward.
The following correctly compares the impact of centripetal forces at the local scale with the impact of centripetal forces at the national scale?
What is centripetal forces at both the local scale and the national scale may lead to increased cultural cohesion.
The former international border between East Germany and West Germany is best described as
a relict boundary
The following best explains the practice of placing indigenous children in boarding schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
What is the schools were intended to diffuse Christianity and assimilate indigenous youth into European culture.
There has been an increase in asylum seekers from Syria to the European Union in recent years. This describes the reason for this migration?
What is the continuing issue of conflict and political unrest within Syria
Walk way; Walk down from the Alice in Wonderland statue to the model boat pond; Turn right and walk along the pond, until you come to the Hans Christian Anderson Monument.
This describes the type of information provided in the directions above?
What is relative location
The following is an accurate comparison of devolutionary movements in Spain and Canada
What is an economic aspect to the Catalan independence movement, while the Quebecois focus mainly on cultural differences.
This exemplifies the diffusion of popular culture throughout the world in contemporary society?
What is the spread of an Internet meme via social media applications
The state of California, often considered a hearth of environmental laws, will be the first state to ban plastic straws. Which of the following statements best describes the likely spread of this environmental practice?
What is similar environmental laws will likely spread through stimulus diffusion to other states via political activism.
Chinese porcelain was highly valued in Europe for its beauty, style, and durability. However, imported porcelain from China was very expensive. Crafters in Germany and England developed new methods of making porcelain using feldspar and bone rather than the kaolin that was used in China. This new porcelain was viewed as having similar quality to Chinese porcelain, and the new methods continued to be used in Europe.
This example describes what type of diffusion?
What is stimulus diffusion, because the Europeans adapted a Chinese concept to fit their own needs.
The following global trends best exemplifies the concept of sustainability
What is an iincrease in the use of electric vehicles, because their reduced emissions result in less environmental pollution.