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World Today Concepts and Regions in Geography 7th Edition Nijman Test Bank
World Today Concepts and Regions in Geography 7th Edition Nijman Test Bank
a) Cuba
b) Nicaragua
c) The Bahamas
d) Honduras
e) Mexico
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
2) As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico constitute
___________.:
a) Middle America
b) the Rimland
c) the Hispanic Caribbean
d) the West Indies archipelago
e) the Greater Antilles
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
a) Matamoros
b) Laredo
c) El Paso
d) San Diego
e) McAllen
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
4) As a landform, the land bridge between Mexico and South America would be best
characterized as a(n):
a) peninsula
b) highway
c) isthmus
d) tunnel
e) island
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
5) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n) ____________.:
a) spine
b) isthmus
c) archipelago
d) bridgeland
e) peninsula
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America’s major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America.
a) tierra caliente
b) tierra templada
c) tierra helada
d) tierra fría
e) tierra nevada
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America’s major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
7) According to Figure 2-4, which of the following would you most likely find at an elevation of
13,000 feet?
a) coffee plantations
b) potato fields
c) dairy farms
d) sheep or llamas
e) sugarcane harvesting
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America's major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
8) Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
a) Puerto Rico
b) Costa Rica
c) Guatemala
d) Peru
e) Panama
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
10) Which of the following is INCORRECT about the idealized Spanish town in Mesoamerica?
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
a) Jamaica—British
b) Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao—Dutch
c) Martinique—French
d) Trinidad and Tobago—United States
e) Cuba—Spanish
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
12) Which of the following Caribbean republics was influenced by French culture?
a) Haiti
b) Jamaica
c) French Antilles
d) the Bahamas
e) Cuba
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
13) According to Figure 2-5, the majority of islands in the Lesser Antilles were colonized by the
___________.
a) British
b) French
c) Spanish
d) Dutch
e) Americans
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
16) Which of the following does NOT lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?
a) Central America from Guatemala to Panama (except the Caribbean coastal zone)
b) Mexico
c) Costa Rica
d) Dominican Republic
e) El Salvador
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
17) An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region because it often
debases local culture is _______________.
a) offshore banking
b) oil production
c) online gambling
d) tourism
e) illicit drugs
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
18) A Caribbean island that is home to a large community of South Asians is _______________.
a) Hispaniola
b) Cuba
c) Trinidad
d) West India
e) Guyana
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
19) According to Figure 2-6, the poorest Mainland countries in 2010 were __________.
a) Mexico and Panama
b) Guatemala and El Salvador
c) Honduras and Nicaragua
d) Costa Rica and Belize
e) Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Midde America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
20) Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population is
___________.
a) Mexico
b) Dominican Republic
c) Cuba
d) Nicaragua
e) Trinidad
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
a) 30
b) 45
c) 60
d) 90
e) 117
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
22) Transculturation is most closely associated with the shaping of cultural traits in _______.
a) Cuba
b) Mexico
c) Panama
d) Puerto Rico
e) Haiti
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
a) owner of an ejido
b) foreign-owned factory in Mexico that assembles duty-free goods
c) person of mixed European-Amerindian ancestry
d) Mayan plantation
e) degree from a Mexican technological university
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
a) Havana
b) Caracas
c) Santo Domingo
d) Panama City
e) Mexico City
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
26) According to Figure 2-8, most of Mexico's oil deposits are located_______________.
a) in the mountainous areas
b) along the Gulf of California
c) along the Gulf of Mexico
d) along the Pacific coast
e) near the U.S. border
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
27) This is the only Mexican State that does NOT share a border with another country:
a) Sonora
b) Campeche
c) Chiapas
d) Chihuahua
e) Oaxaca
Answer: e
Difficulty: Difficult
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
28) What is the predominant natural resource of Mexico’s Gulf Coast Region?
a) Oil
b) Coal
c) Gas
d) Zinc
e) Iron
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
30) Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?
a) El Salvador
b) Honduras
c) Belize
d) Nicaragua
e) Mexico
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
32) The Central American country that was a British colony until 1981, but where Spanish is
becoming the predominant language, is ______________.
a) Jamaica
b) Guatemala
c) Nicaragua
d) Trinidad
e) Belize
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
33) Which of the following countries was formerly known as British Honduras?
a) Honduras
b) Jamaica
c) Belize
d) Haiti
e) Nicaragua
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
34) Which of the following is the largest Central American country in terms of population?
a) Honduras
b) Jamaica
c) Guatemala
d) El Salvador
e) Costa Rica
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
35) Which Central American country does not have a Caribbean coastline?
a) Cuba
b) Guatemala
c) Mexico
d) El Salvador
e) Panama
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
36) This country fought a civil war from 1980 to 1992 in which 75,000 persons died. The United
States supported the government, while Nicaragua supported the Marxist rebels:
a) Cuba
b) Guatemala
c) Nicaragua
d) El Salvador
e) Grenada
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
a) Cuba
b) Honduras
c) Belize
d) Costa Rica
e) Nicaragua
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
38) The capital of Nicaragua, located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country, is:
a) Tegucigalpa
b) Granada
c) Nicaragua City
d) Managua
e) San José
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
39) Central America's oldest democratic republic, which has had no standing army since 1948, is
________________.
a) Panama
b) Mexico
c) Belize
d) Honduras
e) Costa Rica
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
41) As one travels north leaving South America, the first country encountered on the Central
American land bridge is ________.
a) Costa Rica
b) Panama
c) El Salvador
d) Nicaragua
e) Trinidad and Tobago
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
a) 1531
b) 1825
c) 1914
d) 1925
e) 2000
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
a) mulatto
b) mestizo
c) Eurafroindian
d) contra
e) maquiladora
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
44) Of the following, which country does not have coastlines on BOTH the Caribbean Sea and
the Pacific Ocean?
a) Guatemala
b) Costa Rica
c) Nicaragua
d) El Salvador
e) Honduras
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
a) Puerto Rico
b) Jamaica
c) Barbados
d) Trinidad
e) Hispaniola
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
46) The most important crop raised in Cuba before the fall of the Soviet Union was __________.
a) maize
b) coffee
c) sugarcane
d) cocaine
e) bananas
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
a) Jamaica
b) Haiti
c) Trinidad and Tobago
d) Puerto Rico
e) Dominican Republic
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin, The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
48) Which of the following Caribbean countries possesses major natural gas deposits?
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
49) More than one million Puerto Ricans have migrated to ____________.
a) Miami
b) Mexico City
c) California
d) Caracas
e) New York
Answer: e
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
50) The archipelago to the northeaST of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called
the ____________.
a) Florida Keys
b) Bahamas
c) North Indies
d) Bermuda Triangle
e) Greater Antilles
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
51) Guadeloupe is a dependency of _________________.
a) Guatemala
b) France
c) the United Kingdom
d) the Netherlands
e) the United States
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
a) Hispaniola
b) Trinidad
c) Cuba
d) Puerto Rico
e) Jamaica
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin: The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
a) Mexico
b) Costa Rica
c) Panama
d) Venezuela
e) Brazil
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
54) “Latin” America is a term that refers only to the geographic area constituted by the island
and mainland portions of Middle America.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Identify the Middle America’s geographical contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Identify Middle America’s geographic contents, its boundaries, and the
rationale underlying its regional subdivisions.
Section Reference: Defining Middle America and The Realm’s Northern Boundary
57) Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama are all located on the land bridge portion of the Middle
American realm.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America's major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
58) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses is called an isthmus.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America's major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
59) Mainland Middle America's tropical location and climates are ameliorated by elevation and
its resulting vertical zonation of natural environments.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America’s major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
60) The tierra templada environmental zone is situated at a higher elevation than the tierra fría
zone.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America’s major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
61) The Maya and Aztec civilizations both evolved within the Mesoamerican culture hearth.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
64) The Maya civilization is the only one on the world culture map that arose in a tropical
lowland.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
65) The Spanish, and their need for wood, deforested large areas of Middle America.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
66) During their period of colonial domination, the Spanish forced much of Mexico's
Amerindian population to relocate to urban settlements.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
67) Cuba has a Spanish heritage, Jamaica is British-influenced, and Haiti's strongest European
imprint came from the French.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
68) Except for the French Antilles, there is no remaining European dependency in the Caribbean.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
69) Middle America contains both a Euro-Amerindian Mainland and a Euro-African Rimland.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
70) The hacienda form of land tenure was dominant in Middle America's Rimland.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
71) The hacienda of the Mainland is quite similar to the plantation of the Rimland.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
73) Tourism can be considered an irritant industry by many in the Caribbean Basin.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Explain Middle America’s political, cultural, and economic development.
Section Reference: Political and Economic Fragmentation
74) According to Figure 2-12, the Chihuahua cartel has the greatest effect on people living near
the Mexico-New Mexico border:
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
76) Mexico contains over 70 percent of the land area of Middle America (including the islands)
and over half of the realm's population.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
78) Mexico's leading oil-producing zone is located along its southern Pacific coast.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
79) Maquiladoras are large communal farms in northern Mexico near the U.S. border.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
80) Overall, Central America's population exhibits higher densities in its Pacific coastlands than
along its Caribbean shore.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
81) Costa Rica's population is overwhelmingly located in the tierra caliente zone.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
82) El Salvador's population is quite homogeneous, with about 90 percent being mestizo.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
84) In the 1980s, Costa Rica was the scene of Central America's most hotly contested civil war.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
85) The longitude of the Panama Canal's Caribbean (Atlantic) outlet is farther west than the
longitude of the waterway's Pacific Ocean outlet.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
86) Following from the agreement reached between the United States and Panama in 1977, there
is no longer any official U.S. presence in the former Canal Zone.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
88) The Caribbean islands today constitute the most densely populated portion of the Americas.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin: The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
91) The tourism-dominated island-nations of Middle America have become so advanced that
poverty is just about unknown.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
92) According to Figure 2-15, the U.S. naval base on Cuba is located due south of the Florida
Keys, near the city of Havana.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles
Question Type: Fill-in-the-blank
93) The lowest-lying attitudinal zone of agricultural activity, extending from sea level to an
elevation of 750 meters (2500 ft), is the tierra ___.
Answer: caliente
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Describe Middle America's major environmental features and dangers and
the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
Section Reference: Physical Geography of Middle America
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
95) Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula was part of the Mesoamerican culture hearth that gave rise to
the ___ civilization, which reached its height between the fourth and tenth centuries AD.
Answer: Maya
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
96) Besides Europe, the foreign continent that most contributed to the shaping of Caribbean
cultures is ___
Answer: Africa
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the rise of Middle America’s indigenous civilizations, their
legacies, and their fateful collision with European conquerors.
Section Reference: Cultural Geography
97) Middle America's largest country today, in both area and population size, is ___.
Answer: Mexico
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
98) Except for its extreme southeast, the Yucatán Peninsula is part of the country of ___.
Answer: Mexico
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and the effect
of the drug wars on regional development.
Section Reference: Regions: Mexico
99) ___ is the term applied to people of mixed European and African ancestry.
Answer: Mulatto
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Discuss the key characteristics and features of the seven republics of the
Central American region.
Section Reference: Regions: The Central American Republics
100) The Dominican Republic and Haiti together occupy the island of ___.
World Today Concepts and Regions in Geography 7th Edition Nijman Test Bank
Answer: Hispaniola
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Describe the major geographic, political, and societal issues facing the
Caribbean Basin, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
Section Reference: Regions: The Caribbean Basin; The Greater Antilles; The Lesser Antilles