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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Electors must vote for someone with the same religious background
B Electors cannot vote for someone with their same last name
C Electors must vote for someone over 50-years-old
D Electors cannot vote for a presidential and vice-presidential candidate who are both from their home state
Question #2
A Sunshine and proximity to water are two major post-industrial locational factors
B computers and telecommunications have driven industrial relocation
C Ohio and Indiana led the country in manufacturing job loss from 1920 to 2005
D a secondary industrial region runs from Richmond, Virginia to Birmingham, Alabama
E the government and the military are major post-industrial occupations
Question #3
A Car salesman
B Carpenter
C Miner
D College professor
Question #4
A Indiana
B Virginia
C New York
D Pennsylvania
E Ohio
Question #5
A The Southwest
B New England and the Great Lakes
C The Pacific Northwest and Western Canada
D The Inland South
Question #6
A Geopolitics
B Globalization
C International geography
D Geo-foreign policy
Question #7
A How important fishing is to coastal economies.
B Why cities grow rapidly when fishing is their main economic driver.
C Basic employment generating non-basic employment.
D How service employees are less important to the economy than other types of workers.
Question #8
A Free agents
B Movers
C Untethered
D Footloose activities
Question #9
A The Rust Belt
B The Southwest
C New England
D The Northwest
Question #10
A There was a lack of skilled labor in the Rust Belt.
B Costs of transportation to and from the Rust Belt became too high.
C Manufacturing jobs have moved in order to lower labor costs.
D Energy costs became too high because of the cold climate.
Question #11
A Eastern Canada and New England
B The Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
C The Pacific Northwest and Intermontane West
D The South and the Sun Belt
Question #12
A it is concentrated in the Ohio Valley, Megalopolis, and the Southern shores of the Great Lakes
B It is near accessibility resources
C It overlaps the Agricultural Core
D It is near mineral resources
E All of these statements are correct
F It straddles the US-Canada border
Question #13
A Ethnic neighborhoods.
B Downtowns/the central city.
C The suburbs.
D Rural areas.
Question #14
A Tertiary
B Quaternary
C Secondary
D Primary
Question #15
A proximity to state capitals
B location of raw materials
C labor availability
D transportation
E energy availabilty
Question #16
A Specialty crops are found mostly in the South
B There is no wheat farming east of the Mississippi River
C Mediterranean agriculture is almost exclusively found in California
D Almost all livestock ranching is west of the Mississippi River
E Irrigated agriculture extends all across the US
Question #17
A Urban-suburban-edge cities-rural
B Rural-urban-suburbs-edge cities
C Rural-suburbs-edge cities-urban
D Suburban-edge cities-urban-rural
Question #18
A Newfoundland and other parts of the Atlantic Periphery.
B Pacific Northwest, Maine and Eastern Canada.
C The Rocky Mountains and Intermontane West.
D The Gulf Coast, the Great Plains, and parts of northern Canada.
Question #19
A The Electoral College
B The Supreme Court
C The Department of State
D The Senate
E House of Representatives
Question #20
A The Great Plains
B The Northeast
C The Northwest
D The Sunbelt
Question #21
A Pecuniary center
B Economic base
C Monetary focus
D Prime economy
Question #22
A Major research universities
B Mountains
C Coasts
D Other manufacturing industries
Question #23
A Newfoundland and other parts of the Atlantic Periphery
B The Rocky Mountains and Intermontane West
C The Gulf Coast, the Great Plains, and parts of northern Canada
D Pacific Northwest, Maine and Eastern Canada
Question #24
A Stayed at about the same level
B Fluctuated
C Increased
D Decreased
Question #25
A The Northwest (Washington, Oregon).
B The Midwest (Illinois, Iowa..
C The Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona..
D The Coastal South (Florida, South Carolina..
Question #26
A A natural decrease in pest populations
B Farmers 100 years ago were ignorant and lazy
C Technological innovation
D Low-wage migrant labor
Question #27
A The Cold War
B World War I
C The Mexican-American War
D The Vietnam War
E World War II
Question #28
A coal moves north out of West Virginia through Ohio and Pennsylvania
B before 1830, manufacturing was confined to the Atlantic Coast
C In 1997, Maryland led the nation in steel production
D iron ore moves from Lake Superior south through the other Great Lakes
Question #29
A Immigrants
B Professionals
C Workers
D Retirees
E All of these answer choices are people that relocated to the Sunbelt states
Question #30
A 45 feet every 200 years
B 9 feet every 35 years
C 1 foot every 10 years
D 10 feet every 50 years
E 3 feet every 100 years
Question #31
A Primary sector employee
B There is no category for teachers
C Secondary sector employee
D Non-basic employee in the Quatenary sector
E Tertiary sector employee
Question #32
A The decline
B The growth
C Growth in most areas but decline in some regions
D Stagnation
Question #33
A Electronics industry
B Oil extraction
C Ranching and meatpacking
D Automobile manufacturing
Question #34
A Fluctuated
B Decreased
C Stayed at about the same level
D Increased
Question #35
A Canals
B Levees
C Dams
D Trenches
E Buoys