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