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