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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 the government and the military are major post-industrial occupations
D Sunshine and proximity to water are two major post-industrial locational factors
E computers and telecommunications have driven industrial relocation
Question #3
A Carpenter
B Car salesman
C College professor
D Miner
Question #4
A Virginia
B Ohio
C Pennsylvania
D New York
E Indiana
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 International geography
B Globalization
C Geo-foreign policy
D Geopolitics
Question #7
A How important fishing is to coastal economies.
B Basic employment generating non-basic employment.
C Why cities grow rapidly when fishing is their main economic driver.
D How service employees are less important to the economy than other types of workers.
Question #8
A Free agents
B Untethered
C Footloose activities
D Movers
Question #9
A The Northwest
B New England
C The Rust Belt
D The Southwest
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 Energy costs became too high because of the cold climate.
D Manufacturing jobs have moved in order to lower labor costs.
Question #11
A The South and the Sun Belt
B The Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
C The Pacific Northwest and Intermontane West
D Eastern Canada and New England
Question #12
A it is concentrated in the Ohio Valley, Megalopolis, and the Southern shores of the Great Lakes
B It is near mineral resources
C It overlaps the Agricultural Core
D All of these statements are correct
E It straddles the US-Canada border
F It is near accessibility resources
Question #13
A Rural areas.
B Downtowns/the central city.
C Ethnic neighborhoods.
D The suburbs.
Question #14
A Tertiary
B Secondary
C Quaternary
D Primary
Question #15
A labor availability
B proximity to state capitals
C transportation
D location of raw materials
E energy availabilty
Question #16
A Mediterranean agriculture is almost exclusively found in California
B Almost all livestock ranching is west of the Mississippi River
C Irrigated agriculture extends all across the US
D There is no wheat farming east of the Mississippi River
E Specialty crops are found mostly in the South
Question #17
A Suburban-edge cities-urban-rural
B Rural-urban-suburbs-edge cities
C Urban-suburban-edge cities-rural
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 Supreme Court
B The Electoral College
C House of Representatives
D The Department of State
E The Senate
Question #20
A The Sunbelt
B The Northeast
C The Northwest
D The Great Plains
Question #21
A Economic base
B Monetary focus
C Prime economy
D Pecuniary center
Question #22
A Mountains
B Coasts
C Other manufacturing industries
D Major research universities
Question #23
A The Rocky Mountains and Intermontane West
B Newfoundland and other parts of the Atlantic Periphery
C Pacific Northwest, Maine and Eastern Canada
D The Gulf Coast, the Great Plains, and parts of northern Canada
Question #24
A Stayed at about the same level
B Increased
C Decreased
D Fluctuated
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 Low-wage migrant labor
B A natural decrease in pest populations
C Technological innovation
D Farmers 100 years ago were ignorant and lazy
Question #27
A World War II
B World War I
C The Cold War
D The Mexican-American War
E The Vietnam War
Question #28
A In 1997, Maryland led the nation in steel production
B coal moves north out of West Virginia through Ohio and Pennsylvania
C before 1830, manufacturing was confined to the Atlantic Coast
D iron ore moves from Lake Superior south through the other Great Lakes
Question #29
A Immigrants
B Workers
C Retirees
D All of these answer choices are people that relocated to the Sunbelt states
E Professionals
Question #30
A 10 feet every 50 years
B 3 feet every 100 years
C 45 feet every 200 years
D 1 foot every 10 years
E 9 feet every 35 years
Question #31
A Tertiary sector employee
B Secondary sector employee
C Non-basic employee in the Quatenary sector
D Primary sector employee
E There is no category for teachers
Question #32
A Stagnation
B The decline
C The growth
D Growth in most areas but decline in some regions
Question #33
A Oil extraction
B Electronics industry
C Ranching and meatpacking
D Automobile manufacturing
Question #34
A Decreased
B Stayed at about the same level
C Increased
D Fluctuated
Question #35
A Canals
B Buoys
C Trenches
D Dams
E Levees