Q:1-As an academic discipline, what is geography mainly concerned with?
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How groups of people evolve on the Earth's surface
Creating detailed maps that depict places, peoples, and important sites accurately
The nature and meaning of place names
Studying the physical properties of the Earth, such as minerals, water, and mountains

Q:6-Assuming a world population of 6,800,000,000 in 2009 and an annual growth rate of 1.1 percent, how many people will be added to the world's population within the next year?
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74,000,000
74,800,000,000
7,480,000,000
748,000,000

Q:7-What is the ultimate effect of Internet connectivity upon business and global communication?
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It increases the distance between places and people.
It decreases the distance between places and people.
It has greatly decreased the relative distance between places and people.
The Internet has no effect upon the distance between places and people.

Q:8-What is the correct term for a port where goods are imported from other parts of the world and then re-exported to foreign locations for profit?
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Break-in-bulk point
Goods-drop center
Entrepot
Commodity zone

Q:9-Who was Thomas Malthus?
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A British scholar who made the idea of paying rent popular.
A pastor who was greatly influential in the British economy.
A British scholar who worried that rampant population growth would decrease the possibility of moving toward a utopian society.
All of the above

Q:10-What is a contour?
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A line that shows points of equal elevation
A line graph that depicts the population density of a region over time
A line that shows all of the varying points of elevation
A line that shows all the points equidistant from a known, central location, like a city