Họ và tên: Nguyễn Minh Anh

Mã SV: TA46C-063-1923

MINI TEST CHAP 3

I. Vocabulary Matching: Match the term to its definition. 
1. Harmful form of precipitation high in sulfur and nitrogen oxides; it
usually originates in industrial regions, but can fall wherever the
wind blows it.
A: Acid rain
2. A mixture of low shrub, grasses, and flowering herbs that grow in
the sort growing seasons of the high latitudes.
M: Tundra
3. Movement of people from cities to smaller towns and rural areas.
G: Non-metropolitan growth
4. Simplified description of urban land use, featuring a number of
dispersed, peripheral centers of dynamic commercial and industrial
activity linked by sophisticated urban transportation networks.
P: Urban realms model
5. Energy sources that are replenished by nature, including solar,
wind, hydro-power, and geothermal energy.
J: Renewable energy resources 
6. A large urban region formed as multiple cities grow and merge
with one another; the original runs
from Boston to Washington, D.C. and
includes Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.
F: Megalopolis
7. Environmentally friendly farming that uses organic farming
principles, limited use of chemicals, integrated crop and livestock
management.
L:  Sustainable agriculture 
8. Simplified description of urban land use that shows a well-
developed central business district surrounded by rings of
residences, with higher-income groups living on the urban
periphery. 
B: Concentric zone model 
9. Settlement pattern in which metropolitan areas sprawl in all
directions and suburbs take on many of the characteristics of
traditional downtowns.
O: Urban decentralization 
 10.The evolution of a labor force from being highly dependent on the
primary ( extraction and agriculture) sector to being oriented
around more employment in the secondary, tertiary, and quaternary
sectors.
K: Sectoral transformation 
11.The state of an evolving economy wherein traditional
manufacturing activity has given way to the growth of high-tech
industry and an employment emphasis on services, government,
and management information systems. 
I: Postindustrial economy 
12.Political system in which a significant amount of power is given to
individual states. 
E: Federal states 
13.The process in which immigrants are culturally absorbed into the
larger host society. 
C: Cultural assimilation
14.A shared cultural identity held by a group of people with a
common background or history, often as a minority group within a
larger society. 
D: Ethnicity
15.The external purchase of services rather than production in-house;
call centers in India are an example.
H: Outsourcing

II. Multiple Choice: Choose the word or phrase that best answers

the question 
1. Which of the following statements about North America is/are true? 
a. With a population of about 340 million, North America has the
highest rates of resource consumption on Earth. 
b. It is rich in natural resources and is one of the world’s most
affluent regions. 
c. It is home to 30% of  the world’s population and consumes 30% of
its resources.
d. A and B above
e. A,B and C above 
13. How did European settlers shape the ecology of North America? 
a. They bought new animals, including cattle and horses 
 b. They replaced natural grasslands with non-native grain and forage
crops
c. They removed forest cover from millions of acres of land 
d. A and B above 
e. A, B and C above 
3.Which of the following statements about the Ogallala aquifer is/are
true? 
a. It lies beneath the Great Plains and was formed during the last Ice
Age 
b. It is the largest aquifer in North America and irrigates about 20%
of U.S croplands 
c. Regular rainfall keeps the aquifer from dropping more than a few
feet 
d. A and B above 
e. A and C above 
4. Which body of water was exposed to leaking oil when British
Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the spring of 2010? 
a. a, Canada’s Hudson Bay 
b. b, Alaska’s Prince William Sound 
c. c, Nunavut’s Arctic Circle coastline 
d. The Gulf of Mexico 
e. The Pacific Ocean off the California coast 
5. About 30% of North America’s ozone comes from beyond its borders.
Which countries are major sources of this and other airborne pollutants? 
a. Canada and Mexico 
b. Germany and Great Britain 
c. Mexico and China 
d. Russia and Japan 
e. Nigeria and Brazil 
14. Where are many producers of acid rain in North America clustered?
a. New England 
b. The Desert Southwest 
c. The Midwest and Southern Ontario 
d. The Rocky Mountain States and Provinces 
e. The Pacific Northwest 
15. Which of the following cities lies within the original Megalopolis? 
a. Baltimore, Maryland 
 b. Kansas City, Missouri 
c. Salt Lake City, Utah 
d. Phoenix, Arizona 
e. Montreal, Quebec 
8. Where the earliest colonial settlements in North America located? 
a. Along the current U.S border with Mexico 
b. Around the Great Lakes 
c. In the central states 
d. In the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S and Canada 
e. Within coastal regions of eastern North America 
9. The most persistent regional migration trend in North America has
been movement.. 
a. because of pull factors 
b. from the south to the north 
c. from urban areas to rural areas 
d. to Sunbelt states 
e. West 
10. Which of the following statements about African Americans in North
America is/are true? 
a. Today, many African Americans are migrating to the South 
b. After emancipation, few former slaves continued to work in the
South 
c. At the end of the American colonial period, African Americans
made up the majority of the population in southern states of
the U.S. 
d. A and B above 
e. A and C above
11. Today, settlement landscapes of North American cities display the
consequences of… 
a. Concentric zones 
b. Counterurbanization 
c. Urban decentralization 
d. A and B above 
e. A, B and C above 
16. Which of the following is a cultural homeland in Canada? 
a. Acadiana 
 b. Black Belt 
c. Hispanic Borderlands 
d. Navajo Reservation 
e. Nunavut 
17. Which of he following statement about the relationship between the
U.S and Canada is/are true? 
a. Agricultural competition sometimes creates tension between the
two neighbors 
b. Canada and the U.S joined forces to clean up the Great Lakes 
c. Trade relations between these neighbors is very important 
d. A and B above 
e. A, B and C above 
18. Which part of North America is a leading region of manufacturing
exports, specializing in high tech innovations? 
a. Gulf Coast industrial region 
b. Megalopolis 
c. Piedmont manufacturing belt 
d. Silicon Valley 
e. Southern Ontario 
19. Which of the following locations in North America is marked by rural
poverty? 
a. A ghetto on the west side of Chicago 
b. A retirement community in Florida 
c. A suburb of New York City 
d. Appalachia 
e. British Columbia
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