1)What concepts of spatial interaction can account for patterns of movement in space such as migration, trade, and commodity flow?

A) family, travel, cartography
B) perception, region, movement
C) opportunity, distance, connections
D) connections, gravitation, supply and demand

2)Coal-burning factories and increased automobile usage has caused the GREATEST increase in which of these?

A) air pollution
B) nuclear waste
C) soil depletion
D) water pollution

3) Based on the chart, whom do voters directly elect in a parliamentary democracy?

A) the parliament
B) the prime minister and cabinet
C) all three branches of government
D) both the legislative and executive branches, as in a presidential democracy

4)Why do cultural groups settle in specific physical environments?

A) There is some benefit to living there.
B) It is impossible for groups to move to new areas.
C) The physical environment has little impact cultural groups.
D) Cultural groups settle only in areas where it is very easy to live.

5)Public policy is a course of action taken by the government to address a specific problem or issue. How might a community help the government start a specific public policy?

A) by evaluating the effectiveness of the policy
B) by preventing the government from passing laws
C) by identifying the problem to be solved by the policy
D) by executing the policy with specific results in mind

6) How might cultural beliefs and practices influence citizen participation in civic duties, such as voting?

A) Citizens tend to vote for candidates who share their own cultural beliefs and practices.
B) Citizens depend on candidates to define what cultural beliefs and practices are desirable.
C) Politicians running for office most often focus campaigns on culture more than on politics.
D) Politicians who pay too much attention to citizens’ cultural beliefs rarely win elections.

7) Voting Rights in Selected Countries

Country Voting Restrictions

Guatemala Universal after age 18 except
for armed forces and police
Kuwait Universal after age 21 except
for armed forces, police, and citizens
of less than 20 years residence

Lebanon Compulsory for males after age 21
and females with elementary education;
armed forces not included

Paraguay Universal and compulsory after age 18;
no longer compulsory after age 75

Based on the information in this table, which country allows the most citizens to vote?
A) Guatemala
B) Kuwait
C) Lebanon
D) Paraguay

8)What would stringent, exclusive voting restrictions MOST LIKELY suggest about a country's level of democratization?

A) The country's leaders strongly embrace the principles of democracy.
B) The country's people enjoy an average degree of democratic freedom.
C) The country lacks a sufficiently democratic system for electing officials.
D) The country has failed to protect itself from the challenges of democracy.

9) In what way is high voter turnout MOST LIKELY an indication of a country's level of democratization?

A) It suggests that a country is democratically and politically hindered.
B) It demonstrates that the electoral system is politically fair and balanced.
C) It shows that people are interested in participating in the election process.
D) It implies that candidates have done a good job of attracting voter attention.

10)Any time a location is identified or given a name, it is understood that it has acquired a(n)

A) sense of place.
B) ideal location.
C) specific region.
D) area of direction.

Economic activities are creating (supply) and drawing (demand) flows. The easy fact that a movement happens between an origin and a destination indicates that the costs acquired by a spatial interaction are cheaper than the profits derived from such an interaction.

2. (A) Air pollution

Air pollution of coal-fired power plants is associated with asthma, cancer, heart and lung ailments, neurological obstacles, acid rain, global warming, and other critical environmental and public health impacts. Coal has long been a good source of energy, but it arrives with huge costs because it is strangely dirty.

3. (A) The parliament

Voters directly elect the representatives of different political parties that together make up the parliament. Chosen parliamentarians then decide and vote for the Prime minister to run the state operations. The party with majority of representatives get the chance to elect their own prime minster.

4. (D) Cultural groups settle only in areas where it is very easy to live.

Culture is commonly regarded as a certain group's special way of life. This involves the social meanings of various features of life such as race, ethnicity, values, languages, religions, and clothing styles. Though many different cultural groups are common around the world today, those that are the most powerful have origins in one of a few areas called "culture hearths."

5. (C) by identifying the problem to be solved by the policy

Public policy is the principled lead to action used by the administrative executive branches of the state with respect to a class of problems, in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. Other scholars determine public policy as a practice of "courses of action, regulatory measures, laws, and funding priorities concerning a given topic published by a governmental entity or its representatives.

6. (A) Citizens tend to vote for candidates who share their own cultural beliefs and practices.

Citizens are suppose to vote to choose a representative for themselves after every couple of years. Most of these votes are influenced by culture/caste/race. Voters somehow choose the same representatives who tend to share the same cultural beliefs and practices as they do.

7. (D) Paraguay

Most democratic governments view engaging in national elections a right of citizenship. Some think that participation at elections is also a citizen's civic duty. In some countries, where voting has viewed a duty, voting at elections has been made mandatory and has been set in the national constitutions and electoral laws.

8. (C) The country lacks a sufficiently democratic system for electing officials.

Voting restrictions are opted in countries where the election system is not sufficient enough to help the democracy choose its representatives. Either voters are not interested in voting or have been given enough facilities, or the politicians/leaders have not contributed enough to the democracy. In such situations voting restrictions are encouraged.

9. (C) It shows that people are interested in participating in the election process.

There may be number of causes of high voter turnout but the most likely is stated above. Which tells that when voters are interested in the process of voting this results in high voter turnout, now this interest may be developed because of the candidates performance or may be because of the fair electoral system.

10. (A) Sense of place

In broad, the sense of place defines our connection with places, displayed in various dimensions of human life: emotions, biographies, images, stories, and individual experiences. In environmental psychology, sense of place—how we see a place— involves place attachment and place meaning.