Can you help geography class

a.

Between the 1970s and 1990s Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador and Nicaragua were embroiled in the Cold War struggle between the US and the Soviet-Bloc including Cuba.

b.

The Peten’s isolation and proximity to the US make it attractive for organized crime syndicates to set-up operations.

c.

The US and Mexico have combined to reduce trafficking through Mexico; traffickers responded by developing trafficking networks through Central America.

Central America receives more US aid than Mexico or Colombia for preventing trafficking of cocaine to the US.

A.

Great distances and physiographic barriers led to political fragmentation in post-Independence South America.

B.

Hidrovia is an example of recent regional interaction in South America.

C.

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil have the continent’s highest percentages of urban populations.

D.

South America’s percentage of urban population is much smaller than that of North

America and Europe.

Which one of the following statements is false?

A.

Brazil is a relatively industrialized country. 


B.

Considering climate and agricultural products, Chile is the mirror image of California.


C.

Plan Colombia was created during the Bush administration.

D.

The Incan empire’s 20 million inhabitants were ruled by administrators from the Inca minority

A.

The IMF believes economic growth comes from free trade in global markets.

B.

The IMF does not believe countries can grow their economies by means of self-sufficiency.

C.

The IMF forced the Jamaican government increase tariffs and agricultural subsidies.  

D.

Jamaican dairy farmers were forced to compete on a “level playing field,” which did not include government protection of domestic agriculture.

A.

Evo Morales wants to industrialize coca to benefit Bolivia and help in the fight against drugs.

C.

Evo Morales, Bolivia’s current president, supports an increase in the legal production of coca.

D.

Evo Morales simply wants Bolivian cocaleros to be able to provide coca products for domestic consumption.

7: Which one of the following statements is false?

8:  According to “Life and Debt” which one of the following statements is false?

A.

Both Hugo Chavez and Moammar Gaddafi attempted to use oil profits to achieve greater regional authority.

B.

Chavez eliminated Venezuela’s oil exports to the US.

C.

Yields from Venezuela’s oil fields declined since Hugo Chavez’s election.

D.

Because of its growing energy demands, China represents a significant and growing long-term source of income for Venezuela

A.

Christians currently outnumber Muslims.

B.

Muslim populations have higher rates of population growth than most Christian populations.

C.

Most Muslims are Arabs

D.

Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population.

11: Which one of the following statements is false?

A.

The US government protects US dairy farmers with subsidies.

B.

The oil embargo of 1973 increased the cost of economic activity and government services in Jamaica.

C.

The IMF required that Jamaica develop self-sufficient agriculture so that the country would earn foreign currency to repay their debt.

D.

The WTO was against agreements that protected Jamaican banana producers by guaranteeing them a tariff-free market in the UK

16:Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

17: Which one of the following statements is false?

18:Which one of the following statements is false?

19: Which one of the following statements is false?

A.

Recently, Brazil has experienced a decreasing rate of population growth.

B.

The South American Culture Sphere with the highest urban percentage is the Amerind Subsistence sphere.

C.

Currently large urban areas on the east and north coasts contain the majority of South America’s population.

D.

Outside of the tropics in the “drier higher latitudes” only a handful of religions, practiced by large populations, are present.