AP Human Exam Review #2

Situation identifies a place by its

• absolute location

• mathematical location on Earth's surface

• location relative to other places

• unique physical characteristics

• nominal location

The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of the other phenomena is

• regional analysis

• spatial analysis

• spatial association

• spatial distribution

• relative location

one important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implication is that

• it is increasing more slowly than in the past

• there are more people alive in the world now than at any time in the past

• death rates are significantly higher than in the past

• people are uniformly distributed across the Earth

• the most rapid growth is occurring in the developing world

Physiological density is the number of

• acres of farmland

• farmers per area of farmland

• people per area of land

• people per area suitable for agriculture

• people living in a given nation-state

The lowest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

• stage 1

• stage 2

• stage 3

• stage 4

• stages 1 and 2

Thomas Malthus concluded that

• population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically

• the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies

• moral restraint was producing lower crude birth rates

• population growth was outpacing available resources in every country

• both A and B

Most people migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?

• economic

• environmental

• political

• religious

• all of the above

Many Asians are currently migrating to the United States through the process of

• political asylum

• brain drain

• chain migration

• illegal immigration

• brain drain followed by chain migration

Folk cultures are spread primarily by

• contagious diffusion

• remote diffusion

• relocation diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

one significant impact of popular culture is to

• create a more varied ans less uniform landscape

• prevent the diffusion of folk culture

• limit access to electronic media

• modify the physical environment

• all of the above