AP Human Geography Practice Test 1

The word "geography" literally means

• the study of space.
• Earth study.
• people and nature.
• Earth writing.
• human ground

New York City is divided into five _______________ in order to better organize social services for millions of people.

• counties
• voting precincts
• town councils
• school districts
• boroughs

In which of the following countries would you expect to find the highest rate of population growth?

• Canada
• Namibia
• Sweden
• Chile
• United States

In distance-decay models, the slope of decay function illustrates

• the type of interaction
• the nature of network
• the influence of "friction of distance"
• topography
• net dispersion

Which of the following projections places the North or South pole at the center of the view?j

• Azimuthual
• Choropleth
• Pole view
• Fuller's
• Mercator

Rap music first appeared in New York in the 970s. Later, it spread to large cities with vibrant African-American populations--such as Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, and Detriot-- without being absorbed by the smaller cities and rural areas in between. This type of spatial diffusion is called

• relocation diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• contagious diffusion
• cultural diffusion
• indeterminant diffusion

Catrography is the art and science of

• demographics
• mapmaking
• spatial orientation
• cognitive imagery
• spatial decision-making.

Slash-and-burn agriculture meets all of the following conditions EXCEPT

• it occurs mainly in tropical environments.
• It is associated with deforestation in Brazil
• it is part of the Green Revolution
• It was practiced sustainably by indigenous peoples.
• it is uncommon in the temperate latitudes

If a country with a rapidly growing population were to implement a strict policy of only one child per couple, how would its population pyramid change from the time of implementation to twenty years after?

• The pyramid would change from a true pyramid shape (triangle) to a columnar-shape pyrramid as the number of young children dramatically decreases
• The pyramid would not change; it would be columnar in shape for both time periods.
• The pyramid would still have a wide base tweny years later because of demographic momentum
• The pyramid after twenty years would actually show decline at the base because of low replacement-level fertility
• The pyramid would be wide at the top twenty years later as the population policy would lead to a problematic dependency ratio.

How does a country's level of urbanization relate to its labor-force composition?

• The more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in services.
• The more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in agriculture
• The more highly urbanized a country is, the stronger the labor-force concentration in Industry
• Less-urbanized countries tend to have mixed labor forces (some in agriculture, some in industry)
• There is no relationship between urbanization and labor force composition.