Important Topics for the AP Human Geography Exam

A population pyramid such as the one shown would be an example of which of the following types of data?

• Quantitative Data

• Qualitative Data

The results of a survey about residents opinions on building a new cultural center in their community would be considered which type of data?

• Quantitative Data

• Qualitative Data

Silicon Valley in Northern California is famous as the home to many businesses that produce high-tech products of serve high-tech companies. This demonstrates the principle of

• Outsourcing

• post-Fordism

• market dependence

• back office processing

• agglomeration economies

The EPZs (Export processing zones) found in Mexico are known as

• free zones

• special economic zones

• urban enterprise zones

• maquiladoras

• backwash regions

Which is the best description of the countries shown on the map in blue?

• semi-peripheral countries

• developing countries

• core countries

• least developed countries

• periphery countries

The most important cost in Weber's least cost theory is

• Labor costs

• transportation costs

• infrastructure costs

• energy production costs

• land plot costs

Deindustrialization has had a dramatic impact on which of the following regions?

• The lower MIssissippy valley

• The Great Lakes

• The Great Plains

• The Pacific Northwest

• The Cotton Belt

The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street in New York is an example of

• Least-cost theory

• deindustrialization

• ancillary indrustry

• agglomeration

• central place theory

The  process by which a national economy shifts away from manufacturing to production dominated by the service industry is called

• deindustrialization
• quaternary economy
• Rust Belt
• division of labor

What is it called when a country breaks apart into several smaller countries?

• Centripetal Force
• Nation State
• Fragmented State
• Balkanization