AP Human Geography Unit 2 Reading quiz

The earth area of permanent settlement is called the

• hot zone

• subpolar region

• ecumene

• civilized world

The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is

• Bangladesh

• Indonesia

• China

• Thailand

On a cartogram map, the counties depicted as smaller, have

• Lower populations

• lower levels of wealth and higher populations

• higher levels of wealth and higher populations

• lower technical proficiency

The least densely populated world regions is

• East Asia

• Europe

• South Asia

• South East Asia

Physiological density is the number of

• Farm animals per area suitable for agriculture

• people per area suitable for agriculture

• farmers per area of farmland

• people per area of flat land

Land suited for agriculture is called

• arable land

• arid land

• agricultural density

• population density

A country that would raise its physiological density would do that by....

• increasing the amount of agricultural land

• increasing the area of its urban centers

• increasing the size of its population

• limiting the number of farm animals

A country that raises or increase its agricultural density, if it

• decreased the number of farmers

• decreased the amount of agricultural land

• increased the size of its population

• increased the areas of its urban centers

A country that would lower its arithmetic density by

• limiting the size of its population

• increasing the areas of its urban centers

• limiting the number of farmers

• increasing the size of its population

India and the UK have approx. the same arithmetic Density. their landscapes and sizes are quite different -From this we can conclude that the two countries have the same

• number of people per area of land

• level of output per farmer

• number of farmers per area of land

• number of people per area of arable land