AP HUGs Practice Exam Questions Part 2

The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of

• brain drain

• chain migration

• net migration

• internal migration

• counterurbanization

Answer explanation

2: Population Migration Patterns and Process

2.11: Forced and Voluntary Migration

According to the theory of environmental deter-minism, which of the following areas would have the most productive settlements?

• Tropical regions

• Temperate regions

• Mountainous regions

• Arctic regions

• Arid regions

Answer explanation

1: Thinking Geographically

1.5: Human-Environmental Interaction

Which of the following environmental problems is most associated with the African Sahel?

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Air pollution

• Flooding

• Water pollution

Answer explanation

5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes

5.10: Consequences of Agricultural Practices

What would be the most profitable location for an ethanol manufacturing plant that converts corn into alcohol for use as an additive for gasoline?

• Near a large university to facilitate recruitment of highly trained chemists

• Near a break-of-bulk point for ease of transportation

• Near a navigable river to reduce transportation costs to distant markets

• Near a prime corn-producing area to minimize transportation costs of raw materials

• Near a large metropolitan area to serve a major market

Answer explanation

7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes

7.2: Economic Sectors and Patterns

Which of the following is an example of an ethnic religion?

• Islam

• Mormonism

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Roman Catholicism

Answer explanation

3: Cultural Patterns and Processes

3.7: Diffusion of Religion and Language

Which of the following can be an example of a centrifugal political force?

• Homogeneous ethnic population

• Strong central government

• Variation of language within the country

• Shift to tertiary economy

• Concentrated ownership of media

Answer explanation

4: Political Patterns and Processes

4.10: Consequences of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces

Which of the following sets of maps would help explain how scale of inquiry affects truth?

• Maps showing the area of France before and after surveying

• Maps of Hudson Bay drawn by Native Americans and by the earliest European travelers

• Maps showing Michigan's population density by counties and the United States population density by state

• Maps showing the number of auto thefts per block in Seattle in the decades before and after the Depression

• Maps of gang graffiti in Philadelphia

Answer explanation

1: Thinking Geographically

1.6: Scales of Analysis

Economic activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and agriculture, are called

• subsistence activities

• organic activities

• secondary economic activities

• primary economic activities

• tertiary economic activities

Answer explanation

7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes

7.2: Economic Sectors and Patterns

A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it

• has a focal point or node

• is one that people believe exists

• has a selected feature or internal uniformity

• does not contain gradations such as core, domain, and sphere

• applies only to linguistic and relgion regions

Answer explanation

1: Thinking Geographically

1.7: Regional Analysis

Free-trade zones such as the countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are established to increase the ease and volume of international trade by

• increasing diplomatic relations between member states

• opening borders to migrant guest workers from member states

• establishing a common monetary unit among member states

• offering large economic-development loans to poorer member states

• eliminating tariffs on goods that cross borders between member states

Answer explanation

7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes

7.6: Trade and the World Economy