AP Human Geography Unit 7?

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

•   subsistence activities

•   organic activities

• primary economic activities

• tertiary economic activities

The two images illustrate advancements in technology resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Comparing the images, which of the following statements best illustrates an impact of the Industrial Revolution on society?

•   Improvements in technology effectively shrank transportation times, but intervening obstacles such as rivers and canyons lessened the efficiencies of travel by rail.

•   The invention of the steam engine and the construction of steel bridges to carry trains across various physical features led to ever-increasing demand for the materials and labor to build more trains and tracks.

•   Industrialization technologies were applied to agriculture and to the transportation of agricultural products to widespread markets that led to greater food supplies and a surge in the population.

•   The Industrial Revolution was largely a change in economic activity that brought wealth to industrialists but did not significantly alter the landscape.

Using the data in Table 2, which of the following terms best describes the median household income distribution among the five boroughs?

•   Gender inequality

•   Uneven development

•   Informal economies

•   Comparative advantage

Many companies moved their operations from New England and the Midwest to locations in the South because

•   the southerly climate was an environmental push factor

•   southern culture was a social pull factor

•   the South had less expensive site factors than northern regions

•   the South had more advantageous relative locations

The reason for the concentration of copper smelters, refineries, and foundries close to Arizona's copper mines is that copper production is

•   dependent on dry climate conditions

•   a bulk-gaining industry

•   a bulk-reducing industry

•   oriented to the large Southern California market

Quaternary economic activities are those that 

•   involve the production of fresh produce for urban markets

•   extract natural resources from the environment

•   involve the collection, processing, and manipulation of information

•   involve the exchange of goods and the provision of services

Which of the following explains the spatial patterns of economic development for most countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam?

•   Most Southeast Asian countries are considered to be part of the periphery because of the dominance of the secondary economic sector.

•   Most Southeast Asian countries are considered to be part of the core because of the dominance of the tertiary economic sector.

•   Most Southeast Asian countries are considered to be part of the semi-periphery because of the dominance of the primary economic sector.

•   Most Southeast Asian countries are considered to be part of the semi-periphery because of the extensive growth of the secondary economic sector.

The classic model of industrial location theory suggests that the primary consideration in the location of an industrial site is which of the following?

•   The cost to produce the product

•   The cost of raw materials

•   The institutional structure of the firm

•   The cost of transportation

If a manufacturing company uses a single, weight-losing raw material to manufacture its finished product, then most likely the company will

•   use a ubiquitous raw material

•   choose to outsource its labor component

•   locate several manufacturing plants close to consumers

•   locate its manufacturing plant at the raw material site

The global pattern of gender inequality index scores is similar to the expected pattern of countries by level of economic development, with the exception of a few countries such as

•   Brazil, Libya, and China

•   Mexico, Argentina, and India

•   South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand

•   Japan, Spain, and Canada