AP Human Geography Units 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

A political polling company wants to use census data to collect information on voters in a city by neighborhood. Based on the types of information collected in the survey form, which of the following could be mapped using census data?

• The number of voting-age residents per household

• The political party affiliation of the average resident

• How residents voted in the last election

• How voters might vote in the next national election

• How voters stand on current issues

The map above represents what kind of projection?

• A Mercator projection with distorted land areas

• A planar projection with diverging lines at the poles

• A homolosine projection with continuity of landmasses

• A Robinson projection with distortions at the equator

• A gnomonic projection with distortions of bodies of water

The map shown above best fits which of the following map types?

• Choropleth

• Cartogram

• Proportional symbol

• Dot symbol

• Isoline

Twenty-four specific objects transmit complex radio codes, including time signals traveling at the speed  of light. You can contact at least 4 of the 24 objects  at any time of day or night.
Question

The statement above refers to which of the following?

• GIS stations

• NTMs for chart use

• GPS satellites

• GNIS entries

• TIR scanning systems

Which of the following best describes the data presented in the image?

• Coordinates for a satellite navigation system

• Political map of a region

• Series of geographic information systems layers

• Remote sensing satellite image of land use

• Cartogram of quantitative spatial information

The satellite images show changes to a portion of the Louisiana coast between 1984 and 2017. The table shows the changes in land acreage. Which of the following best describes the changes and a consequence of the changes?

• The expansion of coastal cities, which results in increased acreage of urban land cover

• A decrease in the acreage of coastal land, which affects the prices of local property

• An increase in the acreage of coastal land, which will be added to navigational charts for shipping

• The rise of sea levels, which results in decreased land acreage available for homes and businesses

• An increase in land acreage caused by the construction of polders for land reclamation

An international company is looking to expand its network of factories, which use labor-intensive production methods, in a region of the world experiencing significant growth in the working-age population. Based on the data in the table, which of the following regions should the company choose? 

• North America, which will have faster working-age growth in 2015 to 2030 than in 2000 to 2015

• Asia, which will have a faster working-age growth rate in 2015 to 2030 than in 2000 to 2015

• Latin America, which had the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2000 to 2015

• Asia, which will have the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2015 to 2030

• Sub-Saharan Africa, which will have the fastest working-age growth rate among world regions from 2015 to 2030

Every map projection has some degree of distortion because 

• a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion

• parallels and meridians never cross at right angles on a globe

• the grid system is two-dimensional, while the real world is three-dimensional

• Earth is not a perfect sphere

• latitude lines are shorter than meridian lines

A nongovernmental organization is planning a new international elementary education program. Based on the map shown, which of the following groups of countries would be the best candidates to receive funding?

• Brazil, Bolivia, Peru

• Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

• Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador

• 
  Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia

• 
  Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan

Which of the following best describes the spatial pattern of adult literacy rates presented in the map?

• 
  It provides an economic perspective on the productivity of each country’s workforce.

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  It provides an economic perspective on earnings for each country’s population.

• It provides a political perspective on each country’s level of civic participation.

• It provides a political perspective on each country’s system of government.

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  It provides a perspective on each country’s level of social development.