AP Human Geography Unit 6 Modules 44-46 Test Review

Earth's population today is predominately _____

• rural

• suburban

• urban

• found in the Southern Hemisphere

• nomadic

Mesopotamia is the site of modern day _____

• Iraq

• Iran

• Pakistan

• Bangladesh

• Turkey

Which is a necessary condition for the rise of cities?

• socioeconomic stratification

• lack of adequate food

• burial of the dead

• sewage systems

• paved roads

The earliest cities arose along all of the following major rivers EXCEPT the ______

• Indus

• Yellow (Huang Ho)

• Nile

• Volga

• Tigris

Which is NOT an urban hearth area?

• coastal Peru

• central North America

• Mesopotamia

• the Indus River Valley

• Nile River Valley

The oldest urban hearth area is _____

• Mesoamerica

• the Nile Valley

• Huang Ho

• Mesopotamia

• Indus Valley

Tenochtitlan was the ______captial

• Cherokee

• Mayan

• Aztec

• Incan

According to the map, the world's first cities rose on all of the following continents EXCEPT_______

• South America

• Australia

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

Western civilization and Western cities both trace their roots back to ancient _____

• Rome

• Greece

• China

• Turkey

• Paris

Which of these generalizations about current urbanization is correct?

• highly industrialized countries have lower rates of urbanization than do less-developed countries

• population growth in the next 30 years will continue to be greatest in the cities of more-developed countries

• urban growth in less-developed countries is driven by rural-to-urban migration and higher-than-average fertitlity rates of recent migrants

• urbanization around the world is driven by the growth of manufacturing in suburban areas

• rural settlements are disappearing in devleoped countries from rapid migration to urban areas