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WorksheetsAP Human Geography
Total questions: 105
Worksheet time: 53mins
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Date
1.
What occurs when the number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of life
a)
epidemiology
b)
overpopulation
c)
arithmetic density
d)
agricultural density
2.
A specific point on earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic. Every place occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth's surface.
a)
place
b)
region
c)
space
d)
connection
3.
GIS stands for
a)
geographic information science
b)
geographic information system
c)
volunteered geographic information
d)
geographic positioning system
4.
A parallel is also called a
a)
longitude
b)
prime meridian
c)
longitude
d)
meridian
5.
What is another name for Universal Time
a)
Greenwich Mean TIme
b)
International Date Line
c)
Prime Meridian
d)
parallel
6.
vernacular region
a)
organized around a node
b)
occurs within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature
c)
an area that people people believe exists as part of their cultural indentity
d)
transnational corporation
7.
a law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers
a)
Land Ordinance of 1785
b)
Land Divide of 1785
c)
Land Ordinance of 1875
d)
Land Divide of 1875
8.
possibilism
a)
the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
b)
theory that the physical environment has no effect on anything
c)
theory that people cannot adjust the physical environment
d)
theory that people do not have the option to choose a course of action
9.
a term applied by geographers to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place
a)
distance decay
b)
space-time compression
c)
relocation diffusion
d)
hierarchical diffusion
10.
the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
a)
contagious diffusion
b)
hierarchical diffusion
c)
expansion diffusion
d)
relocation diffusion
11.
the place from which an innovation originates
a)
hearth
b)
core
c)
middle
d)
origin
12.
an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
a)
formal region
b)
functional region
c)
vernacular region
13.
toponym
a)
the name given to a place on Earth
b)
market
c)
mountain
d)
hearth
14.
principal meridians are some of the south-east lines separating townships
a)
true
b)
false
15.
the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
a)
projection
b)
cartography
c)
connections
d)
map making
16.
an example of Infant Mortality Rate is
a)
total number of children under the age of one that died in the United States in a year
b)
total number of children over the age of one but under the age of 18 that died in the United States within a year
17.
Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives.
a)
medical revolution
b)
life expectancy
c)
pandemic
d)
physiological density
18.
Total Fertility Rate is
a)
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
b)
the average number of children a teenager (13-18) has
19.
ecumene
a)
The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
b)
uninhabited portion of earth
c)
densely populated portion of the USA
20.
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Green Revolution
c)
Agricultural Revolution
d)
machine revolution
21.
Doubling Time
a)
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
b)
The number of days needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
c)
The number of hours needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
d)
The number of minutes needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase
22.
The scientific study of population characteristics
a)
Demography
b)
demographic transition
c)
crude death rate
d)
crude birth rate
23.
dependency ratio is
a)
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force
b)
The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age 20, compared to the number of people active in the labor force
c)
The number of people under the age of 65 and over the age 15, compared to the number of people active in the labor force
24.
A complete enumeration of a population.
a)
census
b)
count
c)
gathering
d)
population
25.
Which of the following has higher population growth rates?
a)
LDC
b)
MDC
26.
Where are the world's population clusters?
a)
East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and Eastern North America
b)
East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
c)
Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and Eastern North America
d)
East Asia, South Asia, and Eastern North America
27.
What is the largest cluster of inhabitants? What countries does this cluster include?
a)
East Asia; China, Japan, Korea, and the island of Taiwan
b)
East Asia; China, Korea, Philippines
c)
East Asia; the island of Indonesia
d)
East Asia; China, Japan, Korea
28.
What is the world's second most populous country?
a)
China
b)
India
c)
United States
d)
Philippines
29.
Where is the largest concentration of population in Southeast Asia?
a)
Java, Indonesia
b)
Philippines
c)
Vietnam
d)
Laos
30.
How do most people make a living in Southeast Asia?
a)
retail jobs
b)
industry
c)
farming
d)
school teachers
31.
A group's way of life, including the shared system of social meanings, values and relations that is transmitted between generations is called...
a)
culture
b)
population
c)
life ways
32.
The expansion and intensification of linkages and flows of capital, people, goods, ideas, and cultures across national borders
a)
Globalization
b)
Transculturation
c)
ethnicity distribution
33.
Societal institutions that guide behavior like government, laws, religious institutions, and educatiom
a)
artifacts
b)
sociofacts
c)
mentifacts
34.
A symbolic landscape associated with religions, the origin of an ethnic group, mythology, etc.
a)
ethnic islands
b)
symbolic spaces
c)
sacred space
d)
gender space
35.
Something that prohibits things to protect the culture
a)
Cultural hearth
b)
Cultural Barriers
c)
Cultural region
36.
The uniqueness of a location
a)
place
b)
site
c)
region
d)
situation
37.
Cultures make place fit their identity, portray value in a landscape, and build things in a landscape to show what they believe and value
a)
sense of place
b)
place making
c)
cultural place
38.
Started by chain migration, proud of their cultural heritage, place making is important aspect to them
a)
ethnic neighborhoods
b)
placelessness
c)
postmodern landscape
d)
cultural barrier
39.
Where adjacent groups or individuals are affected- diffuses from person to person
a)
hierarchical diffusion
b)
contagious diffusion
c)
stimulus diffusion
d)
relocation diffusion
40.
Social differences between men and women that are socially and culturally creates
a)
gender roles
b)
women's rights
c)
gender equality
d)
gender gap
41.
Study of relationship between a culture group and the natural enviroment
a)
cultural ecology
b)
culture-environment relationship
c)
environmental factors
d)
cultural factors
42.
Small rural area settles by a single, distinctive ethic group that placed its imprint on the landscape
a)
ethnic island
b)
uninhabited island
c)
ethnic neighborhood
d)
ethnic land
43.
Which is an example of an ethnic island?
a)
Bahamas
b)
Sardinia
c)
Hawaii
d)
Cicily
44.
Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Popular Culture
45.
cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Popular Culture
46.
What is the largest land mass in the world that is not included in a sovereign state?
a)
North Pole
b)
Russia
c)
Antarctica
d)
Alaska
47.
What is the split of Yugoslavia an example of what
a)
country split
b)
balkanization
c)
Apartheid
d)
Definitional Boundary Disputes
48.
The US-Mexican border is a desert with people speaking Spanish and English on both sides is an example of what
a)
country split
b)
balkanization
c)
apartheid
d)
boundary disputes disputes
49.
Native American treaties are an example of what
a)
definitional boundary disputes
b)
operational boundary disputes
c)
locational boundary disputes
d)
allocational boundary disputes
50.
Saudi Arabia and Yemen/Oman/UAE is an example of hwhat
a)
definitional boundary disputes
b)
operational boundary disputes
c)
locational boundary disputes
d)
allocational boundary disputes
51.
Iraq and Kuwait 1991 is an example of
a)
definitional boundary disputes
b)
operational boundary disputes
c)
locational boundary disputes
d)
allocational boundary disputes
52.
Iraq and Iran with the Persian Gulf
a)
definitional boundary disputes
b)
operational boundary disputes
c)
locational boundary disputes
d)
allocational boundary disputes
53.
Poland with Germany and Russia or Chicago with urban sprawl is an example of
a)
exclave
b)
onclave
c)
annexation
d)
balkanization
54.
Western Europe and Eastern Europe is an example of what
a)
Antecedent Boundary Origin
b)
Subsequent Boundary Origin
c)
Superimposed Boundary Origin
d)
Relic Boundary Origin
55.
a state created between two warring or hostile regions to ease tensions between the two bordering regions
a)
buffer state
b)
capital state
c)
centrifugal state
d)
centripetal state
56.
A sovereign state compromising a city and immediate hinterland
a)
nation-state
b)
sovereign-state
c)
state
d)
city-state
57.
Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory
a)
colonialism
b)
sovereignty
c)
unity
d)
take over
58.
regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. Called for by Portugal and organized by Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference
a)
Conference of Germany
b)
Conference of Berlin
c)
Conference of Munich
d)
Conference of Europe
59.
a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. This is significant, for example, in the Caspian Sea. There has been much conflict over the debate of who has control of the resources in the sea
a)
EZZ
b)
EEZ
c)
ZEE
d)
EZE
60.
used to describe large scale farming and racnhing operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
a)
economical agriculture
b)
commercial agriculture
c)
intensive agriculture
d)
labored agriculture
61.
expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
a)
intensive agriculture
b)
extensive agriculture
62.
use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
a)
extensive agriculture
b)
intensive agricultu
63.
a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
a)
double cropping
b)
crop rotation
c)
triple cropping
d)
switch cropping
64.
Which sector is concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment?
a)
primary
b)
tertiary
c)
secondary
d)
quinary
65.
Which sector is processing of products and assembling raw minerals?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
quinary
d)
tertiary
66.
Which sector provides us with transportation, communication, and utilities?
a)
primary
b)
tertiary
c)
secondary
d)
quinary
67.
Which sector is concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of data and capitol?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
tertiary
d)
quaternary
68.
Which sector require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
quinary
d)
quaternary
69.
any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest
a)
pesticides
b)
bug killer
c)
bug repellent
d)
crop killer
70.
type of pesticide used to kill unwanted plants
a)
pesticides
b)
herbicides
71.
cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning
a)
slash-and-burn
b)
deforrestation
c)
forest fires
d)
tree burning
72.
a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
a)
swidden
b)
sweden
c)
swilden
d)
opening
73.
Continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals is an example of what?
a)
animal shifting
b)
pastoralism
c)
nomadic herding
d)
animal moving
74.
Producing or growing one crop over a wide area is called what?
a)
monoculture
b)
single planting
c)
unicultue
d)
polyculture
75.
A resource that can be replaced without a long wait time
a)
renewable resource
b)
nonrenewable resource
76.
The spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefit.
a)
grouping
b)
clustering
c)
agglomeration
d)
city building
77.
A location where goods are transferred from one type of carrier to another
a)
point of bulk
b)
break of bulk point
c)
bulk point of break
d)
bulk gathering area
78.
An industry in which the final product weighs MORE or comprises a GREATER volume than the inputs
a)
bulk gaining industry
b)
bulk reducing industry
79.
An industry in which the final product weighs LESS or comprises a LOWER volume than the inputs
a)
bulk gaining industry
b)
bulk reducing industry
80.
A model of the spatial structure of an economic system in which underdeveloped or declining peripheral areas are defined with respect to their dependence on a dominating developed core region
a)
semi periphery model
b)
core periphery model
c)
periphery model
81.
A form of tourism that is based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natural features, that aims to provide an experience of nature or culture in an environmentally sustainable way
a)
scenic tourism
b)
adventure tourism
c)
ecotourism
d)
scenic viewing
82.
A measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on spatial interaction
a)
space-time compression
b)
friction of distance
c)
globalization
d)
development
83.
rapid economic and social changes in agriculture and manufacturing that followed the introduction of the factory system to the textile industry of England in the last quarter of the 18th century
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Green Revolution
c)
Agricultural Revolution
d)
Second Agriculutral Revolution
84.
a)
Weber's Least Cost Theory
b)
Ullman's Least Cost Theory
c)
Harrison's Least Cost Theory
d)
Friedmann's Least Cost Theory
85.
Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico
a)
two country company
b)
maquiladora
c)
conquistador
d)
border company
86.
A disparaging reference to economic and political policies by which major developed countries are seen to retain or extend influence over the economies of less developed countries and peoples
a)
colonialism
b)
neocolonialism
c)
urbancolonialism
d)
centralcolonialism
87.
A monetary measurement which takes account of what money actually buys in each country
a)
PPP
b)
PRP
c)
PEP
d)
SPS
88.
A term applied to countries considered not yet fully developed or in a state of underdevelopment in economic and social terms
a)
first world
b)
second world
c)
third world
d)
fourth world
89.
A large business organization operating in at least two separate national economies; a form of multinational corporation
a)
transnational
b)
capitalism
c)
imperialism
d)
colonialism
90.
A very small, often short-term loan made to an impoverished entrepreneur, as in an underdeveloped country
a)
loan
b)
microloans
c)
macroloans
d)
small payments
91.
a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood
a)
agglomeration
b)
blockbusting
c)
neighborhoods
d)
CBD
92.
Who created the central place theory which displayed the ideas that central places would provide services and goods to the surrounding areas?
a)
Christaller
b)
Ullman
c)
Harrison
d)
Weber
93.
conglomeration of people and buildingd clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics
a)
City
b)
suburbs
c)
town
d)
ghetto
94.
the fifth ring in the concentric zone model that is beyond the continuous built-up area of the city
a)
commuter zone
b)
agricultural zone
c)
forest zone
d)
dairy zone
95.
net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
a)
urbanization
b)
counterurbanization
c)
decentralization
d)
centralization
96.
cities of the ancient world
a)
early city
b)
first city
c)
primate city
97.
a large node of office and retail activities on teh edge of an urban area
a)
edge city
b)
far city
c)
separate city
d)
port city
98.
a neighborhood in which the people who live in there and share physical, mental, and cultural traits
a)
ethnic neighborhood
b)
company neighborhood
c)
ghetto
d)
rel
99.
the invations of older, centrally located working class neighborhoods by higher income households seeking the character and convenience of less expensive and well-located residences
a)
urbanization
b)
urban renewal
c)
gentrification
d)
sprawl
100.
a city with a population of more then 1 million
a)
large city
b)
huge city
c)
major city
d)
great city
101.
a center of population, commerce, and culture that is native to a country
a)
native city
b)
indigenous city
c)
colonial city
d)
first city
102.
the fundenmental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, such as transprotation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
a)
make-up
b)
infrastructure
c)
inner build
d)
building plan
103.
a recognized metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people
a)
major cities
b)
megacity
c)
megalopolis
d)
metroplotian area
104.
a city in which an economic transition has occured from a manufacturing based economy to a servicebased economy
a)
industrial city
b)
postindustrial city
c)
preindustrial city
d)
industrialized cutown
105.
the physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant
a)
site
b)
situation
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