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WorksheetsAP Human Geography Review
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 26mins
Subsistence agriculture is most common in
Plains of North America
Pampas of Argentina
Amazon Basin
Outback of Australia
Since Iceland has seen only one period of migration, has never been invaded and possesses a common culture and language it can be considered a(n)
Absolute Monarchy
Theocracy
Exclave
Nation-State
The township and range land survey system in the US contributed to which of the following?
A dispersed rural settlement pattern
A clustered rural settlement pattern
A rural long-lot pattern
An urban daily system pattern
Transnational migrants often send money back to family in their homes countries, these payments are called
Reparations
Quotas
Foreign Aid
Remittances
The Gullah language spoken by African-Americans in S. Carolina and Georgia is a combination of English and African dialects. Gullah can be considered a
Creolized language
Lingua franca
Language family
Branch of the Niger-Congo family
Which of the following has brought significant numbers of foreign visitors and currency to Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Belize?
Casino gambling
Offshore banking
Vacation crusing
Ecotourism
Traditional labor-intensive agriculture often involves which of the following?
Field terracing
Mechanical plowing
Hybrid seeds
High levels of debt
In the first decade of the 21st century, which of the following countries had the lowest fertility rate?
Somalia
Niger
Democratic Republic of Congo
South Africa
Which of the following was a consequence of blockbusting in North American cities?
European migrants moved into middle class neighborhoods
Poor residents were unable to acquire mortgages
Real estate agents lost sellers
The ethnic composition of neighborhoods changed
The measure of the average number of children who are born to women of childbearing age is called the
Actual birth rate
Crude birth rate
Total fertility rate
Adjusted birth rate
In which of the following countries has the diffusion of Christianity met the most resistance?
China
Brazil
Italy
South Africa
Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt region?
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
South America
Southern Africa
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Hinduism?
Use of human and animal images in sacred spaces
Pilgrims bathe in holy rivers
Sacred places are established by tradition
It is a universalizing religion
If a manufacturer use a single, wieght-losing raw material for its finished product, then the company probably will
Locate several manufacturing plants near consumers
Use ubiquitous raw material
Choose to outsource its labor component
Locate manufacturing at the raw material site
In descriptions of interaction between people and the environment, the term "environmental determinism" implies that
The physical environment exclusively shapes humans and their actions
Humans by their actions and technologies alter the physical environment to suit their needs
Determination of environmental limitations is a primary task of geographers
Capitalist economies do not contribute to global environmental degradation
The map above best fits which of the following maps
Cartogram
Dot symbol
Isoline
Choropleth
Which of the following is South Africa's former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races?
Redlining
Gerrymandering
Apartheid
Gentrification
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
Large heterogeneous groups
Indigenous groups
Groups that have little interaction with each other
Small homogenous groups
Which of the following religions is matched with its region of origin?
Islam ... Egypt
Judaism ... Spain
Hinduism ... China
Buddhism ... India
At some point in their recent history, all of the following countries became divided into two political entities as a result of cultural or ideological conflict EXCEPT
Korea
Vietnam
Ireland
Japan
Which of the following pairs exhibits zero or negative population growth?
Pakistan and China
India and Germany
Japan and Germany
India and Japan
In the development of urban land, which of the following is typically built on the most accessible sites?
Single-family housing
Farm markets
Retail complexes
Industrial parks
What kind of agriculture is primarily practiced in the shaded areas on the map?
Shifting cultivation
Pastoral nomadism
Cattle ranching
Mediterranean
All of the following were colonized by France EXCEPT
Vietnam
Cuba
Algeria
Luisiana
The shaded areas on the map above most likely indicate regions that are affected or threatened by
Depopulation
Deforestation
Desertification
Deindustrialization
Traditionally, the Ganges Valley and Nile Valley have had comparatively high population densities because of their
Tropical climates
In-migration from neighboring arid areas
Intensive agriculture based on irrigation
Designation as sacred sites
In which of the following areas was wheat most likely domesticated earliest?
Southern Italy
Northern Libya
Central Mexico
Southeastern Turkey
During the 19th and 20th centuries, which of the following types of intraregional migration was the most prominent worldwide?
Rural to urban
Urban to suburban
Inland to coastal
Urban to rural
In terms of total tonnage, which of the following is currently the leading export crop in the world?
Coffee
Wheat
Corn
Rice
Which of the following is most characteristic of societies currently in the last stage of demographic transition?
Hyperinflation
Unemployment
Aging population
Overpopulation
A clustering of doctor's offices and pharmacies near major hospitals is BEST explained by the benefits of
Decentralization
Agglomeration
Intervening opportunity
Balkanization
Which of the following has fostered the most significant economic growth by eliminating import tariffs between member states?
European Union
OPEC
NATO
United Nations
Which of the following is useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland
Von Thunen's model of land use
Concentric zone model
Rostow's model of economic development
Christaller's model of central place
In early 21st century, the largest number of refugees is located on which of the following continents?
Africa
Australia
North America
South America
All of the following 20th century migration streams were propelled by persecution or conflict EXCEPT
Asians leaving Uganda
Kosovars leaving Yugoslavia
Tutsis leaving Rwanda
Mexicans leaving Mexico
Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by
Substantial increases in the amount of land under cultivation
Global warming
An increase in the agricultural workforce
An increase in the use of energy and technology
The literacy rate of any country correlates closely with which of the following
Per capita income
Annual precipitation rates
Petroleum productions
Population density
Which of the following profiles characterizes the population group that is most likely to migrate?
Married, 25 years old
Single, 25 years old
Married, 50 years old
Single, 50 years old
Production of agricultural products destined primarily for direct consumption by the producer rather than for market is called
Plantation farming
Hunting and gathering
Subsistence agriculture
Shifting-field agriculture
The map above represents what kind of projection?
A planar projection with diverging lines at the poles
A Mercator projection with distorted land at the poles
A Robinson projection with contiuity of landmasses
A Homolosine projection with distortions at the equator
Which of the following environmental problems is most associated with the African Sahel?
Deforestation
Flooding
Air pollution
Desertification
Which of the following is an example of a quinary-sector economic activity?
Working at the cash register at a McDonald's
Serving on the US President's cabinet
Converting crude oil into gasoline
Plowing land in preparation for planting crops
All of the following have been considered new industrial countries EXCEPT
Hong Kong
South Korea
China
Indonesia
Which of the following is a valid difference btween the urban patterns of the US and those of Latin America?
Unlike US cities, Latin American cities have ghettos
US cities follow a sector pattern, whereas Latin American cities follow concentric zones
Latin American cities have more-defined industrial sectors
Unlike US cities, Latin American cities show patterns of wealthy residents emanating from the city's CBD
The number of people under the age of 15 plus the number of people above the age of 64 divided by the number of people aged 15 - 64 is
Carrying capacity
Age-sex pyramid
Dependecy ratio
Infrastructure
Governments such as those once controlled by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran are classified as
Parliamentary
Federal
Theocratic
Landlocked
The arrow on the map above points to a city containing the largest number of shrines from which religion?
Sikhism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
Compared with crude birth rates, the world pattern of crude death rates shows
More variation because of the vast inequalities in healthcare around the world
Less variation because of the general availability of basic healthcare around the world
Equal variation because the offsetting effect of birth and death rates around the world
High variation because of the high infant mortality rates in some regions
Which of the following would be most attracted to export-processing zones in less developed countries?
Transnational corporations assembling products that are bulk reducing or not weight gaining
Multinational firms wanting to build world headquarters
Technopoles
International lending agencies
The Second Agricultural Revolution developed at the same time as
Growing urban markets were demanding increased food production
Improved genetic modification of food allowed for increased harvests in developing countries
Humans were forming communes and practicing open-field farming
Large streams of migrants moved from core to peripheral countries
Which of the following places is least influenced by conflicts related to multilingualism?
Nigeria
Venezuela
Quebec
Belgium
Which of the following significantly weakened the strength of Mackinder's Heartland Theory?
Ascendance of the US's international influence after WWII
Growth of Soviet power in Eastern Europe
Rise of Nazi Germany
Influence of Eurasia in world affairs
Which of the following had the greatest effect in proving the demographic theorist Thomas Malthus incorrect?
Decreased land supply after the Industrial Revolution
Improved fertilizers and crop strains
Increased contraceptive technology in the Western Hemisphere
The decline of the Catholic Church's influence on politics in Britain
A pilgrim to the religious site depicted in the photograph above would most likely be a(n)
Taoist
Buddhist
Muslim
Hindu
The United Nations Human development Index is based on the assumption that a country's development
Is directly related to its position in the core or periphery
Is a function of social, demographic, and economic factors
Can improve if countries liberalize trade policies
Is indicated most accurately by its gross domestic product
The photograph above shows a farm most likely located in which of the following regions?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southwest Asia
Eastern Europe
North Africa
All of the following resulted from the British enclosure movement in the 1850s EXCEPT
Agricultural efficiency increased
Urban migration increased
Feudal village life was disrupted
The number of farm owners rose dramatically
Which of the following was the first prerequisite for the start of urbanization?
Formal political organization
Agricultural surplus
Monarchial control
Privatization of land ownership
Which of the following has the highest-threshold, highest-range central place function?
Doughnut shop
Post office
Neurosurgery complex
Department store
You would most expect to find a linguistic refuge area in a(n)
Flat country
Mountainous area
International airport
Marketplace
Lagos in Nigeria and London in Britain are examples of
Primate cities
Exclaves
Edge cities
Postindustrial cities
The size of an urban place's hinterland is an indication of its
Government structure
Religious diversity
Social distance
Degree of centrality
By 2006 the states in Northern Nigeria came under the governance of
The African Union
Christian theocrats
Seculatists
Sharia law
All of the following are in the Indo-European language family EXCEPT
German
Hindi
Turkish
Bengali
Based on the population density map of China, which region heavily practices extensive subsistence agriculture?
Region B
Region C
Region D
Region E
A computer production process involves creating the computer chip in Indonesia and assembling the motherboard in Malaysia. This is, most likely, evidence of
Maquiladora districts
The post-Fordist production process
The new international division of labor
A cottage industry
In von Thunen's theory, the key variable in an agricultural location decision is
Labor cost
Climate type
Cost of irrigation
Transportation cost
Which of the 4 stages of the demographic transition model are considered "homeostatic" stages, when the forces of demographic change are in equilibrium?
Stages 1 and 3
Stages 2 and 3
Stages 1 and 4
Stage 4
Which of the following most accurately matches the country to its territorial shape?
Chile ... Protruded
Poland ... Compact
Singapore ... Perforated
Philippines ... Elongated
The seasonal migration of animal livestock from lowland pastures to mountainous regions is termed
Mixed crop and livestock farming
Double cropping
Transhumance
Swidden agriculture
In Rostow's economic development model, the stage in which workers become more skilled and modern technology spreads to industries beyond the innovating "takeoff" industry is called the
Traditional society
Precondition for takeoff
Drive to maturity
Age of high mass consumption
In the map above, a Maquiladora is most likely found at which point?
Point A
Point B
Point C
Point E
The migration of a German man from Berlin to Dayton, Ohio to join a cousin living in Dayton is most closely an example of
Forced migration
Chain migration
Internal migration
A refugee
Which of the following correctly sequences Sino-Tibetan languages from largest to smallest?
Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu
Cantonese, Wu, Mandarin
Hakka, Mandarin, Cantonese
Mandarin, Min, Cantonese
When a barge stops in Louisville, unloads cargo, and transfers it onto a train to be transported to Ohio, Louisville can be considered a(n)
Trading bloc
Export-processing zone
Shatterbelt
Break of bulk
