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WorksheetsAP Human Geography Final
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 38mins
All the following have been considered new industrial countries EXCEPT
Hong Kong
South Korea
China
Indonesia
Brazil
Which of the following is an example of a quinary-sector economic activity?
Working at a cash register at McDonald’s
Serving as a researcher for human genetic cloning
Serving on the U.S. president’s cabinet
Converting crude oil into gasoline
Plowing land in preparation for planting a crop
London has become a world city in part because of its proximity to ports and other places that foster development. This reason for London’s historic growth relates to the city’s
site
sovereignty
redlining
situation
distance decay
Which of the following is a valid difference between the urban patterns of the United States and those of Latin America?
Unlike U.S. cities, Latin American cities have ghettos.
U.S cities follow a sector pattern, whereas Latin American cities follow concentric zones.
Gentrification is more present in Latin American cities.
Latin American cities have more-defined industrial sectors.
Unlike U.S. cities, Latin American cities show patterns of wealthy residents emanating from the city’s central business district.
The number of people under the age of 15 plus the number of people above the age of 64 divided by the number of the people aged 15 through 64 is defined as
carrying capacity
primary economic sector
dependency ratio
age-sex pyramid
infrastructure
Governments such as those once controlled by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran are classified as
landlocked
parliamentary
federal
theocratic
microstates
All the following were original members of the European Community, the predecessor to the European Union, EXCEPT
France
Belgium
United Kingdom
Italy
The Netherlands
In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s voyage took nearly 40 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, a trip that would take a modern ship less than one week. This difference best reflects the geographic concept of
distance decay
uneven development
stimulus diffusion
space-time compression
distribution
The arrow on the map above points to a city in India containing the largest number of shrines from which of the following religions?
Sikhism
Shintoism
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
The region outlined above contains delivery destinations served by United Trucking. Which of the following classifications best fits this region?
functional
formal
vernacular
mental
perceptual
Compared with the world pattern of crude birth rates, the world pattern of crude death rates shows
more variation because of the vast inequalities in minimal health care throughout the world
less variation because of the general availability of minimal health care facilities throughout the world
equal variation because of the offsetting effect of birth and death rates throughout the world
no variation
high variation because of the high infant mortality in some world 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
Quaternary-sector workers wanting to find jobs
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
vast shortages in laborers existed because of communicable diseases
large streams of migrants moved from core to peripheral countries
Which of the following most likely explains the diffusion pattern of the iPod depicted in the graph above?
In the innovation stage, at point A, only a small number of iPod purchases were made, but by point B the number of adopters had grown exponentially as the early buyers spread the word of the iPod.
The highest exponential growth rate was achieved by point C, where the fastest adoption of the iPod occurred.
The highest adoption rate occurred at point A because, as a new invention, the iPod aroused excitement.
Point C represents the late-adopter stage, when adoption of the iPod reached all people in the population.
The pattern represents relocation diffusion.
All the following are true of truck farming EXCEPT:
Among the most common truck crops are tomatoes, strawberries, and lettuce.
Most often it is characterized by the use of mechanized farming tools.
Labor costs are often relatively high on these large-scale farming operations.
It is the predominant agricultural practice found in the southeastern United States.
Truck farmers’ harvests are usually intended for distant markets.
Which of the following places is least influenced by conflicts related to multilingualism?
Nigeria
Venezuela
Quebec
Cyprus
Belgium
Which of the following was the first prerequisite for the start of urbanization?
Formal political organization
Agricultural surplus
Monarchial control
Privatization of land ownership
Development of currency
Which of the following regions is most threatened by desertification?
South America
Australia
Europe
Africa
Asia
Which of the following significantly weakened the strength of Mackinder’s geopolitical heartland theory?
Ascendance of the United States’ international influence after World War II
Existence of a pivot area
Growth of Soviet power in eastern Europe
Influence of Eurasia in world affairs
Rise of Nazi Germany
Which of the following factors 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 Roman Catholic Church’s influence on politics in Britain
Improved trade routes enabling improved food transport and cross-national trade
Country X can produce televisions at 50 percent of the cost that Country Y can produce televisions. Country Y can produce pencils at 70 percent of the cost that Country X can produce pencils. Therefore, Country X chooses to produce televisions and trade them with Country Y for pencils. This scenario best reflects which concept?
Substitution principle
Topocide
Foreign direct investment
Footloose industry
Comparative advantage
A banking company wanted to open a new branch in the New York City area. In order to study the region, the bank used a map to analyze potential locations. The map the bank’s leadership used in its decision-making process showed a layer of regional data displaying per capita income; another layer displaying the frequency of bank deposits made; and another layer showing the average value of the deposited amount. With this map, the banking company was able to choose the optimum location for its new branch. All of the following are tools that the bank (or its geographic team) most likely used to create and display this layered map of geographic data EXCEPT
GPS
GIS
remote sensing
desalination
satellite imagery
A pilgrim to the religious site depicted in the photograph above would most likely be a(n)
Taoist
Buddhist
Eastern Orthodox Christian
Muslim
Hindu
In the 1980s the demographic trend in China was best characterized by a(n)
rapidly rising crude birth rate
falling life expectancy
decreasing general fertility rate
increased total fertility rate
surge in refugees emigrating from China
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
is a reflection of its population count
The photograph above shows a farm most likely located in which of the following regions?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southwest Asia
Eastern Europe
North Africa
Southeast Africa
All 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
communal fields were consolidated
In 1998 an estimated 350,000 asylum seekers were from Croatia. What were their primary destinations in that year?
Kosovo and Albania
Germany and France
Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Austria and Hungary
Macedonia and Romania
On which of the following map projections is direction true everywhere on the map?
Mollweide
Mercator
Peter
Robinson
Miller cylindrical
Which among the following has the highest-threshold, highest-range central place function?
Doughnut shop
post office
movie theatre
neurosurgery complex
department store
“Women are inherently better preservationists of Earth because women have traditionally been nurturers and men have been destroyers.” This argument exemplifies
economic determinism
the Gender Empowerment Measure
ecofeminism
the convergence hypothesis
ethnogenesis
You would most expect to find a linguistic refuge area in a(n)
relatively flat country
mountainous area
international airport
river bank
marketplace
By 2015 life expectancy in several African countries, such as Namibia, is expected to decline by more than 10 years. What is the principal factor causing this demographic projection?
Cyclical poverty
crop shortage
ecoterrorism
infrastructural decay
HIV/AIDS
Both Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and Lagos in Nigeria are examples of
primate cities
world cities
exclaves
edge cities
postindustrial cities
A coffee shop and an ice-cream shop are often found on the same block, in close proximity. This is an example of
deglomeration
agglomeration
an export-processing zone
purchasing-power parity
an urban heat island
The size of an urban place’s hinterland is an indication of its
government structure
religious diversity
social distance
degree of centrality
urban design
Which of the following is the most accurate title for the map above?
Map of World Democratic Voters
Map of Nuclear Power Reactors
Map of Dravidian Languages Spoken
Map of Avian Flu Outbreaks
Map of HIV-1 Infections
The informal sector in a developing country exists for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
Tertiary economies in the formal sector are not developed well enough to absorb all the economies of the informal sector.
The demand for informal-sector goods and services keeps prices low.
Informal-sector workers and businesses cannot afford permanent business sites.
The government benefits from taxing informal-sector workers and their small businesses.
The quality of products and the quality of work in the informal sector are low.
Two unrelated people are trying to decide whether to travel to Houston, Texas, from their homes in Germany for a special vacation package offered on television. One German decides Houston is too far away, while the other decides to purchase the vacation package. This scenario best demonstrates the effects of
brain drain
concentration
cognitive distance
doubling time
expansion diffusion
The trend above best demonstrates which pattern of diffusion of the H5N1 or H5N2 strain of the avian influenza virus?
Hierarchical diffusion
stimulus diffusion
maladaptive diffusion
uneven development
reverse hierarchical diffusion
Which of the following is best classified as a centrifugal force?
national flag
state-owned news station
national research laboratories
ethnic discrimination
common language
By 2006 the states of northern Nigeria came under the governance of
the Sharia law
the African Union
Christian theocrats
secularists
Ibo speakers
All the following are in the Indo-European language family EXCEPT
Portuguese
Bengalis
German
Hindi
Turkish
The table on the previous page best illustrates which demographic trend?
hidden momentum
north-south gap
counterurbanization
doubling time
zero population growth
Based on the population density map of China above, in which region is extensive subsistence agriculture most heavily practiced?
Region A
Region B
Region C
Region D
Region E
In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, in part over an oil resource that Iraq and Kuwait both claimed fell within their national boundaries. This type of boundary dispute is classified as
locational
definitional
allocational
operational
subsequent
A computer production process involves creating the computer chip in Indonesia and assembling the motherboard in Malaysia. This is, most closely, evidence of
maquiladora districts
the post-Fordist production process
an infrastructure
the new international division of labor
a cottage industry
Which of the following asserts that ethnic minorities often live in the geographically peripheral regions excluded from the core of a country’s power?
Demographic transition model
Cleavage model
Von Thünen’s model
Central place theory
Locational interdependence model
In von Thünen’s theory, the key variable in an agricultural location decision is
labor cost
value of agglomeration benefits
climate type
cost of irrigation
transportation cost
Currently, the world’s third-largest religion, in terms of number of adherents, is
Sikhism
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Which of the following accurately lists in order the regions in the above table corresponding to A, B, C, respectively?
Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa
Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia
Which of the following cities best represents a forward capital?
Paris, France
Algiers, Algeria
Putrajaya, Malaysia
Canberra, Australia
Warsaw, Poland
Which of the following best describes shifting cultivation?
Primarily a subsistence practice, it involves a farmer using a plot and then abandoning it for return at a later time.
Usually a commercial agriculture endeavor, it involves rotating one crop type on a plot for another in a sequential pattern.
It is the movement of pastoral nomads from one food source to another.
Only used in wetlands, it is the use of pyramid-style farms for rice farming.
It involves the intensive, commercial integration of crops and livestock into a farming system.
Which of the four stages in 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
Stages 1, 2, 3, and 4
An essential difference between the standard language of a people and an official language is that the standard language is
the chosen, generally accepted variant of a language, while the official language is the legally declared language of a country to be used in all government interactions
usually spoken by outsiders, while the official language is what is on all official documents
the form spoken by commoners, while the official language is the “king’s form” of the language, taught in the grammar books
used widely throughout society, while the official language is only used for government documents
unchanging, while the official language changes with changes in governments
Which of the following most accurately matches the country to its territorial shape?
Russia: fragmented
Poland: compact
Singapore: perforated
Philippines: elongated
Chile: protruded
Where would you most likely find the greatest concentration of feedlots in America?
Chicago
California
Florida
South Dakota
Kentucky
The seasonal migration of animal livestock from lowland pastures to mountainous regions is termed
intensive subsistence agriculture
mixed crop and livestock farming
double cropping
transhumance
swidden agriculture
Which of the following strategies was identified by the 2004 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development as the most powerful approach for reducing the global population growth rate?
Increasing the amount of exports to less-developed countries
Retracting anticontraception laws throughout conservative countries
Reducing hunger throughout the world
Empowering the socioeconomic status of women in less-developed countries
Enforcing demographic growth rate targets in specific countries through coalition building
Which of the following is a true statement about popular culture?
Technology is reducing the scale of territory covered by popular culture.
The scale of territory covered by folk culture is often much larger than that of popular culture.
The heart of popular culture customs is often found in less-developed regions.
Folk culture is often the result of cultural isolation, while popular culture often results from cultural diffusion.
Popular culture customs remain the same for long periods of time.
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
preconditions for takeoff
takeoff
drive to maturity
age of high mass consumption
On the map of Mexico above, a maquiladora is most likely found at which point?
Point A
Point B
Point C
Point D
Point E
The migration of a Hildegarde von Pabst to Dayton, Ohio, from Berlin, Germany, because of a cousin living in Dayton is most closely an example of
forced migration
chain migration
internal migration
periodic movement
a refugee
The actual number of live births per 1,000 women in the fecund range refers to
total fertility rate
fecundity
crude birth rate
infant mortality rate
general fertility rate
Which of the following correctly sequences Sino-Tibetan languages from largest to smallest in terms of the number of native speakers?
Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Hakka (Kejia), Min
Cantonese, Wu, Mandarin, Min, Hakka (Kejia)
Hakka (Kejia), Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min
Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min, Hakka (Kejia)
Mandarin, Min, Cantonese, Hakka (Kejia), Wu
Which of the following is NOT a usual characteristic of an edge city?
Accessibility
Tenement housing
Varied urban functions
Suburban sense of place
Office park
The relationship among power structures, the environment, and economic inequalities is termed
ecoterrorism
political ecology
cultural diffusion
gerrymandering
balkanization
The focus of the Green Revolution was
improving crop yields in commercial agribusiness corporations
reducing starvation in less-developed countries
inventing new forms of food to add variety to the human diet
saving undeveloped land from urban sprawl
encouraging the use of fertilizers less damaging to the environment
All the following are factors motivating the conflict surrounding Quebec, Canada, EXCEPT
language
sovereignty
religion
economic inequality
colonial roots
Which of the following countries produces the most woven cotton fabric?
Italy
India
China
Egypt
United States
The picture above shows an abandoned factory warehouse that was remodeled into a loft apartment complex near the central business district of a major U.S. city. This is an example of
an edge city
commodification
counterurbanization
blockbusting
gentrification
A primary differentiation between a state and a nation is that a state is a
political abstract, whereas a nation is a human group
mutable concept, whereas a nation is permanent
fixed geographic item, whereas a nation is not linked to a territory
product of history, whereas a nation is a product of people
controversial issue, whereas a nation is more peaceful
Structural adjustment programs often encourage all the following EXCEPT
selling off public resources to private corporations
higher taxation rates
closing of export-processing zones
reducing government expenditures
charging citizens more for government services
Which of the following would have the steepest bid-rent curve?
Textile factory
Family desiring a plot of land for a suburban home
Urban real estate brokerage firm
Pig farmer
Trash dump
When a barge stops in Louisville, unloads its cargo, and transfers it onto a train to be transported to Ohio, Louisville is referred to as a(n)
trading bloc
export-processing zone
shatter belt
break of bulk
special economic zone
