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AP HuG Fall Review (Units 1-3)

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:

a)

Relative Location

b)

Absolute Location

c)

Referenced Location

d)

Central Location

2.

A person forced to flee their country due to war, violence, or natural disaster is called a...

a)

Runner

b)

An illegal alien

c)

Immigrant

d)

Refugee

3.

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

a)

Custom

b)

Habit

c)

Popular Culture

d)

Folk Culture

4.

Sometimes, immigrants will send money home to their family; this is known as:

a)

Repayments

b)

Remittances

c)

Reparations

d)

Chain Migration

5.

When a country has policies that want to slow the birth rate, by either issuing out penalties for having more than one child or giving incentives of money to only have one child, as it used to be in China, this form of policy is known as what?

a)

Pro-Natalist Policy

b)

Anti-Natalist Policy

c)

Pregnancy Decrease Plan

d)

Fertility Rate Deduction Plan

6.

The physical environment causes social and cultural development

a)

Environmental Determinism

b)

Environmental Possibilism

c)

Cultural Possibilism

d)

Cultural Environmentalism

7.

Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names?

a)

Phenonyms

b)

Loconyms

c)

Isonyms

d)

Toponyms

8.

In 1995 the world's population reached 6 billion, it was forecasted that the population would reach 12 billion in 45 years, this period is called

a)

double increase rate

b)

double overpopulation

c)

doubling life expectancy

d)

doubling time

9.

What is the technique that collect information from the earth from a distance?

a)

Geographic Information Systems

b)

Global Positioning Systems

c)

Remote Sensing

d)

Ethnography

10.

Humans possess the ability to dominate their environment is known as

a)

environmental determinism

b)

possibilism

c)

demographics

d)

animism

11.

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

a)

distance decay

b)

space-time compression

c)

uneven development

d)

stimulus diffusion

12.

The art and science of mapmaking is called

a)

Cartography

b)

Topography

c)

Physical geography

d)

Spatial analysis

13.

Refugees fleeing from the Balkans during the 1990s were mostly reacting to

a)

economic push factors

b)

economic pull factors

c)

cultural pull factors

d)

cultural push factors

14.

Which of the following is least likely to have a high population density?

a)

coastal areas of South America

b)

river valleys in Africa

c)

interior areas of Australia

d)

coastal areas of India

15.

Which of the following areas of the world generally have net out-migrations?

a)

Asia and North America

b)

Europe and North America

c)

Africa and Europe

d)

Africa and Asia

16.

Canada’s two largest language-based ethnic groups are

a)

English and Spanish

b)

Russian and Inuit

c)

English and German

d)

English and French

17.

As Islam spread to Sub Saharan Africa by the 9th century, its first converts were the elites, but most ordinary people retained their native religions. This phenomenon illustrates the process of

a)

contagious diffusion

b)

hierarchical diffusion

c)

stimulation diffusion

d)

relocation diffusion

18.

Linguistic geographers use isoglosses to mark

a)

The boundary of languages in an area

b)

The extinction of a language in an area

c)

The creation of a pidgin language in an area

d)

The lack of a lingua franca in an area

19.

Which is the best example of the diffusion of a language?

a)

The spread of English via the Internet

b)

The decline in use of the Navajo language

c)

The designation of one official language for a country

d)

The use of bilingual signs in a country with two official languages

20.

A taboo against pork is a characteristic of

a)

Buddhism and Judaism

b)

Christianity and Hinduism

c)

Judaism and Islam

d)

Judaism and Christianity

21.

Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?

a)

Vernacular Region

b)

Formal Region

c)

Folk Region

d)

Functional Region

22.

Physiological density is the number of

a)

Farm animals per area suitable for agriculture

b)

People per area suitable for agriculture

c)

Farmers per area of farmland

d)

People per area of flat land

23.

Ester Boserup differed in thought to Thomas Malthus in that Boserup believed

a)

That the increase of population would not cause a food shortage because people will create solutions to problems and use technology and new innovations to survive

b)

That the destruction of a society is due to the increase in population over time

c)

That the food surplus will continue to shrink to a shortage because of the increase of population

d)

That the increase in population will have no affect on food supplies

24.

The ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those same things on a map

a)

Disorient

b)

Distortion

c)

Scale

d)

Projection

25.

The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people

a)

Region

b)

Ideology

c)

Religion

d)

Culture

26.

Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of

a)

Expansion and hierarchical

b)

Contagious and stimulus

c)

Expansion and relocation

d)

Migrant and hierarchical

27.

Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

a)

Formal

b)

Functional

c)

Perceptual

d)

Uniform

28.

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

a)

Formal

b)

Functional

c)

Uniform

d)

Perceptual

29.

Which type of map would show the boundaries of countries?

a)

vegetation map

b)

political map

c)

land-use map

d)

elevation map

30.

Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees

a)

latitude

b)

longitude

c)

relief

d)

scale

31.

What stage is this population pyramid?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

5

32.

What stage is this population pyramid?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

33.

What is an internally displaced person?

a)

Someone who has been forced to migrate but has not crossed international boundaries

b)

Someone who has fled to a foreign country and is seeking asylum

c)

Someone who has voluntarily moved to a country in search of a job

d)

Someone who has been forced to migrate fearing for their life

34.

A nation with a large number of farmers per unit of arable land would have a high:

a)

Agricultural Density

b)

Arithmetic Density

c)

Physiological Density

d)

Population Density

35.

To determine the carrying capacity of a territory, which measure of density should we use?

a)

agricultural density

b)

arithmetic density

c)

physiological density

d)

population density

36.

A Less Developed Country in Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model would have a:

a)

high elder dependency ratio

b)

low natural increase rate

c)

low infant mortality rate

d)

a "bottom-heavy" population pyramid

37.

According to Ravenstein's Laws of Migration, which of the following would likely not happen?

a)

movement from rural areas to urban areas

b)

migration of single women over long distances

c)

long distance migration to cities

d)

step migration

38.

According to Ravenstein, people tend to migrate

a)

From rural areas to urban areas

b)

as long a distance as possible

c)

From urban areas to rural areas

d)

starting around age 48

39.

Why is carrying capacity important to know about when looking at population density?

a)

Because it describes what population can be supported in order to export to other countries

b)

Because it describes how much population the land can support without environmental deterioration

c)

Because it shows that all countries can produce higher yields so that they do not need to import food

d)

Because it shows the development of the land

40.

Why might an area suffer if the Total Fertility Rate is too low?

a)

Because they won't be able to have as many individuals in the pre-productive stage to replenish the current population

b)

Because they are a post-industrial country so they will need more workers

c)

Because the country has reached the carrying capacity

d)

Because they won't be able to have as many workers, so it might stop them from progressing

41.

Assimilation takes place when

a)

a smaller culture shares traits with a larger culture

b)

a smaller culture is totally absorbed by a larger, more dominant culture

c)

cultures give and take

d)

culture moves with people in relocation diffusion

42.

Which of the following is a sacred place in the Hindu religion?

a)

Dead Sea

b)

Sahara Desert

c)

Ganges River

d)

Mount Fuji

43.

Organize the world’s languages from biggest classification, to smallest.

a)

language group, language, language family, dialect

b)

language family, language branch, language group, dialect, language

c)

language branch, language group, language, language family, dialect

d)

language family, language branch, language group, language, dialect

44.

What is the most widely used language form of lingua franca?

a)

English

b)

Spanish

c)

Italian

d)

Latin

45.

Balkanization refers to

a)

a small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into states

b)

The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among Ethnicities

c)

religions splintering into opposing groups

d)

ethnic cleansing

46.

A Centripetal force is

a)

A force that helps to unify and bring together the people of a state.

(e.g. Nationalism/Patriotism, Equality, Tolerance)

b)

The process by which a state breaks down as a result of ethnic conflict. (Reference to Balkan Peninsula/Yugoslavia

c)

The system formerly in effect in South Africa that segregated people based on their race.

(Abolished in the 90s)

d)

A real-estate tactic used during the end of segregation in America. Real-estate agents convinced Whites to sell them their houses for cheap in fear of Blacks moving in. They then resold them to Blacks at a far higher price.

47.

The belief in the existence of only one god is

a)

pagan

b)

polytheism

c)

monotheism

d)

cosmogony

48.

Which of the following is a pull factor?

a)

Insufficient Food Supply

b)

High Crime Rate in Native Country

c)

High Crime Rate in New Country

d)

Higher Paying jobs in New Country

49.

The two primary Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism each have their hearths located where?

a)

Jerusalem, Israel

b)

Southeast Asia

c)

Northern India

d)

Eastern China

50.

The modern game of soccer (football) spread to many parts of the world because of British colonization. This is an example of ____________ diffusion.

a)

relocation

b)

expansion

c)

hierarchical

d)

contagious

51.

Muslims (those who practice the religion of Islam) are clustered in

a)

Sub-Saharan Africa

b)

South America

c)

Eastern Europe

d)

the Middle East

52.

Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?

a)

network television

b)

the flag

c)

the many ethnic groups living in the United

States

d)

"The Star Spangled Banner"

53.

French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.

a)

pidgin language

b)

official language

c)

logograms

d)

isolated language

54.

What is the difference between folk music and popular music

a)

folk music talk about popular things

b)

popular music talks about life

c)

popular music is created to be sold

d)

folk music is slower

55.

Folk Culture food is often influenced by?

a)

Other countries

b)

What is most in demand for that season

c)

What people choose to snack on and drink

d)

Environment