WorksheetsAP HUGs Practice Questions Part 4
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
In the early twenty-first century, the largest number of refugees is located on which of the following continents?
Africa
Australia
Europe
North America
South America
The ability of a resource base to sustain a population is known as its
support ratio
carrying capacity
subsistence limit
basic employment
population pressure
Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they
were interested in varying the diets of their families
were engaged in collecting plant resources
were agile climbers on the hillsides of the Fertile Crescent
knew how to achieve control over their environment
traveled long distances from their home base
Rostow’s modernization model is concerned with which of the following concepts?
Dependency
Structuralism
Core-periphery relations
Economic development
Neocolonialism
According to the sector model of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in which of the following places?
The inner city only
Peripheral temporary settlements
Linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward
Evenly dispersed throughout the urban area
The suburbs and rural areas only
Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation?
Dependency on irrigation
Sharecropping
Production of cash crops for export
Demand for wage laborers
Multicropping
Which of the following refers to the size and functional complexity of cities?
Multiplier effect
Urban hierarchy
Basic-nonbasic ratio
Threshold ratio
The Sector model
Which of the following originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?
Hinduism
Christianity
Buddhism
Sikhism
Confucianism
Squatter settlements exist in cities of less-developed countries because
city governments set aside vacant areas for new migrants
people want to live near the center of the city, where jobs are located
affordable housing is not available elsewhere for new migrants to the city
new migrants prefer to live in squatter settlements with other recent migrants
new migrants need to be isolated from other city residents until they adjust to urban life
Which of the following is a subsistence crop?
Corn
Cotton
Rubber
Cocoa
Timber
Which of the following is an example of a supranational organization with the main mission of increasing economic integration?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The European Union
The United Nations
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The United States Federal Reserve
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of
pidgin languages
lingua franca
standard language
creole language
official language
A country at the end of the demographic transition usually has which of the following?
High birth and low death rates
A high infant mortality rate
A high crude birth rate
Low birth and death rates
High population density
The European Union, the Arab League, and the United Nations are all examples of
pressure groups
nation-states
centrifugal organizations
supranational organizations
federations
The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
stimulus diffusion
periodic movement
relocation diffusion
Why is the traditional classification of agriculture as a primary economic activity a problem when considering the geography of agriculture?
Modern farmers are engaged in production, research, marketing, and some manufacturing of their products.
Agricultural employment is such a small fraction of the labor force in the industrialized countries that agriculture can no longer be thought of as a primary economic activity.
Unlike mining, forestry, and other primary activities, agriculture has not been affected by industrialization.
Traditional patterns of farming are disappearing.
Modern farmers use machinery.
Which of the following statements best describes the impact of improvements in transportation systems on agriculture?
Local markets have become more important for dairy farmers.
Individual farms have become more diversified.
Corporate farms have gained a greater advantage over family farms.
Subsistence farmers are given great advantages.
Cuisines have become more regionalized.
The sex ratio represented in the age-sex graph above for Country X is most likely the result of
high infant mortality
undercounting of females
an epidemic with high mortality
a period of war
a large guest-worker population
In the United States and Canada, which areal unit best approximates a city neighborhood in size?
A census tract
a county
a municipality
a congressional district
a metropolitan area
Latitude and longitude may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of a place?
its site features
its absolute location
its relative location
its situation
its elevation
Von Thünen emphasized which of the following factors in his model of agricultural land use?
Labor cost
transportation cost
fertilizer cost
machinery cost
seasonal fluctuations in prices of farm products
It can be inferred from global patterns of population growth that the country most likely to be in West Africa is
Country I
Country II
Country III
Country IV
Country V
Which of the following does NOT act as a centrifugal force for a state?
Uneven development
Substate nationalism
Linguistic homogeneity
A fragmented territorial base
A strong tradition of local governance
Which of the following arguments help explain why seventy-five percent of those employed in Export Processing Zones, such as maquiladoras, are women?
I.) Women have better educational qualifications than men.
II.) Women are paid less than men.
III.) Many employers consider women to be more dexterous than men.
IV.) Many employers consider women more likely to organize unions than men
I and III only
II and III only
II and IV only
I, II, and III only
I, II, III, and IV
One would expect to find a population with a relatively young age structure in
less developed countries
highly developed countries
countries with a low death rate
countries with a low fertility rate
countries with a high standard of living
