WorksheetsAP Human Geo Unit 5 Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 14mins
When a sign is at a border it is a
administered boundary
delimited boundary
demarcated boundary
militarized boundary
superimposed boundary
Which of the following agricultural practices has the most significant long-term environmental impact in tropical regions?
Clearing small patches of land to pasture dairy cows, which decreases water pollution from runoff
Building terraces on sloping land to grow rice, which destabilizes hillsides
Building extensive areas of forested land to create pasture, which decreases biodiversity
Building small areas of forested land for subsistence farming, which increases biodiversity
Moving livestock to higher pasture areas in the spring, which leads to soil degradation
Which of the following spatial patterns is best explained by bid-rent theory?
Concentric rings of different agricultural activities surrounding a city in the Midwestern United States
Rural-to-urban migration increasing the population density to eastern China
Linear settlements located along a major road in a densely forested area of Brazil
Dispersed settlement throughout a large mountainous area of Switzerland
The conversion of agricultural land to suburbs surrounding a city in the southeastern United States
Which of the following best explains why farmers would plant both strawberries and watermelons in the same field?
Limited farmland encourages intensive farming and monocropping to produce high yields
Unlimited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields
Unlimited farmland encourages extensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields
Limited farmland encourages extensive farming with monocropping to produce high yields
Limited farmland encourages intensive farming with intercropping to produce high yields.
Which of the following best explains the importance of climate to agricultural practices?
Agricultural crops are successful only in midlatitude climates, where any crop can be grown
The sparse vegetation in arid or semiarid climates does not support animal-based agriculture
Midlatitude climates tend to support similar agricultural crops and practices, such as wheat farming in the United States and China.
Tropical climates support plant-based agriculture, but animal-based agriculture is not successful in tropical areas.
Cold midlatitude climates are associated with plantation agriculture and pastoral nomadism.
Palm oil, an edible vegetable oil used in processing packaged food products, is obtained from the fruit of the oil palm tree, grown only in the tropics. Which of the following explains how global demand for palm oil has proved beneficial and detrimental for countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia?
Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but increased government subsidies to palm oil farmers led to increased poverty in the two countries.
Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the process led to high rates of unemployment for farmworkers at harvest time.
Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the growth in the industry resulted in heavy deforestation in both countries.
Palm oil exports provided increased income to the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, but the number of farmers employed on palm oil plantations decreased in the two countries.
Palm oil exports aided in increasing the wealth of the two countries but also increased the diversity of plants in the two countries.
Which of the following explains why multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arose across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia?
Domestication of plants and animals began in Central America and the process diffused to other areas through the early explorers.
Domestication of plants and animals began in Southeast Asia and the process diffused to other areas as nomadic warriors conquered other cultural groups and carried the new seeds and animals with them.
Domestication of plants and animals began in the Fertile Crescent and the process diffused as pastoral nomads migrated to other areas.
Domestication of plants and animals began in the Indus River valley and the process diffused to other areas across trade routes.
Domestication of plants and animals evolved in each hearth independently of one another as societies in each area learned and applied the process to local plants and animals.
Which of the following explains an impact of globalized agricultural commodity chains on consumers as compared to producers?
Drought and depletion of groundwater sources in developing countries cause a rise in global grain prices and associated higher costs for food.
The shift from subsistence farming to value-added agriculture by small farmers in developed countries causes a drop in profits for global agribusiness corporations.
The imposition of government-imposed tariffs on specialty crops in order to protect domestic farmers causes a worldwide decrease in all farm products.
Farmers in developing countries who are unable to gain access to global food markets to sell their goods protest, leading to global unrest.
Agricultural production with a focus on monocropping cash crops creates more vulnerability in a country’s exports if consumer preferences shift to a different commodity.
Between 1950 and 1990, wheat production in India in average pounds per acre more than tripled, which allowed India to meet its population’s need for food. Which of the following best explains this change?
The elimination of poverty in India’s rural regions
The use of genetically modified seeds
The increase in microloan programs that provide farmers with credit
The use of large farm tractors and combine harvesters
The use of improved plant hybrids and agricultural chemicals
Deforestation has resulted in
more farmland in some places but more desertification in others
more farmland in some places and less desertification in others
less farmland in some places but more desertification in others
less farmland in some place and less desertification in others
no noticeable change in the amount of farmland or desertification
Which statement about 1961 to 2011 is best supported by the graph?
Food scarcity improved in both Asia and Africa
Green Revolution techniques worked better in Asia than in Africa
Population growth was higher in Africa than in Asia
Green Revolution techniques worked well in both regions but slowed down dramatically
Millet and rice are not very important food sources for either region, indicating that a conclusion about food security is invalid
