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Ap Human Geo Final

Total questions: 137

Worksheet time: 1hrs 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is the best example of Outsourcing? 
a)
An El Salvadorian immigrant illegally immigrates to the USA to find work
b)
An American Tech Company fires it's American Employees and hires people in Bangladesh to do the same job for 1/4 the cost 
c)
A European worker moves to the USA and gets a high paying job at a tech company. 
d)
An American company decides to change it's steel contracts from Japanese companies to Chinese companies 
2.
What allowed for the creation of Maquiladoras?
a)
NAFTA
b)
NATO
c)
ANSEAN
d)
HDI
3.
Which statistic tells you how much money a country makes? 
a)
HDI
b)
PPP
c)
GNP
d)
WTO
4.
Which of the following is NOT infrastructure? 
a)
Roads
b)
Electrical cables 
c)
Public Parks 
d)
Air Ports 
5.
Under which economic system are most countries in the world today? 
a)
Communism
b)
Capitalism
c)
Socialism
d)
Hodaism
6.
Which country would be most likely to advertise Ecotourism? 
a)
South Korea
b)
Costa Rica
c)
China
d)
Netherlands
7.
Why do most restaurants clump together in shopping malls and on busy street corners?
a)
Agglomeration
b)
Ease of Access
c)
More Capital
d)
Laws of Location 
8.
Where was the hearth of the Industrial revolution? 
a)
Germany
b)
USA
c)
Russia
d)
England
9.
Why does Coca-Cola have bottling plants all over the world and not just one major plant? 
a)
Because Coca Cola is a Bluk Reducing Industry
b)
Because Coca Cola is a Bulk Gaining Industry 
c)
Because Coca Cola is a Footloose industry
d)
Because Coca Cola is a Basic Industry 
10.
Which resource has produced the most energy over the last 200 years? 
a)
Uranium
b)
Coal
c)
Gas
d)
Oil 
11.

An area organized around a node or focal point with a strong charateristic in the center

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Vernacular Region

12.

An area where everyone shares 1 or more distinctive characteristics (Texas and their set of laws)

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Vernacular Region

13.

An area people believe exist as part of their culutral idenity and their informal sense of place

answer choices

a)

Formal Region

b)

Functional Region

c)

Vernacular Region

14.

Measures the distance north and south of the Equator

a)

Latitude

b)

Longitude

c)

Tropics

d)

Polar

15.

Measures the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian

a)

Longitude

b)

Tropics

c)

Latitude

d)

Polar

16.

0 degrees longitude

a)

Temperate

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

International Date line

d)

Location

17.

180 degrees longitude

a)

International Date Line

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Temperate

d)

Location

18.

The position of something on the Earth's surface

a)

Location

b)

International Date line

c)

Temperate

d)

Prime Meridian

19.

The physical & human characteristics of any location on Earth

a)

Region

b)

Place

c)

Location

d)

Area

20.

A kind of map in which areas are shaded in proportion to the variable being displayed on the map

a)

Cartograms

b)

Choropleth maps

c)

Physical maps

d)

Political maps

21.

The style of a Church and the symbol of a Cross is an example of what?

a)

Cultural Traits

b)

Cultural Assimilation

c)

Colonization

d)

Demographic Transition Model

22.

When humans modify their environment and create Cultural Landscapes, this is called what?

a)

Human Environment

b)

Built Environment

c)

Cultural Assimilation

d)

Natural Landscapes

23.

Centrifugal Forces are what?

a)

The DIFFERNCES that exist in people.. Religion, politics, language, ethnicity

b)

The forces that shape the earth

c)

The SIMILARITIES that exist in people.. Religion, politics, language, ethnicity

d)

The forces that shape culture

24.

Centripetal Forces are...

a)

The SIMMILARITES people share.. Religion, language, politics, ethnicity

b)

The DIFFERENCES people share.. Religion, language, politics, ethnicty

c)

The forces that shape the earth

d)

The forces that shape culture

25.

A foundational/main religion in a country is called...

a)

Principal Religion

b)

Main Religion

c)

First Religion

d)

Homogenous Religion

26.

Cultural Diffusion is...

a)

The way cultures turn into forces that make people fight

b)

The spreading of culture/ideas from one place to another

c)

What caused the Great War of 1798

d)

How culture is built

27.

One example of Popular culture would be what?

a)

Fashion Trends on Tik Tok

b)

Traditional Cultural Practices

c)

Amish ways of living

d)

One type of cultures cooking style

28.

What is Globalization?

a)

increased interaction between countries, people, businesses, and countries around the globe

b)

When issues reach the global scale

c)

The process of electing global leadership

d)

the features on earth that have impacted humans the most throughout history

29.

The Gravity Model in geography suggests that __________ and __________ are the two most significant factors in determining the extent of the relationship and interaction between two cities.

a)

population size and distance

b)

cultural output and industrial output

c)

population size and industrial output

30.

Mixed-use development, pedestrian-friendly design, and the incorporation of front porches and alleys are design elements of which of the following?

a)

Leapfrog development

b)

New urbanism

c)

Transit-oriented development

31.

It is generally agreed that the current trend in climate change is caused by...

a)

increased use of fossil fuels

b)

tilt of Earth’s axis

c)

reduction in biodiversity

32.

Which of the following is an example of Balkanization?

a)

Hungary

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Greece

33.

Which of the following is an example of a supranational organization with the main mission of increasing economic integration?

a)

The United Nations

b)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

c)

The European Union

34.

Which of the following applies to areas with little or no access to healthy and affordable food or limited or no access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

a)

Heat Island

b)

Brown Field

c)

Food Desert

35.

Identify the Universalizing religions

a)

SikhismHinduism, Judaism

b)

Christianity, Buddhism, Islam

36.

Little Havana, China Town and Little Italy are urban environments where a particular ethnic group can practice their culture known as...

a)

ethnic enclaves

b)

ethnic islands

37.

The world's largest stateless nation is...

a)

Basque Country

b)

Palestine

c)

Kurdistan

38.

To appease local Kurds who wish to have more sovereignty over their territory, countries like Iraq and Syria have granted Kurds a degree of autonomy. This is an example of...

a)

Fragmentation

b)

Devolution

c)

Balkanization

39.

Which of the following is NOT a criterion of a nation?

a)

sovereignty

b)

common identity

c)

common heritage

d)

traditional homeland

40.

Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?

a)

its status as a primate city

b)

the gravity model

c)

central place theory

41.

Identify the combination of countries that is correctly ordered from core, semi-periphery to periphery.

a)

Guatemala; Norway; China

b)

China; Guatemala; Norway

c)

Norway; China; Guatemala

42.

Identify the megalopoles.

a)

Cairo, L.A., New Delhi

b)

London, New York City

c)

Bos-Wash Corridor, Taiheyo Belt

43.

The red line denotes the geographic region where the use of one word transitions to the use of another word of the same meaning. This linguistic boundary is known as a(n)

a)

isogloss

b)

dialect

c)

theocracy

d)

accent

44.

Due to millennia of persecution, the Jews have spread throughout the globe. This dispersion of a religious group is known as a...

a)

diaspora

b)

theocracy

c)

sharias

45.

The location in which a cultural trait (religion, language, tradition etc.) originated and is most prevalent is known as its...

a)

exodus

b)

hearth

c)

diaspora

46.

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a trend throughout the population.

a)

Contagious

b)

Hierarchial

c)

Stimulus

d)

Relocation

47.

The diminished importance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

a)

Relocation Diffusion

b)

Demographic Diffusion

c)

Distance Decay

d)

Formal Region

48.

GIS

a)

GO IN SPACE

b)

GETTING IT SLICED

c)

GOING IT SOLO

d)

Geographic Information System

49.

A system used to transfer locations from the Earth's surface to a flat map.

a)

Placement

b)

Projection

c)

Physical Map

d)

Remote Sensing

50.

The ratio of the number of farmes to the total amount of arable land.

a)

Agricultural Density

b)

Arithmetic Density

c)

Carry Capacity

d)

Physiological Density

51.

The number of working age people divided by the number of persons 65 and older.

a)

Dependency Ratio

b)

Elderly Support Ratio

c)

Demographic Transition Model

d)

Malthus Theory

52.

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous , rural group.

a)

Custom

b)

Folk

c)

Popular

d)

Habit

53.

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.

a)

Literal Language

b)

Language Family

c)

Common Language

d)

Lingua Franca

54.

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait such as skin color.

a)

Ethnicity

b)

Prejudice

c)

Enclave

d)

Race

55.

The belief that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically.

a)

Animism

b)

Agnosticism

c)

Atheism

d)

Acculturation

56.
Which map would have the smallest scale?
a)
city
b)
state
c)
continent
d)
world
57.

“Brain drain” migration is thought to be the result of

a)

social and environmental factors in developing countries

b)

the problems people face in source countries, and the allure of a better life

c)

families living in different parts of the world

d)

workers becoming more ambitious

58.

Hong Kong is a ....

a)

Nation-State

b)

Autonomous Region

c)

Semi-Autonomous Region

d)

Multistate Nation

59.

What is an example of a state?

a)

Hawaii

b)

Cherokee Nation

c)

Greenland

d)

Canada

60.
The time it takes for the world population to go from 3 billion to 6 billion or 6 billion to 12 billion is called
a)
overpopulation
b)
doubling time
c)
natural increase
d)
life expectancy
61.

Large farms that sell their crops for profit is referred to as...

a)

Commercial Agriculture

b)

Subsistence Agriculture

62.

Small farms meant to feed one family...

a)

Commercial Agriculture

b)

Subsistence Agriculture

63.

Which Crop was most commonly grown in the Americas?

a)

Rice

b)

Green Beans

c)

Peppermint

d)

Corn/Maize

64.

What happened because of the Green Revolution?

a)

More trees were planted all around the world

b)

More food production in LDC's

c)

Higher trade

d)

No effect

65.

This is an example of which type of agriculture?

a)

Intensive Subsistence - Wet Rice Variety

b)

Livestock

c)

Commercial

d)

Subsistence

66.

Which type of agriculture is most likely to occur in Southeastern Asia?

a)

Slash and Burn

b)

Commercial Agriculture

c)

Intensive Subsistence Wet-Rice Dominant

67.

Which type of farming is this an example of?

a)

Wet-Rice Dominant

b)

Livestock

c)

Slash and Burn

d)

Shifting cultivation

68.

The idea that cultures are impacted by the environment but NOT ultimately determined by it is known as...

a)

environmental determinism

b)

environmental possibilism

69.

Human Geography is best characterized as...

a)

the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.

b)

the study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment.

c)

the study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities.

70.

Regions such as the Paris Metro Area which contain a central node around which a specific activity is carried out are best characterized as...

a)

Perceptual Regions

b)

Formal Regions

c)

Functional Regions

71.
Whose development model consists of a 5 stage process that countries go through as they develop economically?
a)
Losch 
b)
Rostow 
c)
Wallerstein 
d)
Weber
72.
Newly industrialized countries (NICs) like Brazil and Mexico are considered part of the 
a)
Core
b)
Periphery
c)
Semi-Periphery
d)
External
73.
Countries in _____ and _____ would likely have the highest rates of gender equality.
a)
North America: Western Europe 
b)
South America: Western Europe 
c)
North America: South America
d)
East Asia: South America
74.
Which types of countries' economies rely primarily on primary economic activities?
a)
Core Countries
b)
NICs
c)
Semi-Periphery Countries
d)
Periphery Countries
75.
Which region of the world has no core countries?
a)
North America
b)
Western Europe
c)
Oceania
d)
Sub-Saharan Africa
76.
Farming, mining, fishing, and forestry are all considered to be
a)
Primary Economic Activities
b)
Secondary Economic Activities
c)
Tertiary Economic Activities
d)
Quaternary Economic Activities
77.
Created by Wallerstein to show that the world is interconnected and that we are all interdependent on each other.  Divides us into three tiers of economic prosperity.
a)
Dependency Theory
b)
Neo liberal counterrevolution
c)
structural adjustment loan
d)
World Systems theory
78.

Which Revolution marks the shift in working with hands to machines for mass production (and profit)?

a)

Neolithic

b)

Industrial

c)

Green

d)

Beatles

79.

Trade Deficit

a)

policy that promotes elimination of trade barriers, such as tariffs and quotas

b)

when imports exceed exports

c)

non-economic negative effects from trade

d)

when exports exceed imports

80.

The scale of this map of the U.S. is:

a)

local

b)

national

c)

regional

d)

global

81.

John Snowden's cholera map is a ______ map:

a)

cartogram

b)

choropleth

c)

dot density

d)

graduated symbol

e)

topographic

82.

Which of the following describes a federal form of governance?

a)

A centralized government creates a barrier to local participation in the political process.

b)

Autonomous regions act outside the authority of a central government.

c)

Federal states encourage devolutionary movements and break apart quickly.

d)

Laws are enacted in a single language to promote cultural unity.

e)

Multiple substates have local control and are unified to pursue common goals at the national level.

83.

Which of the following is South Africa’s former state-sanctioned policy of segregating the races?

a)

Redlining

b)

Gerrymandering

c)

Apartheid

d)

Secularism

e)

Gentrification

84.

Native American tribes are considered

a)

Semi automous

b)

nation-state

c)

multi-state nation

d)

federal government

e)

unitary government

85.

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but people in the former East and West Germany still feel its influence. Geographers would say that where the wall once stood now acts as a

a)

superimposed boundary

b)

relict boundary

c)

fortified boundary

d)

antecedent boundary

e)

natural boundary

86.

Migration is an example of...

a)

expansion diffusion

b)

stimulus diffusion

c)

relocation diffusion

d)

hierarchical diffusion

87.

Which is NOT one of the largest migration flows?

a)

from Latin America to North America

b)

from Western Europe to Eastern Europe

c)

from South Asia to Europe

d)

from South Asia to Southwest Asia

88.

All of the following are forms of commercial agriculture EXCEPT

a)

dairy farming

b)

pastoral nomadism

c)

cattle ranching

d)

specialized fruit production

e)

grain farming

89.

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ---

a)

subsistence agriculture

b)

commercial farming

c)

crop rotation

d)

slash-and-burn agriculture

e)

shifting cultivation

90.

Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants?

a)

Wheat

b)

Rice

c)

Taro

d)

Soybeans

e)

Millet

91.

All of the following are plantation crops EXCEPT

a)

cotton

b)

tea

c)

sugarcane

d)

rubber

e)

wheat

92.

All of the following crops are products of Mediterranean agriculture EXCEPT

a)

olives

b)

grapes

c)

dates

d)

figs

e)

apples

93.

Feedlots are an example of which kind of farming?

a)

intensive farming

b)

free-range farming

c)

extensive farming

d)

subsistence farming

e)

shifting cultivation

94.
A region where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established.
a)
Frontier
b)
Shatterbelt
c)
Buffer State
d)
Satellite State
95.
A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.
a)
Frontier
b)
Satellite States
c)
Shatterbelt
d)
Buffer State
96.
Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.
a)
Slav State
b)
Imperialist State
c)
Buffer State
d)
Satellite State
97.
An independent country located between two larger countries that are in conflict.
a)
Satellite State
b)
Buffer State
c)
Shatterbelt
d)
Frontier
98.
A state with only one nation within its borders
a)
Stateless-Nation
b)
Nation-State
c)
Ethnocentric Nation
d)
Statehood
99.
a state that contains more than one ethnicity.
a)
United States
b)
Multi-Cultural State
c)
Multi-Ethnic State
d)
Nation-State
100.
a country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination.
a)
Multi-Ethnic State
b)
Multi-National State
c)
Stateless Nation
d)
Nationalism
101.
a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.
a)
Nation-State
b)
City-State
c)
Stateless Nation
d)
National State
102.
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
a)
Self-determination
b)
Nationalism
c)
Predestination
d)
Nation-State
103.

What kind of map is shown in the picture?

a)

Choropleth

b)

Cartogram

c)

Political

d)

Physical

104.

What kind of map is shown in the picture?

a)

Choropleth

b)

Cartogram

c)

Political

d)

Physical

105.

What kind of map is shown in the picture?

a)

Choropleth

b)

Cartogram

c)

Political

d)

Physical

106.

What kind of map is shown in the picture?

a)

Choropleth

b)

Cartogram

c)

Political

d)

Physical

107.
Which projection is this?
a)
Lambert
b)
Mercator
c)
Goode's Homolosine
d)
Robinson
108.
Physiological density is the number of:
a)
acres of farmland.
b)
people per area suitable for agriculture.
c)
farmers per area of farmland.
d)
farm animals per area suitable for agriculture.
109.
If the physiological density is much higher than the arithmetic density, then a country has:
a)
inefficient farmers.
b)
a large number of farmers.
c)
a small percentage of land suitable for agriculture.
d)
too many people for the available resources.
110.
The highest CDRs are found in countries in which stage of the DTM?
a)
Stage 1
b)
Stage 2
c)
Stage 3
d)
Stage 4
111.
Malthus argued that food supply can only increase ______.
a)
geometrically
b)
inversely
c)
reversely
d)
arithmetically 
112.
According to Wilbur Zelinsky, in what stage of the DTM does interregional migration to city occur?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
113.
Which of the following is an example of a push factor?
a)
religious freedom
b)
a drought or famine
c)
 job opportunities
d)
a fair government
114.

“Brain drain” migration is thought to be the result of

a)

social and environmental factors in developing countries

b)

the problems people face in source countries, and the allure of a better life

c)

families living in different parts of the world

d)

workers becoming more ambitious

115.
Cultural diffusion is best described as...
a)
sharing music from one culture to another
b)
Cultural margarine
c)
the spreading of religion
d)
the spreading of ideas, languages, and traditions from one culture to another
116.
Which of the following relates to the origin and diffusion of folk culture?
a)
anonymous origin and rapid diffusion
b)
unknown hearths and relocation diffusion
c)
anonymous hearths and contagious diffusion
d)
known hearth and slow diffusion
117.
 The second-largest language family is
a)
Indo-European
b)
Austronesian
c)
Sino-Tibetan
d)
Dravidian
118.

What is the correct order for language?

a)

family, language, branch, dialect, group

b)

branch, family, language, group, dialect

c)

family, branch, group, language, dialect

d)

language, family, branch, group, dialect

119.

Intense loyalty and pride in one’s country is known as which of the following?

a)

Imperialism

b)

Nationalism

c)

Unilateralism

d)

Communism

120.

Gerrymandering is:

a)

When district boundaries are drawn in order to benefit the party in power and help it stay in power

b)

When seats in the House of Representatives are redistributed among states because of changes in population

c)

When district boundaries are redrawn to reflect changes in population.

d)

A measurement of the US population that occurs every ten years

121.
What is the territorial morphology of Macedonia?
a)
Compact
b)
Elongated
c)
Fragmented
d)
Prorupt
122.
A person who has been forced out of their country because of war, persecution, or a natural disaster 
a)
Outcast
b)
Emigrant
c)
Immigrant
d)
Refugee
123.

In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called ________

a)

public housing.

b)

gentrification.

c)

white flight.

d)

urban renewal.

124.

A city which is over 2 times larger than the next largest city in a country is known as a

a)

capital city

b)

primate city

c)

super city

d)

dirty city

125.
Megalopolis refers to:
a)
adjacent, overlapping metropolitan statistical areas.
b)
a large, densely packed city center.
c)
consolidated metropolitan statistical areas.
d)
regional government federation.
126.
The city plus its built-up contiguous suburbs is the:
a)
central city.
b)
metropolitan statistical area.
c)
urbanized area.
d)
regional government federation.
127.

Which urban model includes nodes such as a port, a university, an airport and a park?

a)

sub-saharan African city model

b)

concentric zone model

c)

multiple nuclei

d)

sector model

128.
The industries of copper, steel and ethanol are all examples of:
a)
Cottage Industries
b)
Mechanical Industries
c)
Bulk-gaining Industries
d)
Bulk-reducing Industries
129.
A location where transfer is possible between modes of transporation
a)
Maquiladoras
b)
Break of Bulk Points
c)
Break of Industry Points
d)
Outsource Points
130.
Manufacturing or other industry in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for determining location of the firm. Common footloose industries include catalog companies, which can locate anywhere as shipping in the US depends on weight not distance, as well as expensive and light items such as diamonds or computer chips. 
a)
Agglomeration Economies
b)
Cottage Industry
c)
Footloose Industry
d)
Fordist
131.
According to Von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market?
a)
Livestock
b)
Commercial Grain
c)
Dairy Farming
d)
Forestry
132.

Model that describes a country's progression in five stages from LDCs to MDCs.

a)

Rostow's Model of Economic Development

b)

Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

c)

Weber's Least Cost Theory

d)

Location Theory

133.

Compares the level of development of women with the development of both sexes combined.

a)

Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)

b)

Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)

c)

Gender Equity

d)

Human Development Index (HDI)

134.

How many questions for the multiple choice are on the multiple geography exam?

a)

60

b)

75

c)

50

d)

100

135.

How many Free response questions will you be required to answer in 75 minutes on the AP Human Geography Exam?

a)

3

b)

2

c)

5

d)

7

136.

How much of a percentage of the AP Test is the multiple choice section?

a)

50%

b)

75%

c)

25%

d)

60%

137.

How much of a percentage of the AP test is the free response questions?

a)

50%

b)

75%

c)

25%

d)

60%

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