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Ap Human Geography Exam Review

Total questions: 69

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Rights and powers believed to be in the authority of that state rather than the federal government.

a)

States' Rights

b)

Supranationalism

c)

State

d)

Network Cities

2.

Synonymous with "country"; an administrative region with internationally recognized sovereignty.

a)

Modern Architecture

b)

Network Cities

c)

State

d)

Sacred Spaces

3.

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

a)

Neolithic

b)

Industrial

c)

Green

d)

Beatles

4.

Name the correct regions.

a)

Indian Sub-continent

b)

Central Asia

c)

South Asia

d)

Southeast Asia

5.

The United Nations created these to help reduce disparities between developed and developing countries

a)

Sustainability growth ideas

b)

Subsistence Agriculture

c)

Sustainable Development Goals

d)

Sucky Ideas that don't fix much

6.

Forces within a state that promote unity and national stability.

a)

Transportation and Communication as a Centripetal Force

b)

Centripetal Forces

c)

Unitary States

d)

Unifying Institutions as a Centripetal Force

7.

Movement to residential communities, located outside of city centers that are usually relatively homogenous in terms of population.

a)

Channelized Migration

b)

Chain Migration

c)

Rural to Urban Migration

d)

Suburbanization

8.

If a____ evolves to the point of being the primary language of the people who speak it, it becomes a ____.

a)

Pidgin and Creole

b)

Lingua Franca and Pidgin

c)

Creole and Official Language

d)

Lingua Franca and Official Language

9.

Positional disputes involve disagreement over interpretation of position of the boundary line; occur most often with physical boundaries.

a)

Contentation

b)

Conflict

c)

Boundary Disputes

d)

Territoriality

10.

Loss of distinct local features in favor of standardized landscapes.

a)

Sacred Place

b)

Sense of Place

c)

Placelessness

11.

Individual or group attempt to establish authority over a piece of land considered a partially or wholly exclusive domain.

a)

Theocracies

b)

Territoriality

c)

Colonialism

d)

Cornucopians

12.

A country's leading city, with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country.

a)

Megacities

b)

Primate Cities

13.

Refers to the process by which the three dimensional surface of the Earth is transferred to a two-dimensional map.

a)

Reference Maps

b)

Projection

c)

Preference Maps

d)

Proportional Symbols Maps

14.

Dispersed settlements and Nucleated settlements are examples of....

a)

Urban Settlement Types

b)

Rural Settlement Types

15.

Has had tremendous effects on political geography in terms of boundaries, cores, and capitals, and international economic relationships.

a)

Colonialism

b)

Globalization

c)

Imperialism

d)

Migration

16.

The Berlin Wall, and the related divide between east and west Germany, is an example of ___

a)

consequent boundaries

b)

antecedent boundaries

c)

superimposed boundaries

d)

relic boundaries

17.

This illustrates which of the following boundaries

a)

relic boundary

b)

geometric boundary

c)

antecedent boundary

d)

subsequent boundary

18.

The boundaries between Pakistan and India are best described as _____________ boundaries.

a)

relic

b)

consequent

c)

antecedent

d)

geometric

19.

Show people's ideas about environmental, social, or economic quality of life in various places.

a)

Preference Maps

b)

Reference Maps

c)

Proportional Symbols Maps

d)

Thematic

20.

Tendency of a population to continue to grow in spite of stringent population policies or rapid fertility decline because of the large number of individuals in their childbearing years.

a)

DTM Model

b)

Demographic Momentum

c)

ETM Model

21.

With (a)   streams, the flows between a particular origin and destination are larger than would normally be the case.

22.

Old political boundaries that no longer exist as international borders, but have left an enduring mark on the local cultural or environmental geography.

a)

Relic Boundaries

b)

Subsequent Boundaries

c)

Geometric boundaries

d)

Political boundary

23.

Trend toward creation of associations of three or more states developed for mutual benefit and to achieve shared objects.

a)

Regionalism

b)

Globalization

c)

Internationalism

d)

Supranationalism

24.

Describes optimal location of a manufacturing establishment in relation to costs of transportation, labor, and relative advantages of agglomeration.

a)

Domino Theory

b)

Weber's Least-Cost Theory

c)

Organic Theory

d)

Spykman's Rimland Theory

25.

What model is shown above on the picture?

a)

Rostow's Model of Development

b)

Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

c)

Commodity Dependence Theory

d)

Least Cost Theory

26.

Which model is shown in the Chart above?

a)

Demographic Transition Model

b)

Epidemiological Transition Model

c)

Rostow's Model of Development

d)

Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

27.

This type of map is used to navigate between places and include topographic maps, atlases, road maps, and other navigational maps.

a)

Topographic Maps

b)

Reference Maps

28.

One of the fundamental units of analysis in human geography.

a)

Global

b)

Region

29.

Number of deaths in a country per 1,000 people

a)

Death expectancy

b)

CBR

c)

CDR

d)

Life expectancy

30.

Number of live bearths in a single year for every 1,000 people in a population

a)

CBR

b)

Life expectancy

c)

CDR

d)

increasing population

31.

Farming without aid of artificial inputs such as pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and genetically engineered seeds.

a)

Non-genetically modified organisms

b)

Organic Agriculture

32.

Language in which all government business occurs.

a)

Lingua Franca

b)

Official Language

c)

Creole Language

d)

Pidgin Language

33.

The study of regions.

a)

Types of Scale of Analysis

b)

Political geography

c)

Regional Geography

34.

The transfer of some central powets to regional or local governments.

a)

centralization

b)

Devolution

c)

Autonomy

d)

Decentralization

35.
Name the model
a)
The Sector Model
b)
Concentric Zone Model
c)
Multiple Nuclei Model
d)
British Urban land Use Model
36.
a)

Galactic

b)

Burgess

c)

Hoyt Sector

d)

multiple-nuclei

37.
Which is NOT a contributing factor to devolution?
a)
Ethnic tensions and rivalries
b)
Economic inequalities among citizens
c)
Isolation from the capital or other cultural centers
d)
Cooperation and a sense of joint purpose among the citizens.
38.

Which theory is shown above?

a)

Rostow's Model of Development

b)

Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

c)

Commodity Dependence Theory

d)

Least Cost Theory

39.
Which supranational organization was established to prevent the Heartland from spreading after World War II?
a)
United Nations
b)
NATO
c)
NAFTA
d)
European Union
40.
Separatist movements that demand self-rule or independence exert centripetal forces on or within a state.
a)
False
b)
True
41.

Did Esther, a Danish economist in the mid-twentieth century, create The Boserup Hypothesis?

a)

True

b)

False

42.

Different environmental conditions offer both restraints and opportunities to people living in various regions.

a)

Cores and Capitals

b)

Possibilism

c)

Sense of place

d)

Sacred Spaces

43.

Size of the chosen symbol indicates relative magnitude of some value for a given geographic region.

a)

Proportional Symbols Maps

b)

Thematic Maps

c)

Topographic Maps

d)

Choropleth Maps

44.

Sparsely settled areas removed from the influence of large cities.

a)

Rural Settlements

b)

Urban Settlements

c)

Suburbans Settlements

45.

Term used to connote attachment to and comfort in a particular place.

a)

Sacred Spaces

b)

Placelessness

c)

Sense of Place

46.

The Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall in Jerusalem is an example of..,

a)

Sacred Spaces

b)

Sense of Place

47.

People producing food or raising animals to provide for themselves and their families.

a)

Extensive Subsistence Agriculture

b)

Intensive Agriculture

c)

Extensive Agriculture

d)

Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

48.

An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more complex languages, usually for purpose of trade.

a)

Lingua Franca

b)

Language Groups

49.

Established prior to human cultural development and may include physical features such as rivers or mountains.

a)

consequent boundary

b)

geometric boundary

c)

antecedent boundary

d)

relic boundary

50.

Which of the following is a common example of a superimposed boundary?

a)

Mexican-USA border

b)

Canadian-USA border

c)

most state boundaries in Africa

d)

the Berlin Wall

51.

What is the the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

a)

Segregation

b)

Isolation

c)

Differentiation

d)

Exclusion

52.

People flock to cities in hopes of finding economic opportunity and a better way of life for themselves and/or family.

a)

Migration

b)

Rural to Urban Migration

53.

Geographically based political organization that bestows relative power on hierarchy of local government agencies

a)

Territorial Organization

b)

Rank-Size Rule

54.

States that the population of any given town should inversely proportional to its rank in the country's urban hierarchy.

a)

Rank-Size Rule

b)

Territorial Organization

55.

Describes migration flows from a common origin to the same destination. Family or friends move first and get established within an area, paving the way for more friends and family to follow the same path.

a)

Internal Migration

b)

Chain Migration

c)

External Migration

d)

Emigration

56.

______ is when less precise but often meaningful measures are used to describe separation between two points.

a)

Relative distance

b)

Linear distance

c)

Absolute Distance

57.

Involve direct extraction or harvesting of resources from the land. It includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, and mining.

a)

Origin of Agricultre

b)

Primary Economic Activities

c)

Green Revolution

d)

Mixed and Specialty Crop Farming

58.

Is it true that most European countries follow the Cores and Capitals model and most tend to be unitary states?

a)

True

b)

False

59.

Which process results from suburbanization when affluent individuals leave the city center for homogeneous suburban neighborhoods?

a)

Residential Segregation

b)

Increased Traffic Congestion

c)

Increased air pollution

d)

Increased Economic Dispersed

60.

Truck farms or market gardens produce _________; in both types climate largely determines production.

a)

Specialty crops

b)

Mixed and specialty crops

c)

Mixed crops

61.

Predicts population change within a particular area as a function of natural increase/decrease and in/out migration.

a)

Demographic Accounting Equation

b)

Demographic Transition Model

c)

Epidemiologic Transition Model

62.

First agricultural revolution involved a transition from hunting and gathering societies to sedentary agricultural societies through domestication of plants amd animals.

a)

First Agriculture Revolution

b)

Origins of Agriculture

63.

The first cities arose in the hearths of early agriculture.

a)

Colonial Cities

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

Origin of Cities

64.

A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics.

a)

Language Groups

b)

Origin of Language

c)

Lingua Franca

d)

Pidgin Language

65.

A meeting that took place in 1884 among 14 European countries that established boundaries throughout Africa according to colonial interests.

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

Congress of Vienna

c)

Conference of Berlin

d)

League of Nations

66.

A voluntary grouping of states or communities for some common purpose.

a)

Confederation

b)

Alliance

c)

Coalition

d)

Union

67.

State governed constitutionally as a unit, without internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers.

a)

Autocratic States

b)

Unitary States

c)

Monarchical States

d)

Democratic States

68.

What is terrorism?

a)

The use of violence to achieve political or ideological goals

b)

The calculated use of violent acts against a civilian population and symbolic targets.

c)

The use of force to intimidate or coerce a government or society.

69.

Did you get enough points to pass?

a)

No

b)

Yes

c)

IDK