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AP Human Geography Exam Review 2017 Part B
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1
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is
1 mile
Range
Threshold
Meridian
2
What monotheistic religion is based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Hinduism
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
3
A language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer used
Extinct Language
Isolated Speech
Forgotten Words
Old Dialect
4
The Industrial Revolution began in
France
Great Britain
the United States
Japan
5
The language with the largest number of speakers is
Mandarin Chinese
English
Spanish
Finnish
6
The language spoken by soldiers stationed throughout the Roman Empire was known as
Slang Hindi
English
Vulgar Latin
Danish
7
The science of making maps is
Cartography
Topography
Demography
Meteorology
8
In the Midwest states, farm fields are more likely to be damaged by
too much rain
drought conditions
Roly Poly Invasions
unseasonal snow
9
World population tends to be concentrated
On continental margins
On continental interiors
in the ginger land
At higher elevasions
10
The global lingua franca is
Hindi
English
French
Mandarin Chinese
11
Mexico's maquiladora plants...
must operate far from the U.S.-Mexico border
have an advantage of proximity to U.S. markets
have grown in number as factories have been closed in China
employ only gingers
12
Which of the following is a centrifugal force in a country?
Religious differences
A national holiday
An attack on gingers
An effective national government
13
Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
14
Thomas Malthus predicted that population would soon be in what stage of growth
Exponential
Static
Negative
Stage Redhead
15
What is the most abundant fossil fuel?
Natural Gas
Petroleum
Coal
Beans
16
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is
Projection
Rendition
Distribution
Scale
17
In what zone of von Thunen's model would the fruit production method of farming best fit?
Livestock Ranching
Commercial Grain
Market Gardening
Dairy
18
The S-curve is most often associated with what geographic factor?
Economic development over time
World population growth over time
Cultural adaptation
The stability of government
19
Newspaper delivery areas are an example of which type of region
Statistical
Formal
Functional
Vernacular
20
Prime agricultural land in the U.S. is being replaced with
urban land uses
nature preserves
military bases
oil drilling
21
Land suited for agriculture is called
Candy Land
Biome Land
Arid Land
Arable Land
22
Which religion is polytheistic
Christianity
Atheism
Islam
Shintoism
23
If you wanted to find the global distribution of coal, you would use a
Topographic map
Reference map
Thematic map
Location map
24
Most of the ethanol produced in the U.S. comes from which biodegradable commodity
Wheat
Corn
Plastic
Soybeans
25
Human being avoid all but which of these regions
Wet lands
Warm lands
Dry lands
Cold lands
26
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
Balkanization
Migration
Deep Fried
Genocide
27
World Bank assistance goes largely to countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Asia
South America
Eastern Europe
28
What is the seasonal migration of livestock to pasture lands where more food is more plentiful
Interval Migration
Transhumance
Natality
Sustainability
29
Major sources of FDI in terms of frequency and dollar amount are
Transnational Corporations
Venture Capitalists
Fair Trade Programs
Microfinance
30
What is the major drawback to using wind power to supply energy?
The amount of space needed for each windmill or turbine
The lack of power produced from each turbine
The considerable installation costs
The lack of wind in most locations of the world
31
Which one of the following groups is excluded from the caste system of Hinduism
Scholar-priests
Warrior-landowners
Untouchables
Servants
32
What was the basic industry of Pittsburgh during the early development of the city?
Steel
Copper
Glass
Automobiles
33
Sawah & Paddy are terms most closely associated with
Wet Rice
Coffee Farms
Wheat Winnowing
Maize Planters
34
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican City are all examples of
Theocracies
Ethnic Homelands
Barrios
Gingervilles
35
What is the process called of splitting 2 plants and replanting both parts to propogate crops?
Plantation agriculture
Vegetative planting
Aquaculture
Subsistence planting
36
Which religion developed first?
Judaism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
37
Which one of the following items is an example of nonmaterial culture?
A dove
Dove candy bar
Dove soap
Dove symbol
38
The study of human characteristics on the landscape
Site
Mental Map
Human Geography
Spatial Interaction
39
Who first coined the term geography?
Eratosthenes
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
40
Which group of people believes that the world is ripe for a population explosion
Demographers
Neo-Malthusians
Neo-Chefs
Bressnerians
41
The percentage by which a population grows in years is called the
Ginger Cleansing
Crude Birth Rate
Natural Increase Rate
Net Migration
42
The redrawing of political districts for political gain is termed what?
Reapportionment
Gerrymandering
Red Mushrooms
Electoral regions
43
The "Line of Control" represents a dividing line in Kashmir between
India & Pakistan
Indonesia & Pakistan
India & Russia
India & America
44
Which of the following is the best example of folk food
KFC in China
American Pizza
McDonald's fries in Germay
Blowfish in Japan
45
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical feature to the way food tastes
Perceptual
Ecumene
Isogloss
Terrior
46
The overgrazing of pasture areas in arid climates has caused which problem
Aridnizer
Mass Starvation
Too many gingers
Desertification
47
A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
Hinduism & Buddhism
Judaism & Islam
Islam & Hinduism
Judaism & Buddhism
48
Just-in-time delivery refers to what?
Delivering food to gingers
The process of producing food in time to meet the demand
The process of getting food to the market before it spoils
The process of moving materials to reduce costs
49
What accounts for the largest amount of solid waste in the United States?
Electronics
Paper Products
Beer Bottles
Tin Cans
50
Which country possesses the greatest natural gas reserves
Russia
Brazil
India
Saudi Arabia
51
The most lethal epidemic in years has been
AIDs
Avian Flu
Ginger hair
Malaria
52
The core of Islamic belief rests on
The 10 Commandments
The Five Pillars
The Eightfold Path
The Four Noble Truths
53
Which distinctive cultural religion in the U.S. has its own food, music, & language near Mexico
Cajun
Ginger
Tejano
Creole
54
To increase crop yields, farmers in South China commonly practice
Double Cropping
Shifting Cultivation
Threshing
Pastoral Nomadism
55
Which of these is not one of the Four Asian Tigers
Singapore
Taiwan
Vietnam
South Korea
56
In which country does language pose a centrifugal force?
United States
Canada
Brazil
Norway
57
1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
Written
Metric
Fractional
Graphic
58
The total number of live births per year per 1000 people in a society is the
Total Fertility Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Life Data
Natural Increase Rate
59
The Pentagon in Washington DC is a good example of
a symbolic landscape
an urban landscape
a festival landscape
a military landscape
60
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment
Religion
Nationality
Ethnicity
Culture
61
The United Kingdom has established greenbelts around certain cities to prevent what?
The spread of poverty
Pollution
Urban Sprawl
Major Traffic
62
The spread of something over a given study area is
Distribution
Density
Pattern
Concentration
63
The most populous country to depend on hydroelectric power is
Russia
Brazil
Norway
Austria
64
The Gobi Desert in Mongolia uses what primary form of agriculture
Pastoral Nomadism
Slash-and-burn farming
Commercial Agriculture
Greenbelting
65
Who founded Buddhism?
Muhammed
Siddhartha Gautama
Jesus Christ
The Dalai Llama
66
Most Asian migration to the United States is through the process of
Brain Drain
Expansion Diffusion
Chain Migration
Undocumented Immigration
67
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the U.S. is an example of one element
Taboo
Folk Culture
Habit
Technological innovation
68
Which of the following states is the best example of an enclave
Gambia
Lesotho
Brazil
Papua New Guinea
69
The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by
making Rio de Janeiro more attractive
getting rid of gingers
industrial development on the Atlantic coast
moving the capital to Brasilia
70
What major factor has lead the Four Asian Tigers to success?
Trading Goods
Raw Materials
Low Land Costs
Gingers
71
Which of the following capital cities is located outside the central core area of the country
Cairo, Egypt
Moscow, Russia
Paris, France
Abuja, Nigeria
72
Supranationalism has come at the expense of what other geopolitical concept?
Imperialism
Sovereignty
Settlement
Colonialism
73
The largest territory in the world in terms of population is
Puerto Rico
Canada
Coasta Rica
Virgin Islands
74
The most significant numbers of organic farmers are found in
Canada
Brazil
Argentina
Australia
75
The reuse of unwanted material
Reducing
Re-abusing
Reselling
Recycling
76
What is the poorest region in the U.S.
Mid-West
Weast
Southeast
Northeast
77
The conflict in Rwanda and Uganda in the mid-1990sis an example of
Border conflict
A religious conflict
An ethnic conflict
An ethnic enclave
78
Which language family contains Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian?
Germanic
Romance
Slavic
Celtic
79
The near secession of Quebec from Canada in 1995 was based on what cultural factor?
Religion
Nationality
Language
Ethnicity
80
Southeast Asia from the 1950s to the 1970s was considered a
Theocracy
Portable Toilet
Shatterbelt
Microstate
81
The Chernobyl incident in 1986 involved
a nuclear power accident
the misfire of a nuclear missile
an oil spill
a nuclear explosion in the high atmosphere
82
Which world class city is the best example of an entrepot
Shanghai
Dubai
Madrid
Singapore
83
What are maps called that keep shapes intact but distort area?
Conformal
Azimuthal
Relative
Molleweide
84
The majority of Kurds are found in which country
India
Turkey
Iran
Pakistan
85
Most people in the world live in what type of settlement?
Primordial
Clustered Rural
Urban Settlement
Suburban Towns
86
A population pyramid looks like an upside-down triangle, indicating that the area has a many
Elderly People
Women
Immigrants
Youth
87
What geographical feature usually distinguishes time zones?
15 degrees of latitude
5 degrees of longitude
5 degrees of latitude
15 degrees of longitude
88
Which of the following is Not a form of commercial gardening?
Mediterranean Agriculture
Slash-and-burn Farming
Fruit Farming
Livestock Ranching
89
What is the most widespread primary economic activity in the world
Fishing
Forestry
Agriculture
Mining
90
What crop did Norman Borlaug use to initiate the Third Agricultural Revolution in Mexico?
Wheat
Pissa
Rice
Corn
91
A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a
Russian Spy
Bulk-reducing industry
Specialized manufacturer
Bulk-gaining industry
92
Which country is the only semi peripheral nation-state in Africa
South Africa
Angola
Gabon
Kenya
93
Thailand is the best example of which type of political shape
Elongated
Fragmented
Perforated
Prorupted
94
A central place is a
Ginger Town
Market Center
range of a good
Hinterland
95
A hearth is
the modification of a culture through popular culture trends
a region from which a phenomenon originates
the perimeter of a regional feature
an area defined by one or more distinctive trends
96
Which is a form of expansion diffusion?
Stimulus
Contagious
Relocation
Hierarchical
97
English is a part of which branch?
Austronesian
Germanic
Indo-European
Northern
98
At what degree of latitude is the North Pole?
90 Degrees North
45 Degrees South
780 Degrees East
0 Degrees West
99
Which religion is universalizing?
Islam
Shintoism
Taoism
Judaism
100
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion
Buddhism
Judaism
Baha'i
Islam
101
Taking photos of Earth from space is called
Satellite imagery
GPS
GIS
Remote hotagraphy
102
What language is known as the lingua franca of Eastern Africa
English
Swahili
Zulu
Hindi
103
Special economic zones are most common in which country?
Russia
Japan
China
Brazil
104
Which term refers to the physical character of a location?
Place
Situation
Geography
Site
105
Medieval cities in Europe usually had what characteristic in common?
Well-developed urban hydrology
Moats
All roads leading to them
Protective Walls
106
A principal factor in the population shift westward in the 1850s was
A Ginger invasion
a gold rush
The Erie Canal
a war with Mexico
107
Which type of boundary exists between the United States and Canada.
Water
Cultural
Linguistic
Geometric
108
The Rhine River is an example of which type of boundary
Relic
Artificial
Natural
Geometric
109
When combined for all LDCs, which of the following rates is lower than MDCs combined?
Crude Birth Rate
Natural Increase Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
Crude Death Rate
110
Geographers define overpopulation as
Too many gingers
Too many people in the world
Too many people compared to resources
Too many people in a region