shows age and sex population structure

Primate city are those that...

disproportionately larger than other cities in a country

Which of the following models of urban geography best describes this map?

sector model of urban development

Sources of forced migration include

political unrest & ecological degradtion

Which is TRUE about the condition of women in MDCs compared to LDCs?

women are more likely to hold government positions in MDCs

Von Thunen's model of rural land use is based on which of the following premises?

land values decrease farther from the urban center

The demographic transition model posits that...

countries with high levels of economic pro. have low birth

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1
Mecca represents the geographical focal point of which religion?
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
2
Which of the following U.S. regions has seen the most population growth since 1945?
The Sun Belt
The Citrus Belt
The Rust Belt
The Black Balt
3
Hearth regions of early agriculture included present-day
China, India, Turkey, & Mexico
India, Ethiopia, Greece, and Morocco
China, India, Sudan, and Malaysia
Anatolia, Peru, Borneo, and Hanalee
4
Maps like this one is a
functional maps
cognitive maps
false maps
perceptual regions
5
The hearth and spiritual center of Islam is at ..
Baghdad
Cairo
Mecca
Jerusalem
6
The world's most widespread religion is ....
Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
7
Which of the following is the result of chain migration?
San Francisco's Chinatown
French colonial rule
African slave trade
formation of Israel
8
Which of the following is NOT an example of a frontier?
Pacific Ocean
Lake Michigan
American West
Amazon Basin
9
WHAT SUBJECT ROCKS?!
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
math
english
science
10
The most widespread language family is?
Germanic
Indo-European
Mandarin Chinese
Romance
11
Which of the following is an example of an edge city?
Las Vegas, Nevada
Seattle, Washington
Boston, Massachuettes
Tyson's Corner, Virginia
12
Isolines are common on which of the following?
dot maps
atlases
globes
topographical maps
13
Which city's dense urban core became the "birthplace of the skyscraper"?
Chicago
Paris
New York
Tokyo
14
A simple trade language is called a..
pidgin
syncretic
lingua franca
dialect
15
With its system of regional provinces, Canada is
nation-state
federal state
electoral state
microstate
16
______ is an important gateway city.
Perth, Australia
Oslo, Norway
Denver, Colorado
Honolulu, Hawaii
17
A population period
depicts declining populations
illustrates social upheaval
shows age and sex population structure
cannot compare two countries
18
NNP stands for
Net National Product
nothing
19
Africa became a MDC in 2010.
False
True
20
All evangelical religions are also
logical religions
ethnic religions
animist religions
universal religions
21
The number of live births per thousand people per year is called..
total fertility rate
birth rate
crude birth rate
crude death rate
22
Literacy rates vary by...
all of these
sex
education
economic development
23
Which is a good example of a functional region?
area served by a local line
area where one dominant language prevails
Bible Belt states
state of Cali
24
Slash-and-burn agriculture meets all of the following conditions EXCEPT
associated with deforestation
part of the Green Revolution
mainly found in tropical environments
practiced by indigenous people
25
Modernist architecture
stressed the ornate
limited to new American cities
use eclectic and classic forms
characterize by skyscrapers
26
Primate city are those that...
disproportionately larger than other cities in a country
seats of political power w/n a country
giant conurbations
largest edge cities in a country
27
_________ is a common cause of decreasing farmland in rapidly growing urban areas.
Urban sprawl
Industrialization
Topsoil loss
Agribusiness
28
Human-induced environmental change is often referred to as...
unsustainable
anthropogenic
anthropocentric
anthropomorphic
29
An example of a city that conforms to the concentric zone model of urban growth is...
Toronto
Chicago
South Carolina
New York
30
This is a proportional symbols map
False
True
31
When crude birth rate is higher than crude death rate, the difference b/w the two is called
natural decrease
life expectancy
natural increase
replacement rate
32
By 2020, most of the world's biggest cities will be located in?
South America
Asia
Africa
Russia
33
What kind of map is this?
projected
cartogram
image
choropleth
34
_____ is (are) widespread in semiarid climates throughout the world.
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Dairying
Ranching
Tropical plantations
35
Which of the following models of urban geography best describes this map?
sector model of urban development
central place theory
rank-size rule
Von Thunen's concentric ring theory
36
Geographical research that applies only to one place or region
idographic
nonscientific
cultural studies
nomothetic
37
____ maps work well for locating and navigating between places
topologic
reference
spatial
cartographic
38
Sources of forced migration include
economic opportuinites
draw of pleasant climate
political unrest & ecological degradtion
individual choice
39
All of the following could be barriers to spatial interaction EXCEPT..
highway
all of these
ocean
different ethnicity
40
Cartography is the art and science of...
demographics
map-making
cognitive imagery
spatial orientation
41
According to Von Thunen, the regional geography is determined by....
cultural traditions
soil
all of these
climate
42
Conserving resources to ensure enough for future generations is called...
cultural ecology
sustainability
environmental determinism
subsistence agri.
43
Where do people move when they participate in gentrification?
ghettos
residential suburbs
city
rural wilderness areas
44
The cultural hearth of Christianity is in ...
New York
Turkey
South Carolina
Israel
45
The degree of connectedness b/w places is referred to as..
diffusion potential
topographic space
deep space
topological space
46
Gender equity is related to
education
cultural traditions
all of these
Gross National Product
47
Which is TRUE about the condition of women in MDCs compared to LDCs?
women are more likely to hold government positions in MDCs
women are less likely to be literate in MDCs
women do not work in MDCs
women are more likely to work in agriculture in MDCs
48
Von Thunen's model of rural land use is based on which of the following premises?
vegetarianism is socially beneficial
perishable goods are least valuable
land values increase farther from the urban center
land values decrease farther from the urban center
49
In a gravity model of spatial interaction, population and distance...
are directly related
are inversely related
do not affect the final solution
vary significantly
50
The demographic transition model posits that...
pre-industrial states will have low birth and death rates
countries with high levels of economic pro. have low birth
time is the dominant force behind population change
underdeveloped countries cannot become developed
51
Mexico's maquiladoras are examples of...
export processing zones
informal economic actvities
ancillary activities
offshore financial centers
52
_______ is an excellent example of a nonevangelical, universalizing religion.
Hinduism
Protestantism
Buddhism
Christianity
53
Total fertility rate is NOT closely correlated with which of the following?
none of these
education
gender empowerment
industrial output
54
Which of the following does NOT represent an international organization?
CIA
NAFTA
NATO
EU
55
Industrialized countries still account for a large proportion of the world's total output
False
Fasle
True
Ture
56
An example of a basic economic occupation..
city official
firefighter
automobile assembler
supermarket clerk
57
Globlization
is a new and unique phenomenon
has penetrated the entire world
is always good for people in the poorest countries
has a long and circuitous history
58
The Mercator projections preserve....
scale
area
direction
shape
59
What kind of map is this?
choropleth
cartogram
image map
isoline map
60
All of the following were part of the Green Revolution in the 1960s & 1970s except..
more intensive use of land
GIS-based "smart agriculture"
new hybrid seeds
use of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides
61
Transferability refers to
train movement
costs to move goods from place to place
act of transporting goods
movement of people by bus
62
All choropleth maps use
graphs and charts
shading and coloring
isolines
dots
63
Deindustrialization is industrial facilities come to an area
False
True
64
Ranching is an good example of which type of agricultural system?
Extensive commercial cultivation
controlled agriculture
Labor-intensive agriculture
Intensive subsistence cultivation
65
Which product would most likely be farmed in zone 4?
strawberries
wheat
dairy
cabbage
66
Nigeria's economy is mostly limited to ..
export processing activities
primary econmic activities
service industries
non-basic industries
67
The first agriculturalist were
commericial farmers
most likely males
hunter-gathers
European entrepreneurs
68
____ maps display one or more variables across a specific place.
choropleth
spatial
reference
thematic
69
Which of the following is a landlocked country?
Colombia
Peru
Afghanistan
Germany
70
In Rostow's stages of development model, economic maturity is characterized by
sustainability
gross national happiness
high mass consumption
gender empowerment
71
Cultural traditions are ____ since they borrow from the past and reinvented in the present
erratic
ecumenical
syncretic
complex
72
Multinational corporations take advantages of geographic differences in
distribution of natural resources
wage rates
labor laws
all of these
73
On Mercator's projection map, where would you find the land masses most exaggerated?
near major oceans
near the equator
near the poles
near the prime meridian
74
One important consequence of cultural extinction.
decreasing population
loss of knowledge about ecosystems
increased poverty
loss of genetic diversity
75
Demographic Accounting Equation
+births-infant mortality+cohorts
+births-deaths x life expectancy
births/deaths-immigration+emigration
+births-deaths+immigration-emigration

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