AP Human Geography Spring Exam

Humans survived prior to the invention of agriculture by 

The external locational attributes of a place, including its relative location

Redlining, blockbusting & steering have all impacted living patterns in US cities by

The key resources on which 20th century industrialization were built were

The core=periphery model focuses attention on the ___ relationship among places

Core-Periphery: Which is the least powerful regions & therefore are often marginalized

The Gender Inequality INdex (GII)

Which of the following is the movement of upper & middle class people from urban to outskirts?

Industrial agriculture currently is influential

Which of the following is a process of clustering or concentrating of people or activities

This economic activity involves services

Whih of the following correctly identifies a theorist with his theory?

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is most closely associated with which factor of ind. location

Which of the following describes the informal sector of the economy?

According to Christalller's theory, towns of the same size are evenly spaced because

In Latin American cities where the poorest parts are not connected to the regular city is 

Which of the following was NOT a primary industrial region of the world?

Which of the following is the last stage of development of Rostow's model?

Livestock ranching is a common economic activity in all of the following EXCEPT

Hoyt's model of urban land use is different than Burgess's model in that the

Which of the following models describes how power is distributed between core, semi & periphery

Factories in Mexico with special tax, trade & regulatory arrangements

"Silicon Valley" is a prime example of which of the following?

Which area was rice probably domesticated the earliest?

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the 

What ag activity is most likely to take place in ring 1, closest to the CBD (Von Thunen)

Which of the following is the entrenchment of the colonial order under a new guise?

Which of the following is the illegal economy that helps many developing countries survive?

According to central place theory, the landscape is divided into

The increasing interconnectedness of different part of the world through eco, pol & culture

An industry such as potato chips, which uses potatoes & salt, is a good example of

The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India is because

This is why the Third Agricultural Revolution was developed

The growth of manufacturing industries in China has contributed to the deindustrialization of

This type of farming was promoted in the US with the invention & use of refrigerated rail cars

Core-Periphery: Which of the following are the centers of economic, political & cultural power

The illegal practice of white residents selling houses because the neighborhood is changing

Which characteristic is NOT used in commercial agriculture?

A common criticism of Rostow's modernization theory is that 

Which is the cheapest method of transportation over very long distances for transporting goods

Which of the following industries will most likely locate closest to its markets?

According to rank-size rule, if the 3rd city has 1 million the largest city will have

Which of the following is a subsidiary urban area surrounding & connected to the central city?

Which is an advantage for US corporations to locate their facilities in other countries?

Which model grows outward from the central area in a series of rings?

A major criticism that has been launched against the Green Revolution & GMO's is that 

Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to live in the center city?

This is a free-trade area between the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Special Economic Zones were developed by China for the purpose of 

Modern global agricultural patterns still follow colonial patterns because poorer countries

Which activities are those that take a primary product & manufacture it?

Which of the factors is least likely to be used to analyze a country's level of development

Why did the world population begin to grow 8,000 years ago?

This is where you only produce enough food to feed your family with no surplus left over.

Which of the following is likely to give loans to poor people to encourage development

Weber's least cost theory accounts for the location of a plant by considering which of these

The term for revitalization of the deteriorated inner city properties

This development stimulated the growth of the Industrial Revolution

Core-Periphery: Which of the following are intermediary regions in the hierarchy of power 

The diffusion of the Industrial Revolution across Western Europe were most influenced by

Beans, squash and corn were first raised as crops in 

Wallerstein's capitalist world economy argues that global economic activities are controlled by

The new international division of labor most often affects LDC by 

The HDI was derived with which of the folowing purposes in mind?

Weber IDed 3 factors that determine location of industries: transportation, agglomeration & 

The location of the "world's breadbasket"

What has East Asia substituted for lack of natural resources?

Which of the following is NOT a Millennium Development Goal?

Which is the most crucial stage in Rostow's Model of Economic Development?

In what country is desertification a serious problem?

The central city consists of 3 CBDs: colonial, informal market & transitional business center

Fear that the developing world is displacing workers from jobs in the advanced economies is

Which is a measure of social, rather than economic, development of a country?

The urban land use model that focuses on the development of edge cities is

Which of the following was the single most important invention that fueled the Ind. Revolution

Which of the following groups of characteristics best describes a MDC today?

NAFTA has been criticized by many in the US and Canada for

Legal restriction on land that determines what building & eco activity are allowed are

Which of the following economic activity is mismatched with an economic sector?

A disease that is spread by mosquitos and killed about 150,000 people per month

The dominant cities in terms of their role in the global political economy are called

In the world systems model, the core nations of the world are

Which is a comparison of subsistence & commercial agriculture?

Which country has the least developed public transportation system other than roads for cars

When comparing LDC to MDC, which statement is NOT true of MDC?

Which of the following is a country's largest city - with culture & sometimes the capital?

The most common mode of transportation in modern day from the suburbs to the city is

Which region has the lowest percent of labor directly engaged in agriculture?

According to Weber, when too many businesses locate in one area, cost increase which leads to

What type of agricultural activity occurs in the outer ring of Von Thunen's model?