APHG Monster Review

Question 1

The shaded area on the map would be best described as the:

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European industrial core region

Question 2

Increasing worldwide use of the internet, and popularity of Hollywood movies are examples of:

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Cultural globalization

Question 3

Factors such as soils, climate, etc. shaping a culture group's behavior and practices is:

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Environmental Determinism

Question 4

Erathosenes wrote an eight volume guide to geography.

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False

Question 5

Ebonics is best described as which of the following?

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A distinct African American dialect, The use of double negatives

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of an isolated language?

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Basque

Question 7

Factories located in LDCs are often the result of corporations in MDCS that are seeking:

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Least-cost industrial sites

Question 8

The forced expulsion of culture groups through use of fear and violence is known as:

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Ethnic cleansing

Question 9

The caste system is associated with which of the following ethnic religions?

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Hinduism

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of agglomeration?

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A shopping mall

Question 11

A polder is a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area.

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True

Question 12

All of the following are problems associated with suburban sprawl EXCEPT:

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Limited communications access and few utility services

Question 13

The spread of something over a given study area is:

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Concentration

Question 14

Which of the following makes space-time compression possible?

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All of the above

Question 15

Parallels are associated with which lines that circle the globe?

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Latitude

Question 16

Most people live in cities in which of these regions?

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East Asia

Question 17

Which type of crop would be farmed using a combine harvester?

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Grains

Question 18

Of the following five countries, the highest natural increase rate is found in:

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Uganda

Question 19

A pidgin language is:

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A simplified lingua franca

Question 20

How many biomes are there and what are they?

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4- Desert, Savanna, Grassland, Forest

Question 21

In the Third World, crops like bananas, coffee, and sugar are examples of:

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Export-based agriculture

Question 22

Protestantism would be an example of which of the following?

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A branch

Question 23

Poor rural to urban migrants who settle in Latin American cities are most likely to live:

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In squatter settlements on the urban periphery

Question 24

A country that is an example of stage 4 of the demographic transition model is:

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Sweden

Question 25

The language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects is:

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Official language

Question 26

Which is not an example of a functional region?

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The area of dominance of a television station

Question 27

A state that's completely surrounded by the land of other states.

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Landlocked State

Question 28

Which of the following is the definition of globalization?

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Pulling people into greater cultural & economic interaction

Question 29

The U.S. land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the land into a system of:

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All of the above

Question 30

Which map would have the smallest scale?

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World

Question 31

An example of a nation without a representative state would be which of the following?

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Kurds

Question 32

The long-term demographic effect of the One-Child Policy in China has been:

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Reduction of the TFR below the replacement rate

Question 33

The following are all factors in the Green Revolution EXCEPT:

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Low-cost human labor

Question 34

Holland converted the Zuider Zee into a fresh water lake by using which of the following?

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Dikes

Question 35

Which plant was the dominant staple crop of Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt & the Fertile Crescent?

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Wheat

Question 36

Which is a push factor that would cause rural people to leave their farms and migrate?

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Civil war or armed conflict in the rural countryside

Question 37

Rechanneling a river could produce an increase in which of the following environmental impacts?

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All of the above

Question 38

1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?

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Fractional scale

Question 39

The borders of the American South or "Dixie" as a culture region are:

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Poorly-defined, fuzzy borders which overlap other regions

Question 40

One option for small family-owned farms to increase the market value of their crops would be:

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Switch to organic farming practices with no pesticides

Question 41

Which group would be considered to have fundamentalist views?

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Al Queda

Question 42

What type of map is depicted?

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Azimuthal

Question 43

Generally speaking, countries with high fertility rates usually have high:

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Infant mortality rates

Question 44

Which of the following cities is NOT part of a larger megalopolis?

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Paris

Question 45

A pagan would have followed which of these religions?

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Polytheism

Question 46

What is another name for a uniform region?

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Homogenous region, Formal region

Question 47

Site vs. Situation?

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Site- physical characteristics; Situation- surrounding area

Question 48

Singapore can be classified as all of the following EXCEPT:

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A dependent territory

Question 49

Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?

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Warm lands

Question 50

The spread of fashion from large cities to smaller towns is an example of expansion diffusion.

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True

Question 51

The concept of "place" in human geography can be best defined as which of the following?

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A location on earth's surface with a distinctive feature

Question 52

In the diagram, the point where population growth would be at its highest rate would be:

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The line between Stage 2 and Stage 3

Question 53

The most populous country in Southeast Asia is:

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Indonesia

Question 54

In countries that fall into Stage 2 of the model, the economy would be best characterized as:

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Agricultural

Question 55

Geographers define overpopulation as:

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Too many people compared to resources

Question 56

Agriculture in First World states tend to have which of the following characteristics?

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Larger farm size and increasing corporate ownership of farms

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