AP Human Geography Spring Exam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which is a comparison of subsistence & commercial agriculture?

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the 

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

According to central place theory, the landscape is divided into

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

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

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

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

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

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

Factories in Mexico with special tax, trade & regulatory arrangements

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

Which area was rice probably domesticated the earliest?

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

The Gender Inequality INdex (GII)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new international division of labor most often affects LDC by 

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

This development stimulated the growth of the Industrial Revolution

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

What has East Asia substituted for lack of natural resources?

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

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

Humans survived prior to the invention of agriculture by 

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

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

This economic activity involves services

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

Special Economic Zones were developed by China for the purpose of 

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

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

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

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

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

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

The location of the "world's breadbasket"

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

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

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

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

The term for revitalization of the deteriorated inner city properties

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

In what country is desertification a serious problem?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Industrial agriculture currently is influential

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

Beans, squash and corn were first raised as crops in 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Modern global agricultural patterns still follow colonial patterns because poorer countries

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

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

Which of the following is NOT a Millennium Development Goal?

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

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

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

A common criticism of Rostow's modernization theory is that 

This is why the Third Agricultural Revolution was developed

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

Which characteristic is NOT used in commercial agriculture?