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AP Human Geography Exam Practice
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This is an exam practice for students taking AP Human Geography. #aphumangeography #highschool
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1
What is the main religion of North Africa?
Mormonism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
2
A ratio of the number of items within a defined unit of area measures
scale
distribution
dispersion
density
3
What is at the center of Von Thunen's model?
grazing
city/market
Dairy farming
foresting
4
The total number of people divided by the total land area is?
land density
agricultural density
human density
arithmetic density
5
Which of the following is not true of culture?
expresses human adaptations and innovations
It can diffuse across space
It varies from place to place
It is biologically inherited
6
Which of the following fields of study is least associated with human geography?
Political Science
Geomorphology
Psychology
Sociology
7
The principle of distance decay describes:
+ correlation between distance and degree of relation
certain correlation between distance and degree of relation
neutral correlation between distance and degree of relation
- correlation between distance and degree of relation
8
Which branch of Christianity is found in the Northeast?
Lutheran
Mormon
Baptist
Catholic
9
Who argued that cultural landscapes should be the main focus of geographic study?
Walter Christaller
Thomas Malthus
Ernst G. Ravenstein
Carl Sauer
10
Which of the following is true about recent migration?
from city to city
from the city to the country
from the city to the suburbs
from the suburbs to the city
11
Which is a popular lingua franca?
Spanish
French
English
Chinese
12
All of the following are Old Asian Tigers except
China
South Korea
Taiwan
Japan
13
Which of the following is an intervening obstacle?
Desert
Ocean
Mountain
River
14
Which of the following best describes the site of Manhattan?
midway point along an urban corridor
An island bordered by the Hudson and East Rivers
center located two hours northeast of Philadelphia by train
A regional transportation hub for the northeastern US
15
Which of the following is a subsistence crop?
Rubber
Timber
Cotton
Corn
16
In which of the demographic stages is the CDR higher than the CBR?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 4
Stage 5
17
Which is an example of a perforated state?
Mongolia
Chad
Poland
South Africa
18
Stage 3 of the demographic transition model is named?
Low growth
Decreasing growth
Declining population
High growth
19
The physical character of a place is:
landscape
situation
site
20
The spread of new fashion in large cities to smaller towns is an example of expansion diffusion
True
False
21
Which of the following can be an example of a centrifugal political force?
strong central government
homogeneous ethnic population
concentrated ownership of media
variation of language within the country
22
Which of these penalties were imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan?
Prostitutes were hanged in public
Homosexuals were buried alive
Men beaten for shaving their beards
All of the above
23
Belief that spirits live within objects such as animals, rivers, rocks, trees, and mountains
animism
fordism
cosmogany
alliance
24
Which is NOT a universalizing religion?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Buddhism
25
Which of the following is an example of a second-world country?
South Africa
North Korea
Cuba
Sub-Saharan Africa
26
Which area of the US is known as a megalopolis?
The Mid-Atlantic
The South
The Eastern Great Lakes
The Pacific Northwest
27
Where and when did the Industrial Revolution begin?
US- 1800s
US- 1700s
Great Britain- 1800s
Great Britain- 18th century
28
The spread of specialty coffee shops across the US in the 1990s is an example of
periodic movement
relocation diffusion
contagious diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
29
Which region of the US is currently experiencing upward transition?
Sunbelt
Rust Belt
Great Plains
Pacific Northwest
30
All of the following have been considered new industrial countries except
Indonesia
Hong Kong
China
Brazil
31
A Mormon church located in a rural area of northeastern Colorado is most likely the result of?
Hierarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Expansion diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
32
The cardinal points north, east, south, and west correspond to
relative distance
relative direction
absolute distance
absolute direction
33
Environmental laws, labor avaliablity, and access to markets affect which of the following?
political affiliation
gross domestic product
manufacturing locations
property tax rates
34
In what area of the US is the Christian branch Baptist most likely to be found?
Southeast
Utah
North Dakota
Northeast
35
In cartography, parallels refer to
Lines of latitude
lines of longitude
the poles
Meridians
36
According to central place theory, the threshold is defined as the
minimum number of people needed to support a service
distance away from a central place
economic base of a central place
point at which consumer movement is at a minimum
37
Which of the following pairs of states possess territory along the Strait of Gibraltar?
Russia and China
Spain and Moroco
Mongolia and China
Russia and Mongolia
38
Which is an example of popular culture?
The Amish
Blue jeans
Bluegrass music
Hip hop
39
Which of the following has little dairying in it's traditional agriculture?
South Asia
Eastern Europe
East Asia
North America
40
It is generally agreed that the current trend in climate change is caused by
increased use of fossil fuels
tilt of Earth's axis
sea-level rise
change in the velocity of ocean currents
41
Argued that the world's population increase was far outrunning the food supply:
Carl Sauer
Thomas Malthus
Idrsi
Ernst G. Ravenstein
42
Which of the following is not one of the five steps in Rostow's Development Model?
The traditional society
Market Decline
The drive to maturity
The take off
43
Agriculture is part of which job sector?
tertiary
farming
primary
secondary
44
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied, and the Earth as a whole is?
human geography
arithmetic density
scale
geography ratio
45
Which is one of the 5 themes of geography?
Place
Location
Region
Movement
46
What language is spoken the most in the highlighted region?
English
Canadian
French
Arabic
47
In the core-periphery model of global economic patterns, all of Africa is included except
South Africa
Liberia
Egypt
Chad
48
The U.S. land ordinance of 1785 divided much of the land into a system of?
Townships
Ranges
Townships and Ranges
Sections
49
All of the following states are located in the Corn Belt EXCEPT:
Nebraska
Kansas
Illinois
Montana
50
Spatial coordinates of latitude and longitude express?
relative direction
absolute location
relative location
absolute direction
51
Which is an example of a taboo in the Muslim religion?
adultery
food containing blood
pork
alcohol
52
What country had apartheid?
Mongolia
China
Canada
South Africa
53
What does intraregional migration mean?
a move from one country to another
a move within one region of a country
a move from one region of a country to another
the ability to move
54
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide is?
Polder
Possibilism
Globalization
Environmental determinism
55
Mental representations of large-scale environmental
distances:
location
cognitive distance
Relative distance
absolute direction
56
An example of a country with a population pyramid that has a large base is
The US
Russia
Nigeria
Japan
57
Which of the following countries contains three mega-cities?
The US
India
China
Japan
58
Term describing a location in terms of its angular distance north and south of the equator?
Longitude
Latitude
Meridian
Absolute location
59
Which most directly shows the concept of cultural convergence?
Gerrymandering
Globalization
Linguistic drift
Ethnic separation
60
Which of the following is not an example of Mediterranean agriculture?
Oranges in Florida
Grapes in southwest Australia
Raisins in Greece
Olives in Italy
