HG - Course Review for AP Exam

Which of the following is NOT a major oil-producting zone

Which of the following is a primary activity

Rostow's modernization model is concerned with

Which is not an example of spatial analysis

Which population pyramid represents a town with a military base?

Balkanization refers to

Why do some cities not experience out migration when demand for its good and services decline?

An area of instability located between regions with opposing political and cultural values

___ is an environmental problem most associated with the African Sahel

If you wish to highlight a key concept in a FRQ response, it is a good idea to underline it

vonThunen predicted

Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names?

Violent confrontation in Ambon, Aceh, and E Timor illustrate the problem of holding together

Which letter represents the region of the greatest proportion of the Canadian population

Common characteristic of Switzerland, Canada, and New Zealand

A settlement node whose primary function is to provide for the population in its hinterland

The best example of extensive land use

Spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services is

The BEST example of Balkanization

The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following

1950s-Downtown business district: 1970s-Shopping mall:  1990s -"Big Box" superstore

The 4 ancient culture hearths

Ag practiced in CA differs from forms practiced in Mediterranean ag regions b/c in CA

_is disproportionately larger than the 2nd lrgst city and dominates a country's socioeconomics

In terms of total tonnage, _____is the leading export crop in the world

The shape of Maryland's 3rd congressional district is the result of

American Midwest land parcels are rectilinear because

One would expect to find a population with a relatively young age structure in

Nunavut was created by the Canadian government by

Consumption of agricultural products directly by the producer rather than for market

Which is true of popular culture

Best example of a state with a compact shape

Which is not a reason for the rise of suburban development in the 1950s

The shaded area shows

?is most likely to be used by marketing firms seeking map patterns of lifestyle characteristics

The :Four Economic Tigers" of East and Southeast Asia include

An ethnic religion

Which is a true statement about edge cities

Which best describes the impact of improvements in transportation systems on agriculture

The internet is reshaping traditional economic arrangements by

The term "cultural diffusion" refers to the

Which of the following have the greatest linguistic fragmentation?

What makes Brasilia, Canberra and Washington DC, different from the design of most urvan areas?

Which of the following applies to MDCs?

Which of the following countries has the fewest people per unit of arable land

All of the following are crucial to the emergence of the first cities EXCEPT

Which of the following countries did NOT have a long lasting colonial presence in Africa?

Advantage for Japanese corporations locating manufacturing plants in the US

Boundaries based on the median line principle are generally associated with

Who said plant domestication 1st occured in diversified habitats with a variety of species?

Which of the following areas was what domesticated the earliest?

Network cities...

Name for political redistricting it makes unusually shaped districts-create political advantage

In the US, the largest concentrations of Amish are found in

Which of the following countries consumes the most fossil fuel per capita?

Where is terracing least likely to occur

Olives, pita bread, cheese, figs, lamb, and wine, would be found in

vonThunen emphasized ____ in his model of agricultural land use

Maquiladoras of northern Mexico

Which statement is falses about global patterns of development

Which of the following is the essential requirement of lowland rice production?

A country where the majority of the population are Shiite Muslims

Most are relatively isolated islands with small populations, and remnants of empires

Subsistence agriculture is always characterized by

According to environmental determinism, which would have the most productive settlements?

Which pyramid shows a college town?

The early stages of the core-periphery model describe the relationship

How are new languages created?

Prior to 1850 the location of all major North American cities was related to the presence of

Labor intensive intertillage is often practice in

The belief that one's own culture is the best or better than other cultures

Which of the following is a forward capital?

A reason why rapid suburbanization did NOT happen in the US after WWII

Which of the following sectors of the economy has grown the fastest in the US since the mid 70s

Internat'l company HQ, significant global financial functions, and polarized social structure

The maps scale most useful for studying features in the landscape of a farming community

Which of the following is a characteristic of shifting cultivation

The establishment of maquiladoras in Mexico by US companies represents

The European Union is an example of

The high tech firms in Silicon Valley in California are clustered together take advantage of 

The first wave of immigrants to the US during the 19th century came from

The primary geographic effect of globalization on the economy

The cost of transportation is primary consideration in the location of an industrial site

Isolated farmsteads in the US evolved as a result of all of the following EXCEOT

The shaded area on the map is most associated with

A footloose industry

Water run-off is likely to be greatest in which setting?

The world's 3 major monotheistic  religions originated in

Depicts a commerical spine bordered by an elite residential sector extending outward from CBD

An example of a centripetal force

Best example of the geographical concept of nation-state

According to the Hoyt model of city structure, low income people tend to live in

Rank size rule:  largest city has a population of 10 million, the next largest city will have a

Which statement about mega-stores is false?

A characteristic of most societies in the last stage of the DTM

Which of the following accounts for the universial appeal of blue jeans?

Which has low terminal cost, high line cost, and high route flexibility

Which pair of agriculture types occupies the largest % of the world's total land area

Which of the following industries will located closest to the raw material

The following 20th cent migration streams were propelled by persecution or open conflict EXCEPT

The concept that population will continue to grow even after fertility rates decline

Cultural landscape can be defined as

The Indo-European family includes all major languages in Europe and other regions EXCEPT:

Regionalization is to geography as

During winter months in NoAm, the primary source of fruits and veggies found in grocery stores 

The principal religion of Central and South America is

The European Union, the ARab League and the UN are all examples of

Which of the following represent a nation without a state?

Traditionally, the Ganges anNile Valleys have had comparatively high pop densities b/c of their

Which describes a primate city

The growth potential of raising elk, deer and emu for meat is limited because

The map represents

The alignment of ancient Chinese cities toward cardinal directions illustrates the importance

Present distribution of Basques suggests IndoEuro spread across Europe, this group isolated in

Culturally defined political boundaries, such as those determined by language, religion or lang

Most accurate with regard to food preferences and taboos

The correct hierarchy of political administrative units from largest to smallest

Quaternary economic activities are those that

Why are SoAmer population centers located at of near the coast?

Which population pyramid demonstrates an elderly dependency ratio?

The pair that best represents  regional appellation 

Which country has the largest number of Sunni Muslims?

Religion that is predominant in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota

Compared to N America ranches, commercial ranchers in the Pampas are likely to

Physiological population density differs from crude population density in that it

Which describes NAFTA

Clustering of dr's offices and pharmacies near hospitals is BEST explained by the benefits of

The UNCLOS gives coastal countries navigational and economic sovereignty over

An example of ecotourism

Which of the following countries is the primary destination for guest workers from the Maghreb

All of the following have created ghettos in North America EXCEPT

Who is most likely to migrate

In the cent following the arrival of European, the indigenous population of the Americas

in the 1st 1/2 of the 20th cent, the transportation of beef over long dist was made possible by

Most of Africa's original boundaries were drawn by

False statement about NAFTA

The environmental issue of immediate concern  to policy makers in New England

The largest # of refugee in the 21st century

The DTM

Which has fostered the most significant economic growth by eliminating tariffs btwn members

in the 19th and 20th cent, the most prominent type of intraregional migration worldwide was

Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?

Florida earns greater revenues from exporting oranges than Georgia does.  Why?

Fertility rates have dropped in LDCs, , but total population continues to grow because a high %

A straight line on a navigation map using the Mercator projection represents

Dependency ratio is most useful for indicating the 

When approaching FRQ questions, you should answer what you think is the easiest question first.

Which region had the smallest # of people living in urban areas at the end of the 20th century

A problem w/ the traditional classification of agriculture as a primary activity 

Dramatic increases in global grain production since 1950 have been made possible by

Indonesia is an example of a ___ state