AP Human Geography

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AP Human Geography

• Friday, May 13

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Exam Basics

• Multiple Choice 75 Questions, 60 minutes
• FRQs 3 Questions, 75 minutes
• Each section counts for HALF of your total grade
• No penalty for guessing!
• See topic outline

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Review Sessions

• Every Tuesday and Thursday 245-315
• Next week
• Tuesday 4/19 Migration
• Thursday 4/21 Culture
• Practice Test Saturday, April 30 _at_ SLHS

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• 1. As an academic discipline, geography is
  principally concerned with the
• nature and meaning of place names
• impact of the environment on human understandings
  and activities
• evolving character and spatial organization of
  Earths surface
• absolute location of places, peoples, and
  processes on Earths surface
• construction of maps that depict places, peoples,
  and processes as accurately as possible
• 2. Thomas Malthus based his work on population on
  which of the following premises?
• Both food production and population increase
  arithmetically.
• Food production increases arithmetically and
  population increases exponentially.
• Both food production and population increase
  exponentially.
• Food production increases exponentially and
  population increases arithmetically.
• Food production increases arithmetically and
  population remains stable.

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• 3. Of the following, which region contains the
  smallest percentage of the worlds population?
• The Southern Hemisphere
• The Northern Hemisphere
• The Eastern Hemisphere
• Coastal areas of the world within 160 kilometers
  (100 miles) of ocean
• Areas of the world lying lower than 150 meters
  (500 feet) above sea level
• 4. In 2005 the United States and Canada had a
  higher crude death rate than Mexico because they
• are larger countries
• received more immigrants
• had more elderly people
• had a higher standard of living
• spent more on health care

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Migration (and other topics)

• The 19th century emigration of a large number of
  Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to
  Isanti County, MN, as a result of communications
  from friends and relatives who preceded them
  there is an example of
• Brain drain
• Chain migration
• Net migration
• Internal migration
• Counterurbanization

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• In recent decades, all of the following have
  played a major role in the rapid growth of Sun
  Belt cities of the US except
• Immigration from Latin America
• High levels of per capita federal spending in the
  South and West
• Cheap land and labor
• Climatic changes leading to colder northern
  winters
• The increasing demand for retirement and resort
  centers

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• An important physical site characteristic is a
• Major airport
• Grid street pattern
• Major central park
• Natural harbor
• Public sports facility

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• A student who lives in Minneapolis chooses to
  spend her spring break in Florida rather than in
  Jamaica because FL is closer and the airfare is
  cheaper. This illustrates the concept of
• Human capital
• Time space compression
• Intervening opportunities
• Rank size rule
• Central place theory

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• Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which
  of the following?
• Cultural ecology
• Nonmaterial culture
• Environmental determinism
• Physical environment
• Built environment

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• In the 19th and early 20th century, the
  demographic transition in Europe was best
  characterized by
• Shift in the composition of national populations
  toward greater ethnic balance
• Net population decline resulting from an excess
  of deaths over births
• Migration between European countries
• Large-scale population movements following
  periods of war or widespread civil unrest
• Urbanization and falling birth rates

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Culture Questions

• 6. Place names that refer to saints are most
  common in which of the following North American
  regions?
• (a) Louisiana and New England
• (b) California and British Columbia
• (c) Ontario and Utah
• (d) Nova Scotia and the United States Midwest
• (e) Quebec and the United States Southwest

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• 7. Which of the following is true of the
  architectural shape shown above?
• (a) It represents the dominant religion of all of
  Indonesia except for the island of Bali.
• (b) It signifies a major religion that originated
  in India but is now found in Thailand and other
  parts of Asia.
• (c) It symbolizes houses of worship for
  monotheistic religions that hold Jerusalem
  sacred.
• (d) It represents religions especially common in
  sub-Saharan Africa.
• (e) It symbolizes denominations of a Western
  religion that divided first in Europe.

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• 8.Which of the following refers to the study of
  the relationship between the physical environment
  and culture?
• (a) Central place theory
• (b) Ecosystem analysis
• (c) Culture history
• (d) Cultural ecology
• (e) Polytheism

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• 9. A pilgrim to Varanasi in India is most likely
  to be a
• (a) Christian
• (b) Jew
• (c) Hindu
• (d) Buddhist
• (e) Muslim

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• 11. A fundamental difference between folk culture
  and popular culture is that folk culture
• (a) Often sets a minority group apart from a
  regions general population
• (b) Is adaptive to change over time
• (c) Tends to diffuse rapidly across geographic
  space
• (d) Loses some of its distinctive characteristics
  as it crosses national boundaries
• (e) Represents universal values

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• 12. The saltbox-type house pictured here
  originated in which of the following culture
  areas?
• (a) The Great Lakes region
• (b) New England and the Canadian Maritimes
• (c) The Canadian Prairie
• (d) The US Southwest
• (e) The US Southeast

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• 13. A formal culture region differs from other
  regions in that it
• (a) Has a focal point or node
• (b) Is one that people believe exists
• (c) Has a selected feature or internal uniformity
• (d) Does not contain gradations such as core,
  domain, and sphere
• (e) Applies only to linguistic and religion
  regions

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• 14. Which of the following correctly sequences
  the continuum from language family to dialect?
• (a) Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Arabic, Berber
• (b) Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic, Mandarin, Chinese
• (c) Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Hindi, Bengali
• (d) Indo-European, Baltic-Slavic, Russian,
  Ukranian
• (e) Indo-European, Germanic, English,
  Midland-Northern

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• 15. Contact zones between religions are most
  likely to be volatile when they are
• (a) Inhabited by two major groups with divergent
  religious beliefs
• (b) Made up of three or more religious groups
• (c) Characterized by considerable interaction
  between religious groups
• (d) Also language contact zones
• (e) Associated with competing ethnonational
  claims to territory

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• 16. Swahili in East Africa and English in global
  commerce are examples of
• (a) Pidgin languages
• (b) Lingua franca
• (c) Standard language
• (d) Creole language
• (e) Official language

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Political Geography Questions

• 17. Political Geographers consider which of the
  following as the core area of the US?
• (a) Los Angeles-San Francisco
• (b) New York-Washington DC
• (c) Chicago-Detroit
• (d) Atlanta-Birmingham, AL
• (e) Buffalo-Cleveland

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• 18. The country that the US helped to create in
  the early 20th century in order to facilitate
  oceanic commerce is
• (a) Nicaragua
• (b) Costa Rica
• (c) Colombia
• (d) Venezuela
• (e) Panama

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• 19. Which of the following is unique among Latin
  American countries in that its capital represents
  the concept of a forward capital?
• (a) Argentina
• (b) Brazil
• (c) Chile
• (d) Mexico
• (e) Peru

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• 20. Which of the following best represents the
  concept of the nation-state in its internal
  cultural-political makeup and spatial
  organization?
• (a) Iran
• (b) South Africa
• (c) Japan
• (d) New Zealand
• (e) Argentina

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• 20. Which of the following does not act as a
  centrifugal force for a state?
• (a) Uneven development
• (b) Substate nationalism
• (c) Linguistic homogeneity
• (d) A fragmented territorial base
• (e) A strong tradition of local governance

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• 20. Gerrymandering adjusts voting districts in
  order to
• (a) Ensure all districts are of similar shape and
  size
• (b) Benefit the interests of one political group
• (c) Create districts that coincide with municipal
  service areas
• (d) Allow those living in one state to vote on
  issues in another state
• (e) Equalize the tax burden among ethnic groups

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FRQ

• Since 1950 many states have faced challenges in
  developing a strong national identity.
• Using contemporary examples, explain how each of
  the following has contributed to the development
  of national identity and the strengthening of a
  state.
• Economic development
• Relocation of a states capital (since 1950)
• Using contemporary examples, explain how each of
  the following may detract from the development of
  national identity and weaken a state.
• Ethnicity
• Transportation infrastructure