WGHS - AP Human Geography Sample Exam 1

Which of the following is a fragmented state?

Indonesia

As oil and natural gas become important sources of energy during the mid-20th century, new economic power was vested in oil and gas-producing countries such as

Iran, Mexico, and Nigeria

Which of the following religions has the second largest number of adherents (after Christianity) in the world today?

Islam

Which of the following is a limitation to the usefulness of arithmetic density for population studies?

It gives us only a broad idea about the strain the population puts on the land area.

An example of a stateless nation in the Middle East is provided by the

Kurds

By about 1000 C. E., all of the following were major cities in the world EXCEPT

London

Which of the following is an accurate statement about population distribution on a global scale?

More than half of all people live on about 5% of the land.

The three major branches of Christianity in the world today are

Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox

Examples of modern lingua franco languages are

Russian, English, and Swahili

Which of the following is a disadvantage of a map based on the Mercator projection?

Sizes of areas, especially those close to the North and South Poles, are greatly exaggerated.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, a central country or countries with at least one urbanized area of at least 50,000 people, plus adjacent outlying countries with a large number of resident that commute in is called a

metropolitan statistical area

Push and pull factors explain reasons why people

migrate

Which of the following types of terrain is most likely to serve as shatter belts?

mountains

Which of the following best describes a recent global trend in domestic politics?

movement toward market economies

The metes and bounds land survey is most likely to make use of

natural features

In which of the following regions does shifting cultivation produce manioc, sweet potatoes, yams, and beans?

northern South America

Which of the following are areas that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity?

perceptual regions

The concept of territoriality is most central to the study of

political geography

Demographic transition theory is concerned with which of the following concepts?

population growth

The "world's breadbasket" is a name most commonly given to the

prairies of North America

The main purpose of zoning ordinances is to

prevent mixing of land uses within the same district

Which of the following accurately compares urban transportation systems in the United States to those in western Europe and Japan?

public transit is much more developed and funded by governments in most European countries and Japan

In comparison to primary industry, secondary industry is less dependent on

resource location

Two examples of extensive subsistence agriculture are

shifting cultivation and pastoral nomadism

The phenomenon of distance decay helps to explain the tendency for people to

stay fairly close to when they migrate

Which of the following directly challenges Alfred Weber's least cost theory?

substitution principle

The main reason that Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja was to try to resolve differences between

the Muslim north and Christian south

Linguistic geographers map the area in which particular words are spoken, marking their limits as

isoglosses

Chain migration is most directly encouraged by

kinship and friendship ties

Which of the ten major languages shown on the map above has the fewest number of people who speak it as a first language?

German

The type of culture that emphasizes artifacts is called

material culture

Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into two broad categories of

expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion

According to von Thunen's model of land use, the outermost ring is characterized by

extensive agriculture

The Columbian Exchange vastly changed global trading patterns as a result of the

first sustained contacts between the Western and Eastern Hemisphere

A countertrend to fragmentation in global interactions today is

globalization

The phenomenon of space-time compression has been most directly promoted by

globalization

The basic sector of city's economy consists of

goods and services produced for areas outside the city

Nucleated settlement patterns are most likely to result in the formation of many

hamlets

In contrast to Hoyt's model of urban land use, Harris and Ullman's model

has more than one center of urban growth

The main purpose of gerrymandering is usually to

improve the chances of the dominant political party in the state to win seats in the legislature

According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population os 1,000,000, the 5th largest city will have a population of

200,000

If a traveler crosses the International Date Line going from America to Asia, (s)he will set the time

24 hours ahead

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of subsistence and commercial agriculture?

A larger percentage of people in less developed countries are subsistence farmers.

In which of the following ways did the early southern ghetto differ from other ghetto models?

Blacks tended to live nearby the white communities

The country where the Industrial Revolution first began was

Britain

Which of the following countries has the largest percentage of people who live in public housing/

Britain

The two most populous countries in the world that have actively applied restrictive population policies are

China and India

Which of the following religions have direct roots in Judaism?

Christianity and Islam

Which of the following countries currently is NOT a member of the EU?

Croatia

All of the following are secondary industrial regions in the world today EXPECT:

Eastern Asia

Which of the following was one of the first geographers to accurately calculate the circumference of the earth?

Eratosthenes

The population pyramid above reflects the population distribution of

France

The system that measures the position of an object on earth and stores different types of information about it in layers is called a

GIS

The housing styles pictures above originated during the 17th century in

New England

Which of the following is NOT generally categorized as a newly-industrializing country today?

Nigeria

Which of the following areas of the world currently have net-in migration?

North America and Australia

Currently, the three most important trading blocs in the world are

North America, the European Union, and East Asia

Which of the following is NOT illustrated in the map?

Point A's relative location

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding urban growth in the world today?

The proportion of people living in cities is rising in most countries

The British economist who was the first critic to note that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supplies was

Thomas Malthus

Which of the following people is most likely to have the largest activity space?

a middle age man who lives in a suburb

Which of the following is an example of a centrifugal force within a nation-state?

a separatist movement that demands independence

Which of the following agricultural products are most often associated with truck farming?

apples and lettuce

The map illustrates

areas where spread during the 20th century from its North American origins

Wet mud mixed with straw is one form of building with

bricks

Like the earliest industrial heartlands in Europe, the earliest industrial heartland in the Northeast District of China centered on the region's

coal and iron deposits

Which of the following is generally encouraged by folk culture?

cultural diversity

One important goal of smart growth is to

curb urban sprawl

The combination of natural change and net migration to summarize population change over time is called

demographic equation

As the distance increases from the center of the city, the density of residents and houses decreases, a change called the

density gradient

Wallerstein's model of the capital world economy is based most directly on

dependency theory

The main purpose of the Security Council of the United Nations is to

establish peacekeeping forces in "hotspots" around the world

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture is called

ethnocentrism

Footloose industries have negligible total costs for

transportation of both resources and finished products

The form of plant cultivation in which new plants are produced by direct cloning from existing plants is called

vegetative agriculture