AP Human Geography - complete test

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1. The most populous country in the world is

• China (correct answer)

• Japan

• USA

• Russia

• India

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2. NAFTA is primarily what kind of cooperative effort?

• political

• military

• economic (correct answer)

• all of the above


3. Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?

• wet lands

• warm lands (correct answer)

• dry lands

• cold lands

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4. The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort?

• political (correct answer)

• military

• economic



5. There are some extremely small states in the world that have all but which of the following

characteristics?

• many are islands

• they are called microstates

• most are in the southern hemisphere (correct answer)

• all are smaller than 1,000 square kilometers


6. The European Union has

• replaced COMECON as the main organization for regional cooperation in Eastern Europe

• protected Western Europe from a Soviet invasion

• promoted economic growth in Western Europe (correct answer)

• done all of the above


7. A state which places most power in the han ds of a central government is a

• federal state


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• nation-state

• fragmented state

• unitary state (correct answer)


8. Conflict is widespread in Africa in part because

• Africa is a multinational state

• Africa is a nation-stat e

• European colonial powers drew inappropriate boundaries (correct answer)

• Africans belong to many tribes


9. The Kurds are a

• multinational state

• nationality divided among more than one state (correct answer)

• religious minority in the Middle East



10. A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but which

of the following?

• desert

• geometry (correct answer)

• mountain

• water



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11. Which shape most easily fosters the establishmen t of effective internal communications for a

smaller state?

• compact (correct answer)

• elongated

• fragmented

• prorupted


12. A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,

• separates two states

• is an area rather than a line (correct answer)

• has become a more common means to separate states



13. A state is a good example of

• an organized region (correct answer)

• spatial interaction

• cultural diffusion

• a nation


14. The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of

the following?

• God

• glory• guilt (correct answer)


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• gold


15. The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is

• colonialism (correct answer)

• imperialism

• self-determination

• sovereignty


16. The first widespread use of the nation-state concept came in

• Mesopotamia• the Roman Empire

• Western Europe (correct answer)

• the United States


17. Which of the following is not true about both China and Taiwan?

• both were once ruled by the Nationalists

• both consider that th e two areas form one sovereign state

• both now hold seats in the United Nations (correct answer)

• both have official relationships with the United States


18. Korea is a good example of a

• sovereign state


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• nation-state

• nation divided among more than one state (correct answer)

• colony


19. The world's largest state is

• China

• Canada

• Russia (correct answer)

• Alaska


20. A state with control over its internal affairs has

• centripetal forces

• nationality

• nation-state

• sovereignty (correct answer)


21. A group of people who occupy a particular area and have a strong sense of unity based on a set

of shared beliefs is a

• centripetal force

• nation (correct answer)

• self-determination

• unitary state



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22. An area organized into an independent political unit is a

• colony

• nationality

• satellite

• state (correct answer)


23. The biggest problem faced by less developed countries in financing development is

• confrontation with more developed countries

• identifying unique economic assets

• inability to repay loans (correct answer)

• promoting self-sufficiency


24. The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote

• balanced growth of all economic sectors (correct answer)

• global competitiveness for local industries

• the maintenance of a large bureaucracy

• unequal distribution of resources


25. Self-sufficiency policies have encouraged

• inefficient industries (correct answer)

• dismantling of bureaucracies

• elimination of government subsidies

• destruction of the black market


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26. In recent years, countries such as India have

• embraced the intern ational trade model (correct answer)

• raised taxes on imports

• required licenses for importers

• embraced the self-sufficiency approach


27. In contrast to the intern ational trade approach, the self-sufficiency approach to development

• begins when an elite group initiates innovative activities

• results in uneven resource development

• suffers from market stagnation• spreads investmen t through all sectors of the economy (correct answer)


28. The principal asset of the Four Dragons to promote development is

• Japan's success

• abundant natural resources

• low labor costs (correct answer)



29. Saudi Arabia has successfully employed the int ernational trade alternative primarily because of

• consumer spending

• petroleum reserves (correct answer)• regional cooperation


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• traditional social customs


30. The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade alternative is

• increased demand for many goods

• increased price of petroleum

• regional cooperation

• unequal distribution of resources (correct answer)


31. According to the international trade approach to development, a count ry should identify all but

which of its following assets?

• abundant agricultural products

• high quality manufactured goods

• imports to be limited (correct answer)

• low cost distribution networks


32. According to Rostow's development model, the process of development begins when

• a high percentage of national wealth is allocated to nonproductive activities

• an elite group initiates innovative activities (correct answer)

• take-off industries achieve technical advances

• workers become more skilled and specialized


33. The less developed region with t he highest percentage of people living in urban areas is


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• the Middle East

• East Asia

• South Asia

• Latin America (correct answer)


34. The Middle East shows promise of becoming more developed primarily because of what

characteristic?

• abundant petroleum reserves (correct answer)

• desert climate

• Islamic religious principles



35. Japan's principal asset for promoting development was

• a favorable ratio of population to resources

• an abundant supply of labor (correct answer)

• high physiological density

• extensive supplies of critical raw materials


36. Anglo-America is the most important exporting region of all but which of the following?

• food

• petroleum (correct answer)

• information processing services

• entertainment



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37. Which of the following is not an indicator of a count ry's level of development?

• infant mortality rate

• crude death rate (correct answer)

• age structure

• natural increase rate


38. In less developed countries, consumer goods such as telephones, televisions, and motor vehicles

are

• available for sharing by a large number of people

• unkn own and unfamiliar to most people

• essential to rural life• owned by a minority of the people (correct answer)


39. Today, European countries obtain raw materials

• from their abundant supplies

• through exploitation of their colonies

• through purchase from less developed countries (correct answer)

• access to raw materials is no longer important for development in Eu rope


40. People are more productive in more developed countries because they

• work harder

• have access to more technology (correct answer)

• have a higher value added per person


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• are better educated


41. The large percentage of population involved in agriculture in China indicates that

• the country imports most of its food

• few people are unem ployed

• most people consume an inadequate amount of calories

• most people must produce food for their own survival (correct answer)


42. In more developed countries, employment is increasing in

• the primary sector• the secondary sector

• the tertiary sector (correct answer)

• all three sectors


43. Tertiary sector jobs involve the

• extraction of materials from Earth

• provision of goods and services (correct answer)

• manufacturing of raw materials



44. Compared to more developed countries, less developed countries have a higher percentage of

workers in which sector of the economy?


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• primary (correct answer)

• secondary

• tertiary

• all three sectors


45. The tertiary sector includes all but which of the following?

• transportation

• producer services

• government

• construction (correct answer)


46. Processing of computer information is an example of which sector of the economy?

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary (correct answer)

• none of the above


47. An example of a primary sector activity is

• education

• manufacturing

• mining (correct answer)

• retailing



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48. The shape of a count ry's population pyramid is determined primarily by its

• crude birth rate (correct answer)

• crude death rate

• dependency rate

• sex ratio


49. The percentage of people who are too young or too old to work in a society is the

• dependency rate (correct answer)

• life expectancy

• population pyramid

• sex ratio


50. More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200

years ago in part because of

• the agricultural revolution

• invention of new technology (correct answer)

• people moving to cities

• women choosing to enter the labor force


51. Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2 (correct answer)

• Stage 3

• Stage 4


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52. For every 1,000 babies born in Mozambique this year, nearly 150 of them will die before they

reach their first birthday. The rate of 150 deaths per 1,000 births is known as the

• crude death rate

• infant mortality rate (correct answer)

• life expectancy

• total fertility rate


53. The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic

transition?


• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4


54. The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic

transition?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3




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55. The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic

transition?

• Stage 1


• Stage 3

• Stage 4


56. Life expectancy is lowest in

• Africa (correct answer)

• Asia

• North America

• Western Europe


57. Which of the following rates are not typically found to be low in less developed countries?

• crude birth rate

• crude death rate (correct answer)

• infant mortality rate



58. Of the following four countries, the lowest crude birth rate is found in

• China

• Colombia

• Denmark (correct answer)

• Uganda


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59. The world's population in 199 5 was approximately 6 billion and was expected to reach 12 billion

in approximately 45 years. The period of 45 years is known as

• doubling time (correct answer)

• life expectancy


• overpopulation


60. The annu al global population growth rate increased approximately two hun dred years ago

because of the

• agricultural revolution

• demographic transition

• industrial revolution (correct answer)

• medical revolution


61. Land suited for agriculture is called

• population density

• arable land (correct answer)

• physiological density

• agricultural density


62. Geographers define overpopulation as


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• too many people in the world

• too many people compared to resources (correct answer)

• too many people in a region



63. Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, plantations are

• part of agribusiness

• owned by people in less developed countries

• found primarily in less developed countries (correct answer)



64. Less developed countries generate funds to promote development th rough

• bartering with urban residents

• encouraging traditional subsistence agriculture

• feeding the rapidly growing population

• selling export crops (correct answer)


65. Farmers in more developed and less developed countries share wh ich of the following problems?

• access to fertilizers

• inadequate income (correct answer)

• lack of equipment

• surplus production



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66. Ranching is practiced in a climate region most similar to that of which oth er type of agricultu re?

• dairying

• grain

• pastoral nomadism (correct answer)

• shifting cultivation


67. Ranching has declined in the southwestern United States primarily because

• crops yield more income per area (correct answer)

• the predominant breed of cattle has changed

• long-distance cattle drives are no longer practical

• the region lacks adequate water supplies


68. Some regions produce more cheese than milk because

• they are outside major milksheds (correct answer)

• of a cultural preference for cheese consumption

• they are specialized

• the output is not sold directly to consumers


69. China, the Un ited States, Russia, and India are the leading producers of

• commercial grain (correct answer)

• corn (maize)

• livestock ranching

• milk products


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70. In general, the farther a dairy farm is from a large urban area the lower the percentage of

output devoted to fresh milk. This occurs primarily because

• land costs are lower farther from the urban area

• milk is more perishable than butter (correct answer)

• transport costs are greater farther from the urban area

• the quality of soil is lower near an urban area


71. Von Th nen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of

agriculture?

• dairying in the Northeast United States (correct answer)• ranching in the dry lands of North Africa

• shifting cultivation in the tropics of South America

• intensive subsistence in South China


72. According to the von Thun en model, market-oriented gardens and milk producers were located

in the first ring for all but which of the following reasons?

• delivery cost

• perishability

• proximity to market

• quality of soil (correct answer)


73. According to von Thunen 's model, a commercial farmer is concerned with which of these costs?


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• price of land

• cost of transporting output to market

• value of yield per hectare

• all of the above are considered (correct answer)


74. In the U.S. many farms are integrated into a large food production industry. This is known as

• agribusiness (correct answer)

• commercial farming

• food processing

• mechanized farming


75. The relatively large size of the average North American farm results in all but which of the

following?

• most farms are owned by large corporations (correct answer)

• mechanization is necessary

• farming is expensive

• all of the above are true


76. Commercial agriculture is distinguished from subsistence agriculture by all but which of the

following?

• low percentage of farmers in the labor force

• farm size

• heavy use of machinery

• output consumed on the farm (correct answer)


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77. Pastoral nomads are distinguished from other forms of subsistence farmers by all but which of

the following?

• they consume animals rather than grain (correct answer)

• they obtain grain through trade

• they occupy dry lands

• all of the above distinguish pastoral nomadism


78. Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region?

• humid low-latitude

• dry (correct answer)• warm mid-latitude

• cold mid-latitude


79. Which type of agriculture is practiced by the largest percentage of the world's people?

• hunting and gathering

• intensive subsistence (correct answer)

• pastoral nomadism

• shifting cultivation


80. Which type of agriculture occupies the largest percentage of the world's land area?

• dairying

• intensive subsistence


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• plantation

• shifting cultivation (correct answer)


81. Which type of agriculture is found primarily in less developed count ries?

• Mediterranean

• plantation (correct answer)

• truck farming

• none of the above


82. The first group to integrate seed agriculture wit h domestication of herd animals was probably in

• western India

• northern China

• Ethiopia

• Southwest Asia (correct answer)


83. In the Eastern Hemisphere, seed agriculture probably originated in all but which of the

following?

• western India

• northern China

• Ethiopia

• Southwest Asia (correct answer)


84. Vegetative planting probably originated in


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• Southeast Asia (correct answer)

• South America

• Ethiopia



85. The cultivation of plants by cutting stems and dividing roots is

• sawah

• seed agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

• vegetative planting (correct answer)


86. Hunt ing and gathering societies

• employ about 15 percent of the world's people

• are found in isolated places in the world (correct answer)

• are characterized by large concentrations of people

• occur nearly everywhere but are especially common in Europe


87. A universalizing religion

• is based on the physical characteristics of a particular location on Earth

• is intentionally developed to be a world religion

• is rarely transmit ted through missionaries

• appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations (correct answer)



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88. A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a

• dialect

• sect (correct answer)

• branch

• denomination


89. For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been

• dispersed around the world (correct answer)

• froced to live in ghettos

• highly clustered in present -day Israel

• concentrated in the United States


90. Muslims are clustered in

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• the Middle East (correct answer)

• East Aseia

• Eastern Europe


91. Which is a branch of Christianity?

• Theravadist

• Druze

• Eastern Orthodox (correct answer)

• Shiite


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92. A large and fundamen tal division within a religion is a

• dialect

• sect

• branch (correct answer)

• denomination


93. Which is not an ethnic Asian religion?

• Buddhism (correct answer)

• Confucianism• Daoism

• Shintoism


94. Followers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham?

• Judaism

• Mahayana (correct answer)

• Shiite

• Sunni


95. Especially important in Daoism is to

• believe in one all - powerful God

• perform public service


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• reflect on the mystical and magical aspects of life (correct answer)

• respect forces of naut re as divine


96. The world's largest universalizing religion is

• Hindusim

• Christianity (correct answer)

• Buddhism

• Islam


97. Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultan eously?

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism (correct answer)

• Islam


98. Lutheranism is an example of a Christian

• religion

• denomination (correct answer)

• branch

• sect


99. Especially important in Confucianism is to


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• perform public service (correct answer)

• reflect on the mystical and magical aspects of life

• respect forces of naut re as divine

• believe in one all - powerful God


100. Which of the following is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who

founded it?

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Islam (correct answer)


101 . The world's largest ethn ic religion is

• Hinduism (correct answer)

• Shintoism

• Confucianism

• Daoism


102. The dominant branch of Islam is

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• Shiite

• Sunn i (correct answer)

• Druze



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103 . Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?

• Christianity

• Islam

• Judaism (correct answer)

• Buddhism


104 . Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

• was founded in China

• was not begun by an individual founder

• worships more than one god

• remained concentrated in one region of the world (correct answer)


105. Animists believe that

• natural disasters are preventable

• people should complete God's creation of the Earth

• people should make complete use of the Earth's resources

• inanimate objects and natural events have spirits (correct answer)


106 . The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of the

• impact of high income on clothing habits

• adoption of unique folk culture

• diffusion of popular culture (correct answer)

• lack of barriers in communist countries


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107 . A repetitive act performed by an individual is a

• habit (correct answer)

• popular culture

• taboo

• custom


108 . Rapid diffusion of popular culture

• all three answers are correct

• is an example of relocation diffusion• depends on modern commun ication systems (correct answer)

• encourages people in different places to adopt different customs


109 . Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while

early settlers of the eastern forest built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that

building materials

• are commonly imported long distance because of local folk culture

• are strongly influenced by local resources (correct answer)

• are more scarse in the East than in the West.

• are chosen because of the diffusion of popular culture


110 . Which of the following is not a good example of a nonbasic economic activity?


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• video rental store

• grocery store

• gas station

• steel mill (correct answer)


111 . A central place is a

• hinterland

• market center (correct answer)

• range of a good

• rank-size distribution


112 . A primate city is

• a city with political, economic, and cultural functions

• at least twice as large as the next smaller city (correct answer)

• the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese

• a rapidly growing city


113 . The hierarchical organization of settlements by size is known as the

• primate city

• economic base

• gravity model

• rank-size rule (correct answer)



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114 . Attracting a new basic industry is important to a commun ity, primarily because it

• changes the community's functional classification

• stimulates new nonbasic industries (correct answer)

• disrupts the central place hierarchy

• changes the nation's rank-size distribution of settlements


115 . A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a

• basic industry (correct answer)

• functional classification

• nonbasic industry

• primate city


116 . A market area is a good example of what kind of region?

• cultural

• formal

• functional (correct answer)

• uniform


117. If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,00 0

inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?

• central place

• economic base

• primate city (correct answer)

• rank-size


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118. If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 in habitants, how many

people live in the fifth largest city?

• 50,000

• 200,000 (correct answer)

• 500,000

• 5,000,000


119. Larger settlements are

• more num erous and closer together• more num erous and farther apart

• less num erous and farther apart (correct answer)

• less num erous and closer together


120 . The geometric pattern wh ich geographers use to represent market areas is

• a circle

• a hexagon (correct answer)

• a square

• an irregularly shaped circle


121 . The minimu m num ber of people needed to support a service is

• hinterland


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• range

• threshold (correct answer)

• median


122 . The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

• hinterland

• range (correct answer)

• threshold

• median


123 . The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the

• hinterland (correct answer)

• range

• threshold

• median


124 . Banking is an example of what kind of service?

• producer (correct answer)

• retail

• personal

• public


125 . The city-state is an example of


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• an early form of urban settlement

• a state dominated by its major city (correct answer)

• a functional region

• a local government of the Roman Empire


126 . The typical medieval European urban settlements were characterized by the

• dispersal of palaces, churches, and other important buildings throughout the town

• placement of buildings around a central market square (correct answer)

• demolition of ancient walls surrounding the town

• provision of parks and open space surrounding important churches


127 . Because so few people live in the CBD, urban areas are characterized by a high degree of

• blockbusting

• commuting (correct answer)

• threshold

• skyscrapers


128 . Public transportation is better suited for commuting to the CBD primarily because

• it is less expensive

• each traveler takes up less space (correct answer)

• commuters desire to use it

• the population of the CBD has declined



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129 . A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

• government

• industrial (correct answer)

• office

• retail


130 . European CBDs are similar to those in North America because they both contain

• retail and office activities (correct answer)

• extensive residential areas

• skyscrapers

• structu res inherited from medieval times


131 . What activity ten ds to locate on the street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typical North American

CBD?

• government

• industrial

• office• retail (correct answer)


132 . As a result of high land costs, the American CBD is characterized by

• less inten sive land use

• construction of skyscrapers (correct answer)

• competition for limited space


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• high threshold and range


133 . Land values are high in the CBD primarily because of

• competition for limited space (correct answer)

• high threshold and range

• less inten sive land use

• construction of skyscrapers


134 . The CBD attracts offices primarily because of its

• high accessibility (correct answer)

• high land costs

• more intensive land use

• construction of skyscrapers


135 . Compared to the United States, poor families in European cities are more likely to be

• clustered in inner-city neighborhoods• dispersed throughout the city

• clustered in suburbs (correct answer)

• distributed uniformly in the city


136 . Ramshackle houses on the periphery of cities in less developed countries are known as

• squatter settlements (correct answer)

il t t


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• council estates

• public housing

• zone in transition


137 . When t he models of urban structure developed in Chicago are applied to Rio de Janeiro, one

conclusion is that

• both cities are located near large lakes

• Rio de Janeiro doesn't have high income neighborhoods

• the models don't work in Rio de Janeiro

• the poorest people are located in different areas (correct answer)


138 . Higher income people tend to live near the center of the city in all but which of the following

regions?

• Latin America

• North America (correct answer)

• South Asia

• Western Europe


139 . The multiple nuclei theory best explains why different neighborhoods of a city attract people of

different

• ages

• ethnic origin (correct answer)

• income

• marital status


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140 . According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby

• industries (correct answer)

• residences

• shops

• universities


141 . According to the sector model, the best housing is located in

• a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city (correct answer)

• an outer ring surrounding the city

• nodes near universities and parks

• renovated inner-city neighborhoods


142 . According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of

• corridors

• nodes

• rings (correct answer)• all of the above


143 . Some employees of suburban businesses may suffer hardships because they do not

• commute to the CBD

• experience sprawl

• live near the business

own automobiles (correct answer)


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• own automobiles (correct answer)


144 . Factories have moved to suburban locations in part because of

• access to main highways (correct answer)

• adequate space to build vertical structures

• availability of large tracts of high-priced land

• good rail connections


145 . Public transit is more extensive in Western European cities than in the United States primarily

because

• Europeans can't afford cars

• European governments subsidize public transit (correct answer)

• density is lower

• the central city contains fewer high-rises


146 . Compared to the private automobile, public transportation offers more

• energy efficiency (correct answer)

• flexibility

• pollution

• privacy


147 . The U.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by

• building interstate highways (correct answer)


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• building interstate highways (correct answer)

• charging high gasoline taxes

• constructing new subways

• protecting prime agricultural land


148 . The largest number of trips are made for what purpose?

• personal business

• shopping

• social journeys

• work (correct answer)


149 . The largest percentage of the U.S. population lives in

• central cities

• suburbs (correct answer)

• nonmet ropolitan areas



150 . British cities are surrounded by open space known as

• greenbelts (correct answer)

• public housing

• sprawl

• squatter settlements


151 S l i th


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151. Sprawl is the

• change in density within an urban area from the center to the periphery

•development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built-up area (correct

answer)

• land maintained as open space surrounding an urban area

• period in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic


152 . Compared to the United Kingdom, the amoun t of sprawl in the United States is

• greater (correct answer)

• lesser

• about the same

• no longer existing


153 . In U.S. cities, the underclass is

• clustered in inner-city neighborhoods (correct answer)

• dispersed throughout the city

• clustered in suburbs

• distributed uniformly in the city


154 . The zone in transition in U.S. cities typically contains all but which of the following?

• warehouses

• gentrified buildings

• public housing

• all of the above are found in the zone in transition (correct answer)


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155 . A process of converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class is

• blockbusting

• filtering

• gentrification (correct answer)

• redlining


156. Public housing is

• conversion of low-income housing to middle-class housing

• illegally established low-income housing

• housing that has changed from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

• low-income government-own ed housing (correct answer)


157 . A process by which real estate agents convince white owners to sell their houses is

• blockbusting (correct answer)

• filtering• gentrification

• redlining


158 . A process by which banks designate an area within wh ich they refuse to lend money for

improvements is

• blockbusting

• filtering


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• filtering

• gentrification

• redlining (correct answer)


159 . Megalopolis refers to

• adjacent, overlapping MSAs (correct answer)

• central cities

• consolidated metropolitan statistical areas

• central cities plus urbanized areas


160 . The city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs is the

• central city

• urbanized area (correct answer)

• metropolitan statistical area

• consolidated metropolitan statistical area


161 . Which statement best describes the relationship between urbanization and the industrial

revolution?

• urbanization promoted the industrial revolution

• the industrial revolution promoted urbanization (correct answer)

• urbanization preceded the industrial revolution by thousands of years

• urbanization and the industrial revolution are no longer related


162 The process whereby an increasing percentage of people live in an urban area is known as


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162 . The process whereby an increasing percentage of people live in an urban area is known as

• demographic transition

• rank-size rule

• urbanization (correct answer)

• central place theory


163 . Transnational corporations have transferred some work to less developed countries because of

access to

• government subsidies

• labor (correct answer)

• markets

• raw materials


164 . A manufacturer of women's and children's underwear is more likely than a manu facturer of

electronic computing equipment to attempt to minimize the cost of

• land

• labor (correct answer)

• capital• all of the above


165 . Which of these industries is most dependent on low-cost labor?

• automotive

• electronics

• steel

• textile (correct answer)


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textile (correct answer)


166 . Beer bottling is an example of a

• perishable industry

• specialized industry• bulk-gaining industry (correct answer)

• communications-oriented industry


167 . Significant site factors include all but which of the following?

• capital

• labor

• land

• transportation (correct answer)


168 . A company which uses more than one mode of transport will often locate near

• break-of-bulk points (correct answer)• consumers

• raw materials

• suburbs


169 . The lowest-cost form of transporting goods very long distances is

• truck

• train


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train

• boat (correct answer)

• airplane


170 . The location of a maquiladora plant is a good example of the importance of

• situation factors

• site factors (correct answer)

• Post-Fordist production

• break-of-bulk points


171 . The industrial revolution began in

• Great Britain (correct answer)

• Japan

• The Soviet Union

• The United States


172. Counterurbanization is

• the move from urban core to suburban areas

• due to expanding suburbs

• increased migration to rural areas and small towns (correct answer)

• the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations


173 . The most prominen t type of intraregional migration in the world is


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• rural to urban (correct answer)

• region to region

• urban to rural

• city to city


174 . The United States has received the lowest number of refugees from which of these count ries?

• Cuba

• Eth iopia (correct answer)

• Haiti

• Vietnam


175 . The largest interregional migration in the United States of African-Americans has been

• from south to north (correct answer)

• from north to south

• from east to west

• from west to east


176 . Guest workers in Europe and the Middle East are

• illegal immigrants

• low-status foreigners (correct answer)

• Muslims

• southern Europeans



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177 . The largest number of undocumen ted immigrants to the United States come from what

country?

• Cuba

• Mexico (correct answer)

• The Philippines

• South Korea


178 . The largest num ber of legal immigrants to the United States come from what country?

• Cuba

• Mexico (correct answer)

• The Philippines

• South Korea


179 . The largest numbers of recent immigrants to the United States are

• illegal immigrants

• political refugees

• relatives of U.S. residents (correct answer)• talented professionals


180. Most migrants to the United States during the 198 0s came from

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• Latin America (correct answer)


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181. Most migrants to the United States during the 196 0s and 1970s came from

• Africa

• Asia (correct answer)• Europe

• Latin America


182 . Which factor usually induces voluntary migration?


• environmental

• international

• political


183 . A physical feature, such as a body of water, which hinders migration is an example of

• an environmental push factor• a forced migration

• an intervening obstacle (correct answer)

• a political pull factor


184 . The most important pull factor for migrants to North America is


• environmental


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• forced

• political


185 . Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?

• communist takeover of a government

• failed harvest

• flooding of a river

• opening of a new factory (correct answer)


186 . The two largest language families in the world are

• Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European (correct answer)

• Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic

• Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan


187 . The two most important languages in South America are

• English and Spanish

• Dutch and English

• Portuguese and Spanish (correct answer)

• French and Spanish


188 . According to the Anatolian hearth t heory, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe


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• entirely by sea

• by warriors on horseback

• by way of the Kurgan homeland

• with the diffusion of agriculture (correct answer)


189 . English is part of which language branch?

• North Germanic

• Germanic (correct answer)

• Indo-European

• West Germanic


190. Franglais is

• the lingua franca of France

• a dialect of French

• the use of English in the French language (correct answer)

• the standard language of French


191 . A creolized language is

• a mix of indigeneous and colonial languages (correct answer)

• extinct

• a possible prehistoric superfamily

• an isolated language family



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192 . The second-largest language family is

• Sino-Tibetan (correct answer)

• Indo-European

• Austronesian

• Afro-Asiatic


193 . The language family encompassing the languages of the People's Republic of China is

• Sino-Tibetan (correct answer)

• Mandarin

• Indo-Iranian

• Indo-European


194 . The language spoken by the greatest number of people in the world is

• Hindu

• English

• Cantonese

• Mandarin (correct answer)


195. A lingua franca is

• an extinct language that has been revived

•a language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages

(correct answer)

• an English word that has entered the French language

• an official language in a region of the world different from where the language originated


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196 . Hebrew is an example of

• an isolated language

• a revived language (correct answer)• an extinct language

• a language family


197 . African languages are distinguished by the fact that

• even the most important lan guage family is spoken by only a small percentage of Africans

• most belong to the Nilo-Saharan language family

• few are spoken by more than one million people (correct answer)

• most have a literary tradition


198 . Recent evidence points to the first speakers of the Indo-European language as the ancient

• Russians• Kurgans (correct answer)

• Germans

• Celts


199 . English is part of which language family?

• North Germanic

• Germanic


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• Indo-European (correct answer)

• West Germanic


200 . The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of

• migration by German tribes

• Iceland's close contact with other people and activities

• the extinction of the East Germanic group

• Iceland's relative isolation from other places (correct answer)


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