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APHG Study

Question	Answer
Cultural ecology studies _________	the interactions between human societies and the physical environment
latitude and longitude may be used to determine a places'______	absolute location
the nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of _______	chain migration
political geographers consider the ________ area of the core area of United States	New York-Washington, D.C
________ is linked to chlorofluorocarbons in spray cans, refrigerators, and plastic foam	ozone depletion
Every map projection has some degree of distortion because ________	a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion
A country at the end of the demographic transition usually has ______	low birth rates and death rates
The arguments that help explain why seventy-five percent of those employed in Export Processing Zones, such as maquiladoras, are woman are that ____________	women are paid less then men and many employers consider women to be more dexterous than men
The country that the United States helped to create in the early twentieth century in order to facilitate oceanic commerce is ______	Panama
A pilgrim to Varanasi in India is most likely to be a _____	Hindu
Corn was first domesticated in ________	Central Mexico
A correct statement about the major cites of the world is that __________	most are located on rivers or seacoasts
green Revolution technology has resulted in _____________ in modern agriculture	the development of high yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas
MOst Latin American cities are focused on a ________	central plaza
The pair of European countries that had the greatest number of African colonies in 1914 is ______	Britain and France
A true fact about hunting and gathering as an activity is __________________	it is pursued by less than one percent of contemporary human population
In the new global economy, and increasing proportion of influential financial decisions are being made in __________	major corporate centers such as New York, London, and Tokyo
A fundamental difference between folk culture and popular culture is that folk culture __________________	often sets a minority group apart from a region's general population
Today, most of the United States and Canadian population lives in _______	metropolitan areas
According to the model, the road between _______ cities will have the highest volume of traffic	S and Q
The Daily Rag provides news to all cities in the region and wants to build a new distribution center. If The Daily Rag distributes its paper according to city size, __ city is best located for minimizing distribution costs	Q
Students in City Y have come up with a new flavor of ice cream. If their innovation spreads hierarchically, ___ city's residents will be last to try the new flavor	Z
In North America, ____ is a frequently consumed item and is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation	coffee
The multiple-nuclei model of city structure tends to be most applicable to __________	newer, fast-growing cities
Economica activities that involve the extraction of natural resources, such as lumbering, fishing, mining, and agriculture, are called _______	primary economic activities
The saltbox-type house pictured above originated in ________	New England and the Canadian Maritimes
All of the following experienced sharp, sustained economic growth in the early 1990's except ______	Vietnam
It can be inferred from global patters of population growth that the country most likely to be in West Africa is _______	Country lll
An example of an important physical site characteristic is a _____	natural harbor
Women played a crucial role in the domestication of plants because they ________	were engaged in collection plant resources
A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in __________	The Middle East
The 'why of where' refers to _______________	the idea that the explanation of a spatial pattern is crucial
In the Canadian prairies, barns were first built with _________	sod and thatch
Core-periphery models are generally based on the idea that _________	sharp spatial contrasts in social and economic development exist between economic heartlands and outlying subordinate areas
_________ was not one of the five original urban hearth regions	France
The sex ration represented in the age-sex graph above for Country X is most likely the result of ____________	a large guest-worker population
________________ includes the world's earliest centers of plant domestication	Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Middle East
_________ is unique among Latin American countries in that its capital represents the concept of a forward capital	Brazil
_________________ has contributed most to the deindustrialization of regions like the English Midlands and the North American Manufacturing Belt	Competition from foreign imports
A student who lives in Minneapolis chooses to spend her spring break in Florida rather than in Jamaica because Florida is closer and plane fare is cheaper. This type of decision-making best illustrates the concept of _____________	intervening opportunities
The number of functions in a central place is dependent on all of the following except the ___________________	total number of central places in the urban system
Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to _________	built environment
Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced ________________	in the dry regions of Africa and Asia
____________ is most likely to be found in the outermost zone of von Thunen's model of agricultural land use	Extensive grain or stock rasing
Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included _______________	productive agricultural land and defensible cites
_______ best represents the concept of the nation-state in its internal cultural-political make up and spacial organization	Japan
Grain raised in the United States is used today primarily as ___________	livestock food
During the last quarter of the 20th century, the birthrate has fallen most significantly in __________	China
__________ refers to the size and functional complexity of cities	Urban Hierarchy
A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it _________________________	has a selected feature or uniformity
________________ all correctly sequences the continuum from language family to dialect	Indo European, Germanic, English, Midland-Northern
The reason for the concentration of copper smelters, refineries and foundries close to Arizona's copper mines, is that copper production is a _____________	bulk reducing industry
Contact zones between religions are most likely to be volatile when they are ____________________	associated with competing ethno-national claims to territory
_________________ would help explain how scale of inquiry affects truth	Maps showing Michigan's population density by countries, and the United States population density by state
The flow lines on the map above most likely represent the movement of ______	guest movement
Historically the growth of american suburbs was constrained by ___________	limited transportation
Assuming a world population of 5.7 billion and an annual growth rate of 1.6 percent ______________	91,200,00 people will be added to the worlds population in the next year
Swahili in East Africa and English in Global commerce are examples of ________________	lingua franca
_____________: is a true statement about classic models of city structure	The sector model is highly influenced by transportation patterns
In recent decades, all of the following have played a major role in the rapid growth of sunbelt cities of the United States, except __________	climatic changes leading to colder Northern winters
All of the following are correct statements about time zones except _____________	timezones were established to facilitate the planting and harvesting of crops
In the nineteenth and early 20th century the demographic transition in Europe was best characterized by _________	urbanization and falling birthrates
__________ are best examples of central places with large hinterlands	Atlanta, Denver and Calgary
____________ does not act as a cintrifical force for a state	linguistic homogeneity
United nations recognitions of a state's 'exclusive economic zones' allows the state to __________________	claim national economic jurisdiction over two hundred nautical mile of water extending from the coast
In Latin America, data for employment in many large urban areas are most likely to be incomplete because __________________	many people work in the informal sector
_______ is a distinctive aspect of population policy emphasized for the first time by the international community in the 1990's	women's empowerment
The clearing of tropical rain forests for agriculture frequently results in ___________	a shift to animal raising
Contemporary manufacturing is characterized by ___________	spacial desegregation of the production process
_____________ is positively correlated with gross domestic product 'GDP' per capita	Carbon Dioxide emission per capita
In the United States and Canada ______ is a real unit best approximates a city neighborhood in size	a census tract
French influence on land division in the United states and Canada resulted in a __________	long-lot system
Today the greatest numbers of Urban dwellers is found in ___________	Asia

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