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APHG Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 this area as the core area of the United States. | the New York-Washington, D.C., area |
| this 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 and death rates |
| The arguments that help explain why seventy-five percent of those employed in Export Processing Zones, such as maquiladoras, are women are that | women are paid less than 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 |
| The ability of a resource base to sustain a population is known as its | carrying capacity. |
| A pilgrim to Varanasi (Benares) in India is most likely to be a | Hindu. |
| Corn (maize) 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 | the development of high-yield grains and the expansion of cultivated areas in modern agriculture. |
| 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 | an increasing proportion of influential financial decisions are being made in major corporate centers such as |
| 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 Untied States and Canadian population lives in | metropolitan areas. |
| According to the model the road between S and Q cities will have | the highest volume of traffic. |
| 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 papers according to city size | Q city is best located for minimizing distribution costs. |
| Students in City Y have come up with a new flavor of ice cream. If their innovation spreads hierarchically | Z city’s residents will be the last to try the new flavor. |
| In North America coffee is a frequently consumed item and is most likely to be supplied by a | trans-national corporation. |
| The multiple-nuclei model of city structure tends to be most applicable to | newer fast-growing cities. |
| Economic activities that involve the extraction of natural resources | such as lumbering fishing mining and agriculture are called |
| 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 III. |
| 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 collecting 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. |
| France was not | one of the five original urban hearth regions. |
| The sex ratio represented in the age-sex graph above for Country X is most likely the result of | a large guest-worker population. |
| Southeast Asia Mesoamerica Middle East includes | the world’s earliest centers of plant domestication. |
| Brazil is unique among Latin American countries in that | its capital represents the concept of a forward capital. |
| Competition from foreign imports has contributed most to the | reindustrialization of regions like the English Midlands and the North American Manufacturing Belt. |
| 42. A student who lives in Minneapolis chooses to spend her spring break in Florida rather than in Jamaica because Florida is closer and the 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. |
| Extensive grain or stock raising is most likely to be found in | the outermost zone of von Thünen’s model of agricultural land use. |
| Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included | productive agricultural land and defensible sites. |
| Japan best represents the concept of the | nation-state in its internal cultural-political makeup and spatial organization. |
| Grain raised in the United States is used today primarily | as livestock food. |
| During the last quarter of the twentieth century the birth rate has fallen most significantly in | China. |
| Urban hierarchy refers to the | size and functional complexity of cites. |
| A formal culture region differs from other regions in that it | has a selected feature or internal uniformity. |
| Indo-European Germanic English Midland-Northern all correctly sequences the | continuum from language family to dialect. |
| 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 ethnonational claims to territory. |
| Maps showing Michigan ’s population density by countries and the United States population density by state would help explain | how scale of inquiry affects truth. |
| The flow lines on the map above most likely represent | the movement of guest workers. |
| Historically the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by | limited transportation. |
| Assuming a world population of 5700000000 and an annual growth rate of 1.6 percent | 91200000 people will be added to the world’s population in the next year. |
| Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of | lingua franca. |
| The sector model is highly influenced by transportation patterns | is a true statement about classic models of city structure. |
| In recent decades all of the following have played a major role in the rapid growth of Sun Belt cities of the United States except | climatic changes leading to colder northern winters. |
| All of the following are correct statements about time zones except | time zones were established to facilitate the planting and harvesting of crops. |
| In the nineteenth and early twentieth century | the demographic transition in Europe was best characterized by urbanization and falling birth rates. |
| Atlanta Denver and Calgary are best examples of | central places with large hinterlands. |
| Linguistic homogeneity does not act as a | centrifugal force for a state. |
| United Nations recognition of a state’s “exclusive economic zone” allows the state to | claim national economic jurisdiction over 200 nautical miles of water extending from its 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. |
| Women’s empowerment is a distinctive aspect of | population policy emphasized for the first time by the international community in the 1990’s. |
| The clearing of tropical rain forest for agriculture frequently results in a | shift to animal raising. |
| Contemporary manufacturing is characterized by | spatial disaggregation of the production process. |
| Carbon dioxide emission per capita is positively correlated with | gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. |
| In the United States and Canada | a census tract is areal unit best approximates a city neighborhood in size. |
| French influence on land division in the United States and Canada resulted in a | long-lot system. |
| Today the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in | Asia. |
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