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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY PRACTICEEXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
E - Answer-All the following have been considered new industrial countries EXCEPT
(A) Hong Kong (D) China
(B) South Korea (E) Indonesia
(C) Brazil
C - Answer-Which of the following is an example of a quinary-sector economic activity?
(A) Working at a cash register at McDonald's
(B) Serving as a researcher for human genetic cloning
(C) Serving on the U.S. president's cabinet
(D) Converting crude oil into gasoline
(E) Plowing land in preparation for planting a crop
D - Answer-London has become a world city in part because of its proximity to ports and
other places that foster development.
This reason for London's historic growth relates to the city's
(A) site (D) situation
(B) sovereignty (E) distance decay
(C) redlining
E - Answer-Which of the following is a valid difference between the urban patterns of
the United States and those of Latin
America?
(A) Unlike U.S. cities, Latin American cities have ghettos.
(B) U.S cities follow a sector pattern, whereas Latin American cities follow concentric
zones.
(C) Gentrification is more present in Latin American cities.
(D) Latin American cities have more-defined industrial sectors.
(E) Unlike U.S. cities, Latin American cities show patterns of wealthy residents
emanating from the city's central
business district.
C - Answer-The number of people under the age of 15 plus the number of people above
the age of 64 divided by the number of
the people aged 15 through 64 is defined as
(A) carrying capacity (D) age-sex pyramid
(B) primary economic sector (E) infrastructure
(C) dependency ratio
, D - Answer-Governments such as those once controlled by the Taliban in Afghanistan
and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran are
classified as
(A) landlocked (D) theocratic
(B) parliamentary (E) microstates
(C) federal
C - Answer-All the following were original members of the European Community, the
predecessor to the European Union,
EXCEPT
(A) France (D) Italy
(B) Belgium (E) The Netherlands
(C) United Kingdom
D - Answer-In 1492, Christopher Columbus's voyage took nearly 40 days to cross the
Atlantic Ocean, a trip that would take a
modern ship less than one week. This difference best reflects the geographic concept of
(A) distance decay (D) space-time compression
(B) uneven development (E) distribution
(C) stimulus diffusion
A - Answer-The arrow on the map above points to a city in India containing the largest
number of shrines from which of the
following religions?
(A) Sikhism (D) Christianity
(B) Shintoism (E) Hinduism
(C) Buddhism
A - Answer-The region outlined above contains delivery destinations served by United
Trucking. Which of the following
classifications best fits this region?
(A) Functional (D) Mental
(B) Formal (E) Perceptual
(C) Vernacular
B - Answer-Compared with the world pattern of crude birth rates, the world pattern of
crude death rates shows
(A) more variation because of the vast inequalities in minimal health care throughout the
world
(B) less variation because of the general availability of minimal health care facilities
throughout the world
(C) equal variation because of the offsetting effect of birth and death rates throughout
the world
(D) no variation
(E) high variation because of the high infant mortality in some world regions
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