A.P. Human Geography Spring Midterm
Student Growth Assessment 4 of 5
Written: 2012-2013
Implemented: 2012-2013
District # 228 SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
Authors: Ed Lipowski, Chris Vitt, Chris Hennessy, Pete Luby
1. Which map has the largest scale?
(A) World map
(B) Continent map
(C) Country map
(D) Regional map
(E) City map
5. The Third Agricultural Revolution has coincided
with the
(A) Industrial Revolution
(B) Second Agricultural Revolution
(C) Green Revolution
(D) Enlightenment
(E) Protestant Reformation
2. The theory of environmental determinism
generalizes a region’s culture as being shaped by
6. The city of Nairobi, Kenya would be best described
as what type of city?
(A) the combined influences of the physical
geography of the region
(B) access to waterways for transport
(C) the population’s choice of a staple food crop
(D) the dominant religion of the region
(E) people’s ability to live sustainable and prevent
population pressure
(A) Primate city
(B) Gateway city
(C) Frontier city
(D) Edge city
(E) Colonial city
3. Areas in the Saharan desert region of Africa
possess a low
7. The traditional method of farming in woodland
areas that has been practiced for centuries but now
poses an environmental problem in tropical
rainforest regions is
(A) carrying capacity
(B) birth rate
(C) death rate
(D) transhumance
(E) immigration rate
4. All of the following are branches or
denominations of Islam EXCEPT
(A) Shia
(B) Sunni
(C) Sufism
(D) Quranism
(E) Hinduism
(A) raised-field agriculture
(B) slash and burn agriculture
(C) multi-cropping
(D) aquaculture
(E) factory farming
8. The demographic transition model
(A) assumes high birth and death rates will
gradually be replaced by low rates over time
(B) traces changes in fertility and mortality
associated with agricultural progress
(C) consists of six stage
(D) was developed by Thomas Malthus
(E) traces the relationship between population
growth and social development
9. The use of the English language by all commercial
airline pilots worldwide for the purpose of air-traffic
control safety would be an example of
13. What is the process called when people move
away from the central business district due to
dissatisfaction with the urban policies and lifestyle?
(A) transnational migration
(B) relocation diffusion
(C) a lingua franca
(D) multiplier effects
(E) a footloose industry
(A) Blockbusting
(B) Redlining
(C) Counterurbanization
(D) Suburbanization
(E) Gentrification
10. The sub-Saharan and Saharan regions of Africa
are suffering what environmental problem due to
the overgrazing of animals?
14. The country with the largest territory is
(A) Climate change
(B) Acid rain
(C) Erosion of topsoil
(D) Carbon dioxide emission increases
(E) Desertification
11. Which one of the following individuals is
engaged in a secondary economic activity?
(A) A computer programmer
(B) A city clerk
(C) The CEO of General Motors
(D) A steel worker
(E) a farmer
12. A small family-run farm in a LDC that produces
a variety of crops including corn, vegetables, eggs,
and milk would most likely be an example of
(A) crop rotation
(B) subsistence farming
(C) export-based agriculture
(D) monoculture
(E) plantation farming
(A) United States
(B) Brazil
(C) China
(D) Australia
(E) Russia
15. Which country is most likely to increase its
percentage of the world’s population the most in
the next 20 years?
(A) China
(B) Ecuador
(C) Nigeria
(D) United Kingdom
(E) United States
16. The study of the movement of disease across
space is known as
(A) epidemiology
(B) technical diffusion
(C) contagious diffusion
(D) redlining
(E) geomorphology
17. The most rapidly growing minority group in the
United States is
(A) Asian
(B) Hispanic
(C) Native American
(D) Black or African American
(E) European
18. Immanuel Wallerstein developed the world
systems analysis. He suggested there is a core and
a periphery. Where is the world’s core located?
21. According to the core-periphery model of
economic development, all of the following are
peripheral areas of Europe EXCEPT
(A) Portugal
(B) Greece
(C) southeastern England
(D) Ukraine
(E) southern Italy
Use the following diagrams to answer questions
22-24:
(A) Southern Hemisphere
(B) Northern Hemisphere
(C) Western Hemisphere
(D) Eastern Hemisphere
(E) Pacific Rim countries
19. The development indicator which uses a
combination of factors including life expectancy,
education rates and income to measure a country’s
level of development is known as the
(A) Human Development Index (HDI)
(B) Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
(C) Gross National Product (GNP)
(D) Gross National Income Purchasing Power Parity
(GNI PPP)
(E) Consumer Price Index (CPI)
20. Which of the following statements correctly
describes migrants today?
(A) They represent an accurate cross-section of
their home country
(B) They represent an accurate cross-section of
their destination country
(C) They include an equal number of males and
females
(D) They include an equal representation from each
age group
(E) They are usually young singles
22. The diagram with the highest dependency ratios
are
(A) A and E
(B) E and C
(C) A and C
(D) C and D
(E) D and E
23. The diagram that most resembles the population
structure of the Guatemala is
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
24. The diagram that most resembles the population
structure of Japan is
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
25. The French language, how to weave a basket,
and the belief in ancestral spirits are all examples
of
(A) mentifacts
(B) artifacts
(C) culture hearths
(D) culture traits
(E) dialects
26. The belief that one ethnic group is superior to
others is an example of
(A) genocide
(B) ethnocentrism
(C) ethnic conflicts
(D) ethnic homeland
(E) ethnic landscapes
29. Which of the following best describes a “push
factor” that would cause rural people in the ThirdWorld to leave their farms and migrate away from
their home community?
(A) Guest worker policies in First-World countries
(B) Civil war or armed conflict in the rural
countryside
(C) Job opportunities in manufacturing
(D) Access to services and education opportunities
in cities
(E) Decreasing land costs for farmers
30. Which of the following political state shapes
would likely be the most efficient for transportation
and communication?
(A) Compact
(B) Prorupt
(C) Elongated
(D) Fragmented
(E) Perforated
27. National anthems, flags, and holidays are all
symbols that promote
31. Which process has allowed much of Asia’s
population to be fed?
(A) irredentism
(B) nationalism
(C) supranationalism
(D) regionalism
(E) war
(A) Plantation agriculture
(B) Double cropping
(C) Soil tilling
(D) Desertification
(E) Terraced irrigation
28. A polar projection showing true distance in one
direction is an example of which type of map?
32. The effects of increasing worldwide use of the
Internet, popularity of Hollywood movies and
consumption of other English-language media
would be examples of
(A) Molleweide
(B) Mercator
(C) Goodes-Homsoline
(D) Azimuthal
(E) Robinson
(A) cultural globalization
(B) expansion diffusion
(C) the Anatolian migration
(D) contagious diffusion
(E) vernacular regions
33. Using von Thunen’s model of rural land use,
which of the following agricultural products would
be produced farthest from an urban market?
(A) Fruits
(B) Butter and eggs
(C) Corn for cattle feed
(D) Vegetables
(E) Wool
37. In the diagram the point where population
growth would at its highest rate would be
(A) the beginning of Stage 1
(B) the end of Stage 4
(C) the line between Stage 1 and Stage 2
(D) the line between Stage 2 and Stage 3
(E) the line between Stage 3 and Stage 4
Use the following diagram to answer Question 34-37
38. Graveyards and cemeteries are NOT used by
(A) Christians
(B) Jews
(C) Hindus
(D) Muslims
(E) Animists
34. The diagram above displays the concept known as
(A) Population Density
(B) Demographic Transition Theory
(C) Malthusian Theory
(D) Rate of Natural Increase
(E) Total Fertility Rate
35. As shown in Stage 4 of the model, birth rates can
dip below death rates. A country that would be an
example of this phenomenon would be
(A) Sweden
(B) Mexico
(C) Brazil
(D) United States
(E) India
36. In countries that would fall into Stage 2 of the
model, the economy would be best characterized as
(A) service-based
(B) health care
(C) agricultural
(D) high technology
(E) post-industrial
39. The portion of an economy that is engaged in
the production of natural resources such as
fisheries, mining and timber is known as the
(A) primary sector
(B) secondary sector
(C) tertiary sector
(D) quaternary sector
(E) quinary sector
40. The charter group of Quebec, Canada, was the
(A) British
(B) Germans
(C) French
(D) Irish
(E) Spanish
Use the following diagram to answer question 41-43
44. Which country below has the highest
concentration of Buddhists?
(A) Brazil
(B) Vietnam
(C) France
(D) Russia
(E) Iran
45. The caste system in Hindu India is a social
Structure based upon
41. In von Thunen’s model of the Isolated State the
location of village, town or city would fall into the
ring labeled
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
42. In von Thunen’s model the most time-sensitive
and labor-intensive agricultural activities would fall
in
(A) ring A
(B) ring B
(C) ring C
(D) ring D
(E) ring E
43. In von Thunen’s model the area that would be
mainly used for grazing activities would be the ring
labeled
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
(A) a social hierarchy in which a person is born into
a caste and cannot change castes during their
lifetime
(B) an economic class which poor people can work
and earn money to raise their position in society
(C) a political party system strongly tied to
economic class divisions such as blue-collar and
white-collar workers
(D) regional cultural divisions dominated by Hindispeakers from northern India
(E) a colonial social structure created by British
rulers and imposed from the 1800s through the
1940s until independence
46. The cultural and political ideas of nationalism
can work to bond the social fabric of a state
together. In this case nationalism can be seen as a
(A) push factor
(B) pull factor
(C) centrifugal force
(D) centripetal force
(E) physical factor
47. In which region of China are the special
economic zones (SEZ’s) located?
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
50. An economy in which goods and services are
usually produced for internal consumption only is
called a
(A) free market economy.
(B) commercial economy.
(C) planned economy.
(D) command economy.
(E) subsistence economy.
51. On which continent would you most likely find
large statues of Christ (Cristo Rey) overlooking cites
from hilltops such as the one shown in the photo
above?
48. The Earth’s surface as modified by humans is
called
(A) folk culture.
(B) the carrying capacity.
(C) environmental determinism.
(D) the cultural landscape.
(E) the physical environment
49. An example of a nation without a
representative state would be
(A) Greeks
(B) Egyptians
(C) Panamanians
(D) Indonesians
(E) Kurds
(A) North America
(B) South America
(C) Europe
(D) Asia
(E) Australia
52. New factories located in less developed countries
(LDCs) are often the result of corporations based in
more developed countries (MDCs) that are seeking
(A) industrial locations next to natural resource sites
(B) least cost-industrial locations
(C) industrial locations at transportation nodes
(D) increased government regulation of industry
(E) a technically-trained and highly-educated
industrial workforce
53. The Indus Valley, Egypt, West Africa, and
Mesopotamia are a few examples of
(A) culture basins.
(B) cultural convergences.
(C) culture hearths.
(D) culture complexes.
(E) cultural divergence.
57. Which of the following best describes the
likely impact of a large, young, single migrant
population on its destination country?
(A) An increase in the aging population
(B) An increase in births
(C) A general increase in death rates
(D) A decline in the carrying capacity of the host
country
(E) An excess of deaths over births
58. Since 1860, death rates in Europe have
declined due to all the following factors EXCEPT
54. The borders of American South or “Dixie” as a
culture region are
(A) defined by the locations of all NASCAR races and
country music radio stations
(B) poorly-defined fuzzy borders which overlap
other American culture regions
(C) a finite political boundary which surrounds the
Civil War-era Confederate states
(D) defined by the planting range of agricultural
products like peanuts and cotton
(E) a measurable transition zone of 10 miles along
the Mason-Dixon line
55. The movement of people from Nigeria,
Cameroon, Togo, and Gabon to the Americas in the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries is
an example of
(A) chain migration.
(B) circular migration.
(C) cluster migration.
(D) forced migration.
(E) voluntary migration.
56. Religious and belief systems in which items in
nature such as animals, trees or mountains can
have spiritual value or being can be classified as
(A) animism
(B) syncretic religions
(C) infidel beliefs
(D) tribalism
(E) hybrid religions
(A) improved sanitation.
(B) cleaner water supplies.
(C) epidemics becoming less frequent and farreaching.
(D) a lack of warfare.
(E) improved nutrition and increased food supply.
59. The belief that our physical environment is the
chief factor influencing human thoughts,
behaviors, and actions is called
(A) environmental perception.
(B) possibilism.
(C) environmental determinism.
(D) environmentalism
(E) a culture system.
60. In social geography the concept of race is best
defined as
(A) differences based upon human biological
variations such as skin color and bone structure
(B) differences based upon linguistic variations such
as the Indo-European language family versus Asiatic
languages such as Mandarin or African Bantu
languages
(C) differences based upon ethnic variation
between different nations or culture groups
(D) differences based upon human-environmental
factors such as how climates and resource
availability can affect the prosperity of a region’s
population
(E) differences based upon the continent of a
person’s residence or origin
Use the image below to answer questions 61-63:
64. The Prime Meridian is
(A) located in Greenwich, Connecticut
(B) 0° longitude
(C) a meridian that cannot be divided by a whole
number
(D) 23°30’ N latitude
(E) 180° longitude
65. The largest territory in the world in terms of
population is
61. The agricultural system represented in the
image would be most often found in
(A) Fourth of Fifth World states
(B) Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs)
(C) Third World states only
(D) Lesser-Developed Countries (LDCs)
(E) First and Second World states (MDCs)
62. The type of crop farmed using the equipment
employed in the image would be
(A) tubers (root vegetables)
(B) paddy rice
(C) grains
(D) summer vegetables
(E) fruits
63. Which source of energy is the type of
agriculture production depicted in the image most
dependent?
(A) coal
(B) geothermal
(C) natural gas
(D) hydropower
(E) petroleum
(A) the Solomon Islands.
(B) the Falkland Islands.
(C) Aruba.
(D) Puerto Rico.
(E) Greenland.
66. The latitude and longitude coordinates of a
place are an example of
(A) a formal region.
(B) a functional region.
(C) an absolute location.
(D) a relative location.
(E) a perceptual region.
67. Which of the following lists Rostowe’s
development model in order?
(A) Traditional society, preconditions for takeoff,
drive to maturity, takeoff, age of mass
consumption
(B) Traditional society, takeoff, preconditions for
takeoff, age of mass consumption, drive to
maturity
(C) Preconditions for takeoff, takeoff, traditional
society, drive to maturity, age of mass
consumption
(D) Drive to maturity, traditional society, takeoff,
preconditions for takeoff, age of mass consumption
(E) Traditional society, preconditions for takeoff,
takeoff, drive to maturity, age of mass
consumption
68. The Hmong tradition of bringing family
members to the United States after some family
members have migrated is an example of what?
(A) Environmental pull factors
(B) Intervening opportunity
(C) Intervening obstacle
(D) Chain migration
(E) Brain drain
72. The only large land mass not part of a sovereign
state is:
(A) Borneo.
(B) Greenland.
(C) Siberia.
(D) The Arctic.
(E) Antarctica.
69. Tertiary economies are focused on what type
of economic activity?
73. A territory tied to a state rather than being
completely independent is a:
(A) Primary industries
(B) Secondary industries
(C) Information industries
(D) Farming
(E) Service-based economies
(A) patron-state.
(B) nation.
(C) state.
(D) nation-state.
(E) colony.
70. Race is:
(A) characterized by Caucasian, African American,
and Hispanic/Latino.
(B) self-identification with a group sharing a
biological ancestor.
(C) defined by statute in most states.
(D) evenly distributed around the world.
(E) determinable from physical characteristics.
71. Korea is a good example of a:
(A) patron-state.
(B) sovereign state
(C) nation divided between more than one state.
(D) colony.
(E) nation-state.
74. The value of total output of goods and services in a
year in a country is its:
(A) level of development.
(B) primary economic sector.
(C) productivity index.
(D) gross domestic product.
(E) value added.
75. Which of the following is not a centripetal force in
the United States?
(A) ”The Star-Spangled Banner”
(B) the many ethnic groups living in the United States
(C) the flag
(D) network television
(E) baseball