APHG Exam Practice Questions
1
• The relationship between an object on the
surface of the Earth and the same object on a
map projection is known as what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Map class
Map projection
Map scale
Map distortion
Map direction
2
• What economist was the first person to
predict a population crisis?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Malthus
Freidman
Ernhard
Weber
Hoyt
3
• The hearth of contemporary country music is
located around what city?
– Houston, TX
– Dallas, TX
– Memphis, TN
– Nashville, TN
– Atlanta, GA
4
• Which of the following countries is not one of
the Four Asian Tigers?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Singapore
Taiwan
South Korea
Hong Kong
Vietnam
5
• Johann Heinrich von Thunen’s model of
agricultural land use is centered on what basic
concept?
a) The farmers sell all of their farm production to a
market
b) The higher-end commodities are located farther
from the market
c) The lighter commodities are closer to the market to
ensure profitability
d) The heavier commodities are around the marekt
because they need irrigation
e) The market is based on subsistence farming
practices in LDCs
6
• Weber’s least cost theory is based on what
primary cost?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Labor
Infrastructure
Transportation
Government taxes
Land costs
7
• What theory suggest that in an urban setting,
the farther a neighborhood is from the CBD,
the greater the wealth is?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Sector model
Same-size rule
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric zone model
Urban periphery model
8
• Which country has created special economic
zones (SEZs) to attract investment?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Japan
Vietnam
South Korea
China
Thailand
9
• What stage in the DTM has the highest growth
rates?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
1
2
3
4
5
10
• What type of survey pattern was initiated by
the French in the US and is still evident in the
Louisiana region of the US today?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Long lots system
Township and range system
Metes and bounds system
Nucleated town system
Concentric urban framework
11
• What is the name of the supranational
organization established in 1960 to control the
trade of petroleum production by its
members?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
NAFTA
OPEC
EU
PRA
CENTO
12
• Because of the signing of NAFTA, there has
been an increase in
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Transnational corporations
Footloose industries
Maquiladoras
Sweatshop industries
International migration in North America
13
• Which religion is the largest universalizing
religion in the world today?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Judaism
Hinduism
14
• Which of the following is the best example of
a nation-state?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Romania
Vietnam
Argentina
Zimbabwe
Denmark
15
• Which of the following is the name for
refusing to give loans to people living in
specific areas of the city?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Blockbusting
White flight
Segregation
Ghettoization
Redlining
16
• Edge cities would most likely be associated
with which urban model
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Concentric zone
Sector
Peripheral
Multiple nuclei
CBD
17
• What country has the largest coal reserves in
the world?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
China
US
Russia
Canada
Mexico
18
• Farming today in MDCs is in a transition
period. What transition is occurring?
a) The movement toward mechanization
b) The movement toward industrial
c) The movement from hunting and gathering to
planting and sustaining
d) The movement of population to rural areas
e) The use of less genetic engineering to modify
plants and animals
19
• A retired couple moves from Chicago to
Arizona. This is most likely an example of what
geographic factor?
– Economic pull factor
– Economic push factor
– Environmental pull factor
– Political pull factor
– Political push factor
20
• Which religion is the fastest growing of the
world’s five primary religions?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
21
• What is the name of the theory that suggests that
whoever owns the Eastern European region will
or could control the world, based on the
agricultural and industrial production of the
region?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Rimland theory
Heartland theory
Domino theory
Transnational theory
Geopolitical theory
22
• A family moving from LA, California, to New
Orleans, Louisiana, but stays in Alburquerque,
New Mexico b/c of the positive amenities. This
is an example of what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Distance decay
Environmental pull factor
Environmental push factor
Intervening opportunity
Intervening obstacles
23
• According to acculturation, how many
generations on average does it take for an
immigrant family to lose its primary language?
–1
–2
–3
–4
– Never
24
• Prior to the First Agricultural Revolution, what
were humans doing for food?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Fishing
Planting crops
Hunting and gathering
Genetically engineering food for mass
production
e) Purchasing it in small, food-specific
establishments
25
• The delivery area of the Pittsburgh Gazette is
an example of what type of region?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Functional
Formal
Vernacular
Statistical
Urban realm
26
• The conflict in Rwanda and Uganda in the mid1990s is an example of a(n)
a)
b)
c)
d)
Religious conflict
Ethnic conflict
Transnational conflict
Border conflict
27
• Which of the following cities in a primate city
in its country?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
London, UK
Venice, Italy
Frankfurt, Germany
Aarhus, Denmark
Medellin, Columbia
28
• Which of the following demographic data has
the greatest impact on growth rates?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Birth rates
Literacy rate
Per capita GDP
Immigration rates
Life expectancy
29
• Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world today primarily because of
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
High birthrates
Contagious diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural convergence
Assimilation in host countries
30
• Which of the following countries is an
enclave?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
US
Indonesia
Lesotho
Egypt
Morocco
31
• The Second Agricultural Revolution coincided
with
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Increased genetic engineering of crops
The IR
The First Ag. Rev.
The Third Ag. Rev
Enlightenment in Europe
32
• In terms of today’s global economy, which
area would be considered the resource
frontier of the world?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
East Asia
Southwest Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Central and Western Europe
Eastern South America
33
• Which of the following traits fits the definition
of an Islamic city?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Twisted streets to maximize shade
Areas devoted to Western development
Squatter areas within the CBD
Three separate, defined CBD
Global cities without population problems due
to religious values
34
• Which of these 5 regions is not one of the
most populated areas of the world?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Central Europe
South America
Northeastern US
35
• What two areas are the hearths of the world’s
five primary religions?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Southern India and Eastern China
Southwest Asia and Northern Africa
Central Europe and Southwest Asia
Northern India and Southwest Asia
Eastern China and Southern Europe
36
• The pessimistic viewpoint about a lack of
economic development in certain locations on
the globe can be attributed to their lack of
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Infrastructure
Physical features, such as rivers
Labor availability
Foreign investment
Modern technology
37
• Thailand is the best example of which type of
political shape
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Compact
Perforated
Prorupted
Elongated
Fragmented
38
• Which of the five means of transportation
would fruit production in South America for
market in the US need to use>
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Inland waterways
Overland trucks
Airplanes
Pipelines
Rail transport
39
• The 12th Congressional District’s boundaries in
NC were accused of using what tactic for
political gain?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Gerrymandering
Reapportionment
Census stacking
Blockbusting
Redlining
40
• What is the primary type of farming done in
the tropical regions of Brazil?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Commercial ag
Slash and burn ag
Intensive subsistence ag
Truck farming
Irrigated fruit farming
41
• Southeast Asian cities have promoted
economic growth through what primary
means?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Western transportation systems
Eastern religions
Western investment and trade
Eastern design layouts
Western cultural integration with Eastern
theology
42
• The area around the sub-Saharan agricultural
regions is being adversely affected by what
environmental problem?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Global warming
Desertification
El Nino
Increased earthquake activity
Transhumance
43
• Eastern Europe during the 1940s through the
early 1990s can be identified as a
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Region dominated by theocracies
Region with no political conflict
Core economic region
Homogeneous regions
Shatterbelt
44
• Which of the following is the best example of
folk culture?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Eating at McDonald’s
Wearing blue jeans
Producing rocking chairs using traditional means
Listening to your MP3 player
Creating Web pages
45
• What city were the concentric zone and the
sector model modeled after in the early
1900s?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
NYC
LA
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
46
• A country enters stage 3 of the demographic
transition when
a) The death rate drops
b) People decide to have considerably fewer
children
c) The birth rates remain high
d) The birth and death rates are nearly equal
e) Family size stays the same
47
• Which region has the fewest languages that
are under threat of extinction?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Europe
The Americas
The Pacific
Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
48
• The Gobi Desert in Mongolia uses what
primary form of agriculture?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Truck farming
Slash-and burn farming
Plantation agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Pastoral nomadism
49
• Which continent uses nuclear power for a
greater percentage of its total power output
than any other continent?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
50
• Central Park in NYC is a good example of
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
A symbolic landscape
A greenbelt
A festival landscape
Urban development
An ethnic landscape
51
• Around a local university, there are pizza
restaurants, fast-food restaurants, and coffee
shops. This type of development is best
characterized by the
– Sector model
– Multiple nuclei model
– Peripheral model
– Western US city models
– Concentric zone model
52
• The dominance of corn production in the US
correlates with what other agricultural
practice?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Cattle production
Irrigated farmland
Dairy production
Market gardening activities
Pastoral nomadism
53
• The US and many other more developed
countries rely on what natural resources for
the majority of their electricity production?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Petroleum
Coal
Natural gas
Uranium
Nuclear power
54
• Which of the following religions is a
monotheistic religion?
– Hinduism
– Shintoism
– Animism
– Judaism
– Buddhism
55
• The 38th parallel in Korea is an example of a(n)
a) Demarcation line on the landscape
b) Antecedent boundary between two countries
c) Superimposed boundary created by outside
forces
d) Geometric boundary dominated by the
mountains in the area
e) Subsequent boundary established by China
56
• A population pyramid looks like an upsidedown triangle. This area has a large
percentage of
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Immigrants
Parents
Youth
Women
Elderly people
57
• Who first coined the term geography?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Plato
Aristotle
Zheng He
Socrates
Erathosthenes
58
• A fad is started by a television personality of
wearing shorts with a shirt and tie. The trend
spreads throughout the US. This is an example
of what type of diffusion?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Expansion
Contagious
Stimulus
Relocation
Hierarchical
59
• Which area of the world is currently
experiencing the most rapid population
growth?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Eastern North America
Central Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa
Central Asia
South America
60
• Which region did not have a vegetative
planting or seed agricultural hearth?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Southeast Asia
East Africa
South America
Europe
Middle America
61
• “The individual characteristics of a place that
make it unique” defines which of the following
terms most accurately?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Adaptive strategies
Built environments
Folk culture
Popular culture
Acculturation
62
• Which of the following cities would be
classified as a world city?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Shanghai
Madrid
London
Los Angeles
Buenos Aires
63
• A city is located on a river that is prone to
flooding yet provides trade advantages that bring
measurable wealth to the city. Which statement
would best fit that city?
a) The city has a good site yet a poor situation
b) The city has a good situation yet a poor site
c) The city has trade advantages that outweigh the
disadvantages
d) The city has flood disadvantages that outweigh the
advantages
e) The city should relocate b/c of the flooding problem
64
• The majority of the entrants into the UN, a
supranational organization, came from where
during the 1960s?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Europe
South America
Pacific Islands
Africa
Central Asia
65
• Which statement would best fit a European city?
a) European cities have large areas of squatter
settlements
b) European cities have their skyscrapers located in the
suburbs
c) European cities have few forms of public
transportation
d) European cities have heavy pollution problems
e) European cities have the poor living closet to their
CBDs
66
• Potato chip production is a good example of
what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
A variable-cost industry
A fixed-cost industry
A weight-reducing industry
A market dependent industry
67
• The largest territory in the world in terms of
population is
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
The Solomon Islands
The Falkland Islands
Aruba
Puerto Rico
Greenland
68
• Which is the world’s primary lingua franca
language?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Mandarin
Russian
English
Spanish
Hindi
69
• The S-curve is most often associated with
what geographic factor?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
World population growth over time
Immigration rates over time
Economic development over time
Cultural adaptation of ethnic groups over time
The stability of countries’ governments over
time
70
• Which crop has been credited with beginning
the Third Industrial Revolution?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Corn
Rice
Wheat
Sorghum
Barley
71
• The greatest percentage of people in the
world participate in which type of agriculture?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Subsistence agriculture
Highly mechanized commercial farming
Pastoral nomadism
Hired help on plantation agricultural farms
Slash-and-burn agriculture
72
• Which of the following terms is NOT
associated with the Hindu religion?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Brahma
Caste system
Shiva
Vishnu
Mecca
73
• Which of the following best describes the
urban hierarchy of settlements?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis
Hamlet, town, city, metropolis, megalopolis
Megalopolis, metropolis, village, town, hamlet
Town, hamlet, village, metropolis, megalopolis
74
• Los Angeles receives goods from Asia via
ships. In the ports, the goods are put on trains
for distribution around the US. Los Angeles is
a(n)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
break of bulk point
Variable trading partner
Entrepot
Fixed cost provider
Trade alternative partner
75
• The border between the US and Canada along
the 49th parallel is a good example of what
type of boundary?
– Subsequent
– Antecedent
– Superimposed
– Relic
– Demarcation